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This is a '''list of [[botanist]]s''' who have Wikipedia [[Article (publishing)|articles]], in alphabetical order by surname. The [[List of botanists by author abbreviation]] is mostly a list of [[Plant taxonomy|plant taxonomists]] because an author receives a [[Author citation (botany)|standard abbreviation]] only when that author originates a new [[Botanical name|plant name]].

Botany is one of the few sciences which has had, since the Middle Ages, substantial participation by women.{{cn|date=May 2022}}

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== A ==
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*[[Erik Acharius]] (1757–1819)
*[[Julián Acuña Galé]] (1900–1973)
*[[Johann Friedrich Adam]] (1780–1838)
*[[Carl Adolph Agardh]] (1785–1859)
*[[Jacob Georg Agardh]] (1813–1901)
*[[Nikolaus Ager]] (1568–1634)
*[[William Aiton]] (1731–1793)
*[[Frédéric-Louis Allamand]] (1736–1809)
*[[Ruth F. Allen]] (1879–1963)
*[[Carlo Allioni]] (1728–1804)
*[[Lucile Allorge]] (b. 1937)
*[[Prospero Alpini]] (1553–1617)
*[[Benjamin Alvord (mathematician)|Benjamin Alvord]] (1813–1884)
*[[Adeline Ames]] (1879–1976)
*[[Janaki Ammal]] (1897–1984)
*[[Eliza Frances Andrews]] (1840–1931)
*[[Agnes Arber]] (1879–1960)
*[[Giovanni Arcangeli]] (1840–1921)
*[[David Ashton (botanist)|David Ashton]] (1927–2005)
*[[William Guybon Atherstone]] (1814–1898)
*[[Anna Atkins]] (1799–1871)
*[[Daniel E. Atha]] (b. 1962)
*[[Armen Takhtajan]] (1910–2009)
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== B ==
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*[[E. B. Babcock|Ernest Brown Babcock]] (1877–1954)
*[[Churchill Babington]] (1821–1889)
*[[Curt Backeberg]] (1894–1966)
*[[James Eustace Bagnall]] (1830–1918)
*[[Jacob Whitman Bailey]] (1811–1857)
*[[Liberty Hyde Bailey]] (1858–1954)
*[[Ibn al-Baitar]] (1197–1248)
*[[Giovanni Battista Balbis]] (1765–1831)
*[[John Hutton Balfour]] (1808–1884)
*[[Joseph Banks]] (1743–1820)
*[[César Barbosa]] (b. 1954)
*[[Bryan Alwyn Barlow]] (b. 1933)
*[[Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling]] (1798–1875)
*[[Benjamin Smith Barton]] (1766–1815)
*[[John Bartram]] (1699–1777)
*[[William Bartram]] (1739–1823)
*[[Johann Bauhin]] (1541–1613)
*[[Gaspard Bauhin]] (1560–1624)
*[[Chauncey Beadle]] (1866–1950)
*[[William James Beal]] (1833–1924)
*[[Janice C. Beatley]] (1919–1987)
*[[Rolla Kent Beattie]] (1875–1960)
*[[Johann Matthäus Bechstein]] (1757–1822)
*[[Richard Henry Beddome]] (1830–1911)
*[[Martinus Beijerinck]] (1851–1931)
*[[David Bellamy]] (1933–2019)
*[[Pierre Belon]] (1517–1564)
*[[George Bentham]] (1800–1884)
*[[Robert Bentley (botanist)|Robert Bentley]] (1821–1893)
*[[Miles Joseph Berkeley]] (1803–1889)
*[[Karl August von Bergen]] (1704–1759)
*[[Johann Jakob Bernhardi]] (1774–1850)
*[[Edward W. Berry]] (1875–1945)
*[[Antonio Bertoloni]] (1775–1869)
*[[Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser]] (1784–1842)
*[[Clarence Bicknell]] (1842–1918)
*[[Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein]] (1768–1826)
*[[Jacob Bigelow]] (1787–1879)
*[[John Milton Bigelow]] (1804–1878)
*[[Gustaf Johan Billberg]] (1772–1844)
*[[Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff]] (1797–1854)
*[[Johannes Bisse]] (1935–1984)
*[[Francisco Manuel Blanco]] (1779–1845)
*[[John Bradby Blake]] (1745–1773)
*[[William Blakely|William Faris Blakely]] (1875–1941)
*[[Andrew Bloxam]] (1801–1878)
*[[Carl Ludwig Blume]] (1796–1862)
*[[Tyge W. Böcher]] (1909–1983)
*[[Jane Haskett Bock]]
*[[Hieronymus Bock]] (1498–1554)
*[[Herman Boerhaave]] (1668–1738)
*[[Wenceslas Bojer]] (1795–1856)
*[[Henry Nicholas Bolander]] (1831–1897)
*[[Harry Bolus]] (1834–1911)
*[[August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard]] (1786–1839)
*[[Charles Bonnet]] (1720–1793)
*[[Aimé Bonpland]] (1773–1858)
*[[Francis Boott]] (1792–1863)
*[[Evelyn Booth]] (1897–1988)
*[[Attila Borhidi]] (b. 1932)
*[[Antonina Georgievna Borissova]] (1903–1970)
*[[Frederik Børgesen]] (1866–1956)
*[[David Bowman (botanist)|David Bowman]] (1838–1868)
*[[Richard Bradley (botanist)|Richard Bradley]] (1688–1732)
*[[Alexander Braun]] (1805–1877)
*[[John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan]] (1917–1985)
*[[William Henry Brewer]] (1828–1910)
*[[Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri]] (1761–1828)
*[[Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel]] (1776–1854)
*[[Elizabeth Gertrude Britton]] (1858–1934)
*[[Nathaniel Lord Britton]] (1859–1934)
*[[Giovanni Battista Brocchi]] (1772–1826)
*[[Adolphe Theodore Brongniart]] (1801–1876)
*[[Nicholas Edward Brown]] (1849–1934)
*[[Robert Brown (Scottish botanist from Montrose)|Robert Brown]] (1773–1858)
*[[Patrick Browne (physician)|Patrick Browne]] (1720–1790)
*[[Jeremy James Bruhl]] (b. 1956)
*[[Louis-Ovide Brunet]] (1826–1876)
*[[Francis Buchanan-Hamilton]] (1762–1829)
*[[Alexander von Bunge]] (1803–1890)
*[[Elsa Beata Bunge]] (1734–1819)
*[[Luther Burbank]] (1849–1926)
*[[Frederick William Burbidge]] (1847–1905)
*[[William John Burchell]] (1781–1863)
*[[Alan Burges]] (1911–2002)
*[[David Burke (botanist)|David Burke]] (1854–1897)
*[[Joseph Burke II]] (1812–1873)
*[[Johannes Burman]] (1707–1780)
*[[Nicolaas Laurens Burman]] (1734–1793)
*[[Elizaveta Aleksandrovna Busch]] (1886–1960)
*[[Maarten Buysman]] (1856–1919)
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==C==
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*[[Cleofé Caldéron]] (1929–2007)
*[[Albert Callay]] (1822–1896)
*[[George Caley]] (1770–1829)
*[[Ella Orr Campbell]] (1910–2003)
*[[Rudolf Jakob Camerarius]] (1665–1721)
*[[Aimée Antoinette Camus]] (1879–1965)
*[[Augustin Pyramus de Candolle]] (A. P. de Candolle) (1778–1841)
*[[Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle]] (A. de Candolle) (1806–1893)
*[[Richard Émile Augustin de Candolle]] (Aug. de Candolle) (1868–1920)
*[[J. F. M. Cannon]] (1930–2008)
*[[Sherwin Carlquist]] (1930–2021)
*[[Cedric Errol Carr]] (1892–1936)
*[[Elie-Abel Carrière]] (1818–1896)
*[[George Washington Carver]] (1864–1943)
*[[Henri Cassini]] (1781–1832)
*[[William Casson]] (1796–1886)
*[[Antonio José Cavanilles]] (1745–1804)
*[[Andrea Cesalpino]] (1524–1603)
*[[Adelbert von Chamisso]] (1781–1838)
*[[Daniel Chamovitz]] (b. 1963)
*[[Pierre Gaspard Chaumette]] (1763–1794)
*[[Wan Chun Cheng]] (1908–1987)
*[[Henry Chesterton]] (1837–1883)
*[[Carl Christensen (botanist)|Carl Christensen]] (1872–1942)
*[[Joseph Philippe de Clairville]] (1742–1830)
*[[Arthur Roy Clapham]] (1904–1990)
*[[Lynn G. Clark]] (b. 1956)
*[[Adrienne Clarke]] (b. 1938)
*[[Gertrude Clarke Nuttall]] (1867–1929)
*[[Jens Clausen]] (1891–1969)
*[[Jane Colden]] (1724–1766)
*[[Runar Collander]] (1894–1973)
*[[Peter Collinson (botanist)|Peter Collinson]] (1694–1768)
*[[Charles Coltman-Rogers]] (1854–1929)
*[[Philibert Commerçon]] (1727–1773)
*[[Joseph Whipple Congdon]] (1834–1910)
*[[Valerius Cordus]] (1515–1544)
*[[Giacomo Antonio Cortuso]] (1513–1603)
*[[Arthur Disbrowe Cotton]] (1879–1962)
*[[Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz]] (1722–1799)
*[[Arthur Cronquist]] (1919–1992)
*[[José Cuatrecasas]] (1903–1996)
*[[Nicholas Culpeper]] (1616–1654)
*[[Francesco Cupani]] (1657–1710)
*[[Ed Currie]] (b. 1963)
*[[Charles Curtis (botanist)|Charles Curtis]] (1853–1928)
*[[William Curtis]] (1746–1799)
*[[Pierre Cusson]] (1727–1783)
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==D==
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*[[Anders Dahl]] (1751–1789)
*[[Antoine-Tristan Danty d'Isnard]] (1663–1743)
*[[John M. Darby]] (1804–1877)
*[[Frederick Hamilton Davey]] (1868–1915)
*[[Armand David]] (1826–1900)
*[[Walter Davis (botanist)|Walter Davis]] (1847–1930)
*[[Anton de Bary]] (1831–1888)
*[[Joseph Decaisne]] (1807–1882)
*[[Ethel de Fraine]] (1879–1918)
*[[Pierre Jean Marie Delavay]] (1834–1895)
*[[Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert]] (1773–1847)
*[[Stefano delle Chiaje]] (1794–1860)
*[[Giuseppe De Notaris]] (1805–1877)
*[[René Louiche Desfontaines]] (1750–1833)
*[[Narcisse Henri François Desportes]] (1776–1856)
*[[Louis Auguste Joseph Desrousseaux]] (1753–1838)
*[[Nicaise Auguste Desvaux]] (1784–1856)
*[[Johann Jacob Dillenius]] (1684–1747)
*[[Kurt Dinter]] (1868–1945)
*[[Pedanius Dioscorides]] ({{c.}} 40–90)
*[[Kingsley Dixon]] (b. 1954)
*[[Rembert Dodoens]] (1517–1585)
*[[David Don]] (1799–1841)
*[[George Don]] (1798–1856)
*[[James Donn]] (1758–1813)
*[[Catharina Helena Dörrien]] (1717–1795)
*[[David Douglas (botanist)|David Douglas]] (1799–1834)
*[[John Dransfield]] (b. 1945)
*[[Robert Louis Dressler]] (1927–2019)
*[[Jonas C. Dryander]] (1748–1810)
*[[Heber Drury]] (1819–1905)
*[[Jean Étienne Duby]] (1798–1885)
*[[Antoine Nicolas Duchesne]] (1747–1827)
*[[William Russell Dudley]] (1849–1911)
*[[Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier]] (1797–1878)
*[[Michel Felix Dunal]] (1789–1856)
*[[Ursula Katherine Duncan]] (1910–1985)
*[[Stephen Troyte Dunn]] (1868–1938)
*[[Robert Allen Dyer]] (1900–1987)
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== E ==
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*[[Michael Pakenham Edgeworth]] (1812–1881)
*[[Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers]] (1844–1903)
*[[Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg]] (1795–1876)
*[[Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart]] (1742–1795)
*[[Eva Ekeblad]] (1724–1786)
*[[Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher]] (1804–1849)
*[[George Engelmann]] (1809–1884)
*[[Adolf Engler]] (1844–1930)
*[[Andrey Erst]]
*[[Katherine Esau]] (1898–1997)
*[[Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz]] (1793–1831)
*[[Constantin von Ettingshausen]] (1826–1897)
*[[Eleonora Gabrielian]] (b. 1929)
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== F ==
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*[[David Fairchild]] (1869–1954)
*[[Hugh Falconer]] (1808–1865)
*[[Reginald Farrer]] (1880–1920)
*[[Lewis J. Feldman]] (b. 1945)
*[[Luigi Fenaroli]] (1899–1980)
*[[Merritt Lyndon Fernald]] (1873–1950)
*[[Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer]] (1782–1854)
*[[Heinrich Gustav Flörke]] (1764–1835)
*[[Pius Font i Quer]] (1888–1964)
*[[Peter Forsskål]] (1732–1763)
*[[Georg Forster]] (1754–1794)
*[[Johann Reinhold Forster]] (1729–1798)
*[[Robert Fortune]] (1812–1880)
*[[Henry Georges Fourcade]] (1865–1948)
*[[Adrien René Franchet]] (1834–1900)
*[[William Douglas Francis]] (1889–1959)
*[[John C. Frémont]] (1813–1890)
*[[Elias Magnus Fries]] (1794–1878)
*[[Imre Frivaldszky]] (1799–1870)
*[[Charles Christopher Frost]] (1805–1880)
*[[Leonhart Fuchs]] (1501–1566)
*[[Heinrich Christian Funck]] (1771–1839)
*[[Catherine Furbish]] (1834–1931)
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== G ==
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*[[Eleonora Gabrielian]] (b. 1929)
*[[Joseph Gaertner]] (1732–1791)
*[[Karl Friedrich von Gaertner]] (1772–1850)
*[[Betsy Harrison Gagne]] (1947–2020)
*[[François Gagnepain]] (1866–1952)
*[[Ernest Edward Galpin]] (1858–1941)
*[[George Gammie|George Alexander Gammie]] (1864–1934)
*[[James Alexander Gammie]] (1839–1924)
*[[Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré]] (1789–1854)
*[[Alwyn Howard Gentry]] (1945–1993)
*[[Howard Scott Gentry]] (1903–1993)
*[[John Gerard]] (1545–1612)
*[[Conrad von Gesner]] (1516–1565)
*[[Luca Ghini]] (1490–1556)
*[[Ken Gillanders]] (b. 1930)
*[[C.H. Gimingham|Charles Henry Gimingham]] (1923–2018)
*[[Johann Friedrich Gmelin]] (1748–1804)
*[[Johann Georg Gmelin]] (1709–1755)
*[[Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin]] (1744–1774)
*[[Hossein Gol-e-Golab]] (1895–1985)
*[[George Gordon (botanist)|George Gordon]] (1806–1879)
*[[Antoine Gouan]] (1733–1821)
*[[Asa Gray]] (1810–1888)
*[[Netta Elizabeth Gray]] (1913–1970)
*[[Robert Kaye Greville]] (1794–1866)
*[[Nehemiah Grew]] (1641–1712)
*[[William Griffith (botanist)|William Griffith]] (1810–1845)
*[[Jan Frederik Gronovius]] (1690–1762)
*[[Wilhelm Gueinzius]] (1813–1874)
*[[Hugo Gunckel Lüer]] (1901–1997)
*[[Johann Ernst Gunnerus]] (1718–1773)
*[[Giovanni Gussone]] (1787–1866)
*[[Francis Guthrie]] (1831–1899)
*[[Guranda Gvaladze]] (1932–2020)
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== H ==
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*[[Ingebrigt Severin Hagen]] (1852–1917)
*[[Olaf Hagerup]] (1889–1961)
*[[Hiroshi Hara (botanist)|Hiroshi Hara]] (1911–1986)
*[[Thora Hardy]] (1902–1993)
*[[Inez M. Haring]] (1875–1968)
*[[Robert Almer Harper]] (1862–1946)
*[[Cornelia Hermina van Harreveld-Lako]]  (1883–1945)
*[[Karl Theodor Hartweg]] (1812–1871)
*[[William Henry Harvey]] (1811–1866)
*[[Adrian Hardy Haworth]] (1767–1833)
*[[John Stevens Henslow]] (1796–1861)
*[[Augustine Henry]] (1857–1930)
*[[Vernon Heywood]] (1927–2022)
*[[Mary MacLean Hindmarsh]] (1921–2000)
*[[Adriana Hoffmann]] (1940–2022)
*[[Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg]] (1766–1849)
*[[Henri Homblé]] (1883–1921)
*[[Henrietta Hooker]] (1851–1929)
*[[Joseph Dalton Hooker]] (1817–1911)
*[[William Jackson Hooker]] (1785–1865)
*[[Josiah Hoopes]] (1832–1904)
*[[Albert Howard]] (1873–1947)
*[[Gabrielle Howard]] (1876–1930)
*[[Armando Theodoro Hunziker]] (1919–2001)
*[[John Hutchinson (botanist)|John Hutchinson]] (1884–1972)
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== I ==
*[[Agnes Ibbetson]] (1757–1823)
*[[Jane Ingham]] (1897–1982)
*[[Keisuke Ito (botanist)|Keisuke Ito]] (1803–1901)

== J ==
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*[[Vello Jaaska]] (b. 1936)
*[[Vilve Jaaska]] (fl. 1990)
*[[Victor Jacquemont]] (1801–1832)
*[[Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin]] (1727–1817)
*[[Joseph Franz von Jacquin]] (1766–1839)
*[[Shri Mohan Jain]] (b. 1949)
*[[Knud Jessen]] (1884–1971)
*[[Wilhelm Johannsen]] (1857–1927)
*[[Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson]] (1925–1997)
*[[Ivan Murray Johnston]] (1898–1960)
*[[Adrien-Henri de Jussieu]] (1797–1853)
*[[Antoine Laurent de Jussieu]] (1748–1836)
*[[Antoine de Jussieu]] (1686–1758)
*[[Bernard de Jussieu]] (1699–1777)
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== K ==
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*[[Kaibara Ekiken]] (1630–1714)
*[[Guillermo Kalbreyer]] (1847–1912)
*[[Pehr Kalm]] (1716–1779)
*[[Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten]] (1817–1908)
*[[Kailas Nath Kaul]] (1905–1983)
*[[Frederick Keeble|Sir Frederick Keeble]] (1870–1952)
*[[Albert Kellogg]] (1813–1887)
*[[George Clayton Kennedy]] (1919–1980)
*[[Alice L. Kibbe]] (1881–1969)
*[[Franz Kiggelaer]]
*[[Kanhoba Ranchoddas Kirtikar]] (1849–1917)
*[[Masao Kitagawa]] (1910–1995)
*[[Karl Koch (botanist)|Karl Koch]] (1809–1879)
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== L ==
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*[[Jacques Labillardière]] (1755–1834)
*[[Hans Lambers]] (1950–)
*[[Dorothy van Dyke Leake]] (1893–1990)
*[[Lars Levi Laestadius]] (1800–1861)
*[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]] (1744–1829)
*[[Aylmer Bourke Lambert]] (1761–1842)
*[[Jean Vincent Félix Lamouroux]] (1779–1825)
*[[Gerhard Lang]] (1924–2016)
*[[Kai Larsen]] (1926–2012)
*[[Joseph Bory Latour-Marliac]] (1830–1911)
*[[Charles de l'Écluse]] (1526–1609)
*[[Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour]] (1773–1826)
*[[Emmanuel Liais]] (1826–1900)
*[[John Lindley]] (1799–1865)
*[[Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link]] (1767–1851)
*[[Carlos Adolfo Lehnebach]]
*[[Carl Linnaeus]] (1707–1778)
*[[Carolus Linnaeus the Younger]] (1741–1783)
*[[William Richardson Linton]] (1850–1908)
*[[Pablo de la Llave]] (1773–1833)
*[[David Lloyd (botanist)|David Lloyd]] (1937–2006)
*[[Thomas Lobb]] (1817–1894)
*[[William Lobb]] (1809–1864)
*[[George Loddiges]] (1784/1786–1846)
*[[Jean-Louis-Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps]] (1774–1849)
*[[Harri Lorenzi]] (b. 1949)
*[[A.S. Losina-Losinskaja]] (1903–1958)
*[[John Claudius Loudon]] (1782–1843)
*[[Alice Lounsberry]] (1868–1949)
*[[Elias Lönnrot]] (1802–1884)
*[[Hedvig Lovén]] (1867–1943)
*[[Hans Christian Lyngbye]] (1782–1837)
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== M ==
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*[[William McCalla]] (1814–1849)
*[[Elizabeth McClintock]] (1912–2004)
*[[John M. MacDougal]] (b. 1954)
*[[Terry Desmond Macfarlane]] (b. 1953)
*[[Elke Mackenzie]] (1911–1990)
*[[John Macoun]] (1831–1920)
*[[Peter MacOwan]] (1830–1909)
*[[Rogers McVaugh]] (1909–2009)
*[[Aime Mäemets]] (1930–1996)
*[[Pierre Magnol]] (1638–1715)
*[[Joseph Maiden]] (1859–1925)
*[[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628–1694)
*[[Gustav Mann]] (1836–1916)
*[[Charles Maries]] (1851–1902)
*[[Jesse Jarue Mark]] (1906–1971)
*[[Rudolf Marloth]] (1855–1931)
*[[Humphry Marshall]] (1722–1801)
*[[William Keble Martin]] (1877–1969)
*[[Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius]] (1794–1868)
*[[John Martyn (botanist)|John Martyn]] (1699–1768)
*[[Genkei Masamune]] (1899–1993)
*[[Francis Masson]] (1741–1805)
*[[Austin Mast]] (b. 1972)
*[[Carl Maximowicz]] (1827–1891)
*[[Friedrich Kasimir Medikus]] (1738–1808)
*[[Gregor Mendel]] (1822–1884)
*[[Giuseppe Giovanni Antonio Meneghini]] (1811–1889)
*[[Archibald Menzies]] (1754–1842)
*[[Konstantin Merezhkovsky]] (1855–1921)
*[[Franz Meyen]] (1804–1840)
*[[Carl Anton von Meyer]] (1795–1855)
*[[André Michaux]] (1746–1802)
*[[Pier Antonio Micheli]] (1679–1737)
*[[John Miller (botanical illustrator)|John Miller]] (1715–c.1792)
*[[Philip Miller]] (1691–1771)
*[[Charles Frederick Millspaugh]] (1854–1923)
*[[Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel]] (1811–1871)
*[[Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel]] (1776–1854)
*[[John Mitchell (geographer)|John Mitchell]] (1711–1768)
*[[Conrad Moench]] (1744–1805)
*[[Hugo von Mohl]] (1805–1872)
*[[Charles Mohr (botanist)|Charles Theodore Mohr]] (1824–1901)
*[[Paul Möhring]] (1710–1792)
*[[Camille Montagne]] (1784–1866)
*[[George Thomas Moore]] (1871–1956)
*[[Giuseppe Moretti (botanist)|Giuseppe Moretti]] (1782–1853)
*[[Giuseppe Giacinto Moris]] (1796–1869)
*[[Robert Morison]] (1620–1683)
*[[Józef Motyka]] (1900–1984)
*[[Ferdinand von Mueller]] (1825–1896)
*[[Cornelius Herman Muller]] (1909–1997)
*[[Otto von Münchhausen]] (1716–1774)
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== N ==
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*[[Karl Wilhelm von Nageli]] (1817–1891)
*[[P. K. K. Nair]] (1930–2017)
*[[George Valentine Nash]] (1864–1921)
*[[Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck]] (1776–1858)
*[[Charles F. Newcombe]] (1851–1924)
*[[Frank Newhook]] (1918–1999)
*[[Margaret Newton]] (1887–1971)
*[[Louis Nicolas]] (1634–1682?)
*[[Daniel Lee Nickrent]] (b. 1956)
*[[Emilia Frances Noel]] (1868–1950)
*[[Thomas Nuttall]] (1786–1859)
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== O ==
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*[[Carl Hansen Ostenfeld]] (1873–1931)
*[[Daniel Oliver (botanist)|Daniel Oliver]] (1830–1916)
*[[Garcia de Orta]] (1501–1568)
*[[Giuseppe Olivi]] (1769–1795)
*[[William Oakes (botanist)]] (1799–1848)
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== P ==
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*[[Alf Erling Porsild]] (1901–1977)
*[[Carl Borivoj Presl]] (1794–1852)
*[[Charles Christopher Parry]] (1823–1890)
*[[Charles Plumier]] (1646–1704)
*[[Christian Hendrik Persoon]] (1761–1836)
*[[Cyrus Pringle]] (1838–1911)
*[[Donald C. Peattie]] (1898–1964)
*[[Eduard Friedrich Poeppig]] (1798–1868)
*[[Eduard Pospichal]] (1838–1905)
*[[Edward Palmer (botanist)|Edward Palmer]] (1829–1911)
*[[Filippo Parlatore]] (1816–1877)
*[[Flora Wambaugh Patterson]] (1847–1928)
*[[Frederick Traugott Pursh]] (1774–1820)
*[[George E. Post]] (1838–1909)
*[[George R. Proctor]] (1920–2015)
*[[Ghillean Prance]] (b. 1937)
*[[Henri François Pittier]] (1857–1950)
*[[Henri Perrier de la Bâthie]] (1873–1958)
*[[Herman Silas Pepoon]] (1860–1941)
*[[Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans]] (1879–1968)
*[[Isaac-Bénédict Prévost]] (1755–1819)
*[[James Petiver]] (c. 1665–c. 1718)
*[[Jan Svatopluk Presl]] (1791–1849)
*[[Jean Louis Marie Poiret]] (1755–1834)
*[[Jean-Marie Pelt]] (1933–2015)
*[[Joel Roberts Poinsett]] (1779–1851)
*[[Josif Pancic]] (1814–1888)
*[[Joseph Hubert Priestley]] (1883–1944)
*[[Karl Julius Perleb]] (1794–1845)
*[[Leonard Plukenet]] (1641–1706)
*[[Louis Alexandre Henri Joseph Piré]] (1827–1887)
*[[Ludwig Preiss]] (1811–1883)
*[[Michael Proctor (botanist)|Michael Proctor]] (1929–2017)
*[[Morten Pedersen Porsild]] (1872–1956)
*[[Nathanael Pringsheim]] (1823–1894)
*[[Ove Paulsen]] (1874–1947)
*[[Palisot de Beauvois]] (1752–1820)
*[[Paul Petard (botanist)|Paul Petard]] (1912–1980)
*[[Paul Émile de Puydt]] (1810–1891)
*[[Peter Simon Pallas]] (1741–1811)
*[[Pliny the Elder]] (23/24–79)
*[[Richard Pearce (botanist)|Richard Pearce]] (c. 1835–1868)
*[[Rodolfo Amando Philippi]] (1808–1904)
*[[Ruth Patrick]] (1907–2013)
*[[Thomas Conrad Porter]] (1822–1901)
*[[William Hunt Painter]] (1835–1910)
*[[William Paterson (explorer)|William Paterson]] (1755–1810)
*[[William Purdom]] (1880–1921)
*[[:it:Ciro Pollini|Ciro Pollini]] (1782–1833)
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== Q ==
* [[Agnes J. Quirk]] (1884–1974)

== R ==
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*[[Achille Richard]] (1794–1852)
*[[Albert Ernest Radford]] (1918–2006)
*[[Albrecht Wilhelm Roth]] (1757–1834)
*[[Antoine Risso]] (alias: Antonio Giuseppe Risso) (1777–1845)
*[[Augustus Quirinus Rivinus]] (1652–1723)
*[[Christen C. Raunkiær]] (1860–1938)
*[[Constantine Samuel Rafinesque]] (1738–1840)
*[[Elizabeth Seymour Rawlinson]] (1901–1942)
*[[Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns]] (1901–1986)
*[[Gabriele Rabel]] (1880–1963)
*[[Georg Eberhard Rumphius]] (1627–1702)
*[[Gustaf Otto Rosenberg]] (1872–1948)
*[[Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen]] (1873–1943)
*[[Harold E. Robinson]] (1932–2020)
*[[Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach]] (1823–1889)
*[[Henry Nicholas Ridley]] (1855–1956)
*[[Johann Jacob Roemer]] (1763–1819)
*[[John Ralfs]] (1807–1890)
*[[John Ray]] (1627–1705)
*[[José Manuel Restrepo Vélez]] (1781–1863)
*[[Joseph Rock]] (1884–1962)
*[[Julien Reverchon]] (1837–1905)
*[[Lauritz Kolderup Rosenvinge]] (1858–1939)
*[[Lincoln Ware Riddle]] (1880–1921)
*[[Louis Claude Richard]] (1754–1821)
*[[Ludwig Reichenbach]] (1793–1879)
*[[Oliver Rackham]] (1939–2015)
*[[Per Axel Rydberg]] (1860–1931)
*[[Peter H. Raven]] (b. 1936)
*[[Thekla Resvoll]] (1871–1948)
*[[Tony Rodd]] (b. 1940)
*[[Werner Rothmaler]] (1908–1962)
*[[William Roxburgh]] (1751–1815)
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== S ==
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*[[Joseph Sabine]] (1770–1837)
*[[Julius von Sachs]] (1832–1897)
*[[József Sadler]] (1791–1849)
*[[Thiodolf Saelan]] (1834–1921)
*[[Augustin Saint-Hilaire]] (1779–1853)
*[[Edward James Salisbury]] (1886–1978)
*[[Richard Anthony Salisbury]] (1761–1829)
*[[Richard Sanders Rogers]] (1861–1942)
*[[Gaetano Savi]] (1769–1844)
*[[Charles Sprague Sargent]] (1841–1927)
*[[Henry Parker Sartwell]] (1792–1867)
*[[William Saunders (botanist)|William Saunders]] (1822–1900)
*[[Horace-Bénédict de Saussure]] (1740–1799)
*[[Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper]] (1856–1901)
*[[Christian Schkuhr]] (1741–1811)
*[[Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal]] (1794–1866)
*[[Rudolf Schlechter]] (1872–1925)
*[[Matthias Jakob Schleiden]] (1804–1881)
*[[George Schoener]] (1864–1941)
*[[Selmar Schonland]] (1860–1940)
*[[Heinrich Wilhelm Schott]] (1794–1865)
*[[Heinrich Schrader (botanist)|Heinrich Schrader]] (1767–1836)
*[[Franz von Paula Schrank]] (1747–1835)
*[[Josef August Schultes]] (1773–1831)
*[[Christian Friedrich Schwägrichen]] (1775–1853)
*[[Ian Schwartz]]
*[[Georg August Schweinfurth]] (1836–1925)
*[[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]] (1723–1788)
*[[Berthold Carl Seemann]] (1825–1871)
*[[Prideaux John Selby]] (1788–1867)
*[[Jean Senebier]] (1742–1806)
*[[Nicolas Charles Seringe]] (1776–1858)
*[[Martín Sessé y Lacasta]] (1751–1808)
*[[John Adolph Shafer]] (1863–1918)
*[[Carl Sharsmith]] (1903–1994)
*[[Helen Sharsmith]] (1905–1982)
*[[George Shaw (biologist)|George Shaw]] (1751–1813)
*[[Shen Kuo]] (1031–1095)
*[[John Sibthorp]] (1758–1796)
*[[Franz Sieber]] (1789–1844)
*[[Philipp Franz von Siebold]] (1796–1866)
*[[Thomas Robertson Sim]] (1858–1938)
*[[Cuthbert John Skead]] (1912–2006)
*[[John Kunkel Small]] (1869–1938)
*[[Mikhail Nikolaevich Smirnov]] (1847–1892)
*[[Christo Albertyn Smith]] (1898–1956)
*[[Edith Philip Smith]] (1897–1976)
*[[James Edward Smith (botanist)|James Edward Smith]] (1759–1828)
*[[Johannes Jacobus Smith]] (1867–1947)
*[[Winifred Smith]] (1858–1925)
*[[Lumina Cotton Riddle Smyth]] (1871–1939)
*[[Daniel Solander]] (1733–1782)
*[[Otto Wilhelm Sonder]] (1812–1881)
*[[Pierre Sonnerat]] (1748–1814)
*[[Effie A. Southworth]] (1860–1947)
*[[Roger David Spencer]] (b. 1945)
*[[Kurt Sprengel]] (1766–1833)
*[[Richard Spruce]] (1817–1893)
*[[Herman Spöring]] (1733–1771)
*[[Clive Stace]] (b. 1938)
*[[Agustín Stahl]] (1842–1917)
*[[Elvin C. Stakman]] (1885–1979)
*[[Paul Carpenter Standley]] (1884–1963)
*[[G. Ledyard Stebbins]] (1906–2000)
*[[Berthold Stein]] (1847–1899)
*[[Georg Wilhelm Steller]] (1709–1746)
*[[Kaspar Maria von Sternberg]] (1761–1838)
*[[Julian Alfred Steyermark]] (1909–1988)
*[[Jonathan Stokes]] (c. 1755–1831)
*[[Eduard Strasburger]] (1844–1912)
*[[George Bishop Sudworth]] (1864–1927)
*[[Su Song]] (1020–1101)
*[[Olof Swartz]] (1760–1818)
*[[Simon Syrenius]] (1540–1611)
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== T ==
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*[[Hisayoshi Takeda]] ([[Pseudonym|aka]] Takeda Hisayoshi) (1883–1972)
*[[Armen Takhtajan]] (1910–2009)
*[[Arthur Tansley]] (1871–1955)
*[[Ignaz Friedrich Tausch]] (1793–1848)
*[[John Templeton (botanist)|John Templeton]] (1766–1825)
*[[Michele Tenore]] (1780–1861)
*[[Theophrastus]] (c. 371–c. 287 BC)
*[[William Turner Thiselton-Dyer]] (1843–1928)
*[[Graham Stuart Thomas]] (1909–2003)
*[[William Thompson (naturalist)|William Thompson]] (1805–1852)
*[[George Thomson (botanist)|George Thomson]] (1819–1878)
*[[Robert Folger Thorne]] (1920–2015)
*[[Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars]] (1758–1831)
*[[Carl Peter Thunberg]] (1743–1828)
*[[Agostino Todaro]] (1818–1892)
*[[John Torrey]] (1796–1873)
*[[Joseph Pitton de Tournefort]] (1656–1708)
*[[John Tradescant the elder]] (c. 1570s–1638)
*[[John Tradescant the younger]] (1608–1662)
*[[Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter]] (1809–1889)
*[[Carl Bernhard von Trinius]] (1778–1844)
*[[Mikhail Tsvet]] (1872–1919)
*[[Edward Tuckerman]] (1817–1886)
*[[William Turner (naturalist)|William Turner]] (1509/10–1568)
*[[Tom Tutin]] (1908–1987)
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== U ==
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*[[Bernardino da Ucria]] (1739–1796)
*[[Lucien Marcus Underwood]] (1853–1907)
*[[Ignatz Urban]] (1848–1931)
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== V ==
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*[[Martin Vahl]] (1749–1804)
*[[Sébastien Vaillant]] (1669–1722)
*[[David H. Valentine]] (1912–1987)
*[[Ina Vandebroek]]
*[[Domenico Vandelli]] (1735–1816)
*[[Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh]] (b. 1952)
*[[Nikolai Vavilov]] (1887–1943)
*[[Harry Veitch]] (1840–1924)
*[[John Gould Veitch]] (1839–1870)
*[[Peter Veitch]] (1850–1929)
*[[Romina Vidal-Russell]]
*[[Dominique Villars]] (1745–1814)
*[[Domenico Viviani]] (1772–1840)
*[[Mikhail Stepanovich Voronin]] (1838–1903)
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== W ==
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*[[Warren H. Wagner]] (1920–2000)
*[[Göran Wahlenberg]] (1780–1851)
*[[Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein]] (1759–1823)
*[[George Arnott Walker-Arnott]] (1799–1868)
*[[Nathaniel Wallich]] (1786–1854)
*[[Gustav Wallis]] (1830–1878)
*[[Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth]] (1792–1857)
*[[E. F. Warburg]] (1908–1966)
*[[Harry Marshall Ward]] (1854–1906)
*[[Eugenius Warming]] (1841–1924)
*[[Sereno Watson]] (1826–1892)
*[[William Watson (scientist)|William Watson]] (1715–1787)
*[[Wang Wencai]] (1926–2022)
*[[Heinrich Wawra von Fernsee]] (1831–1887)
*[[Randy Wayne (biologist)]] (b. 1955)
*[[Philip Barker Webb]] (1793–1854)
*[[Georg Heinrich Weber]] (1752–1828)
*[[Christian Ehrenfried Weigel]] (1748–1831)
*[[Friedrich Welwitsch]] (1806–1872)
*[[George Stephen West]] (1876–1919)
*[[William West (botanist)|William West]] (1848–1914)
*[[William West Jr]] (1875–1901)
*[[Herbert Hice Whetzel]] (1877–1944)
*[[August Wilhelm Eberhard Christoph Wibel]] (1775–1814)
*[[Lilly Wigg]] (1749–1828)
*[[Johan Emanuel Wikström]] (1789–1856)
*[[Carl Ludwig Willdenow]] (1765–1812)
*[[Ernest Henry Wilson]] (1876–1930)
*[[William Withering]] (1741–1799)
*[[Anthony Hurt Wolley-Dod]] (1861–1948)
*[[Alphonso Wood]] (1810–1881)
*[[John Medley Wood]] (1827–1915)
*[[Charles Wright (botanist)|Charles Wright]] (1811–1885)
*[[Franz Xavier von Wulfen]] (1728–1805)
*[[Heinrich Wullschlägel]] (1805–1864)
*[[Heinrich Wydler]] (1800–1883)
*[[ Ben-Erik van Wyk]] (b. 1956)
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== X ==

* [[Hu Xiansu]] (1894–1968)

== Y ==
*[[Gennady Yakovlev]] (1938–2024)

== Z ==
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*[[Milton Zaitlin]] (1927–2016)
*[[Kadir Zakirovič Zakirov]] (1906–1992)
*[[Giovanni Zanardini]] (1804–1878)
*[[Karl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher]] (1799–1858)
*[[Daniel Zohary]] (1926–2016)
*[[Michael Zohary]] (1898–1983)
*[[Scott Zona]] (b. 1959)
*[[Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini]] (1797–1848)
*[[Joy Zedler]] (b. 1943)
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==See also==
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* [[List of women botanists]]
* [[List of botanists by author abbreviation]] 
* [[List of authors of South African botanical taxa]] 
* [[List of gardener-botanist explorers of the Enlightenment]]
* [[List of Hungarian botanists]]
* [[List of Russian biologists]]
* [[List of Slovenian botanists]]
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