Hans Ferdinand Linskens (22 May 1921 – 13 August 2007) was a German botanist and geneticist.
Linskens was born in Lahr, Germany.
From 1957 to 1986, he was professor of botany at the Radboud University Nijmegen.
[1] Linskens was the editor-in-chief of Theoretical and Applied Genetics (1977 to 1987)[1] and Sexual Plant Reproduction.
[3] Linskens was an elected member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Linnean Society of London, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen in 1978,[4] and the Academie Royale des Sciences de Belgique.