Laurence Markham Huey (1892–1963) was an American zoologist and the Curator of Birds and Mammals at the San Diego Natural History Museum from 1923 to 1961.

He also did field work on mammals and birds in Utah and Arizona, in particular at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

Of humble origins (Huey left school at 8th grade), he worked in a planing mill at age 15 and began his self-education in natural history.

[2] During a trip to Coronado Island in 1913 he met the ornithologist and mammalogist Donald Ryder Dickey with whom he worked for the next ten years.

He described mammal species and subspecies from several families, including Dipodomys gravipes,[3] Peromyscus crinitus pallidissimus,[4] Perognathus alticolus inexpectatus,[5] Dipodomys panamintinus argusensis,[6] Perognathus longimembris internationalis, and Sylvilagus bachmani howelli.