List of rose cultivars named after people

Among the individuals or fictional characters who have had rose cultivars named after them are the following:

A

'Abraham Darby'
'Adam Messerich'
'Alain Blanchard'
'Albéric Barbier'
'Albrecht Dürer'
'Adolf Horstmann'
'Alister Stella Gray'
'Anne Harkness'
'Anneliese Rothenberger'
'Archiduc Joseph'
'Arielle Dombasle'
'Arthur Rimbaud'
'Astrid Lindgren'

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B

'Baron Girod de l'Ain'
'Baroness Rotchild'
'Benjamin Britten'
'Bernd-Weigel-Rose'
'Betty Prior'
'Brenda Colvin'

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C

'Camille Pissarro'
'Captain Hayward'
'Cardinal de Richelieu'
'César'
'Charles de Gaulle'
'Charles de Mills'
'Chopin'
'Christopher Columbus'
'Claude Monet'
'Comte de Chambord'
'Comtesse du Barry'
'Condesa de Sastago'
'Coupe d'Hébé'
'Crown Princess Margareta'

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D

'Diana, Princess of Wales'
'Doris Tysterman'
'Dorothy Perkins'
'Dr. Debat'
'Dr. Waldheim'
'Duc de Cambridge'
'Duchess of Cornwall'
'Duchess of Wellington'
'Duquesa de Peñaranda'

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E

'Eckart Witzigmann'
'Edgar Degas'
'Emil Nolde'
'Empress Josephine'

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F

'Ferdinand Pichard'
'François Juranville'
'Frau Karl Druschki'
'Frédéric Mistral'
'Fritz Nobis'

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G

'Gebrüder Grimm'
'Gene Boerner'
'Général Jacqueminot'
'Général Kléber'
'Gertrude Jekyll'
'Graham Thomas'

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H

'H.C.Andersen'
'Händel'
'Hannah Gordon'
'Helen Hayes'
'Helmut Kohl'
'Henry Fonda'
'Hermann Hesse'
'Honoré de Balzac'

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I

'Ingrid Bergman'

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J

'Jacqueline du Pré'
'Jeanne de Montfort'
'Jens Munk'
'John Cabot'
'John Clare'
'Josef Klimeš'
'Julia Child'

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K

'Karl Herbst'
'Karl Ploberger Rose'
'Kitchener of Khartoum'
'Konrad Adenauer'

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L

'L.D. Braithwaite'
'Lady Penzance'
'Laura Ford'
'Leonardo da Vinci'
'Lilli Marleen'
'Lord Byron'
'Louis de Funès'
'Louise Odier'

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M

'Madame Alfred Carrière'
'Madame Caroline Testout'
'Madame Grégoire Staechelin'
'Madame Pierre Oger'
'Maman Cochet'
'Marcel Pagnol'
'Maria Callas'
'Marie Curie'
'Mark Twain'
'Michelangelo'
'Mister Lincoln'
'Mozart'
'Mountbatten'
'Mrs Herbert Stevens'
'Mrs Fred Danks', Clark 1951
'Mrs. Harkness', Harkness/Paul 1893

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N

'Nancy Reagan'

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O

'Ophelia'

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P

'Papageno'
'Papa Meilland'
'Paul Ricard'
'Penelope'
'Philippe Noiret'
'Pierre de Ronsard'
'Pope John Paul II'
'President Herbert Hoover'
'Princess of Wales'

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Q

'Queen Elizabeth'

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R

'Régine Crespin'
'Reine Victoria'
'Richard Strauß'

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S

Rosa 'Sally Holmes'
'Sarah van Fleet'
'Simon Bolivar'
'Sir Edward Elgar'
'Souvenir de Pierre Vibert'
'Souvenir du Docteur Jamain'
'St. Nicholas'
'Steffi Graf'

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T

'Tchaikovski'
'Thalia'
'Thérèse Bugnet'
'Titian'

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U

'Uncle Walter'

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V

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W

'William Baffin'
'William Shakespeare'

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X

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Y

'Yves Piaget'

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Z

'Zéphirine Drouhin'

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See also

References

  1. ^ Sometimes also called Mathilda, after one of Aznavour's songs
  2. ^ Royal Edward Rose
  3. ^ Also known as Duchesse d'Oldenbourg
  4. ^ Smith, Keith. Around Malvern in old photographs. Alan Sutton Publishing, Gloucester. ISBN 0-86299-587-6. page 119.
  5. ^ Also known as Hannah
  6. ^ Presentation of Ida Costain roses to Mrs. Thomas B. Costain. OCLC 38551625. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  7. ^ Marie-Victorin rose
  8. ^ "Louise Hay" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-04-05.
  9. ^ Sometimes referred to as Marie Dermat
  10. ^ Also known as Pilar Landecho
  11. ^ "About Mary Margaret McBride". Ashokan Dreams. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
  12. ^ "Rosa ( Michael Crawford Rose )". Backyardgardener.com. Retrieved 2012-04-05.
  13. ^ Also named Zonta Rose in Australia and New Zealand or Bright Lights in the USA
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ Also known as Souvenir de la Princesse de Lamballe
  16. ^ dedicated to the victims Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman
  17. ^ Also called Duchesse d'Istrie

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