(Casatejada, Cáceres, España, 1754 - Madrid, España, 1840)
"José Antonio Pavón y Jiménez (o José Antonio Pavón) (Casatejada, Cáceres, 22 de abril 1754-Madrid, 1844) fue un botánico español, muy conocido por sus estudios de las floras de Perú y de Chile durante la expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú bajo Carlos III de España de 1777 a 1788."
"José Antonio Pavón Jiménez or José Antonio Pavón (April 22, 1754, Casatejada, Cáceres, Spain - 1840, Madrid) was a Spanish botanist known for researching the flora of Peru and Chile. During the reign of Charles III of Spain, three major botanical expeditions were sent to the New World; Pavón and Hipólito Ruiz López were the botanists for the first of these expeditions, to Peru and Chile from 1777 to 1788. The standard author abbreviation Ruiz & Pav. is used to indicate Pavón and his colleague Ruiz as joint authors when citing a botanical name. The genus Pavonia was named in his honor by Antonio José Cavanilles - plants with the specific epithet of pavonii also commemorate his name."