Léon Marc Herminie Fairmaire (29 June 1820 – 1 April 1906) was a Frenchentomologist.

As a specialist inColeoptera, he assembled an immense collection comparable with that ofPierre François Marie Auguste Dejean (1780–1845). This is in theMuséum national d'histoire naturelle. Fairmaire wrote 450 scientific papers and other publications relating to Coleoptera (partial list of papers in Wikispecies). He also worked onHemiptera.

• Works by or about Léon Fairmaire at theInternet Archive
• Scarab Workers
• BDH Histoire Naturelle de France Hemipteres Musée Scolaire Deyrolle (1884).Scan

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