List of professional gardeners

Notable gardeners

People commissioning notable gardens

• Michael Heseltine, 20th-century English politician, noted arboriculturist
• Thomas Jefferson, 19th-century American president, recognized for planning the grounds of the University of Virginia
• Lucullus, 1st-century BC Roman general, noted for laying out the Gardens of Lucullus
• Nebuchadnezzar II, 6th-century neo-Babylonian king, credited with founding the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
• Vita Sackville-West, English author, gardening columnist, creator of Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Kent
• William Shenstone, 18th-century English practitioner of landscape gardening through development of his estate
• Solomon, Biblical king recorded as creating gardens, possibly near Etam

  Fictional gardeners

• Agent 47, who became a gardener in Sicily after he temporarily retired from being a hitman in
• Pat, the White Rabbit's gardener in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Mr. McGregor is the elderly gardener in three children's books by Beatrix Potter: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, and The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies.
• Boothby, recurring character in Star Trek, groundskeeper of Starfleet Academy
• Chance the Gardener in the film Being There, a simple American whose name is misheard as "Chauncey Gardiner" and accidentally becomes a Presidential advisor and candidate
• Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings, a hobbit, the servant and companion of Frodo Baggins, the Ring-bearer
• Tom and Barbara Good in 1975 TV series The Good Life, a middle-class English couple who try to become self-sufficient on the produce of their garden in Surbiton
• Souseiseki and Suiseiseki in the manga and anime Rozen Maiden, referred to as gardeners for their ability to tend not only plants but also the "soul trees" of humans
• The Chief Gardener of the Imperial Palace Grounds was a key figure on Trantor, the galactic capitol in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series – a high functionary with a palatial office in the enormous Imperial complex and "an army of men and women under him"
• There are multiple gardeners, botanists and herbologists in the Harry Potter series:
• *Pomona Sprout and Herbert Beery, Herbology teachers
• *Frank Bryce, the Riddles' gardener
• *Miranda Goshawk and Phyllida Spore, two authors
• *Elladora Ketteridge and Beaumont Majoribanks, discovered gillyweed, a fictional plant
• *Hadrian Whittle, named after a real-life garden designer
• *Rubeus Hagrid, gameskeeper, Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts