Captain Lieutenant Carl Peter Holbøll (1795 – 1856) was a Royal Danish Navy officer, colonial administrator and explorer.
During his tenure, he developed an interest in natural history and contributed significantly by sending extensive faunistic collections to zoologists in Copenhagen.
Holbøll was a skilled amateur botanist and entomologist, and authored a treatise on Greenlandic birds.
He also wrote a mathematics textbook for Greenlandic schools, which remained in use for about a century.
Professor Johannes Theodor Reinhardt described the North American subspecies of the red-necked grebe, naming it "Podiceps holböllii".