Joseph Dalton Hooker

Joseph Dalton Hooker

male, deceased (1911)
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, GCSI, OM, FRS, MD (June 30, 1817 - December 10, 1911) was an English botanist and traveller.
William Roxburgh

William Roxburgh

male, deceased (1815)
William Roxburgh (June 29, 1751 - April 10, 1815) was a Scottish physician and botanist. He has been called the "Father of Indian Botany".
Francis Buchanan-Hamilton

Francis Buchanan-Hamilton

male, deceased (1829)
Dr Francis Buchanan, later known as Francis Hamilton but often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (February 15, 1762 - June 15, 1829) was a...
Nathaniel Wallich

Nathaniel Wallich

male, deceased (1854)
Nathaniel Wulff Wallich (28 January 1786 - 28 April 1854) was a surgeon and botanist. Born in Copenhagen, in 1806 Wallich obtained the diploma of...
Hugh Falconer

Hugh Falconer

male, deceased (1865)
Hugh Falconer MD, FRS (February 29 1808 - January 31 1865), was a distinguished Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist and...
Robert Fortune

Robert Fortune

male, deceased (1880)
Robert Fortune (September 16, 1812 - April 13, 1880), was a Scottish botanist and traveller best known for introducing tea plants from China to India.
Garcia de Orta

Garcia de Orta

male, deceased (1568)
Garcia de Orta (1501 or 1502-1568) was a Renaissance Portuguese Jewish physician and naturalist. He was a pioneer of tropical medicine.
Albert Howard

Albert Howard

male, deceased (1947)
Sir Albert Howard (1873-1947) was a British botanist, an organic farming pioneer, and a principal figure in the early organic movement. He is often...

Johann Gerhard König

male
Johann Gerhard König was a botanist and physician born in 1728 in Ungerhof, in Polish Livland. He was a private pupil of Carolus Linnaeus in 1757, a...
Pierre Sonnerat

Pierre Sonnerat

male, deceased (1814)
Pierre Sonnerat was a French naturalist and explorer. Sonnerat was the nephew of the botanist Pierre Poivre. He made several voyages to southeast...