Léon Humblot

Léon Joseph Henry Humblot (; 3 June 1852 in Nancy – 20 March 1914) was a French naturalist and botanical collector.

He worked as a gardener for the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, then in 1878 embarked on a research trip to Madagascar, where he set up an experimental garden and collected orchid species.

On the island of Grande Comore, Humblot founded a colonial company that oversaw the operations of several farms, plantations and processing factories for spices and perfumes. From 1889 to 1896, he held the title of Résident, being forced to relinquish the status in 1896 due to charges of corruption by the French government. In addition, Humblot's heron, Humblot's flycatcher, and Humblot's sunbird are named after him.

Publications associated with Léon Humblot "66 phot. des Comores, de Nossi-Bé et de Madagascar, avec des portraits de Said Ali, sultan de la Grande Comore, et de ses ministres, de son frére Mohammed Ali, d'un autre frére, Mohammed Sidi, du général en chef, du premier ministre, de la femme légitime, de princesses de la Grande Comore, de Léon Humblot, résident français dans cette île, du prince Said Omar de Mayotte. Phot. par Léon Humblot, don Alphonse Milne-Edwards en 1885", (with Alphonse Milne-Edwards) – 66 photographs, the Comoros, Nossi-Bé and Madagascar, etc. "La vie et les activités de Léon Humblot à la Grande Comores, 1884–1915" (2010); author Nasfati Mze Ahamada; Sudel Fuma; Université de la Réunion. Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines.