This is a list of famous chemists:
A
- Emil Abderhalden, (1877-1950), German chemist
- Arthur Aikin, (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
- Johann Arfvedson, (1792-1841), chemist
- Svante Arrhenius, (1859-1927), chemist and physicist
- Amedeo Avogadro, (1776-1856), Italian physicist
B
- Neil Bartlett, (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemist
- Claude Louis Berthollet, (1748-1822), French chemist
- Jons Jacob Berzelius, (1779-1848), chemist
- Joseph Black, (1728-1799), chemist
- Carl Bosch, (1872-1940), German chemist
- Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, (1879-1947), Danish chemist
- Henri Braconnot (1780-1855), French chemist and pharmacist
- Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, (1811-1899), German inventor, chemist
- Eduard Buchner, (1860-1917), 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
C
- Melvin Calvin (1911-1997), American chemist, winner of 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Georg Ludwig Carius, (1829-1875), German chemist
- Heinrich Caro, (1834-1910), German chemist
- Wallace Carothers (1896-1937), American chemist
- Henry Cavendish, (1731-1810), Bristish scientist
- Marie Curie, (1867-1934), Polish-born French radiation physicist
- Pierre Curie, (1859-1906)
- Robert Curl, winner of 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
D
- John Dalton, (1766-1844), physicist
- Henrik Carl Peter Dam, (1895-1976), Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Humphry Davy, (1778-1829)
- Peter Debye, (1884-1966)
- Sir James Dewar
- Otto Diels, (1876-1954), German chemnist, winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Edward Doisy, (1893-), American biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Davorin Dolar, (born 1921), chemist
- Jean Baptiste Dumas, (1800-1884), French chemist
E
- Paul Ehrlich, (1854-1915), German chemist, winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Manfred Eigen, (1927-), German chemist, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Arthur Eichengrün, (1867-1949)
- Emil Erlenmayer, (1825-1909), German chemist
- Richard R. Ernst, (born 1933), 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Hans von Euler-Chelpin, (1873-1964), Swedish chemist, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
F
- Michael Faraday, (1791-1867), scientist
- Emil Hermann Fischer, (1852-1919), not to be confused with :
- Franz Joseph Emil Fischer
- Carl Remigius Fresenius
- Alexander Naumovich Frumkin, (1895-1976), electrochemist
G
- Ljubo Golic, (born 1932), chemist.
- Francois Auguste Victor Grignard
- Thomas Graham not to be confused with :
- William Hardin Graham ???
H
- Fritz Haber, (1868-1934)
- Dusan Hadzi, (born 1921), chemist.
- Otto Hahn, (1879-1968)
- John Haldane, British biochemist
- Charles Hatchett, (1765-1847), English chemist who discovered niobium
- Robert Havemann, (1910-1982), chemist
- George de Hevesy, (1885-1966), chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry 1943
- Friedrich Hoffmann, (1660-1742), physician and chemist
- Roald Hoffmann, (born 1937), Polish-born American chemist, 1981 Nobel Prize in chemistry
- Jaroslav Heyrovsky, (1890-1967), Czech chemist
I
J
K
- Paul Karrer, (1889-1971), 1937 chemistry Nobel laureate
- Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, (1829-1896), German organic chemist
- Emil Knoevenagel
- Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, (1818-1884)
- Aleksandra Kornhauser, (born 1926), chemist.
- Harold Kroto, (born 1939), English chemist, 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
L
- Irving Langmuir, (1851-1957), chemist, physicist
- Antoine Lavoisier, (1743-1794), French pioneer chemist
- Yuan T. Lee, (born 1936), winner of 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Janez Levec, (born 1943), chemist.
- Primo Levi, (1919-1987), resistance fighter, chemist and novelist
- Gilbert N. Lewis, (1875-1946), American chemist and first Dean of the Berkeley College of Chemistry
- Henri Louis le Chatelier
- Willard Libby (1908-1980), American chemist, winner of 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Justus von Liebig, (1803 in-1873 in), German inventor
- Martin Lowry, (1874-1936), British chemist
M
- Albertus Magnus, (died 1280), (a.k.a. Saint Albert the Great; Albert of Cologne)
- Vladimir Vasilevich Markovnikov
- Lise Meitner, (1878-1968), physicist
- Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, (1834-1907), chemist, creator of the Periodic Table of Elements
- John Mercer, (1791-1866), chemist and industrialist
- Lothar Meyer, (1830-1895)
- Viktor Meyer not to be confused with :
- Kurt Heinrich Meyer
- Alexander Mitscherlich, (1836-1918), chemist
- Jacques Monod, (1910-1976), biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965
- Robert S. Mulliken, (1896-1986), American physicist, chemist
N
- Isaac Newton, (1642-1727), scientist
O
- Lars Onsager, (1903-1976), physical chemist, 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Wilhelm Ostwald, (1853-1932), 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
P
- Paracelsus, (1493-1541), alchemist
- Rudolph Pariser, (born 1923), theoretical and organic chemist
- Robert G. Parr, (born 1921), theoretical chemist
- Louis Pasteur, (1822-1895), French biochemist
- Linus Pauling, (1901-1994), Nobel Prizes in chemistry and peace
- John A. Pople, (1925-2004), theoretical chemist, 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Roy J. Plunkett, (1910-1984), discoverer of Teflon
- Fritz Pregl, (1869-1930), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923.
- Vladimir Prelog, (1906-1998), 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Joseph Priestley, (1733-1804)
- Ilya Prigogine, (1917-2003), 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Q
- Ğilem Qamay (1901 - 1970) - Soviet chemist
R
- William Ramsay, (born 1852), Scottish chemist
- Marij Rebek, chemist.
- Tadeus Reichstein, (1897-1996), chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Rhazes (Razi)
- H. M. Rouell
- Leopold Ruzicka, (1887-1976), 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
S
- Maks Samec, (1844 - 1889 - chemist.
- Carl Wilhelm Scheele, (1742-1786), 18th century chemist, discovered numerous elements
- Glenn T. Seaborg, (1912-1999), atomic physicist
- Nils Gabriel Sefström, (1787-1845), chemist
- Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Israel Shahak, (1933-2001)
- K. Barry Sharpless. (1941- ) 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- S.P.L. Sørensen, (1868-1939), Danish chemist
- Frederick Soddy, (1877-1956), British chemist
- Branko Stanovnik, (born 1938), chemist.
- Alfred Stock, (1876-1946)
- Theodor Svedberg, (1884-1971)
- Gilbert Stork
T
- Miha Tisler, (born 1926), chemist.
U
- Harold C. Urey, (1893-1981), 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
V
- J. H. van 't Hoff, (1852-1911), August 30, 1852 - March 1, 1911), Dutch physical chemist, 1901 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, (1895-1973), chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
W
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals, (1837-1923)
- John Ernest Walker
- Alfred Werner, (1866-1919), 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Harvey W. Wiley, (1844-1930), US chemist, Pure food & drug advocate
- Friedrich Woehler, (1800-1882), German chemist
- William Hyde Wollaston, (1766-1828), English chemist
- Robert B. Woodward (1917-1979), 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Kurt Wüthrich, (born 1938), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Charles Adolphe Wurtz, (1817-1884)
X
Y
- Yunusov, Sabir (1909-1995), Soviet chemist (alkaloids)