Dr. Pablo de la Llave (1773–1833) was a Mexican Catholic priest, politician, and naturalist.
[2] In 1811 and 1812 he assisted José Mariano Mociño in organizing the collections of the Nueva España Expedition (1787–1803) to survey the natural history of Mexico.
By 1823 he was Minister of Justice and of Church Matters in the imperial administration of Agustín de Iturbide.
[1] Politically, Llave has been considered a liberal[4] and an obedient follower of the republican priest and politician Miguel Ramos Arizpe.
[8] In 1832 and 1833 he published ornithological papers in a short-lived Mexican journal in which he described and named several birds, of which the rufous-tailed hummingbird and the much more famous resplendent quetzal were new to science.