List of coleopterists

Notable students of coleopterology (beetles) include the following.

Coleopterists from Australia

 * George Francis Bornemissza (born Hungary)
 * John Francis Lawrence (born U.S.A)

Coleopterists from Austria

 * Stephan von Breuning
 * Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre
 * Caspar Erasmus Duftschmid
 * Johann Angelo Ferrari
 * Ludwig Ganglbauer
 * Karl Borromaeus Maria Josef Heller
 * Eduard Knirsch
 * Johann Nepomuk von Laicharting
 * Johann Carl Megerle von Mühlfeld
 * Ludwig Redtenbacher
 * Pater Gabriel Strobl

Coleopterists from Belgium

 * Ernest Candèze
 * Félicien Chapuis
 * Charles Kerremans
 * Jean Théodore Lacordaire
 * Auguste Lameere

Coleopterists from Brazil

 * Ângelo Moreira da Costa Lima

Coleopterists from Canada

 * George Eugene Ball (born U.S.A)
 * Aleš Smetana (also Czechoslovakia)

Coleopterists from Croatia

 * Guido Nonveiller

Coleopterists from Czechoslovakia

 * Anton Franz Nonfried
 * Jan Obenberger
 * Jan Daniel Preysler

Coleopterists from Denmark

 * Johan Christian Fabricius
 * Otto Friedrich Müller

Coleopterists from England (United Kingdom)

 * Anthony A. Allen
 * Herbert Edward Andrewes
 * Gilbert John Arrow
 * Joseph Sugar Baly
 * Henry Walter Bates
 * Thomas Blackburn (also Hawaii and Australia)
 * George Charles Champion
 * James Cook Endeavour captain
 * George Crabbe
 * George Robert Crotch (also U.S.A.)
 * Roy Crowson
 * John Curtis
 * Charles Darwin
 * Horace Donisthorpe
 * William Weekes Fowler
 * Alexander Fry
 * Eleanor Glanville
 * Frederick DuCane Godman
 * Henry Stephen Gorham
 * Edward Wesley Janson
 * Oliver Erichson Janson
 * Norman H. Joy
 * William Elford Leach
 * John Henry Leech
 * George Lewis
 * Thomas Marsham
 * Philip Brookes Mason
 * Andrew Murray
 * Frederic John Sidney Parry
 * David Sharp
 * William Edward Shuckard
 * James Francis Stephens
 * Alfred Russel Wallace
 * James John Walker
 * Thomas Vernon Wollaston

Coleopterists from Estonia

 * Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz

Coleopterists from Finland

 * Carl Gustaf von Mannerheim

Coleopterists from France

 * César Marie Félix Ancey
 * Félix Jean Marie Louis Ancey
 * Charles Nicholas Aubé
 * Alfred Balachowsky
 * Eugène Barthe
 * Ernest Marie Louis Bedel
 * Louis Beguin-Billecocq
 * Nicolas Adolphe Bellevoye
 * Eugène Benderitter
 * Henri Bertrand
 * Anatole Auguste Boieldieu
 * Jules Bourgeois
 * Charles N. F. Brisout
 * Jean Baptiste Lucien Buquet
 * Louis Companyo
 * François-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnau
 * Jean-Charles Chenu
 * Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat
 * Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean
 * Jules Desbrochers des Loges
 * Achille Deyrolle
 * Robert Didier
 * Jean-Louis Alléon-Dulac
 * André Marie Constant Duméril
 * Charles Adolphe Albert Fauvel
 * Antoine Casimir Marguerite Eugène Foudras
 * Étienne Louis Geoffroy
 * Maurice Jean Auguste Girard
 * Joseph-Étienne Giraud
 * Auguste Jean François Grenier
 * Émile Joseph Isidore Gobert
 * Félix Guignot
 * Alphonse Hustache
 * Pierre Nicolas Camille Jacquelin du Val
 * Charles Georges Javet
 * Jean Théodore Lacordaire
 * Pierre André Latreille
 * Édouard Lefèvre
 * Charles Eugène Leprieur
 * Sylvain Auguste de Marseul
 * Édouard Ménétries (also Russia)
 * Pierre-Aimé Millet
 * Étienne Mulsant
 * René Oberthür
 * Guillaume-Antoine Olivier
 * Louis Pandellé
 * Auguste Simon Paris
 * Benoit-Philibert Perroud
 * Maurice Pic
 * Louis Jérôme Reiche
 * Maurice Auguste Régimbart
 * Claudius Rey
 * Auguste Sallé
 * Ludwig Wilhelm Schaufuss
 * Antoine Joseph Jean Solier
 * James Thomson (entomologist) (born U.S.A)

Coleopterists from Germany

 * Michael Bach
 * Max Bernhauer
 * Philipp Bertkau
 * Hans Bischoff
 * Oskar Boettger
 * Johann von Böber
 * Johann Friedrich von Brandt
 * Christian Casimir Brittinger
 * Heinrich Christian Burckhardt
 * Carl Gustav Calwer
 * Friedrich Wilhelm Erdmann Clasen
 * George Dieck
 * Rudolph Dittrich
 * Carl August Dohrn
 * Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson
 * Franz Faldermann also Russia
 * Johannes Faust
 * Arnold Förster
 * Ernst Friedrich Germar
 * Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst
 * Carl Heinrich Georg(es) von Heyden
 * Theodor Hildebrandt
 * Adolf Horion
 * Walther Hermann Richard Horn
 * Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger
 * Carl Gustav Jablonsky
 * Martin Jacoby
 * Gustav Jäger
 * Ernest August Hellmuth von Kiesenwetter
 * Theodor Franz Wilhelm Kirsch
 * Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug
 * Hermann Julius Kolbe
 * Johann Gottlieb Kugelann
 * Gustav Kunze
 * Johann Christian Friedrich Märkel
 * Franz Anton Menge
 * Wilhelm Mink
 * Wilhelm Möllenkamp
 * Julius Moser
 * John Nietner
 * Georg Hermann Alexander Ochs
 * Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer
 * Maximilian Perty
 * Edmund Reitter
 * Karl Rost
 * Hermann Rudolph Schaum
 * Sigmund Schenkling
 * Friedrich Julius Schilsky
 * Georg Karl Maria Seidlitz
 * Jacob Sturm
 * Christian Wilhelm Ludwig Eduard Suffrian

Coleopterists from Hungary

 * Elemér Bokor
 * Karel Brančik
 * Ernő Csíki
 * Friedrich F. Tippmann

Coleopterists from Ireland

 * James Nathaniel Halbert
 * Alexander Henry Haliday
 * William Frederick Johnson
 * Eugene O'Mahoney
 * James Tardy

Coleopterists from Italy

 * Raniero Alliata di Pietratagliata
 * Pietro Bargagli
 * Carlo Bassi
 * Flaminio Baudi di Selve
 * Giuseppe Bertoloni
 * Franco Andrea Bonelli
 * Carlo Emery
 * Ferdinando Arborio Gattinara di Breme
 * Raffaello Gestro
 * Bernardino Halbherr
 * Paolo Luigioni
 * Francisco Minà Palumbo
 * Carlo Passerini
 * Leonello Picco
 * Odorado Pirazzoli
 * Giovanni Antonio Scopoli

Coleopterists from Japan

 * Tsunamitsu Adachi

Coleopterists from the Netherlands

 * Coenraad Ritsema
 * Johann Eusebius Voet

Coleopterists from Norway

 * Embrik Strand

Coleopterists from Russia

 * Ernst von Ballion
 * Maximilien Chaudoir
 * Tikhon Sergeyevich Chicherin (= Tschitscherine)
 * Georgiy Georgiyevich Jacobson
 * Nikita Rafailovich Kokuyev (= Kukujev, Kokujev)
 * Oleg Leonidovich Kryzhanovsky
 * Édouard Ménétries (also France)
 * Victor Ivanovich Motschulsky
 * Andrey Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (= Semenov, Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, Semenov-Tian-Shanskii)
 * Alexander Ivanovich Yakovlev (= Jakowlew, Jakowleff, Jakovlev)
 * Vasily Evgrafovich Yakovlev (= Jakowlew, Jakowlev, Jakowleff= B.E )

Coleopterists from Spain

 * José María Hugo de la Fuente Morales
 * Ignacio Bolívar
 * Fermín Martín Piera
 * Cándido Bolívar Pieltain

Coleopterists from Sweden

 * Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius
 * Carl Henrik Boheman
 * Charles De Geer
 * Leonard Gyllenhaal
 * Carl Linnaeus
 * Gustaf von Paykull
 * Carl Johan Schönherr
 * Carl Peter Thunberg
 * Carl Gustaf Thomson

Coleopterists from Switzerland

 * Louis Agassiz (also USA)
 * Andreas Bischoff-Ehinger
 * Oswald Heer
 * Ivan Löbl (also Czechoslovakia)
 * George Meyer-Darcis
 * Johann Rudolph Schellenberg
 * Henri Tournier

Coleopterists from the United States of America

 * Louis Agassiz (also Switzerland)
 * Ross H. Arnett, Jr.
 * Heath Blackmon
 * Willis Blatchley
 * George Robert Crotch
 * Henry Clinton Fall
 * William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes
 * George Henry Horn
 * Henry Guernsey Hubbard
 * John Lawrence LeConte
 * Alfred Francis Newton
 * Edith Marion Patch
 * Eugene Amandus Schwarz
 * Herbert Huntingdon Smith
 * Michael C. Thomas
 * Rose Ella Warner

To be categorised

 * Herbert Edward Cox
 * Thomas H.M. Gorden