Roger-Paul Dechambre (1935 – 8 November 2016) was a French veterinarian and entomologist .
[1] Dechambre attended lhe École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort, in 1960 gaining a doctorate on the thesis Aspects Primitifs De L’Elevage Du Mouton .
[2] He continued his studies at the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie at Paris, gaining in 1970 a doctorate on the thesis Effet de groupe et évolution des tumeurs ascitiques chez la souris .
[3][4] Roger-Paul Dechambre was the curator at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris à Paris.
[5] He produced substantial work on the beetle family Dynastinae.