Rose cultivars named after celebrities
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Rose cultivators often name new cultivars after famous persons - celebrities.
- Charles Aznavour (1988 - Meilland)
- Honoré de Balzac (1994 - Meilland)
- Ingrid Bergman
- Dee Dee Bridgewater (2003 - Meilland)
- Maria Callas (1965--Meilland)
- Marie François Sadi Carnot (1894 - Pernet-Ducher)
- Princess Caroline of Monaco (1988 - Meilland)
- Colette (1995 - Meilland)
- Bing Crosby (1981--Weeks)
- Marie Curie (1997 - Meilland)
- Alphonse Daudet (1997 - Meilland)
- Catherine Deneuve (1981 - Meilland)
- Arielle Dombasle (1992 - Meilland)
- Amelia Earhart (1932 - Reymond)
- Queen Elizabeth
- Louis de Funès (1984 - Meilland)
- Billy Graham (1998--Zary)
- Cary Grant
- Mrs. Chiang Kai-Shek (1942 – Carl G. Duehrsen)
- Audrey Hepburn
- Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco
- John F. Kennedy
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1993 - Meilland)
- Four red roses are named for Abraham Lincoln--the hybrid perpetuals "Président Lincoln" (1863--Granger) and "Souvenir du Président Lincoln" (1865--Moreau-Robert), the miniature moss "Honest Abe" (1978--Christensen), and the well-known red hybrid tea "Mister Lincoln" (1964--Swim and Weeks)
- Gina Lollobrigida (1989 - Meilland)
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1988--David Austin)
- Paul McCartney (1991 - Meilland)
- Michelangelo (1997 - Meilland)
- Frédéric Mistral (1995 - Meilland)
- Jeanne Moreau (2005 - Meilland)
- Andre Le Notre (2001 - Meilland)
- Rosie O'Donnell (1998--Winchell)
- Niccolò Paganini (1991 - Meilland)
- Marcel Pagnol (1996 - Meilland)
- Dolly Parton - a dark coppery orange-red hybrid-tea rose
- Mrs. Isaac Péreire (1880 - Garçon)
- Pablo Picasso
- François Rabelais (1997 - Meilland)
- Charlotte Rampling (1988 - Meilland)
- Nancy Reagan (2005--Zary)
- Ronald Reagan (2005--Zary) Advertized by Jackson Perkins as the first "red, white, and blue rose," although it is actually bluish-red with white reverse.
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1995 - Meilland)
- Tino Rossi (1990 - Meilland)
- Baroness Caroline von Rothschild (1868 - Jean Pernet, père)
- Baronne Edmond de Rothschild (1968 - Meilland)
- Gabriela Sabatini, a fiery orange-red rose named after Gaby in 1992, the first time in history that a rose has been named after a tennis player
- William Shakespeare (1987--Austin)
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (2000 - Meilland)
- Liv Tyler (2005 - Meilland)
- Queen Victoria (1872 - Labruyère/Schwartz)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1994 - Meilland)
- First Lady Martha Washington (unknown parentage, c. 1889)
- Princess of Wales, the only rose that Diana, Princess of Wales allowed to be named after her during her lifetime. After her death the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund allowed a new rose, England's Rose to be named after her, which is sold and raises funds for the charity in her memory.
- Mrs. Aaron Ward (1907 - Pernet-Ducher)
