List of mycologists

This is a list of mycologists, or scientists with a specialisation in mycology, with their author abbreviations.;A
*Erik Acharius (1757–1819) — Ach.
*Michel Adanson (1727–1806) — Adans.
*Adam Afzelius (1750–1837) — Afzel.
*Carl Adolph Agardh (1785–1859) — C.Agardh
*Jacob Georg Agardh (1813–1901) — J.Agardh
*David Arora (1957–)

;B
*Churchill Babington (1821–1889) — C.Bab.
*Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli (1800–1874) — Bals.-Criv.
*Anton de Bary (1831–1888)
*August Johann Georg Karl Batsch (1761–1802)
*Gaspard Bauhin (1560–1624)
*Johann Bauhin (1541–1613)
*George Bentham (1800–1884) — Benth.
*Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803–1889) — Berk.
*Christine Marie Berkhout (1893–1932) — Berkh.
*Carl Ludwig Blume (1789–1862)
*James Bolton
*Jean Louis Émile Boudier (1828–1920)
*Giacomo Bresadola (1847–1929) - Bres.
*Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859–1934)
*Max Britzelmayr (1839-1909) - Britzelm.
*Christopher Edmund Broome (1812–1886)
*Robert Brown (1773–1858) — R.Br.
*Arthur Henry Reginald Buller (1874–1944)
*Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard (1742–1793) — Bull.
*Edwin John Butler (1874–1943)

;C
*A. P. de Candolle (1778–1841) — DC.
*George Washington Carver (1864–1943)
*Ignacio Chapela
*John Burton Cleland (1878–1971)
*Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825–1914)
*August Carl Joseph Corda (1809–1849)
*E. J. H. Corner (1906–1996)
*Carl Correns (1864–1933)
*G. H. Cunningham (1892–1962)
*William Curtis (1746–1799)

;D
*René Louiche Desfontaines (1750–1833) — Desf.
*Johann Jacob Dillenius (1687–1747) — Dill.
*Joan Dingley
*David Don (1799–1841) — D.Don
*Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier (1797–1878) — Dumort.
*Michel Félix Dunal (1789–1856)

;E
*Franklin Sumner Earle (1856–1929)
*Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795–1876) — Ehrenb.
*Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742–1795) — Ehrh.
*Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher (1804–1849) — Endl.
*George Engelmann (1809–1884) — Engelm.
*Constantin von Ettingshausen (1826–1897) — Ettingsh.

;F
*Victor Fayod (1860–1900) - Fayod
*John Fincham (1926–2005)
*David W. Fischer (1959–)
*Georg Forster (1754–1794) — G.Forst.
*Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878) — Fr.
*Bruce A. Fuhrer

;G
*Joseph Gaertner (1732–1791) — Gaertn.
*Richard V. Gaines
*Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré (1789–1854) — Gaudich.
*Léon Gaston Genevier (1830–1880) — Genev.
*Ewald Gerhardt - Ew. Gerhardt
*Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748–1804) — J.F.Gmel.
*Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828)
*Johan Ernst Gunnerus (1718–1773)
*Gaston Guzman
*Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (1879–1967)

;H
*Emil Christian Hansen (1842–1909)
*H. W. Harkness (1821–1901)
*Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) — Hook.f.
*John W. Hotson

;I
*Emil J. Imbach (1897–1970)

;J
*Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727–1817) — Jacq.
*Abraham Z. Joffe (1909–2000)

;K
*Károly Kalchbrenner (1807-1886) - Kalchbr.
*Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817–1908) — H.Karst.
*Petter Adolf Karsten (1834–1917) — P.Karst
*Calvin Henry Kauffman (1869–1931)
*Patrick J. Keeling
*Bryce Kendrick (1933–)
*Julius Vincenz von Krombholz (1782–1843)
*Julius Gotthelf Kühn (1825-1910)
*Robert Kühner (1903-1996) — Kühner
*Paul Kummer (1834–1912) — P.Kumm.;L
*Jakob Emanuel Lange — J.E.Lange
*Charles de l'Écluse (1526–1609) — Clus.
*Gustav Lindau (1866–1923)
*John Lindley (1799–1865) — Lindl.
*Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767–1850) - Link
*Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778) — L.

;M
*Charles McIlvaine (1840–1909)
*René Charles Joseph Ernest Maire (1878–1949) - Maire
*George Edward Massee (1850–1917)
*John Macoun (1831–1920)
*Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794–1868) — Mart.
*Tom May
*Konstantin Mereschkowski (1855–1921) — Mereschk.
*Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer (1782–1856)
*André Michaux (1746–1802) — Michx.
*Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet (1809–1892)
*Ferdinand von Mueller (1825–1896) — F.Muell.
*William Murrill (1869–1957)

;N
*Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli (1817–1891)
*Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776–1858) — Nees
*Frank Newhook
*Thomas Nuttall (1786–1859) — Nutt.

;O
*Peter D. Orton (1916 - ) - P.D. Orton

;P
*Charles Horton Peck (1833–1917)
*Christian Hendrik Persoon (1761–1836) — Pers.
*Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1791–1868) — Poepp.
*Karel Presl (1794–1852) — C.Presl.
*Nathanael Pringsheim (1823–1894) — Pringsh.
*Frederick Traugott Pursh (1774–1820)

;Q
*Lucien Quélet (1832–1899)

;R
*Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1783–1840) — Raf.
*Jörg H. Raithelhuber - Raithelh.
*John Ramsbottom (1885–1974)
*Ludwig Reichenbach (1793–1879) — Rchb.
*Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855–1956) — Ridl.
*Henri Romagnesi (1912-1995) — Romagn.
*Emil Rostrup (1831-1907) - Rostr.
*Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1628–1702) — Rumph.

;S
*Pier Andrea Saccardo (1845–1920) — Sacc.
*Augustin Saint-Hilaire (1799–1853) — A.St.-Hil.
*Jacob Christian Schäffer (1718–1790) — Schaeff.
*Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (1794–1866) — Schltdl.
*Franz Paula von Schrank (1747–1835)
*Joseph Schröter (1837–1894) — J.Schröt.
*Lewis David von Schweinitz (1780–1834) — Schwein.
*Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788) — Scop.
*Louis Secretan (1758–1839) — Secr.
*John Sibthorp (1758–1796) — Sibth.
*Rolf Singer (1906–1994)
*Alexander Hanchett Smith (1904-1986) — A.H.Sm.
*James Edward Smith (1759–1828) — Sm.
*James Sowerby (1757-1822) — Sowerby
*Kurt Sprengel (1766–1833) — Spreng.
*Elvin C. Stakman (1885–1979)
*Paul Stamets (1955–)
*Daniel E. Stuntz (1909–1983)

;T
*Fidel Tapia
*Harry D. Thiers (1919-2000) — Thiers
*Carl Peter Thunberg (1743–1828) — Thunb.
*Phillippe Édouard Léon van Tieghem (1839–1914) — Tiegh.
*John Torrey (1796–1873) — Torr.
*Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656–1708) — Tourn.
*Edward Tuckerman (1817–1886) — Tuck.
*Charles Tulasne (1816–1884) — C.Tul.
*Louis René Tulasne (1815–1885) — Tul.

;V
*Martin Vahl (1749–1804)
*Sébastien Vaillant (1669–1722) — Vaill.
*Rytas Vilgalys

;W
*Göran Wahlenberg (1780–1851) — Wahlenb.
*Elsie Maud Wakefield (1886–1972)
*Nathaniel Wallich (1786–1854) — Wall.
*Eugenius Warming (1841–1924) — Warm.
*Roy Watling (1938–)
*Christian Ehrenfried Weigel (1748–1831)
*Friedrich Welwitsch (1806–1872) — Welw.
*Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765–1812) — Willd.
*William Withering (1741–1799) — With.
*Alec Wood
*Franz Xaver von Wulfen (1728–1805)

;Y
*Anthony M. Young

;Z
*Wanda Zabłocka (1900–1978)