Johannes Govertus de Man (May 2, 1850 in
Middelburg – January 9, 1930 in Middelburg), was a
Dutch biologist. He was assistant curator at the (
Dutch for
national natural history museum) in
Leiden, where he specialised in free-living
nematodes and
decapod crustaceans, although he also wrote papers on
flatworms,
sipunculids and, in his dissertation only,
vertebrates. His change away from vertebrates disappointed the director of the museum, and de Man left his job there after eleven years. For the rest of his life, de Man worked at his parents' house in Middelburg and later at a house near the shore at
Yerseke in the
Oosterschelde estuary, relying on his family's private income.