Dipterists

Joseph Alexandre Laboulbène (25 August 1825 Agen – 7 December 1898, Paris) was a French physician and entomologist.

Kálmán Kertész (2 January 1867 Prešov, Sáros County – 28 December 1922 Budapest was a Hungarian entomologist mainly interested in Diptera. He was the director of the Zoological Department of the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest.

Camillo Róndani (21 November 1808 – 17 September 1879) was an Italian entomologist noted for his studies of Diptera.

Otto Kröber (22 May 1882 in Hamburg–5 January 1969) was a German entomologist specialising in Diptera.

Günther Enderlein (7 July 1872 – 11 August 1968) was a German zoologist, entomologist and later a manufacturer of pharmaceutical products.

Carl Heinrich Georg(es) von Heyden (20 January 1793 Frankfurt – 7 July 1866) was a German senator and entomologist.

Paul Stein (1852–1921) was a German museum curator and entomologist .

Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart (8 April 1776 – 25 November 1855) was a French entomologist specialising in the study of Diptera.

Hermann Friedrich Stannius (15 March 1808, Hamburg – 15 January 1883, Sachsenberg near Schwerin) was a German anatomist, physiologist and entomologist.

Luigi Bellardi (18 May 1818 – 17 September 1889) was an Italian malacologist and entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Brian Roy Stuckenberg (1930–2009) was a South African entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Jacques Marie Frangile Bigot (1818–1893) was a French naturalist and entomologist most noted for his studies of Diptera.

Jean-Jacques Kieffer (1857 Guinkirchen–1925 Bitche) was a French naturalist and entomologist who specialised in the study of parasitic insects.

Axel Leonard Melander (3 June 1878 Chicago – 8 August 1962) was an American entomologist specialising in Diptera and Hymenoptera.

Johann Friedrich Ruthe Ruthé or von Ruthe (16 April 1788, in Eggenstädt near Hildesheim – 24 August 1859 Berlin) was a German teacher (Oberlehrer), botanist and entomologist.

Johann Nepomuk Georg Egger (15 May 1804, in Salzburg – 19 March 1866, in Vienna), was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

John Merton Aldrich (January 28, 1866 – May 27, 1934) was an American zoologist and entomologist.

John Russell Malloch (16 November 1875 – 1963) was a Scottish entomologist who specialised in Diptera and Hymenoptera.

Paul Gustav Eduard Speiser (1877–1945) was a German entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Percy Hall Grimshaw FRSE FERS ISO (1869 in Leeds – 1939 in Edinburgh) was an English entomologist and zoogeographer.

Erich Martin Hering (10 November 1893, Heinersdorf – 18 August 1967, Berlin) was a German entomologist who specialised in leafmining insects,He was a curator in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, where his collections of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera are conserved.

Theodor Becker (23 June 1840 in Plön – 30 June 1928 in Liegnitz) was a German civil engineer and entomologist primarily known for his work with flies.

Ernst Josef Fittkau (22 July 1927 – 12 May 2012) was a German entomologist.

James Edward Collin (16 March 1876, Kirtling – 16 September 1968) was an English entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Pius Sack (3 December 1865 – 5 February 1946) was a German entomologist who specialised in Diptera His collection of World Diptera is conserved in Naturmuseum Senckenberg.

Horace Francis Barnes ( 23 November 1902 - 5 February 1960) was an English entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Erich Otto Engel (29 September 1866, in Alt-Malisch Frankfurt – 11 February 1944, in Dachau) was a German entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Ephraim Porter Felt (7 January 1868 Salem - 14 December 1943) was an American entomologist who specialised in Diptera Ephraim Felt worked mostly Nematocera and particularly Cecidomyiidae.

Erica McAlister is a British scientist and museum curator.

Ernest Gerald Gibbins (1900 – 3 November 1942) was a British entomologist who worked on insects of medical importance.

Ernst August Girschner, usually just Ernst Girschner (29 October 1860 – 28 April 1914) was a German entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Ferdinand Kowarz (23 February 1838, Planá – 22 September 1914, Marianske Lazne), was a Bohemian-Austrian entomologist who described many new species of Diptera mainly from central Europe Kowarz was a post office official.

Leopold Anton Kirchner (? - 29 December 1879 Kaplice, Bohemia), sometimes Kirschnerm, was an Austrian physician and entomologist.

Abbé Octave Parent, (15 June 1882 in Trescault – 9 February 1942 in Ambleteuse) was a French entomologist who specialized in Diptera, mostly the family Dolichopodidae.

Oskar Augustus Johannsen (14 May 1870, Davenport, Iowa – 7 November 1961, Ithaca, New York), was an American entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Rennie Wilbur Doane (March 11, 1871 – December 1, 1942), was an American entomologist and zoologist who taught at Stanford University from 1906 to 1937.

Hermann Schmitz (12 August 1878 in Elberfeld, Wuppertal – 1 September 1960 in Bad Godesberg) was a German entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera and Diptera.

Johann Andreas Schnabl (1838 – 1912) was born a Pole of German descent, and an entomologist specializing in Diptera.

Johann Rudolph Schellenberg (4 January 1740, Basel – 8 June 1806, Töss, a district in the city of Winterthur) was a Swiss artist, writer and entomologist best known for his illustrations of insects.

Heinrich Scholz (1812, Breslau - 1859) was a German entomologist who specialised in Hemiptera and Diptera.

Fritz Konrad Ernst Zumpt (1908–1985) was a German entomologist who worked mainly in Africa .

George Henry Verrall (7 February 1848 – 16 September 1911) was a British horse racing official, entomologist, botanist and Conservative politician.

George Michael James Giles (1853 - 1916) was an English surgeon and entomologist who specialised in mosquitoes.

Oskar Theodor (3 October 1898 – 1987) was an Israeli entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Johannes Winnertz (11 February 1800 – 24 July 1890) was a German entomologist specialising in Diptera.

Johannes Cornelis Hendrik de Meijere (1 April 1866, Deventer - 6 November 1947) was a Dutch zoologist and entomologist who specialised in Diptera and Coleoptera.

Frederik Maurits van der Wulp (13 December 1818 – 27 November 1899 or 1900) was a Dutch entomologist mainly interested in Diptera.

Johannes Dietrich Eduard Schmeltz (19 May 1839 – 26 May 1909) was a German ethnographer and naturalist.

Daniel William Coquillett (23 January 1856, Pleasant Valley, Ill. – 7 July 1911 Atlantic City, New Jersey) was an American entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Árpád Soós (20 September 1912 Budapest – 1 June 1991 Budapest) was a Hungarian zoologist, entomologist and museologist.

Amedeo John Engel Terzi (1872, Palermo -1956) was an Italian illustrator and entomologist specialising in Diptera.

André Jean Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy (1 January 1799, Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye – 25 June 1857, Paris) was a French physician and entomologist specialising in the study of Diptera (flies) and to some extent of the Coleoptera (beetles).

Maurice Emile Marie Goetghebuer (1876–1962) was a Belgian entomologist.

Friedrich Georg Hendel (14 December 1874- 26 June 1936) was an Austrian high school director and entomologist mainly interested in Diptera.

Theodor Emil Schummel (23 May 1786, Breslau—24 February 1848) was a German entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Gabriel Strobl (3 November 1846, in Unzmarkt, Styria, Austrian Empire – 15 March 1925, in Admont, Benediktinerstift) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Leander (Franz) Czerny (4 October 1859, in Modřice, Moravia – 22 November 1944, in Pettenbach (de), Upper Austria) was an Austrian entomologist mainly interested in Diptera.

Erwin Lindner (7 April 1888 – 30 November 1988) was a German entomologist mainly interested in Diptera.

Ernest Edward Austen (1867 in London – 16 January 1938) was an English entomologist specialising in Diptera and Hymenoptera.

Ernst Evald Bergroth (April 1, 1857 – November 22, 1925) was a Finnish physician and amateur entomologist.

Eugène Séguy (1890 – 1 June 1985) was a French entomologist / artist who specialised in Diptera.

Ferdinando Arborio Gattinara di Breme (or François Brême or Ferdinando Arborio di Gattinara), Duc de Sartirana Lomellina, marquis de Breme (30 April 1807 in Milan – 23 January 1869 in Florence) was an Italian naturalist and entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and Diptera.

Frederick Wallace Edwards FRS (28 November 1888 in Fletton, Peterborough – 15 November 1940 in London), was an English entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Frederick Vincent Theobald (1868 - 6 March 1930) was an English entomologist.

Charles Howard Curran (20 March 1894 at Orillia in Ontario – 23 January 1972 in Leesburg in Florida) was a Canadian entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Clell Lee Metcalf (25 March 1888 in Lakeville – 21 August 1948) was an American entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Evelyn Cecil Muschamp d’Assis-Fonseca (1899 – 1993) was a British dipterist.

Lorenz Oldenberg (2 January 1863, Berlin – 24 May 1931, Berlin) was a German entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Loïc Matile (26 June 1938 - 10 June 2000, Paris ) was a French entomologist who specialised in Diptera (Bolitophilidae, Diadocidiidae, Keroplatidae, Lygistorrhinidae, Mycetophilidae).

Samuel Friedrich Nathaniel Ritter von Stein (November 3, 1818 – January 9, 1885) was a German entomologist.

Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann (December 7, 1770 in Brunswick – December 31, 1840 in Kiel), was a German physician, historian, naturalist and entomologist.

Carl Gustav Alexander Brischke (December 17, 1814 – 1897) was a German entomologist who worked on Diptera and Hymenoptera, mainly the Ichneumonidae and Braconidae.

Eduard Heinrich Graeffe or Gräffe (27 December 1833, Zurich – 23 April 1916 Ljubljana) was a Swiss zoologist and naturalist.

Harold Oldroyd was a British entomologist, born in 1914.

Zoltán Szilády (21 May 1878 – 15 April 1947) was a Hungarian museologist, entomologist and university lecturer.

Jean-Charles Jacobs (1821–1907) was a Belgian doctor and entomologist, a pupil of Constantin Wesmael.