Paul Wilson Oman (22 February 1908, Garnett, Kansas - 4 April 1996 Corvallis, Oregon) was an American entomologist and a specialist on leafhopper taxonomy.
His MA thesis was titled A generic revision of American Bythoscopinae and South American Jassinae (1935)and his PhD work from George Washington University was on The Nearctic Leafhoppers (Homoptera:Cicadellidae), a generic classification and checklist (1949) which was reviewed by Z.P.
Metcalf who called it was "one of the most outstanding recent contributions to the stufy of one of the most difficult families of the Homoptera."
Specializing in the study of insects as vectors of plant diseases, Oman worked for the U.S.D.A.
Oman joined as a lieutenant in 1942 and served in the United States Army during World War II and the Korean War, conducting studies on medical entomology and the biological control of insects.