Paul David Neil Hebert OC FRSC (born 1947) is a Canadian biologist.

He is founder and director of the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.

He applied the technique invented by Carl Woese and colleagues in the 1980s[1] to arthropods and called it DNA barcoding.

[2][3] Hebert holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in molecular biodiversity[4] at the University of Guelph where he is a tenured professor in the Department of Integrative Biology.

[8] In 2021 he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor Honoris Causa at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).