List of garden designers

Musō Soseki , also called Musō Kokushi (1275-1351)

André Le Nôtre (1613–1700)

Capability Brown (1716–1783)

Friedrich Ludwig Sckell (1750–1823)

Peter Joseph Lenné (1789–1866)

Hermann Ludwig Heinrich Prince of Pückler-Muskau (1785–1871)

Evariste Mertens (1846–1907)

Georg Kuphaldt (1853–1938)

Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962). Painting by William Strang , 1918

Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988)

The list below includes not only professionally trained gardeners or landscape architects , but also those people who have become important as garden designers or garden theorists from other professions.

The list is sorted by year of death.

Years of death 1301 to 1400

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

Years of death 1401 to 1500

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

Years of death 1501 to 1600

• Zahir ad-Din Muhammad Babur (1483-1530), Mughal ruler ; Afghanistan and North India
• Pacello da Mercogliano (around 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 horticultural architect; Italy
• Johann Peschel (around 1535–1599), pastor, garden designer, garden writer; Germany

Years of death 1601 to 1700

• Salomon de Caus (1576–1626), architect, engineer and garden designer; France, Germany, England
• Kobori Enshū (1579–1647), tea ceremony master and garden designer; Japan
• André Mollet († 1665), France, Great Britain
• Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie (1626–1688), France
• André Le Nôtre (1613-1700), France
• George London († 1714), Great Britain

Years of death 1701 to 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 garden theorist; Great Britain
• Joseph Effner (1687–1745), Germany
• William Kent (1685-1748), Great Britain
• Daniel Marot (1661–1752), Netherlands, Great Britain
• William Shenstone (1714–1763), poet, Great Britain
• Antoine-Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville (1680–1765), France
• Capability Brown (1716-1783), Great Britain
• Jobst Anton von Hinüber (1718–1784), Germany
• Henry Hoare the Younger (1705–1785) Great Britain
• 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
• Johann Heinrich Müntz (1727–1798), painter, graphic artist, architect, garden designer; Great Britain, Poland, Ukraine, Germany
• Nicolas Henri Jardin (1720–1799), architect; France, Denmark

Years of death 1801 to 1900

• Friedrich Zacharias Saltzmann (1731–1801), Germany
• Johann August Eyserbeck (1762–1801), Germany
• Simon Gottlieb Zug (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 a. a.
• William Sawrey Gilpin (1762-1843), garden theorist; Great Britain
• John Claudius Loudon (1783–1843), Great Britain
• Johann Michael Zeyher (1770–1843), Germany
• Johann Peter Paul Bouché (1759–1846), Germany
• Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe (1775–1846), Germany
• Johann Heinrich Ohlendorff (1788–1857), Germany
• Theodor II. Nietner (1823-1894), Germany
• Johann Christian Metzger (1789-1852), Germany
• Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-1852), USA
• Sebastian Rinz (1782–1861), Germany
• Ferdinand Fintelmann (1774–1863), Germany
• Joseph Paxton (1803-1865), Great Britain
• Peter Joseph Lenné (1789–1866), Germany
• Ignaz Pilat (1820–1870), Austria, USA
• Jan David Zocher (1791–1870), architect, town planner and landscape architect; Netherlands
• Joseph Clemens Weyhe (1807–1871), Germany
• Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (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 artist, 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 (1810-1893), Switzerland
• Clement Hodgkinson (1818-1893), Australia
• Wilhelm Benque (1814–1895), Germany
• Calvert Vaux (1824-1895), USA
• Charles Eliot (1859-1897), USA
• Franz Heinrich Siesmayer (1817–1900), Germany

Years of death 1901 to 2000

• Paul Viktor Niemeyer (1827–1901), Germany
• Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), USA
• Johann Gottlieb Schoch (1853–1905), Germany
• Heinrich Scharrer (1828–1906), Germany
• Julius Trip (1857-1907), Germany
• Evariste Mertens (1846–1907), Switzerland
• Édouard François André (1840–1911), France, Switzerland, Russia, Lithuania a. a.
• 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), USA
• 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
• Philipp Siesmayer (1862–1935), Germany
• Joachim Carvallo (1869–1936), doctor and garden designer; France
• Georg Kuphaldt (1853–1938), garden architect; Germany, Russian Empire
• Heinrich Zeininger (1867–1939), Germany
• Leonhard A. Springer (1855–1940), garden architect; Netherlands
• Walter von Engelhardt (1864–1940), garden architect; Baltic States, Düsseldorf
• Reginald Blomfield (1856-1942), garden theorist; Great Britain
• Gilles Clément (* 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 urban planner; 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
• Ferdinand Tutenberg (1874–1956), Germany
• Ludwig Lesser (1869–1957), Germany
• Paul Freye (1869–1958), Germany, Poland
• Beatrix Farrand (1872-1959), USA
• Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962), Great Britain
• Jacques Gréber (1882–1962), France
• Gerard Antoni Ciołek (1909–1966), garden historian; Poland
• Reinhold Lingner (1902–1968), Germany
• Gustav Lüttge (1909–1968), garden architect, Germany
• Richard Neutra (1892–1970), architect and garden designer; USA & a.
• Karl Foerster (1874–1970), Germany
• Alfred Reich (1908–1970), Germany, in particular Munich
• Fletcher Steele (1885–1971), garden architect; United States
• Wilhelm Hübotter (1895–1976), Germany
• John Fletcher Steele (1885–1971), USA
• Hermann Mattern (1902–1971), Germany
• Heinrich Wiepking-Jürgensmann (1891–1973), Germany
• Gustav Allinger (1891–1974), Germany
• Ernst Cramer (1898–1980), Switzerland
• Herta Hammerbacher (1900–1985) Germany
• Carl Theodor Sørensen (1893–1979), Denmark
• Russell Page (1906–1985), Great Britain
• Karl Heinz Plomin (1904–1986), Germany
• Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988), sculptor and garden designer, Japan, USA
• James C. Rose (1913-1991), USA
• 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, USA
• Dieter Kienast (1945–1998), Switzerland, Germany
• Wilhelmina Jacoba Moussault-Ruys (= Mien Ruys; 1904–1999), The Netherlands
• Hideo Sasaki (1919-2000), USA
• Garrett Eckbo (1910-2000), USA

Years of death since 2001

• Ian L. McHarg (1920-2001) USA
• Dan Kiley (1912-2004) USA
• Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006), poet, garden designer; Scotland
• Sven-Ingvar Andersson (1927-2007), Denmark
• Henk Gerritsen (1948–2008), The Netherlands
• Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009), USA
• Wolfgang Oehme (1930–2011), Germany
• James van Sweden (1935-2013), USA
• Michel Corajoud (1937-2014), France
• Hans Loidl (1944–2015), Austria
• Beth Chatto (1923-2018), Great Britain
• Richard Haag (1923-2018), USA
• Charles Jencks (1939-2019), USA
• Richard Bödeker (1934–2019), Germany

Living people

• Penelope Hobhouse (* 1929), Great Britain
• Bernard Lassus (* 1929), France
• Peter Walker (* 1932), USA
• Alain Roger (* 1936), philosopher, garden theorist; France
• Robert Murase (* 1938), USA
• Laurie Olin (* 1939), USA
• Peter Latz (* 1939), Germany
• Gilles Clément (* 1943), France
• Arend Jan van der Horst (* 1943), Netherlands
• Piet Oudolf (* 1944), Netherlands
• Mario Terzic (* 1945), Austria
• Martha Schwartz (* 1950), USA
• Kathryn Gustafson (* 1951), USA
• Michael R. Van Valkenburgh (* 1951), USA
• Tim Smit (* 1954), Great Britain
• Henri Bava (* 1957), France
• Adriaan Geuze (* 1960), Netherlands
• Tom Stuart-Smith (* 1960), Great Britain

People with unknown life data

• Zhang Nanyuan (also: Zhang Lian) (1587–?), Painter and garden designer; China
• Carl Rimann (* 1870–?), Germany
• Brian Clouston (* 19 ??), Great Britain
• Christopher Bradley-Hole , UK
• Luciano Giubbilei , Italy
• Noel Kingsbury , UK

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