Hendrik Coenraad Blöte (12 February 1900 – 20 January 1990) was an entomologist, malacologist and crustaceologist.

After graduating in October 1927, Blöte was appointed as a curator of Crustaceae and Mollusca in November the same year and was also responsible for part of the entomological collections, the Coleoptera and Hemiptera.

[2] In 1929 he was promoted to second curator in entomology and continued in a supervisory capacity until September 1929.

Blöte continued to specialise in entomology, focusing on the Hemiptera collection.

Blöte worked on multiple groups during his career and described more than 200 species new to science including many Coreoidea.