Carolus Linnaeus

Carolus Linnaeus

male, deceased (1778)
Carl Linnaeus, Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as, (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist, ph...
Philip Miller

Philip Miller

male, deceased (1771)
Philip Miller (1691 - December 18, 1771) was a botanist of Scottish descent. Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1721 until...
Gaspard Bauhin

Gaspard Bauhin

male, deceased (1624)
Gaspard Bauhin, or Caspar Bauhin (January 17, 1560 - December 5, 1624), was a Swiss botanist, often incorrectly credited with the introduction of...
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu

Antoine Laurent de Jussieu

male, deceased (1836)
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (April 12, 1748 - September 17, 1836) was a French botanist, notable as the first to propose a natural classification of...
Johann Friedrich Gmelin

Johann Friedrich Gmelin

male, deceased (1804)
Johann Friedrich Gmelin was a German naturalist, botanist and entomologist.
Carl Ludwig Willdenow

Carl Ludwig Willdenow

male, deceased (1812)
Carl Ludwig Willdenow (August 22, 1765 - July 10, 1812) was a German botanist and pharmacist. Willdenow was born in Berlin and studied medicine and...
David Don

David Don

male, deceased (1841)
David Don was an English botanist, Professor of Botany at King's College London from 1836–1841, and librarian at the Linnean Society of London fr...
Johann Georg Gmelin

Johann Georg Gmelin

male, deceased (1755)
Johann Georg Gmelin was a German naturalist, botanist and geographer. Gmelin was born in Tübingen, the son of an apothecary. He was a gifted child a...

Sébastien Vaillant

male, deceased (1722)
Sébastien Vaillant was a French botanist. Vaillant was born at Vigny, Val d'Oise. He studied medicine at Pontoise, and then moved to Paris to p...
Adrian Hardy Haworth

Adrian Hardy Haworth

male, deceased (1833)
Adrian Hardy Haworth (1768, Hull, England - August 24, 1833, Chelsea, England) was an English entomologist, botanist and carcinologist. He was the...