British physician and botanist (1725-1786).
Professor John Hope (10 May 1725 – 10 November 1786) was a Scottish physician and botanist. He did enormous work on plant classification and plant physiology, and is now best known as an early supporter of Carl Linnaeus's system of classification. He did not publish much. In 1783, he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 1784, Hope was elected as president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1784–6).