Paul Guillaume Farges
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Paul Guillaume Farges (1844–1912) was a French missionary, botanist and plant collector, based for much of his life (from 1867) in China, serving at Chongqing from 1892 until his death.
He collected over 4,000 plant specimens, including numerous species new to science, which were sent back to the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, where they were named and described by Adrien René Franchet.
His name is commemorated in several plants, including Abies fargesii, Corylus fargesii, Decaisnea fargesii and Salix fargesii. Most notably the Fargesia genus of bamboos is named for him.
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