Roy Crowson

R. Crowson (center) with two colleagues at the International Congress of Coleopterology of Barcelona, September 1989

Roy Albert Crowson (22 November 1914 in Hadlow, Kent – 13 May 1999) was an English biologist who specialised in the taxonomy of beetles. He was curator at the Tunbridge Wells Museum, and then lectured at the Zoology Department of the University of Glasgow. The beetle genus Crowsoniella is named in his honour.