Vicki Ann Funk (November 26, 1947 – October 22, 2019) was an American botanist and curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, known for her work on members of the composite family (Asteraceae) including collecting plants in many parts of the world, as well as her synthetic work on phylogenetics and biogeography.

Funk studied biology and history at Murray State University in Kentucky and received a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in 1969.

in biology at Murray State where her thesis was A Floristic and Geologic Survey of Selected Seeps of Calloway County, KY.

In 1981, she spent a postdoctoral year at the New York Botanical Garden[5] where she studied Compositae with Arthur Cronquist[4] and the newly developing field of phylogenetics at the American Museum of Natural History.

[8] Beginning in 1988, she served as head of the Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Program (BDG), and in 2015 began the Global Genome Initiative for Gardens, both headquartered at the Smithsonian Institution.

[10] In 2012, she won the Smithsonian's Secretary's Award for Outstanding Publication and became a board member for the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center for two years.

In 2014 she won the Rolf Dahlgren Prize for her major contributions to the understanding of the systematics and evolution of the angiosperms.

In 2018, she won the Asa Gray Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.

In 2019, the American Society of Plant Taxonomists announced the new Vicki Funk Fund for Graduate Student Research in her honor.

[17] Baccharis funkiae, a narrow endemic species of Compositae from Uruguay is named after Vicki Funk.