List of orchidologists

This is a list of orchidologists, botanists specializing in the study of orchids. The list is sorted in the surname alphabetical order.

A

• Oakes Ames (botanist) (1874–1950), an American biologist specializing in orchids

B

• James Bateman (1811–1897), a British landowner and accomplished horticulturist
• Carl Ludwig Blume (1796–1862), a German-Dutch botanist

C

• James Boughtwood Comber (1929-2005), a British botanist
• Eugène Jacob de Cordemoy (1835-1911), a French physician and botanist

D

• Walter Davis (botanist)
• John Day (botanist) (1824–1888), an English orchid-grower and collector, and is noted for producing some 4000 illustrations of orchid species
• Margaret A. Dix (born 1939), English-born Guatemalen biologist, taxonomist
• Donald Dungan Dod (1912–2008), an American missionary and orchidologist
• Calaway H. Dodson (born 1928), an American botanist, orchidologist, and taxonomist
• Robert Louis Dressler

E

• Rica Erickson (1908–2009), an Australian naturalist, botanical artist, historian, author and teacher

F

• Achille Eugène Finet (1863–1913), a French botanist best known for his study of orchids native to Japan and China
• Ernesto Foldats (1925 – 2003), a Latvian-Venezuelan botanist and orchidologist
• Noriaki Fukuyama (1912–1946), a Japanese botanist and orchidologist

G

• Leslie Andrew Garay (born 1924), an American botanist
• Samuel Goodenough (1743–1827), an amateur botanist and collector

H

• Karl Theodor Hartweg (1812-1871), a German botanist
• Abel Aken Hunter (1877-1936), an American botanist in Panama

K

• Carolus Adrianus Johannes Kreutz (born 1954), Dutch botanist and taxonomist, specialising in European orchids

L

• Charles H. Lankester (1879-1969), British born, known for his orchid work in Costa Rica
• Carlos Adolfo Lehnebach
• Jean Jules Linden (1817-1898), a Belgian botanist and explorer, horticulturist and businessman, specialising in orchids
• John Lindley
• Hugh Low

M

• Hanna Margońska (born 1968), a Polish botanist
• Theodore Luqueer Mead (1852-1936), an American naturalist, entomologist and horticulturist known for his pioneering work on the growing and cross-breeding of orchids
• Brian John Peter Molloy , New Zealand botanist
• Henry Moon (1857-1905), an English landscape and botanical painter, noted for his orchid paintings

P

• Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer (1846-1906), a German botanist specialist of the taxonomy of the Orchidaceae
• Charles Wesley Powell (1854-1927), an American hobbyist and self-taught horticulturist specializing in the orchids of Panama
• George Harry Pring a British born orchid and water lily specialist known for his work at the Missouri Botanical Garden

Q

• Eduardo Quisumbíng (1895–1986), a Filipino plant biologist

R

• Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823–1889), a botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century
• Benedikt Roezl (1823-1885), an Austrian traveller, gardener and botanist, probably the most famous collector of orchids of his time
• Robert Allen Rolfe (1855–1921), a British botanist and the first curator of the orchid herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England

S

• Henry Frederick Conrad Sander
• Rudolf Schlechter (1872-1925), a German taxonomist, botanist and author of several works on orchids
• Alexander Skutch
• Paul Carpenter Standley an American botanist, specializing in the flora of Central America, including orchids
• Olof Swartz (1760–1818), a Swedish botanist and taxonomist, and the first specialist of orchid taxonomy
• Dariusz Szlachetko (born 1961), a Polish botanist

T

• Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars (1758–1831), a French botanist known for his work collecting and describing orchids from the three islands of Madagascar, Mauritius and Réunion

V

• Louis van Houtte (1810-1876), a Belgian horticulturist

W

• Józef Warszewicz (1812-1866), a Polish botanist, plant and animal collector and biologist
• Benjamin Samuel Williams (1822–1890), an English orchidologist and nurseryman in London