Herbalists

Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (; September 129 – CE), often anglicized as Galen () or Galen of Pergamon, was a Roman and Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher. Considered to be one of the most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity, Galen influenced the development of various scientific disciplines, including anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and neurology, as well as philosophy and logic.

German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)

Pedanius Dioscorides (, ; 40–90 AD), "the father of pharmacognosy", was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author of (in the original , , both meaning "On Medical Material"), a 5-volume Greek encyclopedic pharmacopeia on herbal medicine and related medicinal substances, that was widely read for more than 1,500 years. For almost two millennia Dioscorides was regarded as the most prominent writer on plants and plant drugs.

Andalusian Arab pharmacist, botanist, physician and scientist (1197–1248)

German Catholic clergyman, naturopath and hydrotherapist (1821-1897)

a physician and pharmacologist (150–219), hailed as medical sage, from Eastern Han Dynasty, China

Electress consort of Saxony

16th century English Protestant reformer, physician and natural historian

English botanist (c. 1545–1612)

Czech pharmacist, botanist and missionary (1661-1706)

English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer (1616-1654)

English author and botanist (1716-1775)

English herbalist and botanist (1567-1650)

American woman, convicted and posthumously pardoned for witchcraft

Andalusian botanist (1166-1239)

Swiss writer (1902-1996)

accused in a witch trial & mother of Johannes Kepler

French botanist (1474-1537)

Austrian author and herbalist (1907-1991)

Pakistani medical researcher, scholar, philanthropist, and governor of Sindh Province (1920–1998)

Platearius, Matthaeus, -1161

Italian physician, botanist, poet (1529-1590)

Roman physician and botanist (1522-1590)

person persecuted in witch hunt in Croatia

Ghanaian artist (1908–1998)

19th century iconic concocter

American pharmacist (1849-1936)

South African herbalist and author

French herbalist (1921-2017)

Nigerian herbal medicine practitioner and entrepreneur

Prussian physician and botanist (1519–1589)

German historian (1882–1964)

American botanist (1929-2017)

herbalist (1769-1843)

Canadian-American writer and nutritionist

Czech Jesuit missionary (1652–1717)

German nun and fraudster

English soldier and hermit

English herb farmer (1858–1941)

Irish herbalist (1798-1874)

Norwegian herbalist; cunning woman (1793-1851)

Swedish Cunning woman and courtier

15th-century Italian astrologist and healer

English woman executed for witchcraft at Tyburn (d.1652)

French herbalist (fl. 1292–1319)

Israeli meditation teacher

Native American leader and scholar