Barbara G. Briggs

Barbara Gillian Briggs AM PSM (born 1934) is one of the foremost Australian botanists.

She was one of the botanists in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, of the 1998 Archived 22 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine APG system.

[1] Briggs and Craig Anthony Atkins were co-awarded the Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1994.

[3] She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours for "significant service to science and research as a botanist, to documenting Australian flora, and to professional societies".

[6] Since her retirement she continues as an Honorary Research Associate at the Sydney Botanical Gardens.