List of women botanists facts for kids
This is a list of women botanists.
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| A.S. Losina-Losinskaja | Soviet botanist (1903–1958) | 1903 | 1958 | Russian Empire Soviet Union |
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| Adeline Ames | American mycologist | 1879 | 1976 | United States | ||
| Adriana Hoffmann | Chilean botanist | 1940 | Chile | |||
| Adrienne Clarke | Australian botanist | 1938-01-06 | ||||
| Agnes Arber | British botanist | 1879-02-23 | 1960-03-22 | United Kingdom | ||
| Agnes Block | Dutch botanist and art collector | 1629-10-29 | 1704-04-20 | Netherlands |
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| Agnes Ibbetson | British physiologist | 1757 | 1823-02 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | ||
| Agnes Quirk | American botanist | 1884 | 1974 | United States |
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| Aime Mäemets | Estonian scientist | 1930-09-29 | 1996-07-17 | |||
| Aimée Antoinette Camus | French botanist | 1879-05-01 | 1965-04-17 | France | ||
| Aino Henssen | German lichenologist | 1925-04-12 | 2011-08-29 | Germany | ||
| Alice Eastwood | Canadian American botanist | 1859-01-19 | 1953-10-30 | Canada United States |
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| Alice Faber Tryon | American botanist | 1920 | 2009 | United States |
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| Alice Haskins | American botanist | 1880-04-24 | 1971-10-16 | United States | ||
| Alice Lounsberry | Botanist | 1872 | 1949 | United States | ||
| Alice Pegler | South African botanist | 1861-07-21 | 1929-06-17 | South Africa |
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| Alicia Amherst | English horticulturist and author of the first scholarly account of English gardening history. | 1865 | 1941 | |||
| Alicia Lourteig | Argentine botanist | 1913-12-17 | 2003-07-30 | Argentina |
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| Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps | American educator and botanist | 1793-07-15 | 1884-07-15 | United States |
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| Almut Gitter Jones | German-American botanist and plant taxonomist | 1923-09-08 | 2013-10-12 | United States | ||
| Amalie Dietrich | German naturalist | 1821-05-26 | 1891-03-09 | Germany |
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| Amelia Griffiths | amateur phycologist | 1768 | 1858 | |||
| Amy Jacot Guillarmod | South African botanist | 1911-05-23 | 1992 | South Africa | ||
| Angela Piskernik | botanist and conservationist | 1886-08-27 | 1967-12-23 | Slovenia |
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| Angélica M. Arambarri | botanist and mycologist | 1945-04-22 | 2012-12-11 | Argentina | ||
| Angie Beckwith | American phytopathologist | 1881-01-27 | 1964-10-02 | United States | ||
| Ann Bishop | British biologist | 1899-12-19 | 1990-05-07 | |||
| Ann Marvet | Estonian botanist | 1939-04-21 | ||||
| Anna Amelia Obermeyer | South African botanist | 1907-07-30 | 2001-10-10 | British Empire South Africa |
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| Anna Atkins | English botanist and photographer | 1799-03-16 | 1871-06-09 | United Kingdom |
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| Anna Maria Walker | Botanist in Ceylon | 1778 | 1852-09-08 | |||
| Anna Maurizio | Swiss botanist | 1900-11-26 | 1993-07-24 | Switzerland |
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| Anna Murray Vail | American botanist | 1863-01-07 | 1955-12-18 | United States | ||
| Anna Russell | Russell [née Worsley], Anna (1807–1876), botanist | 1807 | 1876 | |||
| Anna Schchian | Russian botanist | 1905-07-09 | 1990-05-15 | Soviet Union | ||
| Anna Vickers | British phycologist | 1852-06-28 | 1906-08-01 | United Kingdom | ||
| Anna Weber-Van Bosse | Marine biologist | 1852-03-27 | 1942-10-29 | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
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| Lady Anne Brewis | Botanist | 1911-03-26 | 2002 | United Kingdom | ||
| Anne Catherine Hof Blinks | botanist | 1903 | 1995 | United States | ||
| Anne Elizabeth Ball | Irish botanist, algologist, and botanical illustrator | 1808 | 1872 | Ireland | ||
| Annie Gravatt | American phytopathologist | 1894 | 1986 | United States | ||
| Annie Lorrain Smith | British lichenologist | 1854-10-23 | 1937-09-07 | United Kingdom | ||
| Annie Morrill Smith | American botanist | 1856-02-13 | 1946 | United States |
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| Anthea Phillipps | Botanist | 1956-06-03 | Malaysia | |||
| Antonina Borissova | Russian botanist | 1903 | 1970 | Soviet Union | ||
| Antonina Pojarkova | expert on caucasian flora | 1897 | 1980 | Soviet Union | ||
| Arabella Elizabeth Roupell | British artist | 1817-03-23 | 1914-07-31 | South Africa |
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| Astrid Cleve | Botanist, geologist, chemist | 1875-01-22 | 1968-04-08 | Sweden | ||
| Audrey Brooks | British botanist and plant pathologist | 1933 | 2018 | United Kingdom | ||
| Augusta Vera Duthie | South African botanist and mycologist (1881-1963) | 1881-07-18 | 1963-08-08 | South Africa | ||
| Avishag Zahavi | Israeli biologist | 1922 | 2021-10-31 | Israel |
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| Barbara G. Briggs | Botanist | 1934-06-15 1934-11-22 1934 |
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| Barbara Pickersgill | British botanist | 1940 |
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| Beatrice Willard | botanist | 1927-12-19 1925 |
2003 | United States | ||
| Bernadette Cozart | American gardener and botanist | 1949-05-17 | 2009-07-27 | |||
| Bernice Giduz Schubert | American botanist | 1913-10-06 | 2000-08-14 | United States | ||
| Bertha Stoneman | 1866-08-18 | 1943-04-30 | United States | |||
| Berthe Hoola van Nooten | Dutch botanist | 1817-10-12 | 1892-04-12 | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
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| Blanca Renée Arrillaga | Uruguayan scientist | 1917 | 2011 | Argentina |
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| Bonnie C. Templeton | American botanist | 1906-10-23 | 2002 | United States | ||
| Carlotta Case Hall | American botanist | 1880 | 1949 | United States | ||
| Carmen Lelia Cristóbal | Botanist | 1932 | Argentina | |||
| Carmen Pujals | Argentinian botanist | 1916 | 2003 | Argentina | ||
| Carrie Derick | Canadian botanist and geneticist | 1862-01-14 | 1941-11-10 | Canada |
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| Catharine Furbish | American botanist | 1834-05-09 | 1931-12-06 | United States | ||
| Catharine Parr Traill | English-Canadian author | 1802-01-09 | 1899-08-29 | Canada |
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| Catherine Gage | Irish botanist | 1815-05-18 | 1892-02-16 | |||
| Cecile Hulse Matschat | American botanist and geographer | 1895 | 1976 | |||
| Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis | American plant collector | 1874-06-27 | 1956-03-17 | United States | ||
| Charlotte Elliott | American plant physiologist | 1883 | 1974 | |||
| Charlotte Grace O'Brien | Irish writer | 1845 | 1909 | |||
| Chen Hang | Botanist | 1931 | ||||
| Chicita F. Culberson | American lichenologist | 1931-11-01 | United States | |||
| Christine Buisman | Dutch botanist | 1900-03-22 | 1936-03-27 | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
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| Christine Marie Berkhout | Dutch biologist | 1893 | 1932 | Kingdom of the Netherlands | ||
| Clara Eaton Cummings | American cryptogamic botanist | 1855-07-13 | 1906-12-28 | United States |
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| Clara Ethelinda Larter | English botanist | 1847-06-27 | 1936-05-13 | United Kingdom | ||
| Clara H. Hasse | American botanist | 1880 | 1926-10-10 | United States |
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| Clarissa Tracy | American botanist | 1818-11-12 | 1905-11-13 | United States | ||
| Clelia Durazzo Grimaldi | Botanist, aristocrat | 1760 | 1830 | |||
| Cleofé Caldéron | Botanist | 1929-10-26 | 2007-03-19 | Argentina |
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| Constance Endicott Hartt | American biologist | 1900-11-02 | 1984-12-21 | United States |
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| Cythna Letty | South African botanical artist | 1895-01-01 | 1985-05-03 | South Africa | ||
| Daphne Osborne | Botanist | 1930-03-07 | 2006-06-16 | United Kingdom | ||
| Deborah M. Pearsall | American paleoethnobotany | 1950 | United States | |||
| Dianne Edwards | Palaeobotanist | 1942 | United Kingdom | |||
| Doris Löve | Swedish-Icelandic botanist (1918–2000) | 1918-01-02 | 2000-02-25 | Sweden | ||
| Dorothea Pertz | Pertz, Dorothea Frances Matilda [Dora] (1859–1939), botanist | 1859-03-14 | 1939-03-06 | |||
| Dorothy Adlington Cadbury | British botanist and company director | 1892-10-14 | 1987-08-21 | United Kingdom | ||
| Dorothy Popenoe | English botanist and archaeologist | 1899-06 1899 |
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| Éanna ni Lamhna | Entomologist, botanist, ecologist, radio and television presenter, author | 1950 | ||||
| Edith Coleman | Australian naturalist | 1874 | 1951 | Australia | ||
| Edith Gertrude Schwartz | botanist (1877-1971) | 1877-10-05 | 1971-07-26 | United States | ||
| Edith Katherine Cash | American mycologist | 1890-10-04 | 1992-04-06 | |||
| Edith Layard Stephens | South African botanist | 1884 | 1966 | South Africa | ||
| Edna H. Fawcett | American botanist | 1879 | 1960 | United States |
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| Edna P. Plumstead | Paleobotanist | 1903-09-15 | 1989-09-23 | |||
| Effie Almira Southworth | American botanist | 1860 | 1947 | |||
| Eileen Adelaide Bruce | British botanist (1905–1955) | 1905 | 1955 | United Kingdom | ||
| Elaine Bullard | British botanist | 1915 | 2011 | |||
| Eleanor Marion Bennett | botanist | 1942 | Australia | |||
| Eleanor Mary Reid | British palaeobotanist | 1860-11-13 | 1953-09-28 | United Kingdom | ||
| Eleanor Vachell | Welsh botanist | 1879-01-08 1879 |
1948-12-06 1948 |
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| Elena Paunero Ruiz | Spanish botanist | 1906-09-21 | 2009-03-09 | Spain | ||
| Elisa Caroline Bommer | Belgian botanist | 1832-01-19 | 1910-01-17 |
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| Elisa de Vilmorin | French horticulturalist | 1826-05-03 | 1868-08-05 | France | ||
| Elisabeth Christina von Linné | Swedish botanist | 1743-06-14 | 1782-04-15 | Sweden |
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| Elisabeth Gantt | American botanist | 1934 | United States | |||
| Elisabeth Schiemann | botanist, geneticist | 1881-08-15 | 1972-01-03 | Germany | ||
| Elisabeth Tschermak-Woess | Austrian cytologist, phycologist and lichenologist | 1917-01-28 | 2001-04-26 | Austria | ||
| Elise Hofmann | Austrian paleobotanist | 1889-02-05 | 1955-03-14 | Austria | ||
| Eliza Amy Hodgson | Botanist | 1888-10-10 | 1983-01-07 | New Zealand | ||
| Eliza Ann Youmans | American botanist | 1826-12-17 | 1914-09-27 | United States | ||
| Eliza Standerwick Gregory | Botanist | 1840-12-06 | 1932-03-22 | United Kingdom | ||
| Elizabeth A. Widjaja | botanist | 1951 | ||||
| Elizabeth Blackwell | Scottish botanical illustrator and author | 1707 | 1758 | United Kingdom |
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| Elizabeth Coleman White | Blueberry botanist | 1871-10-05 | 1954-11-11 | United States | ||
| Elizabeth Gertrude Britton | American botanist | 1857-01-09 | 1934-02-25 | United States |
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| Elizabeth Jill Cowley | British botanist | 1950 | United Kingdom | |||
| Elizabeth Lomax | English botanist | 1810-02-22 | 1895-03-16 | United Kingdom | ||
| Elizabeth McClintock | Botanist | 1912 | 2004 | United States | ||
| Elizabeth Stack (nee Jones) | Collector of ferns and mosses | 1829 | 1919 | New Zealand | ||
| Elizabeth Twining | English botanical illustrator | 1805 | 1889 | United Kingdom |
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| Elke Mackenzie | British-American lichenologist | 1911-09-11 | 1990-01-18 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | ||
| Ellen Hutchins | Irish botanist | 1785 | 1815 | Ireland | ||
| Ellen Schulz Quillin | American botanist, author and museum director | 1892-06-16 | 1970-05-06 | United States | ||
| Ellen Willmott | English horticulturist | 1858-08-19 | 1934-09-27 | United Kingdom | ||
| Ellen Wright Blackwell | Writer, botanist | 1864-10-07 | 1952-02-24 | New Zealand | ||
| Elsa Beata Bunge | Botanist | 1734-04-18 | 1819-01-19 | Sweden | ||
| Elsa Nyholm | Swedish botanist | 1911 | 2002 | Sweden | ||
| Elsie Conway | British botanist and phycologist | 1902 1902-03-15 |
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| Elsie Elizabeth Esterhuysen | South African botanist | 1912 | 2006 | South Africa | ||
| Elsie M. Burrows | British Botanist | 1913 | 1986 | United Kingdom | ||
| Elsie Mary Griffin | Botany teacher, community organisation administrator | 1884-11-01 | 1968-05-03 | New Zealand | ||
| Elsie Maud Wakefield | British mycologist | 1886-07-03 | 1972-06-17 | United Kingdom | ||
| Elva Lawton | American botanist | 1896-04-03 | 1993-02-03 | United States | ||
| Elzada Clover | American botanist | 1896 | 1980 | United States | ||
| Emilie Snethlage | Brazilian naturalist and ornithologist | 1868-04-13 | 1929-11-25 | Brazil Germany |
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| Emily Collins | British botanist | 1858 | 1945 | United Kingdom | ||
| Emily Dix | Paleobotanist | 1904-05-21 | 1972 | United Kingdom | ||
| Emma Cole | American botanist | 1845-01-23 | 1910-04-25 | United States |
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| Emma Laughlin | 1866 | 1962 | ||||
| Emma Lucy Braun | American botanist | 1889-04-19 | 1971-03-05 | United States | ||
| Enid Lucy Robertson | Australian botanist and conservationist | 1925-11-20 | 2016-07-10 | Australia | ||
| Estella Leopold | American botanist | 1927 | United States | |||
| Esther Orozco | Mexican biologist, researcher and politician | 1945-04-25 | Mexico | |||
| Ethel Anson Peckham | botanist (1879-1965) | 1879 | 1965 | |||
| Ethel Bailey Higgins | American botanist | 1866 | 1963 | United States | ||
| Ethel de Fraine | British botanist | 1879 | 1918 | United Kingdom | ||
| Ethel Sargant | Botanist | 1863-10-28 | 1918-01-16 | United Kingdom |
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| Ethel Thomas | English botanist | 1876 | 1944 | |||
| Ethel Zoe Bailey | American botanist (1889-1983) | 1889-11-17 | 1983 | United States | ||
| Eva Mameli Calvino | Botanist | 1886-02-12 | 1978-03-31 | Italy | ||
| Eva Schönbeck-Temesy | botanist (1930-2011) | 1930 | 2011 | |||
| Eve Palmer | South African non-fiction writer and botanist | 1916-02-20 | 1998 | South Africa | ||
| Evelyn Booth | Irish botanist | 1897-10-30 | 1988 | Ireland | ||
| Flora Wambaugh Patterson | American mycologist | 1847 | 1928 | United States |
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| Florence Hedges | American botanist | 1878-08-24 | 1956-12-17 | United States |
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| Florence Meier Chase | American botanist | 1902 | 1978-05-06 | United States |
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| Florence Woolward | British botanical illustrator and botanist | 1854 | 1936-01-03 | United Kingdom | ||
| Frances Acton | British botanist, archaeologist and artist (1794-1881) | 1794-07-07 | 1881-01-24 | United Kingdom | ||
| Frances Margaret Leighton | South African botanist | 1909-03-08 | 2006-01-08 | Union of South Africa South Africa Australia |
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| Frances Meehan Latterell | Botanist | 1920-12-21 | 2008-11-05 | United States | ||
| Frances Theodora Parsons | Botanist | 1861-12-05 | 1952-06-10 | United States |
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| Françoise Ardré | French botanist | 1931 | 2010 | France | ||
| Gabriele Rabel | Austrian botanist | 1880 | 1963 | Austria |
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| Gabrielle Howard | British botanist | 1876-10-03 | 1930-08-18 | United Kingdom | ||
| Georgia Mason | Botanist | 1910-03-16 | 2007-10-08 | United States | ||
| Gertrud Dahlgren | botanist (1931-2009) | 1931 | 2009 | |||
| Gertrude Bacon | Writer, Aeronaut, Botanist | 1874-04-19 | 1949-12-22 | |||
| Gertrude Jekyll | garden designer, artist | 1843-11-29 | 1932-12-08 | United Kingdom | ||
| Gertrude Simmons Burlingham | early 20th-century American mycologist | 1872-04-21 | 1952-01-11 | United States | ||
| Gloria Galeano Garcés | Colombian scientist | 1958-04-22 | 2016-03-23 | Colombia | ||
| Grace Evelyn Pickford | Biologist | 1902 | 1986 | United States | ||
| Greta Stevenson | New Zealand mycologist | 1911-06-10 | 1990-12-18 | New Zealand | ||
| Grethe Rytter Hasle | Norwegian scientist | 1920-01-03 | 2013-11-09 | Norway | ||
| Gulielma Lister | Lister, Gulielma (1860–1949), mycologist and naturalist | 1860-10-28 | 1949-05-18 | |||
| Guranda Gvaladze | Georgian botanist | 1932-06-23 | 2020-01-24 |
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| Gwendoline Joyce Lewis | British-born South African botanist (1909–1967) | 1909 | 1967 | United Kingdom South Africa |
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| Haide-Ene Rebassoo | Estonian botanist | 1935-01-25 | ||||
| Hanna Margońska | Botanist, Taxonomist | 1968 | Poland | |||
| Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen | Norwegian biologist | 1873-09-11 | 1943-03-13 | Norway |
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| Hannah Caroline Aase | botanist (1883-1980) | 1883-07-12 | 1980-11-23 | |||
| Harriet Creighton | American geneticist | 1909-06-27 | 2004-01-09 | United States | ||
| Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus | South African botanist (1877-1970) | 1877-07-31 | 1970-04-05 | British Empire Union of South Africa South Africa |
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| Hazel Marguerite Schmoll | American botanist (1890–1990) | 1890-08-23 | 1990-01-31 | United States | ||
| Hedvig Lovén | Swedish botanist | 1867 | 1943 | Sweden | ||
| Heidrun Elsbeth Klara Osterwald Hartmann | German botanist | 1942-08-05 1942 |
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| Helen Margaret Gilkey | American mycologist | 1886 | 1972 | United States | ||
| Helen Morgenthau Fox | Botanist and author of gardening books | 1884-05-27 | 1974-01-13 | United States |
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| Helen Porter | British botanist | 1899-11-10 | 1987-12-07 |
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| Helen Sharsmith | American botanist | 1905-08-26 | 1982-11-10 | United States | ||
| Helena Krzemieniewska | Polish botanist and microbiologist | 1878 | 1966 | Poland | ||
| Helena Perpenti | Italian scientist (1764–1846) | 1764 | 1846 | Italy | ||
| Hélène Durand | botanist (1883-1934) | 1883-08 | 1934-08 | |||
| Helia Bravo | Mexican botanist | 1901-09-30 | 2001-09-26 | Mexico | ||
| Henrietta Hooker | American botanist | 1851-12-12 | 1929-05-13 | United States | ||
| Hildur Krog | Norwegian botanist | 1922-03-22 | 2014-08-25 | Norway | ||
| Hiltje Maas-van de Kamer | Dutch botanist | 1941-12-09 | Kingdom of the Netherlands | |||
| Ilma Grace Stone | Australian botanist | 1913 | 2001 | |||
| Inez Clare Verdoorn | South African botanist | 1896-06-15 | 1989 | South Africa | ||
| Inez M. Haring | US botanist | 1875 | 1968 | USA | ||
| Inger Nordal | Norwegian botanist | 1944-08-11 | Norway | |||
| Irene Manton | British botanist | 1904-04-17 | 1988-05-13 | United Kingdom |
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| Irina Grudzinskaya | Russian botanist | 1920 | 2011 | |||
| Isabel Clifton Cookson | Australian botanist | 1893-12-25 | 1973-07-01 | Australia | ||
| Isabella Abbott | Educator, ethnobotanist | 1919-06-20 | 2010-10-28 | United States | ||
| Isabella Preston | botanist (1881-1965) | 1881 | 1965 | |||
| Isobel Wylie Hutchison | Scottish Arctic traveller and botanist | 1889 | 1982 |
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| Janaki Ammal | Indian botanist | 1897 | 1984-02 | India | ||
| Jane W. Loudon | English science fiction writer | 1807-08-19 | 1858-07-13 | United Kingdom |
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| Jane Colden | Botanist | 1724-03-27 | 1766-03-10 | United States | ||
| Jane Glazebrook | American botanist | |||||
| Jane Ingham | English botanist and scientific translator | 1897-08-15 | 1982-09-10 | United Kingdom | ||
| Janet Russell Perkins | American botanist and explorer (1853–1933) | 1853 | 1933 | United States | ||
| Janet Sprent | British botanist | 1934 | United Kingdom | |||
| Janice C. Beatley | American botanist and ecologist | 1919-03-18 | 1987-11-14 | United States | ||
| Jantina Tammes | Dutch botanist and geneticist | 1871-06-23 | 1947-09-20 | Kingdom of the Netherlands | ||
| Jayne V. Armstrong | British botanist | United Kingdom | ||||
| Jean Finnegan | Australian botanist | |||||
| Jean Galbraith | Australian botanist and writer | 1906-03-28 | 1999-01-02 | Australia | ||
| Jean White-Haney | Australian botanist | 1877-03-11 | 1952-10-21 | |||
| Jeanne Baré | French explorer | 1740-07-27 | 1807-08-05 | France |
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| Jenny Hempel | Danish botanist | 1882-02-19 | 1975-02-13 | Denmark | ||
| Joan Cribb | Australian botanist | 1930 | Australia | |||
| Joan Dingley | New Zealand mycologist | 1916-05-14 | 2008-01-01 | New Zealand | ||
| Lady Joan Margaret Legge | British botanist | 1885-02-21 | 1939-07-04 | |||
| Joanne Chory | American plant biologist | 1955-03-19 | United States | |||
| Johanna Westerdijk | Dutch plant pathologist | 1883-01-04 | 1961-11-15 | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
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| Josephine Kablick | Czech scientist | 1787 | 1863 | Austrian Empire |
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| Joyce Lambert | Botanist | 1916-06-23 | 2005-05-04 | |||
| Joyce Winifred Vickery | Australian botanist | 1908-12-15 | 1979-05-29 | |||
| Judith Gay West | Australian botanist | 1949 | Australia | |||
| Julia Morton | Botanist, Author | 1912-04-25 | 1996-09-10 | United States | ||
| Julia Wilmotte Henshaw | Canadian botanist and writer | 1869 | 1937 | Canada |
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| Julie F. Barcelona | Filipino botanist | 1972 | Philippines | |||
| Juliet Wege | Botanist | 1971 | Australia | |||
| Juliette de Bairacli Levy | English herbalist and veterinarian | 1912 | 2009 | United Kingdom | ||
| Kate Crooks | Canadian botanist | 1833 | 1871 | Canada | ||
| Kate Sessions | American botanist and landscape architect | 1857-11-08 | 1940-03-24 | United States | ||
| Katharina Perch-Nielsen | Swiss orienteer | 1940-10-26 | Switzerland | |||
| Käthe Hoffmann | German botanist (1883–1931) | 1883 | 1931 | German Empire Weimar Republic |
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| Katherine Esau | German-American botanist | 1898-04-03 | 1997-06-04 | United States | ||
| Katherine Kane | Irish botanist | 1811-03-18 | 1886-02-25 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | ||
| Katherine Warington | British botanist | 1897-09-05 | 1993-07-03 | |||
| Kathleen Anne Kron | biology professor; studies Ericaceae | 1956 | ||||
| Kathleen Basford | British botanist | 1916-09-06 | 1998-12-20 | |||
| Kathleen Bever Blackburn | British botanist | 1892 | 1968 | United Kingdom |
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| Kathleen Maisey Curtis | Mycologist | 1892-08-15 | 1994-09-05 | New Zealand | ||
| Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker | British phycologist | 1901 | 1957 |
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| Ladema Langdon | 1893-01-05 | 1977-04 | ||||
| Lady Anne Monson | English botanist and collector of plants and insects | 1726 | 1776 | |||
| Leia Scheinvar | Mexican botanist | 1954 | Mexico | |||
| Lela Viola Barton | Botanist, specializing in seeds. | 1901-11-14 | 1967-07-31 | United States | ||
| Lena Clemmons Artz | American botanist | 1891-08-03 | 1976-06-02 | United States |
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| Libby Houston | Botanist | 1941-12-09 | United Kingdom | |||
| Liivia Laasimer | Estonian botanist | 1918-06-21 | 1988-02-26 | |||
| Lilian Clarke | botanist and teacher | 1866-01-27 | 1934-02-12 | United Kingdom | ||
| Lilian Gibbs | Botanist | 1870-09-10 | 1925-01-30 | United Kingdom | ||
| Lilian Snelling | Botanical illustrator | 1879 | 1972-10-12 | United Kingdom | ||
| Lily May Perry | Canadian botanist (1895–1992) | 1895-01-05 | 1992-03-11 | United States | ||
| Lily Newton | botanist (1893-1981) | 1893-01-26 | 1981 | United Kingdom | ||
| Lois Brako | American botanist | 1950-12-05 | United States | |||
| Louisa Grace Fortescue (née Butler), Lady Clermont | Irish botanist; discoverer of Lady Clermont's Spleenwort, Asplenium x clermontiae | 1816-07-18 | 1896-11-8 | Ireland | ||
| Louise Guthrie | South African botanist (1879-1966) | 1879-10-10 | 1966-02-20 | South Africa | ||
| Lucia McCulloch | American botanist | 1873-02-26 | 1955-02-10 | United States |
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| Lucy Beatrice Moore | Botanist, ecologist | 1906-07-14 | 1987-06-09 | New Zealand | ||
| Lucy Cranwell | New Zealand botanist | 1907-08-07 | 2000-06-08 | New Zealand | ||
| Ludmila Kuprianova | Russian botanist | 1914-09 | 1987-01-13 | Soviet Union | ||
| Luisa Eugenia Navas | Chilean botanist | 1918 | Chile | |||
| Lula Pace | First female Baylor University professor with a PhD | 1868 | 1925 | United States | ||
| Lynn G. Clark | American botanist | 1956 | United States | |||
| Lynn Margulis | American evolutionary biologist | 1938-03-05 | 2011-11-22 | United States |
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| Maevia Noemí Correa | Argentinian botanist | 1914-02-14 | 2005-04-18 | Argentina | ||
| Máirin de Valéra | Irish botanist | 1912 | 1984 | |||
| Margaret A. Dix | British botanist | 1939-05-19 | United Kingdom | |||
| Margaret Adebisi Sowunmi | Nigerian botanist and environmental archaeologist | 1939-09-24 | Nigeria | |||
| Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland | British duchess | 1715-02-11 | 1785-04-09 | United Kingdom |
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| Margaret Clay Ferguson | American botanist | 1863-08-29 | 1951-08-28 | United States |
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| Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow | Canadian mycologist | 1923-04-16 | 2008-04-01 | Canada | ||
| Margaret Gatty | British writer | 1809-06-03 | 1873-10-04 | United Kingdom |
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| Margaret Jane Benson | English botanist | 1859 | 1936 | United Kingdom | ||
| Margaret Sibella Brown | Canadian bryologist | 1866 | 1961 | Canada |
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| Margaret Levyns | South AFrican botanist | 1890-10-24 | 1975-11-11 | South Africa | ||
| Margery Claire Carlson | botanist (1892-1985) | 1892-11-21 | 1985-07-05 | United States | ||
| Margot Williams | American botanist | United States | ||||
| Mari Reitalu | Estonian botanist | 1941-02-10 | ||||
| Maria Fadiman | Botanist | 1969-07-04 | United States | |||
| Maria Gugelberg von Moos | Swiss botanist | 1836 | 1918 | Switzerland |
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| Maria Jacson | English writer | 1755 | 1829-10-10 | United Kingdom | ||
| Maria Koepcke | German and Peruvian ornithologist | 1924-05-15 | 1971-12-24 | Germany | ||
| Maria Wilman | South African botanist | 1867-04-29 | 1957-11-09 | South Africa | ||
| Marian Farquharson | Naturalist, women's rights activist | 1846-07-02 | 1912-04-20 | United Kingdom | ||
| Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz | Dutch physopathologist | 1898-07-12 | 1969-07-27 | Kingdom of the Netherlands | ||
| Marie Jean-Eudes Tellier | Religious Sister and botanist | 1897 | 1978 | Canada | ||
| Marie Prins | South African botanist | 1948 | South Africa | |||
| Marie Stopes | British paleontologist | 1880-10-15 | 1958-10-02 | United Kingdom |
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| Marie Taylor | American botanist | 1911 | 1990-12 | United States | ||
| Marie-Anne Libert | Belgian botanist | 1782-04-07 | 1865-01-14 | Belgium | ||
| Marie-Hélène Sachet | French botanist | 1922 | 1986 | France | ||
| Marietta Pallis | Greek-British ecologist | 1882 | 1963 | |||
| Marion Delf-Smith | British botanist | 1883-01-31 | 1980-02-23 | United Kingdom | ||
| Marion E. Moodie | Canadian botanist | 1867 | 1958 | |||
| Marjorie Elizabeth Jane Chandler | English palaeobotanist | 1897-05-18 | 1983-10-01 | United Kingdom | ||
| Mary Agard Pocock | South African phycologist | 1886 | 1977-07-20 | South Africa | ||
| Mary Agnes Chase | American botanical illustrator and botanist | 1869-04-29 | 1963-09-24 | United States |
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| Mary Albertson | American botanist | 1838-06-21 | 1914-08-19 | United States | ||
| Mary Ann Robb | Botanist | 1829 | 1912 | |||
| Mary Bowerman | American botanist | 1908-01-25 | 2005-08-21 | United States | ||
| Mary Elizabeth Barber | British naturalist, South African biologist | 1818-01-05 | 1899-09-04 | United Kingdom | ||
| Mary Gibson Henry | Botanist | 1884 | 1967 | United States | ||
| Mary K. Bryan | American botanist | 1877-02-13 | 1926 | United States |
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| Mary Katharine Brandegee | American botanist | 1844-10-28 | 1920-04-03 | United States | ||
| Mary Pirie | Scottish botanist and teacher | 1822-01-20 | 1885-02-08 | Scotland | ||
| Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort | English noblewoman, gardener and botanist, died 1715 | 1630-12-16 | 1715-01-07 | United Kingdom |
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| Mary Sophie Young | American botanist | 1872-09-20 | 1919 | United States | ||
| Mary Strong Clemens | American botanist | 1873-01-03 | 1968-04-13 | United States |
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| Mary Sutherland | Forester, botanist | 1893 | 1955 | New Zealand | ||
| Mary Therese Kalin Arroyo | New Zealand botanist | 1944 | New Zealand | |||
| Mary Tindale | Botanist | 1920-09-19 | 2011-03-31 | |||
| Mary Treat | American biologist | 1830-09-07 | 1923-04-11 | United States | ||
| Mary Wharton | American botanist | 1912-10-12 | 1991 | United States | ||
| Matilda Cullen Knowles | Irish botanist | 1864-01-31 | 1933-04-27 1933-04-23 |
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| Matilda Smith | Botanical illustrator | 1854 | 1926 | United Kingdom |
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| Maureen Ann Donnelly | 1954-08-10 | |||||
| Meenakshi Banerjee | Indian cyanobacteriologist | India | ||||
| Mildred Adams Fenton | American scientist | 1899-11-14 | 1995-12-07 | United States |
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| Mildred Ester Mathias | American botanist | 1906-09-19 | 1995-02-16 | United States | ||
| Miriam Phoebe de Vos | South African botanist | 1912 | 2005 | South Africa | ||
| Monique Keraudren | French botanist | 1928-12-08 | 1981-05-25 | France | ||
| Nancy Adams | botanist and botanical artist | 1926-05-19 | 2007-03-27 | New Zealand | ||
| Nancy Tyson Burbidge | Australian botanist, conservationist and herbarium curator | 1912-08-05 | 1977-03-04 | Australia |
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| Naomi Feinbrun | Botanist, University Professor | 1900 | 1995-03-08 | Russian Empire Romania Israel |
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| Nélida María Bacigalupo | Argentinian botanist | 1924 | 2019 | Argentina | ||
| Nellie Adalesa Brown | American botanist | 1876 | 1956 | United States |
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| Nina Avgustinovna Adolf | Russian botanist | 1903 | 1951 | |||
| Nina Golubkova | Russian lichenologist | 1932-01-28 | 2009-08-24 | Russia | ||
| Nora Lilian Alcock | Pioneering plant pathologist | 1874-08-18 | 1972-03-31 |
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| Norah Lillian Penston | British botanist and academic administrator | 1903-08-20 | 1974-02-01 | |||
| Nuncia María Tur | Argentinian botanist | 1940 | Argentina | |||
| O.F. Mizgireva | botanist and painter (1908-2000) | 1908 | 2000 | Soviet Union | ||
| Olga Fédchenko | Russian botanist | 1845-10-30 | 1921-04-24 | Russian Empire |
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| Olive Blanche Davies | Australian botanical artist | 1884-10-27 | 1976 | Australia | ||
| Olive Mary Hilliard | South African botanist | 1925-07-04 | 2022 | South Africa | ||
| Orra White Hitchcock | American woman botanical artist | 1796-03-08 | 1863-05-26 | United States | ||
| Ottoline Leyser | British botanist | 1965-03-07 | ||||
| Pamela S. Soltis | American botanist | 1957-11-13 | United States | |||
| Pamela Woods | British botanist | 1952 | United Kingdom | |||
| Pat Wolseley | Botanist | 1938 | United Kingdom | |||
| Patricia Berjak | South African botanist | 1939-12-29 | 2015-01-21 | South Africa | ||
| Patricia G. Gensel | American paleobotanist | 1944 | ||||
| Paula J. Rudall | botanist | 1954 | ||||
| Paula Pryke | British botanist | 1960-04-29 | United Kingdom | |||
| Pauline Dy Phon | Cambodian botanist (1933-2010) | 1933 | 2010-05-21 | Cambodia | ||
| Pauline Ladiges | Australian botanist | 1948-01-19 1948 |
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| Phoebe Lankester | Lankester [née Pope], Phebe [pseud. Penelope] (1825–1900), writer on botany and health | 1825-04-10 1825 |
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| Phyllis Clinch | Irish botanist | 1901-09-12 | 1984-10-19 | |||
| Pippa Greenwood | British botanist | United Kingdom |
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| Princess Theresa of Bavaria | Bavarian princess, scientist, philanthropist | 1850-11-12 | 1925-12-19 1925-09-19 |
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| Priscilla Susan Bury | British botanist | 1799-01-12 | 1872-03-08 | United Kingdom | ||
| Rana Ellen Munns | Australian botanist | |||||
| Rica Erickson | Australian historian and botanist | 1908-08-10 | 2009-09-08 | Australia | ||
| Rosa Olga Sansom | Teacher, museum director, botanist, broadcaster, writer | 1900 | 1989 | New Zealand | ||
| Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann | Filipino-American microbiologist and botanist | 1937-11-23 | 2005-09-04 | United States | ||
| Rosette Batarda Fernandes | Portuguese scientist | 1916-01-10 | 2005-05-28 | Portugal | ||
| Rosmarie Honegger | Swiss lichenologist | 1947 | Switzerland | |||
| Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris | botanist | 1895-04-13 | 1978-06-30 | United States |
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| Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire | Botanist | 1893 | 1950 | United States |
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| Ruth F. Allen | plant pathologist | 1879 | 1963 | United States | ||
| Ruth Kiew | botanist | 1946 | ||||
| Ruth Mason | New Zealand botanist | 1913-11-07 1913 |
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| Ruth Patrick | American botanist and limnologist | 1907-11-26 | 2013-09-23 | United States |
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| Sandra Knapp | botanist | 1956-12-09 1956 |
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| Sara Plummer Lemmon | American botanist | 1836-09-03 | 1923 | United States | ||
| Sarah Bowdich Lee | English naturalist and author | 1791-09-10 | 1856-09-22 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | ||
| Sarah Darwin | English botanist | 1964-04-14 | United Kingdom | |||
| Sarah Martha Baker | British botanist | 1887-06-04 | 1917-05-29 | United Kingdom | ||
| Shirley Sherwood | Botanist | 1933-07-01 | United Kingdom | |||
| Shakti M. Gupta | Ethnobotanist | 1927 | Lahore, Pakistan | |||
| Shiu-Ying Hu | Chinese botanist | 1908-02-26 | 2012-05-22 | People's Republic of China | ||
| Silvia Blumenfeld | Argentine mycologist | 1949 | Argentina | |||
| Silvia Zenari | Italian botanist | 1895-03-31 | 1956-06-30 | Italy | ||
| Siri von Reis | American botanist and writer | 1931-02-10 | 2021-08-03 | United States |
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| Sophia Eckerson | American botanist | 1954-07-19 | United States |
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| Sophie Charlotte Ducker | botanist (1909-2004) | 1909 | 2004 | |||
| Stella Grace Maisie Carr | Australian ecologist | 1912-02-26 | 1988-09-09 | Australia |
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| Stella Ross-Craig | British artist | 1906-03-19 | 2006-02-06 | |||
| Susan Carter Holmes | British botanist | 1933 | United Kingdom | |||
| Susanne Renner | German botanist | 1954-10-05 1954 |
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| Suzanne Mary Prober | Australian botanist | 1964 | Australia | |||
| Thekla Resvoll | Norwegian botanist | 1871-05-22 | 1948-06-14 | Norway |
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| Theodora Lisle Prankerd | British botanist | 1878-06-21 | 1939-11-11 | United Kingdom | ||
| Thistle Yolette Harris | Australian botanist | 1902-07-29 | 1990-07-05 | |||
| Tiiu Kull | Estonian botanist | 1958-08-26 | ||||
| Tracy L. Kahn | American botanist | United States | ||||
| Ülle Kukk | Estonian botanist and conservationist | 1937-11-18 | ||||
| Ursula Katharine Duncan | British botanist | 1910-09-17 | 1985-01-27 | United Kingdom | ||
| Vandika Ervandovna Avetisyan | Armenian botanist and mycologist | 1928-10-5 | Armenia Soviet Union |
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| Vera Scarth-Johnson | Botanist | 1912 | 1999 |
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| Victoria Ann Funk | American botanist | 1947-11-26 | 2019-10-22 | United States | ||
| Violet Dickson | English botanist, writer, and Orientalist | 1896-09-03 | 1991-01-04 | |||
| Vivi Laurent-Täckholm | Swedish botanist | 1898-01-07 | 1978 | Sweden |
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| Vivienne Cassie Cooper | New Zealand planktologist and botanist | 1926-09-29 | New Zealand | |||
| Wanda Kirkbride Farr | US botanist | 1895-01-09 | 1983 | United States |
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| Wanda Zabłocka | Polish botanist, phytopathologist, mycologist | 1900-12-20 | 1978-11-30 | Poland | ||
| Winifred Brenchley | British botanist | 1883-08-10 | 1953-10-27 |
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| Winifred Curtis | British–Australian botanist | 1905-06-15 | 2005-10-14 | Australia | ||
| Winifred Mary Page | British botanist | 1887 | 1965-3-9 | |||
| Ynes Mexia | Mexican botanist | 1870-05-24 | 1938-07-12 | United States Mexico |
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| Yolande Dalpé | botanist | 1948 | ||||
| Zinaida Botschantzeva | Russian botanist and embryologist, professor | 1907-08-10 | 1973-08-17 | Soviet Union |
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See also
- List of botanists
- Lists of women
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