Marie-Victorin

male, deceased (1944)
Brother Marie-Victorin was a Christian Brother and botanist, best known as the father of the Jardin botanique de Montréal. Although Marie-Victorin i...
Luca Ghini

Luca Ghini

male, deceased (1566)
Luca Ghini (1490 - May 4, 1556) was an Italian physician and botanist, notable as the creator of the first recorded herbarium, as well as the first...
Pierre Poivre

Pierre Poivre

male, deceased (1786)
Pierre Poivre (August 23, 1719 - January 6, 1786) was a French horticulturalist born in Lyon. In his early 20s he was a missionary in Far Eastern...
Ulisse Aldrovandi

Ulisse Aldrovandi

male, deceased (1605)
Ulisse Aldrovandi (11 September 1522 - 10 November 1605) was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden, one of the...

John Fothergill

male, deceased (1780)
John Fothergill (March 8, 1712 - December 26, 1780), English physician, was born of a Quaker family at Carr End in Yorkshire. He took the degree of...
John Tradescant The Elder

John Tradescant The Elder

male, deceased (1638)
John Tradescant the elder ("ca" 1570s – 15/16 April, 1638), father of John Tradescant the younger, was an English naturalist, gardener, collector an...
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...
Robert Sibbald

Robert Sibbald

male, deceased (1722)
Sir Robert Sibbald (April 15 1641-August 1722), Scottish physician and antiquary, was born in Edinburgh. He was the son of David Sibbald (brother...
Paolo Boccone

Paolo Boccone

male, deceased (1704)
Paolo Silvio Boccone (1633 - 1704) was an Italian botanist from Sicily, whose interest in plants had been sparked by a visit to the botanical...
Charles de L'Écluse

Charles de L'Écluse

male, deceased (1609)
Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius, seigneur de Watènes, was the Flemish doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most in...