Pierre Antoine Delalande (27 March 1787 – 27 June 1823) was a French naturalist, taxidermist, explorer and painter.

[1] Pierre Antoine Delalande was the son of a taxidermist in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

He was employed at the museum from a young age, where he became an assistant of the naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.

[2] In 1818 he began an expedition to South Africa with his nephew Jules Verreaux, who was around 12 years old at the time, to collect specimens.

Their collection included 288 mammals, 2205 birds, 322 reptiles, 265 fish, 3875 shellfish, and various human skulls and skeletons from a Cape Town cemetery and from the 22 April 1819 Battle of Grahamstown between the British forces under Colonel Willshire and the Xhosa under Nxele.