Egbert Cornelis Nicolaas van Hoepen (10 November 1884 – 2 May 1966) was a Dutch-born South African paleontologist.
Born at Vlissingen, around the age of six he moved with his parents to the South African Republic.
When British forces occupied Pretoria in 1900 he was deported to the Netherlands, where he took classes and qualified as a mining engineer at the technical university in Delft.
He is credited with collecting thousands of invertebrate fossils from the Cretaceous strata of Zululand.
[4] He was the author of around 80 scientific writings, publishing works in the fields of archaeology and ethnology as well as in paleontology.