Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya (1 August 1895 – 8 April 1981) was an Indian entomologist and naturalist who spent most of his career at Bose Institute, Kolkata.

Subsequently, he also published work on bioluminescence and other botany topics, but gradually his interests shifted to entomology.

In 1943, possibly before the fact had been established among naturalists,[2] Gopal Chandra published an article in the Transactions of the Bose Institute of Calcutta, outlining how the queen in social insects such as ants or bees, produces other queens, workers or soldiers, by appropriately altering the nature of the royal jelly fed to the larvae.

[2][3] In 2005, the government of West Bengal instituted an award for science popularization in his name, the Gopal Chandra Bhattacharyya Smriti Puraskar.

[4] In 2005, the entomologist Debashis Biswas[5] was awarded this prize for writing several books that describe the biology of mosquitoes and malaria prevention through stories.