57 Dipterists

John Merton Aldrich was an American entomologist. Aldrich was the Associate Curator of Insects at the United States National Museum. He is considered one of the most prolific entomologists in the study of flies.

Horace Francis Barnes was an English entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Theodor Becker was a Danish-born German civil engineer and entomologist primarily known for studies on the taxonomy of flies.

Luigi Bellardi was an Italian malacologist and entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Joseph Charles Bequaert was an American naturalist of Belgian origin, born 24 May 1886 in Torhout (Belgium) and died on 12 January 1982 in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Julius Edler von Bergenstamm was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Diptera. He worked alongside Friedrich Moritz Brauer the Director of the Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, Vienna.

Mario Bezzi was an Italian professor of zoology at the University of Turin. He was also director of the Turin Museum of Natural History. He was a Doctor of Science.

Friedrich Moritz Brauer was an Austrian entomologist who was Director of the Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, Vienna, at the time of his death. He wrote many papers on Diptera and Neuroptera.

Johann Jacob Bremi-Wolf was a Swiss entomologist and Kunsthandwerker in Zürich. He was deaf due to illness at the age of 11. His entomological herbarium is held by the Museum Wiesbaden. Other parts of his insect collection, especially Diptera are held by the Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Zürich.

Enrico Adelelmo Brunetti was a British musician and entomologist. He specialized in the Diptera and worked for many years in India.

Daniel William Coquillett was an American entomologist who specialised in Diptera. He wrote a revision of the dipterous family Therevidae and many other scientific papers in which he described many new species and genera of Diptera. Coquillett was also the first to attempt fumigation with hydrocyanic acid as a means for controlling citrus scale insects. He experimented in the Wolfskill orange groves where he was supported by the foreman and later quarantine entomologist Alexander Craw in 1888-89.

Leander (Franz) Czerny was an Austrian entomologist mainly interested in Diptera.

Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld was an Austrian naturalist and one of the leading scientists on board the Austrian frigate Novara during its round-the-world voyage. He was heavily involved in the development of the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, where he was a curator.

Oswald Duda, full name Pavel Theodor Friedrich Oswald Duda was a German entomologist mainly interested in Diptera.

Henryk Daniel Robert Dołęga Dziedzicki was a Polish physician and entomologist.

Frederick Wallace Edwards FRS, was an English entomologist. Edwards was known in the field of entomology for his work on Diptera.

Johann Nepomuk Georg Egger, was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Johan Christian Fabricius was a Danish zoologist, specialising in "Insecta", which at that time included all arthropods: insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others. He was a student of Carl Linnaeus, and is considered one of the most important entomologists of the 18th century, having named nearly 10,000 species of animals, and established the basis for the modern insect classification.

Carl Fredrik Fallén was a Swedish botanist and entomologist.

Ephraim Porter Felt was an American entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Ernst Josef Fittkau was a German entomologist and herpetologist.

Joseph Jean Baptiste Géhin was a French naturalist and entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. He also studied Diptera. He was an apothecary in Metz.

George Michael James Giles was an English surgeon and entomologist who specialised in mosquitoes. He wrote A report of an investigation into the causes of the diseases known in Assam as KaÌ_la-AzaÌ_r and Beri-Beri (1890) and A handbook of the gnats or mosquitoes giving the anatomy and life history of the Culicidae, together with descriptions of all species notices up to the present date (1902).

Alexander Henry Haliday was an Irish entomologist. He is primarily known for his work on Hymenoptera, Diptera, and Thysanoptera, but worked on all insect orders and on many aspects of entomology.

Emil Hans Willi Hennig was a German biologist who is considered the founder of phylogenetic systematics, also known as cladistics. In 1945 as a prisoner of war, Hennig began work on his theory of cladistics, which he published in German in 1950, with a substantially revised English translation published in 1966. With his works on evolution and systematics he revolutionised the view of the natural order of beings. As a taxonomist, he specialised in dipterans.

Albert John Hesse (1895–1987) was a South African entomologist.

Carl Heinrich Georg(es) von Heyden was a German senator and entomologist. He collected insects in all orders but was especially interested in Coleoptera, Microlepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera and fossil insects. His collections are divided between the German Entomological Institute and the Senckenberg Museum.

Jean-Charles Jacobs was a Belgian doctor and entomologist, a pupil of Constantin Wesmael. He graduated in medicine from the University of Brussels, but never abandoned the study of insects, and was one of the founders of the Société entomologique de Belgique. He concentrated on the Hymenoptera, often in collaboration with Jules Tosquinet, turning to Diptera later in life. Among his later studies was a report on the insects collected by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, including that continent's largest fully terrestrial animal, the fly Belgica antarctica .

Kálmán Kertész (2 January 1867 Prešov, Sáros County – 28 December 1922 Budapest was a Hungarian entomologist mainly interested in Diptera.

Andy Z. Lehrer was a Romanian entomologist. From 1996 until his death, he worked as a research associate in the laboratory of Zoology at the University of Tel Aviv in Tel Aviv, Israel. For several years, he studied flesh flies and blow flies from all over the world.

Friedrich Hermann Loew was a German entomologist who specialised in the study of Diptera, an order of insects including flies, mosquitoes, gnats and midges. He described many world species and was the first specialist to work on the Diptera of the United States.

Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart was a French entomologist specialising in the study of Diptera. He worked on world species as well as European and described many new species.

John Russell Malloch was a Scottish entomologist who specialised in Diptera and Hymenoptera.

Richard Henry Meade was an English surgeon, and Justice of the peace. But is more noted as an entomologist who specialised in Diptera - most notably the family Muscidae and also in Spiders.

Johann Wilhelm Meigen was a German entomologist famous for his pioneering work on Diptera.

Johannes Cornelis Hendrik de Meijere was a Dutch zoologist and entomologist who specialised in Diptera and Coleoptera.

Carl Robert Osten-Sacken or Carl-Robert Romanovich, Baron von der Osten-Sacken was a Russian diplomat and entomologist. He served as the Russian consul general in New York City during the American Civil War, living in the United States from 1856 to 1877. He worked on the taxonomy of flies in general and particularly of the family Tipulidae.

Edouard Perris full name Jean-Pierre Omer Anne Edouard Perris was a French explorer and entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and to a lesser extent Diptera and other orders. He was Chef de division à la préfecture des Landes. Perris was a Member of Société Entomologique de France. His collection is held by École nationale supérieure agronomique de Montpellier excepting Cicindelidae, Carabini und Lebiini which are held by Museum Dax, Landes.

Josef Anton Maximilian Perty was a German naturalist and entomologist. He was a professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Bern. His first name is sometimes spelled as "Joseph".

André Jean Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy was a French physician and entomologist specialising in the study of Diptera (flies) and to some extent of the Coleoptera (beetles).

Camillo Róndani was an Italian entomologist noted for his studies of Diptera.

Johann Rudolph Schellenberg was a Swiss artist, writer and entomologist best known for his illustrations of insects.

Ignaz Rudolf Schiner was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Johannes Dietrich Eduard Schmeltz was a German ethnographer and naturalist.

Ronald A. Senior-White FRSE FRES was an English entomologist and malariologist who worked in India and Ceylon. His entomological studies concerned Diptera, especially the mosquitoes.

Rasmus Carl Staeger (1800–1875) was a Danish entomologist.

Hermann Friedrich Stannius was a German anatomist, physiologist and entomologist. He specialised in the insect order Diptera especially the family Dolichopodidae.

Paul Stein (1852–1921) was a German museum curator and entomologist. He specialised in Diptera especially the family Anthomyiidae. In this group he studied the world fauna describing many new genera and species.

Christian Stenhammar (1783-1866) was a Swedish naturalist interested in lichens and an entomologist who specialised in Diptera.His collection is held by Uppsala University.He was a clergyman.

Gabriel Strobl was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Amedeo John Engel Terzi was an Italian illustrator and entomologist specialising in Diptera, the true flies.

Frederick Vincent Theobald FES was an English entomologist and "distinguished authority on mosquitoes". During his career, he was responsible for the economic zoology section of the Natural History Museum, London, vice-principal of the South-Eastern Agricultural College at Wye, Kent, Professor of Agricultural Zoology at London University, and advisory entomologist to the Board of Agriculture for the South-Eastern district of England. He wrote a five volume monograph and sixty scientific papers on mosquitoes. He was recognised for his work in entomology, tropical medicine, and sanitation; awards for his work include the Imperial Ottoman Order of Osmanieh, the Mary Kingsley Medal, and the Victoria Medal of Honour, as well as honorary fellowships of learned societies.

Francis Walker was an English entomologist. He was one of the most prolific authors in entomology, and stirred controversy during his later life as his publications resulted in a huge number of junior synonyms.

Samuel Wendell Williston was an American educator, entomologist, and paleontologist who was the first to propose that birds developed flight cursorially, rather than arboreally. He was a specialist on the flies, Diptera.

Johannes Winnertz was a German entomologist specialising in Diptera.

Frederik Maurits van der Wulp was a Dutch entomologist mainly interested in Diptera.

Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt was a Swedish naturalist who worked mainly on Diptera and Hymenoptera.