Lepidopterist

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) [http://books.google.com/books?id=K0ACAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Holland%22+moths+of+North+America&output=text&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0]
* Johann Siegfried Hufnagel
* Julian Jumalon [ [http://www.hoteltravel.com/philippines/cebu/guides/activities_sports.htm] [http://www.pia.gov.ph/philtoday/pt03/pt0319.htm] About Julian Jamulon's "butterfly sancturay" in Philippines]
* 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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