Julio Francisco Lamilla Gómez (1954 – 31 March 2016)[1][2] was a Chilean biologist, researcher and conservationist.
Lamilla was a former student of Liceo Armando Robles Rivera in Valdivia before graduating from the Austral University of Chile in Biology and Chemistry in which he majored in Zoology.
[3] He became a teacher and researcher at the university in 1979 and held numerous posts through his life as a conservationist and shark expert.
[4] Dipturus lamillai, a species of skate first described in 2019, was named in Lamilla's honour.
[5] This Chilean biographical article is a stub.