Hugh Scott (16 September 1885 – 1 November 1960) was a British entomologist and biogeographer.
Scott was educated privately and as an exhibitioner at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read the natural sciences tripos. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1941. He worked as curator of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology and as assistant keeper in the Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History).
He was a close friend and coworker of G. Evelyn Hutchinson.
Taxa named after him include:
Eunidia scotti Breuning, 1939
Niphoparmena scotti (Breuning, 1939)
Hugoscottia Knisch, 1922 (A subgenus of Enochrus)