Philippe de La Harpe (1 April 1830, Paudex – 25 February 1882, Lausanne) was a Swiss physician known for research in the fields of geology and paleontology.
He studied medicine in Bonn, Berlin, Prague, Vienna and Lyon, then received his doctor-surgeon licence from the University of Bern in 1854.
[1] In Lausanne, he worked as a physician for the remainder of his life, being very active in medical research and a member of various professional groups.
With Charles-Théophile Gaudin (1822–1866) and Gabriel de Rumine (1841–1871), he made significant paleontological findings in the Canton of Vaud.
[2] He made contributions to François Jules Pictet's Matériaux pour la paléontologie suisse, ou recueil de monographies sur les fossiles du Jura et des Alpes (1855-1857).