French botanist (1842-1910).
François-Xavier Gillot (12 September 1842, in Autun – 8 October 1910, in Autun) was a French physician, mycologist and botanist. Gillot was a founding member of the Société d'histoire naturelle d'Autun, and from 1877 was a non-resident member of the Société botanique de Lyon. The fungal genus Gillotia was named in his honor in 1913 by Pier Andrea Saccardo and Alessandro Trotter.