Gaspard Bauhin or Caspar Bauhin; Latinised Casparus Bauhinus (17 January 1560 in Basel – 5 December 1624 in Basel), was a Swiss botanist whose Phytopinax (1596) described thousands of plants and classified them in a manner that draws comparisons to the later binomial nomenclature of Linnaeus. He was a disciple of the famous Italian physician Girolamo Mercuriale and he also worked on human anatomical nomenclature. Linnaeus honored the Bauhin brothers Gaspard and  Jean in the genus name Bauhinia.