Charles Lewis Camp (March 12, 1893 – August 14, 1975)[1] was an American palaeontologist and zoologist, working from the University of California, Berkeley.

His later scientific interests were influenced by visits to John C. Merriam's fossil beds in Rancho La Brea, and in 1908, he was a member of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology's first field expedition.

[2][4] Camp attended Pasadena High School, then Throop Polytechnic Institute before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley, to continue studying with Grinnell.

He was first recruited to the museum's Herpetology Department by Mary C. Dickerson, though his work was also heavily influenced by Henry Fairfield Osborn and Gregory, who guided his doctoral dissertation towards the evolution and osteology of lizards.

[7] From 1939 to 1949, he also served as the chairman of the Department of Paleontology at Berkeley, before relinquishing the role to focus on the study of anomodont reptiles in South Africa and Arizona.

[7][2] In 1954, the University of Nevada approached Camp to excavate large ichthyosaur beds in the Shoshone Mountains, a project that lasted four years and resulted in the creation of the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park and National Natural Landmark.

[7] Camp was also an important bibliographer and historian of Western America, first becoming interested in the subject after returning to his studies at Columbia and feeling homesick.

[11] Camp was one of the early members of the historical preservation fraternity and social club, E Clampus Vitus, and was the Noble Grand Humbug of the Yerba Buena Lodge in 1938.