American botanist (1841-1918).
George Golding Kennedy (October 16, 1841 – March 31, 1918) was an American physician and botanist. He took a special interest in the mosses. The plant Sabatia kennedyana was named after him. Kennedy was born in Roxbury, Boston, to Donald and Ann Golding Kennedy née Colgate. His father had moved from Scotland to Canada and later in 1833 to Boston. He went to the Roxbury Latin School under Augustus H. Buck and in 1860 he joined Harvard College. After receiving an AB in 1864 he went to the Harvard Medical School and received a medical degree in 1867. He practiced briefly but took over his father'