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Sir Francis Patrick Fletcher-Vane, 5th Baronet, was an Irish-born British military officer and aristocrat. He founded the Order of World Scouts

Employed by the Systematic Zoology Section of the University, National Museum of Natural History, Netherlands

Jardin des Plantes, Paris

In 1906 he obtained his degree from the national veterinary school at Lyon, afterwards attaining a bachelor's degree in natural sciences in 1912, and a doctorate of sciences with a thesis involving plant physiology in 1920. During his career he worked in a military veterinary research laboratory and conducted studies as a microbiologist and immunologist at the Pasteur Institute. In 1931 he resigned from military service, and in 1934 was appointed director of the Vincennes Zoo in Paris. From 1942-1949, he was director of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. In 1937 he scientifically described the kouprey, based on a young male captured in Preah Vihear Province, Cambodia