Rose cultivars named after celebrities

The following is a partial list of rose cultivars named after celebrities. Rose cultivators oftenFact|date=March 2007 name new cultivars after well-known people.

* Abraham Lincoln [Four red roses are named for Abraham Lincoln: the hybrid perpetuals "Président Lincoln" (1863 — Granger) and "Souvenir du Président Lincoln" (1865—Moreau-Robert), the miniature moss "Honest Abe" (1978 — Christensen), and the well-known red hybrid tea "Mister Lincoln" (1964 — Swim and Weeks).]
* Agatha Christie
* Alan Titchmarsh
* Alphonse Daudet (1997 — Meilland)
* Amelia Earhart (1932 — Reymond)
* Andre Le Notre (2001 — Meilland)
* Archiduchesse Elisabeth d'Autriche
* Arielle Dombasle (1992 — Meilland)
* Arthur Scargill
* Audrey Hepburn
* Barbra Streisand (Weeks Roses)
* Benjamin Britten
* Baroness Caroline von Rothschild (1868 — Jean Pernet, père)
* Baronne Edmond de Rothschild (1968 — Meilland)
* Billy Graham (1998 — Zary)
* Bing Crosby (1981 — Weeks)
* Cary Grant
* Catherine Deneuve (1981 — Meilland)
* Charles Aznavour (1988 — Meilland)
* Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1988 — David Austin)
* Charlotte Rampling (1988 — Meilland)
* Chris Evert (1997 — Carruth)
* Colette (1995 — Meilland)
* Dee Dee Bridgewater (2003 — Meilland)
* Dolly Parton [The 'Dolly Parton' is a dark coppery orange-red hybrid-tea rose.]
* Elizabeth Taylor
* Francesca Elbrick di Belmonte (2007 - Harkness)
* François Rabelais (1997 — Meilland)
* Frédéric Mistral (1995 — Meilland)
* Gabriela Sabatini [a fiery orange-red rose named after Gaby in 1992, possibly the first time in history that a rose has been named after a tennis player.]
* Gina Lollobrigida (1989 — Meilland)
* Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco
* Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1993 — Meilland)
* Honoré de Balzac (1994 — Meilland)
* Ingrid Bergman
* Jeanne Moreau (2005 — Meilland)
* John F. Kennedy
* Judy Garland
* Julie Andrews
* Leonardo da Vinci (1994 — Meilland)
* Liv Tyler (2005 — Meilland)
* Louis de Funès (1984 — Meilland)
* Marcel Pagnol (1996 — Meilland)
* Maria Callas (1965 — Meilland)
* Marie François Sadi Carnot (1894 — Pernet-Ducher)
* Marilyn Monroe (Weeks Roses)
* Marie Curie (1997 — Meilland)
* First Lady Martha Washington (unknown parentage, c. 1889)
* Michelangelo (1997 — Meilland)
* Mrs. Aaron Ward (1907 — Pernet-Ducher)
* Mrs. Chiang Kai-Shek (1942 — Carl G. Duehrsen)
* Mrs. Isaac Péreire (1880 — Garçon)
* Nancy Reagan (2005 — Zary)
* Niccolò Paganini (1991 — Meilland)
* Pablo Picasso
* Paul McCartney (1991 — Meilland)
* Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1995 — Meilland)
* Princess Caroline of Monaco (1988 — Meilland)
* Princess of Wales [There are two roses cultivars named after Diana, Princess of Wales. One, called 'Princess of Wales', is the only one she allowed to be named after her. After her death the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund allowed a new rose, 'England's Rose' to be named after her, which is sold and raises funds for the charity in her memory.]
* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (2000 — Meilland)
* Queen Elizabeth (1954, Lammerts, USA)
* Queen Victoria (1872 — Labruyère/Schwartz)
* Ronald Reagan (2005 — Zary) [Advertised by Jackson Perkins as the first "red, white, and blue rose," although it is actually bluish-red with white reverse.]
* Rosie O'Donnell (1998 — Winchell)
* Tino Rossi (1990 — Meilland)
* William Shakespeare (1987 — Austin)

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