Famous taxonomists
person working in description, identification, nomenclature, and classification of entities
65 people
Carl Linnaeus
1707
– 1778
· Age 70
Deceased
Hugo Gunckel Lüer
1901
– 1997
· Age 95
Deceased
Adolf Engler
1844
– 1930
· Age 86
Deceased
Carl Ludwig Willdenow
1765
– 1812
· Age 46
Deceased
George Bentham
1800
– 1884
· Age 83
Deceased
Theodore Gill
1837
– 1914
· Age 77
Deceased
Nathaniel Lord Britton
1859
– 1934
· Age 75
Deceased
Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus
1877
– 1970
· Age 92
Deceased
William Diller Matthew
1871
– 1930
· Age 59
Deceased
Nicholas Edward Brown
1849
– 1934
· Age 85
Deceased
Maxwell Tylden Masters
1833
– 1907
· Age 74
Deceased
John Sims
1749
– 1831
· Age 81
Deceased
Oskar Heinroth
1871
– 1945
· Age 74
Deceased
Margaret Levyns
1890
– 1975
· Age 85
Deceased
H
Hermann Harms
1870
– 1942
· Age 72
Deceased
P
Patricia Bergquist
1933
– 2009
· Age 76
Deceased
J
Julián Baldomero Acuña Galé
1900
– 1973
· Age 73
Deceased
Alice Pegler
1861
– 1929
· Age 67
Deceased
Harriet Creighton
1909
– 2004
· Age 94
Deceased
Adolf Seilacher
1925
– 2014
· Age 89
Deceased
L
Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson
1925
– 1991
· Age 66
Deceased
Olive Mary Hilliard
1925
– 2022
· Age 97
Deceased
José Cuatrecasas
1903
– 1996
· Age 93
Deceased
Sven Oscar Kullander
1952
· Age 73
Alive
Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
1879
– 1967
· Age 88
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q1907198