Pliny Babba da turanci Pliny the Elder (ˈplɪni; an haife shi da suna Gaius Plinius Secundus, AD 23–79) yakasance dan'asalin ƙasar Daular Rumawa ne, mawallafi, naturalist kuma natural philosopher, kwamanda ne na sojin ruwa a farko-farkon Daular Rumawa, kuma shi abokine ga emperor Vespasian. Ya ƙarar da mafi yawan lokutan shi akan yin karance karance, da rubutu, da kuma yin yin bincike akan natural and geographic phenomena in the field, Pliny ya rubuta insakulopedia mai suna Naturalis Historia (Natural History), which became an editorial model for encyclopedias. His nephew, Pliny the Younger, wrote of him in a letter to the historian Tacitus: Wannan Muƙalar guntuwa ce: tana buƙatar a inganta ta, kuna iya gyara ta.