Vladimir Ippolitovich Lipsky or Volodymyr Ipolytovych Lypsky (Russian: Владимир Ипполитович Липский; Ukrainian: Володимир Іполитович Липський; 11 March 1863 – 24 February 1937) was a Ukrainian scientist, botanist; a member of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (in 1922–1928, its president) and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and the director of the Botanical Gardens of the Odessa University.

Vladimir studied at the Volhynian Gymnasium; he graduated from Pavlo Galagan Collegium (magna cum laude) in 1881, and Kyiv University in 1887.

The formation of Vladimir Lipsky as a scientist was considerably influenced by Johannes Schmalhausen, who headed the chair of plant taxonomy and morphology.

Between 1894 and 1917, Lipsky worked with the Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden as junior and senior conservator of the herbarium, chief botanist, and eventually head of the Living Plants Department.

Lipsky participated in scientific expeditions to the Caucasus, Altai and Central Asia conducting detailed studies of the Alpine flora of the regions.

Lipsky's first academic work appeared in 1889: Research in Flora of Bessarabia (Russian: Исследование о флоре Бессарабии, Issledovaniye o flore Bessarabii), where, inter alia, a new species of plants was described: Valerianella bessarabica.

Vladimir published a number of his reports on his expeditions at the Proceedings of Kyiv Society of Nature Researchers («Записки Київського товариства дослідників природи», Zapiski Kyivskogo Tovaristva Doslidnykiv Prirody).

A Corpus of Information about Caucasian Flora for Bicentennial Period of its Research, starting from Tournefort and ending by the 19th Century («Флора Кавказа.

Свод сведений о флоре Кавказа за двухсотлетний период её исследования, начиная от Турнефора и кончая XIX веком»).

In its findings the commission accused the management of the academy, and first of all the Presidium headed by Lipsky, of failure to comply with Soviet laws, and charged them with political violations.

Communist Party leaders thought Vladimir Lipsky to be a 'politically inert' President, who delegated management of the Academy to Serhiy Yefremov and Ahatanhel Krymsky.

Only upon request of the Presidium of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, in 1990 the executive committee of the Odessa City Council issued a decree memorializing Academic Vladimir Lipsky.