Paul Desiré Nestor Verschaffelt CMG (21 May 1887 – 16 February 1959) was a barrister, solicitor, and the third Public Service Commissioner in New Zealand.

On 1 January 1904, Verschaffelt entered the public service as a clerical cadet in the Department of Lands and Survey.

In 1928 Verschaffelt visited Western Samoa with Carl Berendsen and Alexander Park: they reported that the Samoan public service was "by no means creditable to New Zealand".

His remaining years were punctuated with appearances before the courts, and periods in Rotoroa Inebriates' Institution, Mount Eden prison, and Porirua Hospital.

Perhaps the most notorious incident was his expulsion from Parliament by the Speaker for protesting from the gallery about the 'abortion of a bill' which became the Public Service Amendment Act 1946.