Émile Maupas

François Émile Maupas (2 July 1842 in Vaudry – 18 October 1916 in Algiers) was a French librarian, protozoologist, cytologist, and botanist.

Maupas was born in Vaudry, to deputy mayor Pierre Augustin and Marie Adèle Geffroy.

After studies at the local schools he joined the École des chartes, and from 1867 he worked as an archivist in Cantal.

It was here that he developed an interest in natural history and began to study protozoa working in summer at laboratories in Paris.

In 1890 he was named as an administrator-curator at the Bibliothèque nationale d'Alger and continued his research in his spare time.