Clyde F. E. Roper is a zoologist at the Smithsonian Institution. He has organised many expeditions to New Zealand to study giant squid, in 1997, 1999, and possibly 2003. He is a 1959 graduate of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.
He was featured in an episode of Errol Morris' TV series First Person.
Roper has two adult children and 5 grandchildren.