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Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (19 January 1756 Toulon – 1 October 1814 Lyon) was a French entomologist.He was the author of Entomologie ou histoire naturelle des Insectes (1808) and Le Voyage dans l’Empire Othoman l’Égypte et la Perse (1807). He was a close friend of Johan Christian Fabricius and a patron of Pierre André Latreille.He studied medicine in Montpellier where he became good friends with Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet.