List of orchidologists

A

• Oakes Ames , an American biologist specializing in orchids

  B

• James Bateman, a British landowner and accomplished horticulturist
• Carl Ludwig Blume, a German-Dutch botanist
• Diego Bogarín, a Costa Rican biologist specialised in orchid phylogenetics, systematics and taxonomy of Neotropical Orchidaceae

  C

• Cedric Errol Carr, a New Zealand botanist, specialising in orchids
• James Boughtwood Comber, a British botanist
• Eugène Jacob de Cordemoy, a French physician and botanist

  D

• Walter Davis
• John Day , an English orchid-grower and collector, and is noted for producing some 4000 illustrations of orchid species
• Margaret A. Dix, English-born Guatemalan biologist, taxonomist
• Donald Dungan Dod, an American missionary and orchidologist
• Calaway H. Dodson, an American botanist, orchidologist, and taxonomist
• Robert Louis Dressler, is an American botanist specialist of the taxonomy of the Orchidaceae.

  E

• Rica Erickson, an Australian naturalist, botanical artist, historian, author and teacher
• Ekrem Sezik a Turkish academician, pharmacist and author.

  F

• Achille Eugène Finet, a French botanist best known for his study of orchids native to Japan and China
• Ernesto Foldats, a Latvian-Venezuelan botanist and orchidologist
• Noriaki Fukuyama, a Japanese botanist and orchidologist

  G

• Leslie Andrew Garay, an American botanist
• Samuel Goodenough, an amateur botanist and collector
• Barbara Gravendeel, a Dutch evolutionary biologist, specialised in orchid phylogenetics, systematics and developmental studies

  H

• Karl Theodor Hartweg, a German botanist
• Alex Drum Hawkes, an American botanist and cookbook author from Coconut Grove, Florida & Kingston, Jamaica. Specialized in orchids, bromeliads, palm trees, ferns, vegetables & fruits.
• Abel Aken Hunter, an American botanist in Panama

  K

• Adam P. Karremans, Dutch-Costa Rican botanist specialised in phylogenetics and systematics of Neotropical Orchidaceae
• Carolus Adrianus Johannes Kreutz, Dutch botanist and taxonomist, specialising in European orchids

  L

• , British born, known for his orchid work in Costa Rica
• Carlos Adolfo Lehnebach, Chilean born botanist. Moved to New Zealand in 2000. Research interests are pollination, taxonomy and conservation of New Zealand orchids. His collections are stored at the herbarium
• Jean Jules Linden, a Belgian botanist and explorer, horticulturist and businessman, specialising in orchids
• John Lindley
• Hugh Low

  M

• Hanna Margońska, a Polish botanist
• Theodore Luqueer Mead, 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, an English landscape and botanical painter, noted for his orchid paintings

  P

• Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer, a German botanist specialist of the taxonomy of the Orchidaceae
• Charles Wesley Powell, 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
• Franco Pupulin, an Italian botanist specialised in orchid taxonomy and systematics

  Q

• Eduardo Quisumbíng, a Filipino plant biologist

  R

• Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, a botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century
• Benedikt Roezl, a Czech botanist, gardener, and explorer, among the most famous orchid collectors of his time
• Robert Allen Rolfe, a British botanist and the first curator of the orchid herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England
• Santosh Kumar Reddy, an Indian Forest Service officer, is among the most famous orchidologists in Arunachal Pradesh, India

  S

• Henry Frederick Conrad Sander
• Rudolf Schlechter, 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, a Swedish botanist and taxonomist, and the first specialist of orchid taxonomy
• Dariusz Szlachetko, a Polish botanist

  T

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

  V

• Louis van Houtte, a Belgian horticulturist
• Ed de Vogel, a Dutch orchidologist specialist of the orchid flora of Southeast Asia

  W

• Józef Warszewicz, a Polish botanist, plant and animal collector and biologist
• Benjamin Samuel Williams, an English orchidologist and nurseryman in London