Carl Bolle

Carl August Bolle (1821 – February 17, 1909) was a German naturalist and collector.

Bolle was born at Berlin into a wealthy brewing family. He studied medicine and natural science at Berlin and Bonn. He visited the Cape Verde Islands and the Canary Islands in 1852 and 1856, and wrote Meiner zweiter Beitrage zur Vogelkunde der Canarischen Insein in 1857.

Bolle was a founder member of the D.O-G. (German Ornithological Society) in 1867, succeeding Alfred Brehm as Chairman in 1884.

The Bolle's Laurel Pigeon (Columba bollii) of the Canary Islands was named after him by Frederick DuCane Godman.