László Papp (October 3, 1946 – March 28, 2021) was a Hungarian zoologist, entomologist, parasitologist awarded with the Széchenyi Prize, ordinary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) and fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.
Renowned research professor in the field of community ecology and systematics of Diptera.
Older brother of the heart surgeon professor Lajos Papp.
[3] He became the head of the Animal Ecology Research Group[4] of the HAS and the HNHM and also received a teaching professor assignment.
[6] He authored 368 articles, book chapters and books, including as co-editor and author of 13 volumes of the Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera (1984–1993), with a combined length of 5,000 pages with 58 authors; together with Prof. Béla Darvas they edited the series of Contributions to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera (1996–2000), the four volumes comprise 3,000 pages by 84 authors; together with Miloš Černý he published the four volumes of the Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Hungary (2015–2019) on 1,880 pages with 6,300 figures and discussing altogether 623 species.