Sir Gilbert Edward Archey CBE FRSNZ (4 August 1890 – 20 October 1974) was a New Zealand zoologist, ethnologist, World War I officer, and museum director.

[2] After a period teaching at Nelson College, Archey was Assistant Curator of the Canterbury Museum from 1914 to 1923, where he studied and published papers on numerous New Zealand fauna.

[3] He was then appointed Director of the Auckland Institute and Museum in 1924, and was personally responsible for getting funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1935.

[2] In the First World War, he served in the New Zealand Field Artillery, rising to the rank of captain.

In the Second World War he was attached to the British Military Administration in Malaya with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.