- First name
- Hendrik Adriaan
- Last name
- Reede tot Drakenstein, van
- Date of Birth
- 1636
- Date of Death
- 1691
- Born in
- Amsterdam
- Died in
- -
Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein was a naturalist, military man, and colonial administrator of the East India Company. He served as a governor of Dutch Malabar and employed twenty-five people on his book Hortus Malabaricus, describing 740 plants in the region.