Aristide Caradja (28 September 1861 – 29 May 1955)[1] was a Romanian entomologist[2] and lawyer.

[3] His father died in 1887, whereupon Aristide moved to Romania.

[4] In 1893, Caradja published his first paper, which organized and discovered several butterflies in France and in his area.

Between 1927 and 1939, he studied and collected butterflies in the Black Sea region and in China.

[5] He was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy in 1948,[6] soon after the communist regime came to power.