Jacob Bigelow was an American medical doctor, botanist and botanical illustrator. He was architect of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, husband to Mary Scollay, and the father of physician Henry Jacob Bigelow. The standard author abbreviation Bigelow is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
- Occupation
- botanist, poet, university teacher, physician
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- February 27, 1787
- Died
- January 10, 1879
