Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis (21 April 1921 – 7 March 2008)[1] was a Dutch carcinologist, considered one of the "undisputed greats" of carcinology,[2] and "the greatest carcinologist of our time".

[3] Holthuis was born in Probolinggo, East Java and obtained his doctorate from Leiden University on 23 January 1946.

[1] He was appointed the assistant curator of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (now Naturalis) in Leiden in 1941.

[4][5][6] This steady stream of publications resulted in the description of 428 new taxa: 2 new families, 5 subfamilies, 83 genera and 338 species.

In 1972 Holthuis received an honorary doctorate from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).