John Edward Dinsmore (1862–1951) was a botanist and educator, born in Maine, United States.

[1] In 1898, Dinsmore moved with his wife and daughter to Jerusalem,[2] to join the American Colony — a Christian utopian society which had been founded seventeen years earlier in 1881 by Anna and Horatio Spafford.

[4] Botanical specimens collected by Dinsmore are held at herbaria around the world, most notably the John E. Dinsmore collection at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem.

[5] Collections are also held at the National Herbarium of Victoria at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria,[6] Harvard University Herbaria, the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

Published in 1932-33 and containing both Latin and Arabic names,[7] this volume remains the standard botanical reference for the region.