Hugh Scott (entomologist)

Hugh Scott FRS (1885–1960) was a British entomologist and biogeographer. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1941. He worked as curator of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology and as assistant keeper in the Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History).

He was a close friend and coworker of G. Evelyn Hutchinson.

Taxa named after him include:

• Eunidia scotti Breuning, 1939^{: 219, 290}
• Niphoparmena scotti (Breuning, 1939)^{: 152–153, 290}
• Hugoscottia Knisch, 1922 (A subgenus of Enochrus)