Coleopterists

Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (19 November 1775 – 10 May 1813) was a German entomologist and zoologist.

Roy Albert Crowson (22 November 1914, Hadlow, Kent – 13 May 1999) was an English biologist who specialised in the taxonomy of beetles.

Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe (1 September 1813 – 20 June 1893) was an English entomologist mainly interested in Coleoptera.

Major Richard William George Hingston (1887 – 5 August 1966) Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, was a physician, explorer and naturalist.

George Robert Crotch (1842–1874) was a British entomologist.

Michael C. Thomas (born 1948) is an American entomologist who is co-author of the book series American Beetles.

William Sharp Macleay or McLeay (21 July 1792 – 26 January 1865) was a British civil servant and entomologist.

Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe (17 March 1870 – 22 April 1951) was an eccentric British myrmecologist and coleopterist, memorable in part for his enthusiastic championing of the renaming of the genus Lasius after him as Donisthorpea, and for his many claims of discovering new species of beetles and ants.

George Lewis (1839–1926) was an English entomologist.

Dr André Peyriéras (born 1927)was a doctor at the University of Montpellier in France.

Johann Gottlieb Kugelann (2 January 1753 – 8 September 1815) was a German entomologist.

Joseph Sugar Baly (1816 – 25 March 1890) was an English doctor and entomologist.

Adam Giede Böving (July 31, 1869 – March 16, 1957) was a Danish-American entomologist and zoologist.

Alphonse Hustache (14 April 1872–10 March 1949) was a French entomologist.

Sir Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall (20 December 1871 in Amritsar, Punjab – 8 April 1959 in London), was an Indian-born British entomologist and authority on Curculionidae.

Norman Humbert Joy (7 July 1874 – 20 January 1953) was a British ornithologist and coleopterist.

William Weekes Fowler (January 1849 – 3 June 1923 ) was an English clergyman and entomologist mainly interested in beetles.

Edwin Cooper Van Dyke (April 7, 1869 – September 28, 1952) was an American physician and entomologist.

Harry Eugene Burke (May 19, 1878 – March 26, 1963) was an American entomologist and authority on the Buprestidae (metallic wood-boring beetles) and other wood-boring beetles and forest pests of the western United States.

Howard Hinton grew up in Mexico and attended the University of California, Berkeley as an undergraduate.

Sylvain Auguste de Marseul (January 21, 1812 in Fougerolles-du-Plessis in Normandy – April 16, 1890 in Paris).

Roger Naviaux (active from 1973) is a French entomologist known for his work on beetles.

Willard Joseph "Joe" Chamberlin (1890–1971) was an American entomologist and professor at Oregon State College who specialized in jewel beetles and bark beetles.

Ross Taylor Bell (born 23 April 1929) is an American entomologist with particular interest in the invertebrate natural history of Vermont, United States,and carabid beetles.

Anthony Adrian Allen (1 July 1913 – 23 June 2010) was a British entomologist who published several hundred scientific papers, in particular on the Coleoptera (beetles) of the British Isles.

George Francis Bornemissza (born György Ferenc Bornemissza; 11 February 1924 – 10 April 2014) was a Hungarian-born entomologist and ecologist.

Herbert Edward Andrewes (1863, Reading – 1950, Highgate) was an English entomologist who specialised in beetles of the order Coleoptera.

Terry L. Erwin (born 1940) is an American entomologist with the Smithsonian Institution.

William Alexander Francis Balfour-Browne FRSE FZS FLS PRMS (1874–1967), known as Frank, was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera, especially Dytiscidae (diving beetles).

Vasco Myron Tanner (October 29, 1892 – April 25, 1989) was an American entomologist from Utah, and professor of zoology at Brigham Young University.

Benoit-Philibert Perroud (1796 Lyon -1887, Lyon), was a French entomologist.

Henry Frederick Strohecker (October 15, 1905 Macon -November 14, 1988, Coral Gables) was an American entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera especially Endomychidae.

Malcolm Cameron (1873 - 31 October 1954, London) was an English physician and entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera, particularly the rove beetles (Staphylinidae).

Maurice Pic (23 March 1866, Marrigny near Digoin – 29 December 1957, Les Guerreaux) was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.

Maxwell V L Barclay, usually known as Max Barclay, is a British entomologist, and Curator and Collections Manager of Coleoptera and Hemiptera at the Natural History Museum in London.

Léon Marc Herminie Fairmaire (29 June 1820 – 1 April 1906) was a French entomologist.

Stephan von Breuning (21 November 1894 – 11 March 1983) was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera, particularly Cerambycidae.

Gilbert John Arrow (20 December 1873 London- 5 October 1948) was an English entomologist.

Hippolyte Louis Gory (27 September 1800 – 26 April 1852) was a French entomologist.

Louis Prosper Cantener (1803- 30 March 1847, Hyères) was a French entomologist who specialized in Coleoptera and Lepidoptera.

Coenraad Ritsema, also Cornelius Conrad Ritsema (13 April 1846, Haarlem - 9 January 1929, Wageningen) was a Dutch entomologist.

Charles Joseph Gahan (20 January 1862 – 21 January 1939) was an Irish entomologist.

Charles Kerremans (1847- 10 October 1915, Brussels) was a Belgian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera, especially Buprestidae and Cicindelidae.

Samarendra Nath Maulik (1881 in Tamluk – 1950 in Chelsea) was an Indian entomologist .