Paul Martin Brakefield FRS (born 31 May 1952, Woking) is a British evolutionary biologist and Professor of Zoology at the University of Cambridge, where he is also director of the Museum of Zoology and Fellow of Trinity College.
He previously held the Chair in Evolutionary Biology at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and has been President of the Linnean Society of London in 2015-2018.
He is best known for his research on butterfly eyespots.