List of orchidologists

A

• Oakes Ames (botanist), American biologist specializing in orchids
• Joseph Arditti, American plant physiologist specializing in orchids. Doctorate from the University of Southern California, 1965. Professor of Biology University of California, Irvine, 1966-2001. Professor Emeritus, 2001-

B

• Ray Barkalow, US scientist and engineer, known for using science to explain or dispel orchid-growing myths.
• James Bateman, British landowner and accomplished horticulturist
• Carl Ludwig Blume, German-Dutch botanist
• Diego Bogarín, Costa Rican biologist specialising in orchid phylogenetics, systematics and taxonomy of neotropical Orchidaceae

C

• Cedric Errol Carr, New Zealand botanist, specialising in orchids
• Arthur Chadwick, american orchid grower
• James Boughtwood Comber, British botanist
• Harold Frederick Comber, English horticulturist and plant collector
• Eugène Jacob de Cordemoy, French physician and botanist
• Benjamin J. Crain, US biologist specializing in orchid ecology, biogeography, and conservation, primarily in the Caribbean, Pacific Islands, Latin America, and the United States.

D

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

E

• Rica Erickson, Australian naturalist, botanical artist, historian, author and teacher
• Ekrem Sezik, Turkish academician, pharmacist and author
• Choy sin Hew, Singapore plant physiologist specializing in orchids

F

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

G

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

H

• Karl Theodor Hartweg, German botanist
• Alex Drum Hawkes, American botanist and cookbook author from Coconut Grove, Florida and Kingston, Jamaica; specialized in orchids, bromeliads, palm trees, ferns, vegetables and fruits
• Abel Aken Hunter, 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
• Pankaj Kumar, Indian botanist, conservationist, ecologist and taxonomist, specialising in Asian orchids and now exploring orchids of the New World

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, Belgian botanist and explorer, horticulturist and businessman, specialising in orchids
• John Lindley
• Hugh Low

M

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

P

• Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer, German botanist specialist of the taxonomy of the Orchidaceae
• Charles Wesley Powell, American hobbyist and self-taught horticulturist specializing in the orchids of Panama
• George Harry Pring, British born orchid and water lily specialist known for his work at the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Franco Pupulin, Italian botanist specialising in orchid taxonomy and systematics

Q

• Eduardo Quisumbíng, Filipino plant biologist

R

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

S

• Henry Frederick Conrad Sander
• Rudolf Schlechter, German taxonomist, botanist and author of several works on orchids
• Alexander Skutch
• Paul Carpenter Standley, American botanist, specializing in the flora of Central America, including orchids
• Olof Swartz, Swedish botanist and taxonomist, and the first specialist of orchid taxonomy
• Dariusz Szlachetko, Polish botanist

T

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

V

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

W

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