Charles Henri Frédéric Dumont de Sainte-Croix (April 27, 1758 – January 8, 1830) was a French zoologist. A lawyer by trade, he was also an enthusiastic amateur ornithologist.[1] Between 1817 and 1818, he described a number of Javanese bird species discovered by Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour;[1] he also contributed articles on ornithology to the Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, edited and published from 1816–1830 by F. G. Levrault.[2]
Dumont de Sainte-Croix's daughter, Clémence married René-Primevère Lesson, a surgeon and noted French naturalist.[3]
His younger brother André Dumont was elected to the Convention during the French Revolution.