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
  • François Josephe Fettig
  • 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

See also

  • Timeline of entomology
  • Entomology
  • The Coleopterist – includes a biographical dictionary of British coleopterists
  • Scarab Workers World Directory
  • German Coleopterists
  • ZinRu Gouillard J. 2004. Histoire des entomologistes français (1750–1950). Édition entièrement revue et augmentée. Paris, Société Nouvelle des Éditions Boubée. 288 pp.
  • High definition portraits from Russia