List of landscape architects

The list below includes not only professionally trained gardeners and landscape architects, but also those individuals who were from other professions out significantly as landscapers or garden theorist.

The list is ordered by year of death.

Death years 1301-1400

  • Musō Soseki (also: Muso Kokushi ) ( 1275-1351 ), a Zen priest and garden designer; Japan

Death years 1401-1500

  • Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), architect and garden designer; Italy

Death years 1501-1600

  • Pacello because Mercogliano (about 1444-1534 ), garden designer; Italy, France
  • Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507-1573), architect and garden designer; Italy
  • Pirro Ligorio (1514-1583), painter, archaeologist, architect and landscape architect; Italy
  • Johann Peschel (around 1535-1599 ), pastor, garden designers, garden writers; Germany

Death years 1601-1700

  • Salomon de Caus (1576-1626), architect, engineer and garden designer; France, Germany, England
  • Enshu Kobori (1579-1647), Teezeremonienmeister and garden designer; Japan
  • Zhang Nanyuan (also: Zhang Lian ) ( 1587 - ), painter and garden designer; China
  • André Mollet († 1665), United Kingdom
  • Jean -Baptiste de la Quintinie (1624-1688), France
  • André Le Nôtre (1613-1700), France
  • George London († 1714), United Kingdom

Death years 1701-1800

  • Johann Friedrich Karcher (1650-1726), Germany
  • John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), Great Britain
  • Charles Bridgeman (1690-1738), Great Britain
  • Henry Wise (1653-1738), Great Britain
  • Dominique Girard († 1738), France, Germany
  • Alexander Pope (1688-1744), writer and theorist garden; Great Britain
  • Joseph Effner (1687-1745), Germany
  • William Kent (1686-1748), Great Britain
  • Daniel Marot (1661-1752), Netherlands, United Kingdom
  • Antoine -Joseph d' Dezallier Argenville (1680-1755), France
  • William Shenstone (1714-1763), poet, Great Britain
  • Capability Brown (1716-1783), Great Britain
  • Jobst Anton von Hinüber (1718-1784), Germany
  • Henry Hoare the Younger (1705-1785) United Kingdom
  • Johann Heinrich Muntz (1727-1789), painter, printmaker, architect, garden designer; UK, Poland, Ukraine, Germany
  • Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld (1742-1792), garden theorist; Germany
  • William Chambers (1723-1796), architect and garden designer; Great Britain
  • Nicolas de Pigage (1723-1796), Germany
  • Horace Walpole (1717-1797), garden theorist; Great Britain
  • Nicolas Henri Jardin (1720-1799), architect; France, Denmark

Death years 1801-1900

  • Friedrich Zacharias Saltzman (1731-1801), Germany
  • Johann August Eyserbeck (1762-1801), Germany
  • Simon Gottlieb train (1733-1807), Poland
  • Hubert Robert (1733-1808), France
  • François -Joseph Bélanger (1744-1818), France
  • Humphry Repton (1752-1818), Great Britain
  • Johann Friedrich Eyserbeck (1734-1818), Germany
  • Friedrich Ludwig Sckell (1750-1823), Germany
  • Heinrich Christoph Jussow (1754-1825), Germany
  • Gabriel Thouin ( 1747-1827/29 ), France
  • Andrew Parmentier (1780-1830), United States
  • Christian Ludwig Bosse (1771-1831), Germany
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Germany
  • Johann Karl Krafft (1764-1833), Austria and France
  • Thomas Blaikie (1751-1838), France, among others
  • Johann Michael Zeyher (1770-1843), Germany
  • John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843), Great Britain
  • William Sawrey Gilpin (1762-1845), garden theorist; Great Britain
  • Johann Peter Paul Bouché (1759-1846), Germany
  • Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe (1775-1846), Germany
  • Johann Heinrich Ohlendorff (1788-1857), Germany
  • Theodore II Nietner (1823-1894), Germany
  • Johann Christian Metzger (1789-1852), Germany
  • Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-1852), United States
  • Sebastian Rinz (1782-1861), Germany
  • Ferdinand Fintelmann (1774-1863), Germany
  • Joseph Paxton (1803-1865), Great Britain
  • Peter Joseph (1789-1866), Germany
  • Ignaz Pilat (1820-1870), Austria, United States
  • January Zocher David (1791-1870), architect, urban planner and landscape architect; Netherlands
  • Joseph Clemens Weyhe (1807-1871), Germany
  • Hermann von Pueckler (1785-1871), Germany
  • Wilhelm Hentze (1793-1874), Germany
  • Gustav Meyer (1816-1877), Germany
  • Hermann Rudolph Siebeck (1812-1878), Germany
  • William Andrews Nesfield (1793-1881), Great Britain
  • Hermann Jäger (1815-1890), garden designer, garden writer; Germany
  • Eduard Petzold (1815-1891), Germany
  • Jean -Charles Alphand (1817-1891), France
  • Georges -Eugène, Baron Haussmann (1809-1891), France
  • Leopold Karl Theodor Froebel (1810-1907), Switzerland
  • Clement Hodgkinson (1818-1893), Australia
  • Wilhelm Benque (1814-1895), Germany
  • Calvert Vaux (1824-1895), United States
  • Charles Eliot (1859-1897), United States
  • Franz Heinrich Siesmayer (1817-1900), Germany

Death years 1901-2000

  • Paul Victor Niemeyer (1827-1901), Germany
  • Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), United States
  • Johann Gottlieb Schoch (1853-1905), Germany
  • Henry Scharrer (1828-1906), Germany
  • TripAdvisor Julius (1857-1907), Germany
  • Evariste Mertens (1846-1907), Switzerland
  • Édouard François André (1840-1911), France, Switzerland, Russia, Lithuania, among other things,
  • William Robert Guilfoyle (1840-1912), Australia
  • Gustav II Adolph Fintelmann (1846-1918), Germany
  • Otto Kindermann (1843-1918), Germany
  • Carl Friedrich Julius Bouché (1846-1922), Germany
  • Otto Werner (1854-1923), Germany
  • Jean Claude Nicholas Forestier (1861-1930), France, Spain, USA
  • Rudolph Jürgens (1850-1930), Germany
  • Fritz Encke (1861-1931), Germany
  • Ossian Cole Simonds (1855-1932), United States
  • Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932), Great Britain
  • Harold Ainsworth Peto (1854-1933), Great Britain
  • Johann Carl Friedrich Bouché (1850-1933), Germany
  • Erwin Albert Barth (1880-1933), Germany
  • Jihei Ogawa (1860-1933), Japan
  • Thomas Mawson (1861-1933), Great Britain
  • Carlos Thays (1849-1934), France, Argentina
  • Leberecht Migge (1881-1935), Germany
  • William Robinson (1838-1935), Great Britain
  • Siesmayer Philipp (1862-1935), Germany
  • Joachim Carvallo (1869-1936), physician and garden designer; France
  • Georg Kuphaldt (1853-1938), garden designer; Germany, Russian Empire
  • Zeininger Heinrich (1867-1939), Germany
  • Leonard A. Springer (1855-1940), garden designer; Netherlands
  • Walter von Engelhardt (1864-1940), garden designer; Baltics, Dusseldorf
  • Reginald Blomfield (1856-1942), garden theorist; Great Britain
  • Gilles Clément ( born in 1943 ), France
  • Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869-1944), architect and garden designer; Great Britain
  • Georg Potente (1876-1945), Germany
  • Harry Maasz (1880-1946), Germany, Spain
  • Fritz Schumacher (1869-1947), architect and town planner; Germany
  • Ferdinand Tutenberg (1874-1956), Germany
  • Camillo Schneider (1876-1951), Germany
  • Jens Jensen (1860-1951), Germany, USA
  • Max Laeuger (1864-1952), Germany
  • Albert Esch (1883-1954), Austria
  • Gustav Ammann (1885-1955), Switzerland
  • Paul Freye (1869-1958), Germany, Poland
  • Beatrix Farrand (1872-1959), United States
  • Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962), Great Britain
  • Gerard Antoni Ciołek (1909-1966), garden historian; Poland
  • Reinhold Lingner (1902-1968), Germany
  • Richard Neutra (1892-1970), architect and garden designer; USA et al
  • Hübotter Wilhelm (1895-1976), Germany
  • John Fletcher Steele (1885-1971), United States
  • Hermann Mattern (1902-1971), Germany
  • Heinrich Wiepking - Jürgensmann (1891-1973), Germany
  • Gustav Allinger (1891-1974), Germany
  • Ernst Cramer (1898-1980), Switzerland
  • Herta Hammersbacher (1900-1985) Germany
  • Carl Theodor Sørensen (1893-1979), Denmark
  • Russell Page (1906-1985), Great Britain
  • Karlheinz Plomin (1904-1986), Germany
  • Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), sculptor and garden designer, Japan, USA
  • James C. Rose (1913-1991), United States
  • Günther Schulze (1927-1994), Germany
  • Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994), Brazil
  • Günther Grzimek (1915-1996), Germany
  • Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900-1996), Great Britain
  • Kurt Schönbohm (1908-1997), Germany
  • Alfred Caldwell (1903-1998), USA, United States
  • Dieter Kienast (1945-1998), Switzerland, Germany
  • Wilhelmina Jacoba Moussault - Ruys ( Mien Ruys =; 1904-1999 ), Netherlands
  • Hideo Sasaki (1919-2000), United States
  • Garrett Eckbo (1910-2000), United States

Death from 2001 to today

  • Ian L. McHarg (1920-2001), United States
  • Dan Kiley (1912-2004), United States
  • Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006), poet, landscapers; Scotland
  • Sven -Ingvar Andersson (1927-2007), Denmark
  • Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009), United States
  • Wolfgang Oehme (1930-2011), Germany

Living people

  • Richard Hague ( b. 1923 ), United States
  • Beth Chatto ( b. 1923 ), United Kingdom
  • Penelope Hobhouse ( born 1929 ), United Kingdom
  • Bernard Lassus ( born 1929 ), France
  • Peter Walker ( born 1932 ), United States
  • Richard Boedeker (* 1934), Germany
  • James van Sweden (1935-2013), United States
  • Alain Roger ( b. 1936 ), philosopher, theorist garden; France
  • Robert Murase ( born 1938 ), United States
  • Laurie Olin ( b. 1939 ), United States
  • Charles Jencks ( born 1939 ), United States
  • Peter Latz ( born 1939 ), Germany
  • Gilles Clément ( born in 1943 ), France
  • Arend Jan van der Horst ( born 1943 ), The Netherlands
  • Piet Oudolf (1944 ), The Netherlands
  • Martha Schwartz ( born 1950 ), United States
  • Kathryn Gustafson ( born 1951 ), United States
  • Tim Smit (born 1954 ), United Kingdom
  • Adriaan Geuze (* 1960), The Netherlands
  • Tom Stuart -Smith ( born 1960 ), United Kingdom

Persons with unknown life data

  • Brian Clouston ( * 19? ), United Kingdom
  • Christopher Bradley - Hole, United Kingdom
  • Luciano Giubbilei, Italy
  • Noel Kingsbury, Great Britain
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