Alfred Mullikin Boyce (May 2, 1901 – July 11, 1997) was an American entomologist and first dean of University of California, Riverside's College of Agriculture.
After spending 1919 at the Annapolis campus of St. John's College, Boyce embarked as a seaman aboard several commercial vessels.
Boyce served as a crewman aboard the ill-fated SS Philadelphia and was arrested along with the rest of the crew by Italian authorities during the 1922 mutiny.
Though he had initially intended to return to Cornell, Boyce transferred to University of California earning his doctorate at UC Berkeley in 1931.
At the urging of Harry Scott Smith, Boyce made an overseas trip in 1951 on behalf of the Foreign Agricultural Service to identify natural predators of the Scale insect as a measure of biological control, to protect California's olive crop.