List of entomologists

The following is a list of entomologists, people who have studied insects.

Name	Born	Died	Country	Speciality
Lajos Abafi	1840	1909	Hungary	Lepidoptera
John Abbot	1751	1840	United States
Camillo Acqua	1863	1936	Italy	Sericulture
Tusnamitsu Adachi	1901	1981	Japan	Coleoptera
Adam Afzelius	1750	1837	Swedish
Louis Agassiz	1807	1873	Switzerland / United States	Coleoptera
John Merton Aldrich	1866	1934	United States	Diptera
Ulisse Aldrovandi	1522	1605	Italy
Vincent Allard	1921	1994	Belgium	Coleoptera, Cetoniinae
Anthony Adrian Allen	1913	2010	United Kingdom	Coleoptera
Charles Paul Alexander	1889	1981	United States	Diptera
Wilfred Backhouse Alexander	1885	1965	United Kingdom
Anastase Alfieri	1892	1971	Italy	Coleoptera
Emmanuel Babatunde Alo	1950		Nigeria
Carlo Alonza	1881	1961	Italy	Coleoptera
Harry Brailovsky Alperowits	1946		México	Hemiptera
William de Alwis	1842	1916	Sri Lanka	Lepidoptera
Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot	1799	1866	France	Hemiptera
Alfredo Andreini	1870	1943	Italy
Ross H. Arnett, Jr.	1919	1999	United States	Coleoptera
Johan Emil Aro	1874	1928	Finland	Ephemeroptera
Gilbert John Arrow	1873	1948	United Kingdom	Coleoptera
William Harris Ashmead	1855	1905	United States	Hymenoptera
E. C. M. d'Assis-Fonseca			United Kingdom	Diptera
Edwin Felix Thomas Atkinson	1840	1890	Ireland	Hemiptera
William Stephen Atkinson	1820	1876	India	Lepidoptera
Charles Nicholas Aubé	1802	1869	France	Coleoptera
Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville	1775	1858	France	Orthoptera
Jean Victoire Audouin	1797	1841	France
Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius	1843	1928	Sweden	Coleoptera, Lepidoptera
Ernest Edward Austen	1867	1938	United Kingdom	Diptera, Hymenoptera.
Andrey Avinoff	1884	1949	Ukraine / United States	Lepidoptera
Rafael Barba Álvarez	1961		México	Trichoptera
Alfred Balachowsky	1901	1983	Russia / France	Hemiptera, Coleoptera
Mary Ball	1812	1892	Ireland	Odonata, Hemiptera
Joseph Sugar Baly	1816	1890	United Kingdom	Coleoptera
John Banister	1650	1692	United Kingdom
Nathan Banks	1868	1953	United States	Neuroptera, Megaloptera, Hymenoptera
Max Barclay			United Kingdom	Coleoptera
Philip James Barraud	1879	1948	United Kingdom	Diptera
Edward M. Barrows	1946		United States	Xylocopa virginica
Eugène Barthe	1862	1945	France	Coleoptera
Agostino Bassi	1773	1856	Italy
Henry Walter Bates	1825	1892	United Kingdom
Marston Bates	1906	1974	United States	Diptera
Palisot de Beauvois	1752	1820	France
Eduard Becher	1856	1886	Austria	Diptera
Theodor Becker	1840	1928	Germany	Diptera
Hans Hermann Behr	1818	1904	Germany / United States	Lepidoptera
Bryan Patrick Beirne	1918	1998	Ireland	Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera
Luigi Bellardi	1859	1889	Italy	Diptera
Joseph Charles Bequaert	1886	1982	Belgium	Diptera
May Berenbaum			United States
Julius von Bergenstamm	1837	1896	Austria	Diptera
Georges Bernardi	1922	1999	France	Lepidoptera, Pieridae
Carlos Romel Beutelspacher Baigts	1945		México	Lepidoptera
Mario Bezzi	1868	1927	Italy	Diptera
Czesław Bieżanko	1895	1985	Poland	Lepidoptera
George Carter Bignell	1826	1910	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera (mainly Ichneumonidae)
Jacques-Marie-Frangile Bigot	1818	1893	France	Diptera
Gustaf Johan Billberg	1772	1844	Sweden
Charles Thomas Bingham	1848	1908	Ireland	Hymenoptera
Thomas Blackburn	1844	1912	United Kingdom / Hawaii / Australia	Coleoptera
Jacquelyn Lee (Warner) Blackmer	1953	2008	United States	Aleyrodidae, Apinae
Richard E. Blackwelder	1909	2001	United States
Doris Holmes Blake	1892	1978	United States
Émile Blanchard	1819	1900	France
Murray S. Blum	1929		United States	Formicidae
Carl Henrik Boheman	1796	1868	Sweden	Coleoptera
Jean Baptiste Boisduval	1799	1879	France	Lepidoptera
Willis Blatchley	1859	1940	United States	Coleoptera, Ortoptera, Hemiptera
Ignacio Bolívar	1850	1944	Spain
Cándido Bolívar Pieltain	1897	1976	Spain	Lepidoptera
Ernst Boll	1817	1868	Germany	Lepidoptera
Barry Bolton			United Kingdom	Formicidae
Franco Andrea Bonelli	1784	1830	Italy	Coleoptera
Charles Bonnet	1720	1793	Switzerland
George Bornemissza	1924		Australia	Coleoptera
Carl Julius Bernhard Börner	1880	1953	Germany	Collembola
Nérée Boubée	1806	1863	France	Lepidoptera, Coleoptera
Jean Bourgogne	1903	1999	France	Lepidoptera, Psychidae
Arthur I. Bourne	1886	1961	United States	Agricultural pests
Peter Friedrich Bouché	1785	1856	Germany	Diptera
Eugène Louis Bouvier	1856	1944	France
James Henry Bowker	1822	1900	South Africa	Lepidopters
Nikolaus Joseph Brahm	1751	1812	Germany
Karel Brančik	1842	1915	Hungary	Coleoptera
Rick Brandenburg	1955		United States
Friedrich Moritz Brauer	1832	1904	Austria	Diptera, Neuroptera
Ferdinando Arborio Gattinara di Breme	1807	1869	Italy	Diptera, Coleoptera
Otto Vasilievich Bremer		1873	Russia
Stephan von Breuning	1894	1983	Germany	Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae
Carl Gustav Alexander Brischke	1814	1897	Poland	Diptera, Hymenoptera
Steve Brooks			United Kingdom	Chironomidae, Odonata
Georges Brossard	1940		Canada
Emil von Brück	1807	1884	Germany	Coleoptera
Charles Thomas Brues	1879	1955	United States	Diptera, Hymenoptera
Enrico Adelelmo Brunetti	1862	1927	United Kingdom	Diptera
William Buckler	1814	1884	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Jean Baptiste Lucien Buquet	1807	1889	France	Coleoptera
Hermann Burmeister	1807	1892	Germany
John Burns			United States	Lepidoptera
Raymond C. Bushland	1910	1995	United States	Economic entomology
Arthur Gardiner Butler	1844	1925	United Kingdom
Kurt Büttner	1881	1967	Germany	Heteroptera
Elsa Salazar Cade			United States
Philip Powell Calvert	1871	1961	United States	Odonata
Giulio Camus	1847	1914	France	Economic history of entomology
Ernest Candèze	1827	1898	Belgium	Coleoptera
Silvano Canzoneri	1941	1995	Italy	Coleoptera, Diptera
Pierre Capdeville	1908	1980	France	Lepidoptera, Parnassiinae
Jean-Baptiste Capronnier	1814	1891	Belgium	Lepidoptera
Frank M. Carpenter	1902	1994	United States
Herbert James Carter	1858	1940	Australia
Thomas Lincoln Casey, Jr.	1857	1925	United States	Coleoptera
Guelfo Cavanna	1850	1920	Italy	All orders
George Charles Champion	1851	1927	United Kingdom	Coleoptera
Toussaint de Charpentier	1779	1847	Germany
Jean-Baptiste Eugène Bellier de la Chavignerie	1844	1888	France	Lepidoptera
Lucy Evelyn Cheesman	1881	1969	United Kingdom
Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat	1799	1884	France	Coleoptera
Samuel Rickard Christophers	1873	1978	United Kingdom	Diptera
Joseph Philippe de Clairville	1742	1830	Switzerland
Benjamin Preston Clark	1860	1939	United States	Lepidoptera
Cyril Clarke	1907	2000	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Eric William Classey	1916	2008	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera, entomological publisher
James Brackenridge Clemens	1825	1867	United States	Lepidoptera
Carl Alexander Clerck	1709	1765	Sweden	Lepidoptera
Harry Kendon Clench	1925	1979	United States	Lepidoptera
Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell	1866	1948	United States	Hymenoptera
James Edward Collin	1876	1968	United Kingdom	Diptera
John Henry Comstock	1849	1931	United States
Daniel William Coquillett	1856	1911	United States	Diptera
Matthew Cooke	1829	1887	Ireland	Economic entomology
Charles Coquerel	1822	1867	France
Philip S. Corbet	1929	2008	United Kingdom	Aquatic insects, especially dragonflies
Luis Ceballos y Fernández de Córdoba	1896	1967	Spain	Forest entomology, Ichneumonidae
Emilio Cornalia	1824	1882	Italy
Achille Costa	1823	1899	Italy
Oronzio Gabriele Costa	1787	1867	Italy
George Crabbe	1754	1832	United Kingdom	Coleoptera
Pieter Cramer	1738	1804	Netherlands
William Monad Crawford	1872	1941	Ireland	Lepidoptera
Henry Harpur Crewe	1828	1883	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
George Robert Crotch	1842	1874	United States / United Kingdom	Coleoptera
Philip Crowley	1837	1900	England	Lepidoptera
Roy Crowson	1914	1999	United Kingdom	Coleoptera
Charles Howard Curran	1894	1972	United States	Diptera
John Curtis	1791	1862	United Kingdom	Coleoptera
Leander Czerny	1859	1944	Czech Republic	Diptera
Anders Gustaf Dahlbom	1806	1859	Sweden	Hymenoptera
James Charles Dale	1792	1872	United Kingdom	Coleoptera
Johan Wilhelm Dalman	1787	1828	Sweden
Franz Dannehl	1870	1947	Germany	Lepidoptera
Louis Gabriel d'Antessanty	1834	1922	France	Hemiptera
Charles Darwin	1809	1882	United Kingdom
Thomas Reid Davys Bell	1863	1948	Ireland	Lepidoptera
Charles De Geer	1720	1778	Sweden	Coleoptera
Wilhem de Haan	1801	1855	Netherlands
José María Hugo de la Fuente Morales	1855	1932	Spain
Francis de Laporte de Castelnau	1810	1880	France	Coleoptera
Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean	1780	1845	France	Coleoptera
Georges Demoulin	1919	1994	Belgium	Ephemeroptera
Robert Denno	1945	2008	United States	Lepidoptera
Michael Denis	1729	1800	Austria	Lepidoptera
Thomas Desvignes	1812	1868	England	Hymenoptera
Vincent Dethier	1915	1993	United States
Achille Deyrolle	1813	1865	France	Coleoptera
Harry Frederick Dietz	1890	1954	United States	Economic entomology
William Lucas Distant	1845	1922	United Kingdom
Frederick Augustus Dixey	1855	1935	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Theodosius Dobzhansky	1900	1975	Ukraine / United States
Paul Dognin	1847	1931	France	Lepidoptera
William Doherty	1857	1901	United States	Lepidoptera
Carl August Dohrn	1806	1892	Germany	Coleoptera
Horace Donisthorpe	1870	1951	United Kingdom	Coleoptera, Formicidae
Charles Donovan	1863	1951	Ireland	Lepidoptera
Edward Donovan	1768	1837	Ireland
Alcide d'Orbigny	1802	1857	France
Edward Doubleday	1810	1849	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Henry Doubleday	1808	1875	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
John William Douglas	1814	1905	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Herbert Druce	1846	1880	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Dru Drury	1725	1804	United Kingdom
Catherine N. Duckett	1961		United States	Coleoptera
Oswald Duda	1869	1941	Germany	Diptera
Léon Jean Marie Dufour	1780	1865	France
Caspar Erasmus Duftschmid	1767	1821	Austria	Coleoptera
Lionel Jack Dumbleton	1905	1976	New Zealand	Lepidoptera
André Marie Constant Duméril	1774	1860	France	Coleoptera
Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel	1774	1846	France	Lepidoptera
Gabriel Dupuy	1840	1913	France	Lepidoptera
Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr.	1866	1929	United States	Diptera
Jan Dzierżon	1811	1906	Poland	Hymenoptera
Alfred Edwin Eaton	1845	1929	United Kingdom	Diptera, Ephemeroptera
Karl Eckstein	1859	1939	Germany	Lepidoptera
Frederick Wallace Edwards	1888	1940	United Kingdom	Diptera
Henry Edwards	1827	1891	United Kingdom / Australia / United States	Lepidoptera
J. Gordon Edwards	1919	2004	United States
William Henry Edwards	1822	1909	United States	Lepidoptera
Johann Egger	1804	1866	Austria	Diptera
Georg Dionysius Ehret	1708	1770	Germany
Paul R. Ehrlich	1932		United States	Lepidoptera
Curt Eisner	1890	1981	Germany	Lepidoptera
Henry John Elwes	1846	1922	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Carlo Emery	1848	1925	Italy	Hymenoptera
Günther Enderlein	1872	1968	Germany	Diptera
Michael S. Engel	1971		United States	Zoraptera, Hymenoptera, fossils
Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson	1809	1848	Germany	Coleoptera
Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz	1793	1831	Estonia
Neal Evenhuis	1952		United States	Diptera
Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper	1742	1810	Germany
Howard Ensign Evans	1919	2002	United States	Hymenoptera
W. H. Evans		1956	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
William Frederick Evans			United Kingdom	Odonata, Orthoptera
Eduard Friedrich Eversmann	1794	1860	Germany
Jean Henri Fabre	1823	1915	France
Johan Christian Fabricius	1745	1808	Denmark
Olof Immanuel von Fåhraeus	1796	1884	Sweden	Coleoptera
Graham Fairchild	1906	1994	United States	Diptera
Léon Fairmaire	1820	1906	France	Coleoptera
Carl Fredrik Fallén	1764	1830	Sweden	Diptera
Baron Cajetan von Felder	1814	1894	Austria	Lepidoptera
Rudolf Felder	1842	1871	Austria	Lepidoptera
Ephraim Porter Felt	1868	1943	United States	Diptera
Francois-Robert Fenwick Brown	1837	1915	France	Lepidoptera
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria	1861	1948	Bulgaria	Lepidoptera
Charles Henry Fernald	1838	1921	United States	Lepidoptera
Henry T. Fernald	1866	1952	United States	Economic entomology, Hymenoptera
Michael Lloyd Ferrar	1876	1931	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Pietro Mansueto Ferrari	1823	1893	Italy	Hemiptera
Leopold Heinrich Fischer	1817	1886	Germany
Asa Fitch	1809	1879	United States
Ernst Josef Fittkau	1927		Germany	Diptera
John Fleming (naturalist)	1785	1857	United Kingdom
James Fletcher	1852	1908	Canada
Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher	1878	1950	United Kingdom
Gustav Flor	1829	1883	Estonia (Livonia)
W. T. M. Forbes	1885	1968	United States	Lepidoptera, Coleoptera
E. B. Ford	1901	1988	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Auguste-Henri Forel	1848	1931	Switzerland	Formicidae
Arnold Förster	1810	1884	Germany	Coleoptera, Hymenoptera
Johann Reinhold Forster	1729	1798	Germany
Margaret Fountaine	1862	1940	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy	1755	1809	France
William Weekes Fowler	1849	1923	United Kingdom	Coleoptera
Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld	1807	1873	Austria	Diptera
Charles French	1842	1933	Australia	Economic entomology
Heinrich Frey	1822	1890	Switzerland	Lepidoptera
Christian Friedrich Freyer	1794	1885	Germany	Lepidoptera
Karl von Frisch	1886	1982	Austria	Hymenoptera (Apis mellifera)
Imre Frivaldszky	1799	1870	Hungary	Lepidoptera, Coleoptera
Walter Wilson Froggatt	1858	1937	Australia	Economic entomology
Frederick William Frohawk	1861	1946	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Stuart W. Frost	1891	1990	United States	Diptera
Hans Fruhstorfer	1866	1922	Germany	Lepidoptera
José María Hugo de la Fuente Morales	1855	1932	Spain	Coleoptera
Johann Kaspar Füssli	1743	1786	Switzerland
Charles Joseph Gahan	1862	1939	United Kingdom / Ireland	Coleoptera
Vázquez García Leonila	1914	1995	México	Lepidoptera
Alfonso Neri García Aldrete	1942		México	Psocoptera
Javier García Figueroa Morales	1947		México	Psocoptera
Giuseppe Géné	1800	1847	Italy
Étienne Louis Geoffroy	1725	1810	France	Coleoptera
Ernst Friedrich Germar	1786	1853	Germany	Coleoptera
Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker	1828	1895	Germany
Paul Gervais	1816	1879	France
Michael Thomas Gillies	1920	1999	United Kingdom	Medical entomology
Joseph-Étienne Giraud	1808	1877	France	Coleoptera, Hymenoptera
Ernst August Girschner	1860	1914	Germany	Diptera
Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel	1809	1873	Germany
Eleanor Glanville	1654	1709	United Kingdom	Coleoptera
Jean Baptiste Godart	1775	1825	France	Lepidoptera
Frederick DuCane Godman	1834	1919	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Jan Goedart	1620	1668	Netherlands
Maurice Emile Marie Goetghebuer	1876	1962	Belgium	Diptera
Enrique González Soriano	1951		México	Odonata
Deborah M. Gordon	1955		United States	Formicidae
Hippolyte Louis Gory	1800	1852	France	Coleoptera
William Gould	1715		United Kingdom	Formicidae
Claude Charles Goureau	1790	1879	France
Eduard Heinrich Graeffe	1833	1916	Switzerland
Mariano de la Paz Graëlls y de la Aguera	1809	1898	Spain
Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst	1777	1857	Germany
Philip Graves	1876	1953	Ireland	Lepidoptera
George Robert Gray	1808	1872	United Kingdom
Viktor Grebennikov	1927	2001	Russia
Auguste Jean François Grenier	1814	1890	France	Coleoptera
Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham	1843	1919	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
David Grimaldi	1957		United States	Diptera
Augustus Radcliffe Grote	1841	1903	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Grigory Grumm-Grzhimaylo	1860	1936	Russia	Lepidoptera
Achille Guenée	1809	1880	France	Lepidoptera
Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville	1799	1874	France
Guido of Pisa		1169	Italy
Leonard Gyllenhaal	1752	1840	Sweden	Coleoptera
Hermann August Hagen	1817	1893	Germany	Neuroptera, Odonata
James Nathaniel Halbert	1871	1948	Ireland
Alexander Henry Haliday	1807	1870	Ireland	Coleoptera, Diptera
George Hampson	1860	1936	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
D. Elmo Hardy	1914	2002	United States	Diptera
Moses Harris	1731	1785	United Kingdom
Thaddeus William Harris	1795	1856	United States
Michael Hassell			United Kingdom
Hermann Haupt	1873	1959	Germany	Hymenoptera
Adrian Hardy Haworth	1767	1833	United Kingdom
John Heath			United Kingdom
Carl Heinrich	1880	1955	United States	Lepidoptera
Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig	1743	1831	Germany
Friedrich Georg Hendel	1874	1936	Austria	Diptera
Willi Hennig	1913	1976	Germany	Diptera
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst	1743	1807	Germany	Coleoptera
Claude Herbulot	1908	2006	France	Lepidoptera, Geometridae
Hans Rudolf Herren	1947		Switzerland	Economic entomology
Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer	1799	1874	Germany
Hermann Rudolph Schaum	1819	1865	Germany	Coleoptera
William Chapman Hewitson	1806	1878	United Kingdom	Coleoptera, Lepidoptera
H. E. Hinton	1912	1977	United Kingdom	Coleoptera
Jacob Hoefnagel	1575	1630	Netherlands
Carlos Cristian Hoffmann	1876	1942	México	Lepidoptera
Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg	1766	1849	Germany
William Jacob Holland	1848	1932	United States	Lepidoptera
Bert Hölldobler	1936		Germany	Formicidae
August Emil Holmgren	1829	1888	Sweden	Hymenoptera
Frederick William Hope	1797	1862	United Kingdom	Coleoptera
George Henry Horn	1840	1897	United States	Coleoptera
Walther Hermann Richard Horn	1871	1939	Germany	Coleoptera
Leland Ossian Howard	1857	1950	United States	Economic entomology
Jacob Hübner	1761	1826	Germany	Lepidoptera
George Vernon Hudson	1867	1946	New Zealand
Johann Siegfried Hufnagel	1724	1795	Germany	Lepidoptera
Alphonse Hustache	1872	1942	France	Coleoptera, Curculionidae
Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger	1775	1813	Germany	Coleoptera
Augustus Daniel Imms	1880	1949	United Kingdom
Carl Gustav Jablonsky	1756	1787	Germany	Coleoptera
Jean-Charles Jacobs	1821	1907	Belgium	Diptera, Hymenoptera
Georgij Georgiewitsch Jacobson	1871	1926	Russia
Tadeusz Jaczewski	1899	1974	Russia	Hemiptera
René Jeannel	1879	1965	France	Coleoptera
Anders Christian Jensen-Haarup	1863	1934	Denmark	Hymenoptera
Thomas C. Jerdon	1811	1872	United Kingdom	Formicidae
Claude-Francois Jeunet	1844	-	France	Lepidoptera
Roberto Miguel Johansen Naime	1944		México	Thysanoptera
William Frederick Johnson	1852	1934	Ireland
James John Joicey	1871	1932	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Karl Jordan	1861	1959	Germany	Siphonaptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera
Norman H. Joy	1874	1953	United Kingdom	Coleoptera
Louis Jurine	1751	1819	Switzerland	Coleoptera, Diptera
Vlasta Kálalová	1896	1971	Czech Republic
Johann Heinrich Kaltenbach	1807	1876	Germany	Economic entomology
William Francis de Vismes Kane	1840	1918	Ireland	Lepidoptera
David Keilin	1887	1963	United Kingdom
Kálmán Kertész	1867	1922	Hungary	Diptera
Bernard Kettlewell	1907	1979	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Jean-Jacques Kieffer	1857	1925	France	Diptera, Hymenoptera
Ernest August Hellmuth von Kiesenwetter	1820	1880	Germany	Coleoptera
Alfred Kinsey	1894	1956	United States	Hymenoptera
William Kirby	1759	1850	United Kingdom
William Forsell Kirby	1844	1912	United Kingdom / Ireland	Lepidoptera
Ruud Kleinpaste	1952		Netherlands / New Zealand
Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug	1775	1856	Germany	Lepidoptera
Edward F. Knipling	1909	2000	United States	Economic entomology
Carl Ludwig Koch	1778	1857	Germany
Vincenz Kollar	1797	1860	Germany	Diptera
Friedrich Wilhelm Konow	1842	1908	Germany	Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae
Ferdinand Kowarz	1838	1914	Austria	Diptera
Ernst Gustav Kraatz	1831	1909	Germany	Coleoptera
Otto Kröber	1882	1969	Germany	Diptera
Johann Gottlieb Kugelann	1753	1815	Germany	Coleoptera
Nikolai Jakovlevice Kusnezov	1873	1948	Russia	Lepidoptera
Joseph Alexandre Laboulbène	1825	1898	France
Jean Théodore Lacordaire	1801	1870	Belgium	Coleoptera
Jean-Pierre Lacroix	1938	1989	France	Coleoptera, Lucanidae
Johann Nepomuk von Laicharting	1754	1797	Austria	Coleoptera
Eric Laithwaite	1921	1997	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Sven Lampa	1839	1914	Sweden	Lepidoptera
Pierre André Latreille	1762	1833	France
John Eatton Le Conte	1784	1860	United States
William Elford Leach	1790	1836	United Kingdom
John Lawrence LeConte	1825	1883	United States	Coleoptera
Julius Lederer	1821	1870	Austria	Lepidoptera
Alexandre Louis Lefèbvre de Cérisy	1798	1867	France
Claude Lemaire	1921	2004	France	Lepidoptera, Saturniidae
Amédée Louis Michel Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau	1780	1845	France	Hymenoptera
Erwin Lindner	1888	1988	Germany	Diptera
Carl Linnaeus	1707	1778	Sweden
Melchior de Lisle	1908	1977	France	Coleoptera, Lucanidae
Hermann Loew	1807	1879	Germany	Diptera
Cynthia Longfield	1896	1991	Ireland	Odonata
Sara López Pérez	1985		México	Chrysomelidae
Hippolyte Lucas	1814	1899	France
Clara Southmayd Ludlow	1852	1924	United States	Medical entomology
William Lundbeck	1863	1941	Denmark	Diptera
Adolfo Lutz	1855	1940	Brazil	Medical entomology
Henry Christopher McCook	1837	1911	United States	Formicidae
Robert McLachlan	1837	1904	United Kingdom	Neuroptera
Alexander Macleay	1767	1848	United Kingdom
William Sharp Macleay	1792	1865	United Kingdom
Justin Pierre Marie Macquart	1776	1855	France	Diptera
Michael Majerus	1954	2009	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
René Malaise	1892	1978	Sweden
John Russell Malloch	1875	1963	United Kingdom	Diptera
Mahadeva Subramania Mani	1908	2003	India
Josef Johann Mann	1804	1889	Czech Republic	Lepidoptera
Carl Gustaf von Mannerheim	1797	1854	Finland	Coleoptera
Erick Omar Martínez-Luque	1989		México	Elateridae
Patrick Manson	1844	1922	Scotland	Medical entomology
Oldřich Marek	1911	1986	Czech Republic	Coleoptera
Charles Lester Marlatt	1863	1954	United States	Economic entomology
Sylvain Auguste de Marseul	1812	1890	France	Coleoptera
George Frederick Leycester Marshall	1843	1934	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Thomas Ansell Marshall	1827	1903	United Kingdom	Hymenoptera
Thomas Marsham		1819	United Kingdom	Coleoptera
Fermín Martín Piera	1954	2001	Spain	Coleoptera
Erick Omar Martínez-Luque	1989		México	Elateridae
Andrey Vasilyevich Martynov	1879	1938	Russia	Trichoptera
William Miles Maskell	1839	1898	New Zealand
Wayne Masterson	1959	1991	United Kingdom	Medical entomology
Shonen Matsumura	1872	1960	Japan
Cristina Mayorga Martínez	1953		México	Cydnidae
Harold Maxwell-Lefroy	1877	1926	United Kingdom
Richard Henry Meade	1814	1899	United Kingdom	Diptera
Albert Stewart Meek	1871	1943	United Kingdom
Jean Pierre Mégnin	1828	1905	France	Forensic entomology
Johann Wilhelm Meigen	1764	1845	Germany	Diptera
Elizabeth Mejorada Gómez	1956		México	Coleoptera
Axel Leonard Melander	1878	1962	United States	Diptera, Hymenoptera
Frederick Valentine Melsheimer	1749	1814	United States	Coleoptera
Ernest Menault	1830	1903	France	Agricultural pests
Édouard Ménétries	1802	1861	France / Russia	Lepidoptera, Coleoptera
Maria Sibylla Merian	1647	1717	Germany
Erica McAlister			United Kingdom	Diptera
Gustav Mayr	1830	1908	Austria	Hymenoptera
Edward Meyrick	1854	1938	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Charles Duncan Michener	1918		United States	Hymenoptera
Josef Mik	1839	1900	Czech Republic	Diptera
David Miller	1890	1973	New Zealand	Diptera
Pierre Millière	1811	1887	France	Lepidoptera
Adolphe Philippe Millot	1857	1921	France	Lepidoptera
Adolph Modéer	1738	1799	Sweden
Frederic Moore	1830	1907	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Clodoveo Carrión Mora	1883	1957	Ecuador
Claude Morley	1874	1951	United Kingdom	Hymenoptera
Derek Wragge Morley	1920	1969	United Kingdom	Formicidae
Roger Morse	1927	2000	United States	Hymenoptera
Kenneth Morton			United Kingdom	Odonata, Neuroptera
Victor Motschulsky	1810	1871	Russia	Coleoptera
Thomas Muffet	1552	1604	United Kingdom
Johann Carl Megerle von Mühlfeld	1765	1840	Austria	Coleoptera
Otto Friedrich Müller	1730	1784	Denmark
Étienne Mulsant	1797	1880	France
Vladimir Nabokov	1899	1977	Russia / United States	Lepidoptera
Longinos Navás	1858	1938	Spain	Neuropteroidea
Roger Naviaux			France(?)	Coleoptera
Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck	1776	1858	Germany
Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus	1723	1798	Austria
Edward Newman	1801	1876	United Kingdom
L. Hugh Newman			United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
George Newport	1803	1854	United Kingdom
Lionel de Nicéville	1852	1901	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen	1950	2001	Denmark
John Nietner		1874	Germany	Coleoptera
Guido Nonveiller	1913	2002	Croatia	Coleoptera
Kenneth Richard Norris	1914	2003	Australia
William Noye	1814	1872	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Charles Oberthür	1845	1924	France	Lepidoptera
Georg Hermann Alexander Ochs	1887	1971	Germany	Coleoptera
Ferdinand Ochsenheimer	1767	1822	Germany	Lepidoptera
Thomas R. Odhiambo	1931	2003	Kenya	Medical entomology
Lawrence Ogilvie	1898	1980	Bermuda & United Kingdom	Insects of Bermuda
Harold Oldroyd	1914	1978	United Kingdom	Diptera
Guillaume-Antoine Olivier	1756	1814	France
Eugene O'Mahoney	1899	1951	Ireland	Coleoptera, Mallophaga, Siphonaptera
Paul W. Oman	1908		United States	Hemiptera
Eleanor Anne Ormerod	1828	1901	United Kingdom
Enriqueta Guillermina Ortega León	1955		México	Tetrigidae
Karl Robert Osten-Sacken	1828	1906	Russia	Diptera
Alpheus Spring Packard	1839	1905	United States
Louis Pandellé	1824	1905	France	Coleoptera
Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer	1755	1829	Germany	Coleoptera
Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe	1813	1893	United Kingdom	Coleoptera
Carlo Passerini	1793	1857	Italy	Coleoptera
Giovanni Passerini	1816	1893	Italy	Hemiptera
Gustaf von Paykull	1757	1826	Sweden	Coleoptera
Titian Peale	1799	1885	United States	Lepidoptera
William Dandridge Peck	1763	1822	United States
Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne	1920	1988	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Achille Rémy Percheron	1797	1869	France
Cisteil XinumPérez Hernández	1984		México	Carabidae, Cantaridae
Alexander Petrunkevitch	1875	1964	Russia
Maurice Pic	1866	1957	France	Coleoptera, Cerambycide
François Jules Pictet de la Rive	1809	1872	Switzerland
Elliot Pinhey	1910	2000	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera, Odonata
Odorado Pirazzoli	1815	1884	Italy	Coleoptera
George Poinar, Jr.			United States
Robert Michael Pyle	1947		United States	Lepidoptera
Oktawiusz Bourmeister-Radoszkowski	1820	1895	Russia	Hymenoptera
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque	1783	1840	France
Jules Pierre Rambur	1801	1870	France
Andrés Ramírez-Ponce			México	Scarabaeidae
Maynard Jack Ramsay	1914	2005	United States	Economic entomology
Alex Rasnitsyn			Russia	Palaeoentomology
Julius Theodor Christian Ratzeburg	1801	1871	Germany
Pierre Réal	1922	2009	France	Lepidoptera, Morphidae, Pieridae, Tortricidae
René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur	1683	1757	France
Hans Rebel	1881	1940	Austria	Lepidoptera
Ludwig Redtenbacher	1814	1876	Austria	Coleoptera
Louis Jérôme Reiche	1799	1890	Netherlands / France	Coleoptera
George Morrison Reid Henry	1891	1983	Sri Lanka	Orthoptera
Hermann Reinhard	1816	1892	Germany	Hymenoptera
Edmund Reitter	1845	1920	Germany	Coleoptera
James Rennie	1787	1867	Scotland	General entomology, Lepidoptera
Anders Jahan Retzius	1742	1821	Sweden
Enzio Reuter	1867	1951	Finland	Lepidoptera
Max Paul Riedel	1870	1941	Germany	Diptera
Charles Valentine Riley	1843	1895	United States	Economic entomology
Robert Henry Fernando Rippon	1816	1917	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy	1799	1857	France	Diptera
Harold E. Robinson	1932		United States	Diptera
Geovanni M. Rodríguez Mirón	1984		México	Megalopodidae
Johann Jacob Roemer	1763	1819	Switzerland
Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer	1831	1897	Austria	Lepidoptera
Boris Borisovitsch Rohdendorf	1904	1977	Russia	Diptera
Hermann Rolle	1864	1929	Germany	Lepidoptera, Insect dealer
Per Abraham Roman	1872	1943	Sweden	Hymenoptera
Camillo Róndani	1808	1879	Italy	Diptera
Joseph Pierre Rondou	1854	1935	France	Lepidoptera
August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof	1705	1759	Germany
Pietro Rossi	1738	1804	Italy	Odonata, Lepidoptera
Josef Emanuel Fischer von Röslerstamm	1787	1866	Czech Republic	Lepidoptera
Charles Rothschild	1877	1923	United Kingdom	Siphonaptera
Miriam Louisa Rothschild	1908	2005	United Kingdom	Siphonaptera
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild	1868	1937	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
S. A. von Rottemburg			Germany	Lepidoptera
G. T. Rudd			United Kingdom	Coleoptera
Gaston Ruter	1898	1979	France	Coleoptera, Cetoniidae
Ole A. Sæther	1936	2013	Norway	Diptera, Chironomidae
Johan Reinhold Sahlberg	1845	1920	Finland	Coleoptera
Osbert Salvin	1835	1898	United Kingdom
George Samouelle	1790	1846	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Grace Sandhouse	1896	1940	United States	Apoidea
Felix Santschi	1872	1940	Switzerland	Formicidae
Félicien Henry Caignart de Saulcy	1832	1912	France	Coleoptera
William Wilson Saunders	1809	1879	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera
Henri de Saussure	1829	1905	Switzerland	Hymenoptera, Orthoptera
Thomas Say	1787	1834	United States
Johann Gottlieb Schaller	1734	1814	Germany	Lepidoptera
William Schaus	1858	1942	United States	Lepidoptera
Johann Rudolph Schellenberg	1740	1806	Switzerland	Coleoptera, Diptera
Ignaz Schiffermüller	1727	1806	Austria	Lepidoptera
Ignaz Rudolph Schiner	1813	1873	Austria	Diptera
Jørgen Matthias Christian Schiødte	1815	1884	Denmark
Dietrich von Schlechtendal	1834	1916	Germany	Hymenoptera, Cynipidae
Justin O. Schmidt			United States
Hermann Schmitz	1878	1960	Germany	Diptera, Phoridae.
Carl Johan Schönherr	1772	1848	Sweden	Coleoptera
Franz Paula von Schrank	1747	1835	Germany
Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber	1739	1810	Germany
Arnold Schultze	1875	1948	Germany	Lepidoptera
Theodor Emil Schummel	1786	1848	Germany	Diptera
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli	1723	1788	Italy	Coleoptera
Alexander Walker Scott	1800	1883	Australia
John Scott	1823	1888	United Kingdom
Samuel Hubbard Scudder	1837	1911	United States
Boris Nikolayevich Schwanwitsch	1889	1957	Russia	Lepidoptera
Wolfgang Schwenke	1921	2006	Germany	Forest entomology, Ichneumonidae
Eugène Séguy	1890	1985	France	Diptera
Adalbert Seitz	1860	1938	Germany	Lepidoptera
Edmond de Sélys Longchamps	1813	1900	Belgium	Odonata
Andrey Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky	1866	1942	Russia	Coleoptera
Ronald A. Senior-White	1891	1954	United Kingdom	Diptera
Seok Joo-myung	1908	1950	Korea	Lepidoptera
David Sharp	1840	1922	United Kingdom	Coleoptera
Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw	1902	1985	United Kingdom
Robert Walter Campbell Shelford	1872	1912	United Kingdom
Philip Sheppard	1921	1976	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Takashi Shirozu	1917	2004	Japan	Lepidoptera
Frédéric Jules Sichel	1802	1868	France	Hymenoptera
Victor Antoine Signoret	1816	1889	France	Hemiptera
Sydney Skaife	1889	1976	South Africa	Hymenoptera
Frederick Smith	1805	1879	United Kingdom	Hymenoptera
James Edward Smith	1759	1828	United Kingdom
Ray F. Smith	1919	1999	United States	Economic entomology
Sidney Irving Smith	1843	1926	United States
Roy Snelling	1934	2008	United States	Hymenoptera
Robert Evans Snodgrass	1875	1962	United States
Marc Soula	1945	2012	France	Coleoptera, Rutelinae
Paul Gustav Eduard Speiser	1877	1945	Germany	Diptera
William Spence	1783	1860	United Kingdom
William Blundell Spence	1813	1900	United Kingdom
Andrew Spielman	1930	2006	United States	Medical entomology
Maximilian Spinola	1780	1857	France	Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Hemiptera
Rasmus Carl Staeger	1800	1875	Denmark	Diptera
Henry Tibbats Stainton	1822	1892	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Carl Stål	1833	1878	Sweden	Hemiptera
Hermann Friedrich Stannius	1808	1883	France	Diptera
Otto Staudinger	1830	1900	Germany	Lepidoptera
Pietro Stefanelli	1835	1919	Italy	Odonata, Lepidoptera
Paul Stein	1852	1921	Germany	Diptera
Samuel Friedrich Stein	1818	1885	Germany	Diptera
James Francis Stephens	1792	1852	United Kingdom	Coleoptera
Christian von Steven	1781	1863	Russia	Lepidoptera
Hans Ferdinand Emil Julius Stichel	1862	1936	Germany	Lepidoptera
Caspar Stoll		1795	Netherlands
Embrik Strand	1876	1947	Norway
Ferdinand Heinrich Hermann Strecker	1836	1901	United States	Lepidoptera
Edgar Harold Strickland	1889	1962	Canada	Diptera
Gabriel Strobl	1846	1925	Austria	Diptera
Henry Frederick Strohecker	1905	1988	United States	Coleoptera
Johann Heinrich Sulzer	1735	1813	Switzerland
Surcouf	1873	1934	France
William Swainson	1789	1855	United Kingdom
Jan Swammerdam	1637	1680	Netherlands
Charles Swinhoe	1838	1923	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Robert Swinhoe	1836	1877	United Kingdom
Datuk Rahman Anwar Syed	1932	2009	Pakistan	Economic entomology
Zoltán Szilády	1878	1947	Hungary	Diptera
Stephen Taber III	1924	2008	United States	Hymenoptera
Sadao Takagi	1932	-	Japan	Coccoidea
Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg	1818	1897	Germany
Robert Templeton	1802	1892	Ireland
Gilles Terral	1943	1998	France	Lepidoptera, Saturniidae
Frederick Vincent Theobald	1868	1930	England	Diptera
Oskar Theodor	1898	1987	Israel	Diptera
Cyrus Thomas	1825	1910	United States
Michael C. Thomas			United States	Coleoptera
Carl Gustaf Thomson	1824	1899	Sweden	Coleoptera, Hymenoptera
Carl Peter Thunberg	1743	1828	Sweden	Coleoptera
Robert John Tillyard	1881	1937	Australia	Odonata, Plecoptera, Neuroptera
Philip Hunter Timberlake	1883	1981	United States	Hymenoptera
Norman Tindale	1900	1993	Australia
Friedrich F. Tippmann	1894	1974	Hungary	Coleoptera
Maeda Toshiyasu	1799	1859	Japan	All orders
Hervé de Toulgoët	1911	2009	France	Lepidoptera, Arctiidae
Charles Henry Tyler Townsend	1863	1944	United States
Adolfo Targioni Tozzetti	1823	1902	Italy	Hemiptera
Roland Trimen	1840	1916	United Kingdom / South Africa
Alessandro Trotter	1874	1967	Italy	Hymenoptera, Diptera
Charles Henry Turner	1867	1923	United States	All orders
J. W. Tutt	1858	1911	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Iwasaki Tsunemasa	1786	1842	Japan	All higher orders
Peter Twinn	1916	2004	United Kingdom	Coleoptera
Edward Payson Van Duzee	1861	1940	United States	Diptera, Hemiptera
Pierre Léonard Vander Linden	1797	1831	Belgium
Ernesto Barrera Vargas	1944		México	Reduviidae
Ruggero Verity	1883	1959	Italy	Lepidoptera
George Henry Verrall	1855	1911	United Kingdom	Diptera
Enrico Verson	1845	1927	Italy	Sericulture
Carlo Vidano	1923	1989	Italy	Auchenorrhyca, Apiculture
Pierre Viette	1921	2011	France	Lepidoptera
Theodore Vigé	1867		France	Lepidoptera
Joseph Villeneuve de Janti	1868	1944	France	Diptera
Samuel Wendell Williston	1851	1944	United States	Diptera
Sigbert Wagener	1919	2004	Germany	Lepidoptera
David L. Wagner	1956		United States	Lepidoptera
Johan August Wahlberg	1810	1856	Sweden	Coleoptera, Lepidoptera
Peter Fredrik Wahlberg	1800	1877	Sweden
Charles Athanase Walckenaer	1771	1852	France
Johann Fischer von Waldheim	1771	1853	Germany
James John Walker	1851	1939	United Kingdom
Francis Walker	1809	1874	United Kingdom
Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren	1823	1894	Sweden
Benjamin Dann Walsh	1808	1869	United States
Joseph Waltl	1805	1888	Germany	Coleoptera
Doug Waterhouse	1916	2000	Australia
Frederick George Waterhouse	1815	1898	Australia
George Robert Waterhouse	1810	1888	United Kingdom
Friedrich Weber	1781	1823	Germany
John Jenner Weir	1822	1894	United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Torkel Weis-Fogh	1922	1975	Denmark	Orthoptera
Constantin Wesmael	1798	1872	Belgium	Hymenoptera
Mary Jane West-Eberhard			United States	Hymenoptera
Bernt Wilhelm Westermann	1781	1868	Denmark
John Obadiah Westwood	1805	1893	United Kingdom	Formicidae
William Morton Wheeler	1865	1937	United States	Formicidae
Adam White (zoologist)	1817	1879	United Kingdom
Francis Buchanan White	1842	1894	United Kingdom
Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann	1770	1840	Germany	Diptera
Vincent Wigglesworth	1899	1994	United Kingdom
Benjamin Wilkes			United Kingdom	Lepidoptera
Carrington Bonsor Williams	1889	1981	United Kingdom	Economic entomology, migration, ecology
E. O. Wilson	1929		United States	Formicidae
Johannes Winnertz	1800	1896	Germany	Diptera
Wilhelm von Winthem	1799	1847	Germany	Diptera, Hymenoptera
Heinrich Wolf	1924	2004	Germany	Hymenoptera
Johann Friedrich Wolff	1778	1806	Germany	Hymenoptera
Thomas Vernon Wollaston	1822	1878	United Kingdom	Coleoptera
Thomas Vernon Wollaston	1822	1878	United Kingdom	Coleoptera
Charles W. Woodworth	1865	1940	United States	Economic entomology
Thomas Workman	1844	1900	Ireland	Lepidoptera
Frederik Maurits van der Wulp	1818	1899	Netherlands	Diptera
Philogène Auguste Galilée Wytsman	1866	1925	Belgium
Santiago Zaragoza Caballero	1935		México	Coleoptera
Philipp Christoph Zeller	1808	1883	Germany
Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt	1785	1875	Sweden	Diptera, Hymenoptera
Daniel Ziegler	1804	1876	United States
Johann Leopold Theodor Friedrich Zincken	1770	1856	Germany
Fritz Konrad Ernst Zumpt	1908	1985	Germany	Diptera
Martín Leonel Zurita-García	1979		México	Elateridae
Jorge Adilson Pinedo-Escatel			México	Cicadellidae