Aare Mäemets (until 1936 Harry Michelson; 18 January 1929 Tallinn – 24 November 2002 Elva) was an Estonian hydrobiologist, zoologist, limnologist and nature photographer.
[1] In 1954 he graduated from Tartu State University in biology.
From 1955 until 1999, he worked at Estonian Institute of Zoology and Botany.
[1] His main fields of research were Estonian lakes (including their limnological classification), estimation of lakes ecological conditions; he researched also water fleas.
Their daughter was biologist Helle Mäemets.