Claude Combes (born 22 July 1935 in
Perpignan) is a French
biologist and
parasitologist. He is a professor of animal biology and director of the Centre de Biologie et Écologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne at the
Université de Perpignan.
He got his aggregation of natural sciences in 1958 and a doctoral degree in 1967.
He has received several scientific awards including the
CNRS Silver Medal (1986), Skryabin Medal (USSR Academy of Sciences) (1991), Philip Morris Research Prize (1990).