Hugo Zapałowicz (15 November 1852, in Ljubljana – 20 November 1917, in Perovsk [now Kyzylorda ], Kazakhstan) was a botanist, natural scientist, traveller, and military lawyer. Zapałowicz was a pioneer researcher of flora and geological structure of the Carpathian Mountains. He was also a geological, geographical, and flora researcher of South America and author of works about flora of Babia Góra-Babia Hora, Maramureş Mountains, Pokuttya. In 1894 he became a member of the Academy of Learning.