A lepidopterist is a person who catches and collects, studies, or simply observes (see butterfly watching) lepidopterans, members of an order encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies.

Famous lepidopterists

• Jean-Baptiste Boisduval
• Bernard d'Abrera
• Robert Denno (1946–2008)
• Henry Doubleday
• Edmund Brisco Ford
• Frederick William Frohawk
• Walter Gieseking
• Frederick DuCane Godman
• William Jacob Holland, the author of The Moth Book (1903)[3]
• Johann Siegfried Hufnagel
• Julian Jumalon ^[1]
• Michael Majerus
• Bernard Kettlewell
• Vladimir Nabokov
• L. Hugh Newman
• Frederic Prokosch
• Walter Rothschild
• Camille Saint-Saëns
• Otto Staudinger
• James William Tutt
• Geoffrey de Havilland
• Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
• Georgy Sergeevich Zolotarenko
• Princess Olga of Greece

Fictional lepidopterists

• The father, Ben, in the TV series Butterflies
• The character Red Jack, who claimed to be both Jack the Ripper and God, in the comic book Doom Patrol
• The character Judge Holden in Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian.
• Stein in Lord Jim
• Ada in Vladimir Nabokov's "ada, or ardor: a family chronicle", has dreams as a young girl of being a lepidopterist on the fictional planet 'anti-terra'
• The character Freddie Glegg in the movie The Collector (1965), directed by William Wyler and based on the novel by John Fowles.

• The character of 'M' from the James Bond film series is revealed to be a lepidopterist, as evidenced in the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. This can be seen when James Bond visits M at his country estate, upon which 007 finds the latter working with a specimen box.
• Jack Mort, from Stephen King's: The Dark Tower II
• Buffalo Bill, from Silence of the Lambs (Film)
• The Monarch, principal antagonist from the television series The Venture Bros.
• "Mr. Doe" & "Mr. Cardholder", two O.S.I. agents who intend to kill The Monarch (see above) in "The Lepidopterists," an episode from the third season of The Venture Bros.

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