Werner Rauh (16 May 1913 in Niemegk – 7 April 2000 in Heidelberg) was a German biologist, botanist and author.
Born in the town of Niemegk near Bitterfeld, Rauh studied at Biology faculty at the University of Halle under the morphologist Wilhelm Troll,[1] and received his doctorate in Botany in 1937 before being appointed to the University of Heidelberg two years later.
He discovered or described some 1200 genera, species and varieties of plants from Africa, the Americas and Asia.
He was honoured in the names of several flowering plants; in 1956, Curt Backeberg published Rauhocereus Backeb.
Rauhiella Pabst & Braga was published in 1978 (Orchidaceae) by Guido Frederico João Pabst and Pedro Ivo Soares Braga, then lastly Werauhia J.R.Grant (Bromeliaceae family) was published in 1995 by Jason Randall Grant.