Luis María Chiappe (born 18 June 1962) is an Argentine paleontologist born in Buenos Aires who is best known for his discovery of the first sauropod nesting sites in the badlands of Patagonia in 1997 and for his work on the origin and early evolution of Mesozoic birds.

[1] He was a postdoctoral researcher at the American Museum of Natural History, New York after immigrating from Argentina.

Chiappe is currently the curator of the award winning Dinosaur Hall at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County,[2] an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California,[3] BBC advisor and author of scientific and popular books.

[7] He has numerous publications in high-profile scientific journals, including Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Current Biology, Gondwana Research, Nature, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Science, and Scientific Reports.

[10][11] Below is a list of taxa that Chiappe has contributed to naming: Chiappe was featured in the 2016 BBC documentary, Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur, showing Sir David Attenborough the dinosaur egg nesting site at Auca Mahuevo, and eggs from that site in the Museo Carmen Funes in Plaza Huincul, Neuquén Province, Argentina.