| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Prospero Alpini |
Botanist |
23-Nov-1553 |
23-Nov-1616 |
De Plantis Aegypti liber |
| Sir Joseph Banks |
Botanist |
13-Feb-1743 |
19-Jun-1820 |
Accompanied James Cook |
| Gaspard Bauhin |
Botanist |
17-Jan-1560 |
5-Dec-1624 |
Pinax Theatri Botanici |
| Jacob Bigelow |
Botanist |
27-Feb-1786 |
10-Jan-1879 |
American Medical Botany |
| Hieronymus Bock |
Botanist |
1498 |
21-Feb-1554 |
Arranged and ordered plants systematically |
| Rudolph Boysen |
Botanist |
14-Jul-1895 |
25-Nov-1950 |
Created the Boysenberry |
| Robert Brown |
Botanist |
21-Dec-1773 |
10-Jun-1858 |
Brownian motion |
| Luther Burbank |
Botanist |
7-Mar-1849 |
11-Apr-1926 |
Botanist and plant breeder |
| Heinrich Anton de Bary |
Botanist |
26-Jan-1831 |
19-Jan-1888 |
Founder of modern mycology |
| Réné Louiche Desfontaines |
Botanist |
14-Feb-1750 |
16-Nov-1833 |
Flora Atlantica Tunetano et Algeriensi |
| David G. Fairchild |
Botanist |
7-Apr-1869 |
6-Aug-1954 |
Brought exotic plants to America |
| Konrad von Gesner |
Botanist |
26-Mar-1516 |
13-Dec-1565 |
Historia animalium |
| Asa Gray |
Botanist |
18-Nov-1810 |
30-Jan-1888 |
Botany of the Northern United States |
| Nehemiah Grew |
Botanist |
26-Sep-1641 |
25-Mar-1712 |
Anatomy of Plants |
| Albrecht von Haller |
Doctor |
16-Oct-1708 |
12-Dec-1777 |
Elementa Physiologiae Corporis Humani |
| Wilhelm Hofmeister |
Botanist |
18-May-1824 |
12-Jan-1877 |
Alternation of generations in plants |
| Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Botanist |
30-Jun-1817 |
10-Dec-1911 |
Genera Plantarum |
| William Jackson Hooker |
Botanist |
6-Jul-1785 |
12-Aug-1865 |
British Jungermanniae |
| Carolus Linnaeus |
Botanist |
23-May-1707 |
10-Jan-1778 |
Created a taxonomy of the species |
| Gregor Mendel |
Scientist |
22-Jul-1822 |
6-Jan-1884 |
Discovered the laws of inheritance |
| John Muir |
Activist |
21-Apr-1838 |
24-Dec-1914 |
Patron saint of Yosemite National Park |
| Jean Senebier |
Botanist |
7-May-1742 |
22-Jul-1809 |
Explained vegetable nutrition |
| John Torrey |
Botanist |
15-Aug-1796 |
10-Mar-1873 |
Flora of North America |
