A lepidopterist is a person who catches and collects, or simply studies, lepidopterans, members of an order comprising butterflies, skippers, and moths.

Famous lepidopterists

• Jean de Boisduval
• Henry Doubleday
• E.B. Ford
• Frederick William Frohawk
• Walter Gieseking
• Frederick DuCane Godman
• Julian Jamalon
• Bernard Kettlewell
• Vladimir Nabokov
• J.W. Tutt

Fictional lepidopterists

• The father, Ben, in the TV series Butterflies