José Camillo Lisboa

José Camillo Lisboa (5 March 1823 – 1 May 1897) was a Portuguese-Indian physician and botanist of Goan origin. He was among the first Portuguese Indian physicians and graduated from the inaugural class of the Grant Medical College in Bombay. After graduating in 1851, he worked as a doctor at the Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Hospital in Bombay. Along with his wife Julia Rodrigues Lisboa, he studied the grasses of western India and published a special volume on the useful plants of the region as part of the Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency in 1886.

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