Louis Albert Péringuey MSc (French pronunciation: [lwi albɛʁ peʁɛ̃ɡɛ]; 9 October 1855, Bordeaux – 20 February 1924, Cape Town) was a South African entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and prehistory.

In the same year he started delivering lectures in forest entomology at the S.A. College, and was awarded a doctorate in Natural Sciences by the University of the Cape of Good Hope.

Péringuey persuaded the authorities to purchase four old corrugated iron buildings in 1922, which subsequently served as store rooms.

When the family was revised many years later by an Austrian authority, the taxon was found to be a synonym of B. puncticeps, translating as 'the German with the pointy head'.

[citation needed] He wrote Descriptive catalogue of the coleoptera of South Africa (1897) and many short scientific papers describing new taxa.