Dickie, George (1812–82), botanist, was baptised in Aberdeen on 23 November 1812, the son of John Dickie and his wife, Isabella, née Fowler, and was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, from where he graduated in 1830. He then went to Edinburgh and entered the Brown Square School of Medicine, where he gained the medal for pathology and practice of medicine (1833), before becoming a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London (1834). He was lecturer in botany at King's College, Aberdeen from 1839 to 1849, and moved in 1849 to the chair of natural history at the newly founded Queen's College, Belfast. He left Belfast in 1860 to become professor of botany at Aberdeen, a post he held from 1860 to 1877.
Dickie published a number of floras including Flora Abredonensis (1838) and the Flora of Ulster (1864), as well as a number of scientific papers. The Ulster flora, which was based on field trips taken with students, also included Co. Sligo and Co. Leitrim and was a model of its type. He was one of the earliest amateur photographers in Belfast, as well as a recognised authority on marine algae. He was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society, London, in 1863, an honorary fellow of the Edinburgh Botanical Society in 1877, and fellow of the Royal Society, London, in 1881. Severe illness ended fieldwork and eventually led to his death on 15 July 1882 in Aberdeen. In 1856 he married a Miss Low of Aberdeen, who survived him with six children.