Stephen Thayer Olney
Stephen Thayer Olney was an American manufacturer and botanist with expertise in the genus Carex. He issued the exsiccata Carices Boreali-Americanae ex coll. variorum, distribuit S. T. Olney anno 1870.
The monotypic plant genus Olneya was named in his honor by his friend and fellow botanist Asa Gray.