John Dransfield (born 1945) is former head of palm research at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom.
[1] Dransfield has written or contributed to several books on palms, notably both the first and second editions of Genera Palmarum.
[3] Dransfield was awarded the inaugural David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration in 1999, recognising him as the "world authority on the systematics of the palm family (Arecaceae)".
In 2023 Dr. Dransfield was the recipient of the Dent Smith Memorial Award, the highest accolade from the International Palm Society.
[6] The genus Dransfieldia was named for him, as was the species Adonidia dransfieldii.