Josef Anton Maximilian Perty (17 September 1804, Ornbau – 8 August 1884, Bern) was a German naturalist and entomologist.

He studied natural sciences and medicine in Landshut, earning his medical doctorate in 1826.

Afterwards, he obtained his PhD at Erlangen with a thesis on a previously unknown species of beetle,[1] and in 1831 became privat-docent of zoology and general natural history at the University of Munich.

[1][3] In 1862, the botanical genus Pertya was named in his honor by Carl Heinrich "Bipontinus" Schultz.

[2] Perty's collections are divided between the University of Bern and the Zoologische Staatssammlung München This article about a German zoologist is a stub.