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This is a list of notable chemical engineers, people who studied or practiced chemical engineering.

See also Lists of notable engineers by discipline for lists of engineers by discipline.

Name Known for Affiliation

A

Mohammed Al Mady Executive president of SABIC. SABIC
Mukesh Ambani Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Reliance Industries
Ramani Ayer CEO of The Hartford The Hartford

B

Jay Bailey(? -2001) pioneering work in metabolic engineering ETH Zurich
Samuel Bodman United States Secretary of Energy
Carl Bosch From 1908 until 1913 developed the Haber-Bosch process together with Fritz Haber.His other notable work was for the introduction of high pressure chemistry. Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1931
Charles (Garry) Betty President and Chief Executive Officer, EarthLink Earthlink
Henry Bessemer manufacturing of steel

C

Frank Capra Academy Award-winning film director.
John G. Collier Two-phase flow and nuclear power expert, head of UKAEA and CEGB UKAEA
John Coulson Co-author of what became the standard UK textbook set; Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering Newcastle University, UK

D

Donald A. Dahlstrom Inventor of the Hydrocyclone and related correlations, 1943
George E. Davis Regarded as the 'founding father' of Chemical Engineering
Nguyet Anh Duong is a Vietnamese-American, she assisted in creating a new weapon called the Thermobaric weapon in support of Operation Enduring Freedom to assault tunnels and caves being used as hideouts by the Taliban in Afghanistan. United States Department of Defense
John Drosdick (1943-) Chairman and CEO of Sunoco, Inc. Sunoco

E

F

Richard Felder Multiple award-winning engineering educator North Carolina State University
Ian Fells Energy expert and popular science broadcaster Newcastle University, UK
John Bennett Fenn Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2002 Virginia Commonwealth University

G

Clifton C. Garvin Chairman and CEO Exxon
Eugenio Garza Lagüera Chairman and CEO FEMSA
Roberto Goizueta Former chairman and chief executive of Coca-Cola Coca-Cola
Robert W. Gore The inventor of Gore-Tex
William Sealey Gosset Brewer and Statistician
Andrew Grove Intel Chief Executive Officer Intel
Kevin Greening Radio Five Live Presenter Radio Five Live
Pierre Gy developed theory of sampling

H

Fritz Haber Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1918 for the fixation of nitrogen from the air, the Haber process University of Karlsruhe (TH)
Vladimir Haensel discovering of the "Platforming" (Platinum Reforming) process which led to the production of low cost high octane gasoline University of Massachusetts Amherst
Douglas Patrick Harrison Carried out research for DOE Vision 21 project as well research to remove CO2 from stack gas of coal-fired power generators and for production of pure Hydrogen from gasification of coal. Louisiana State University
Fred Hassan CEO and Chairman of the Board of Schering-Plough Corporation; former chairman and CEO for the Pharmacia Corporation [1] Schering-Plough
Csaba Horváth (1930-2004) considered as one of the pioneers of modern separation science Yale University
Hu Tsu Tau Richard Former Minister for Finance (Singapore) (1985-2001)

I

Dan Itse US Politician and holder of four patents on low-emission technology Worcester Polytechnic Institute

J

Rakesh Jain Integrated bioengineering with tumor biology and imaging gene expression and functions in vivo for drug delivery in tumors Harvard Medical School
Mae Jemison science mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Endeavour and first black woman in space NASA

K

Pat Kenny Irish chatshow host University College Dublin
Trevor Kletz author of books dealing with chemical engineering safety Loughborough University
Charles G. Koch CEO of Koch Industries Koch Industries
David H. Koch Executive vice-president of Koch Industries Koch Industries

L

Robert Langer Tissue Engineering and Controlled-Release Drug Delivery pioneer MIT
Frank Lees author and pioneer of Loss Prevention in the process industries Loughborough University
Warren K. Lewis American chemical engineering professor; played a role in defining the field of chemical engineering during its early development MIT
Arthur Dehon Little Consultant and co-founder, with William Walker, of Arthur D. Little, Inc., a major consulting firm Arthur D. Little, Inc.
Dolph Lundgren Actor with master's degree in chemical engineering Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan

M

John F. MacGregor Use of latent variables in industrial processes McMaster University
Victor Mills Inventor of the disposal diaper Procter & Gamble
Luis E. Miramontes Co-inventor of the progestin used in one of the first oral contraceptives UNAM, Mexico
Mario Molina Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1995 UCSD
Frank Morton Namesake of Frank Morton Sports Day Birmingham University/Manchester University

N

Dudley Maurice Newitt Scientific director of Special Operations Executive developing gadgets for spies - a real life Q (James Bond)

O

Lars Onsager Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1968 Yale University
Adam Osborne Introduced the first ever portable computer in 1981, the same year IBM launched the personal computer Osborne Computer Corporation
Donald Othmer (1904-1995) Co-creator of the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology Polytechnic University of New York
David J. O'Reilly Chairman and CEO of Chevron Corporation Chevron Corporation

P

Linus Pauling Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1954, Nobel Peace Prize, 1962 California Institute of Technology
Ding-Yu Peng Co-discoverer of the Peng-Robinson equation of state
Martin Perl Nobel Prize in Physics, 1995 University of Michigan
Robert H. Perry Author of Handbook in 1934, now Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook University of Oklahoma
Nicholas A. Peppas Pioneer in drug delivery, biomaterials, hydrogels and nanobiotechnology University of Texas at Austin

Q

K. B. Quinan Explosive manufacturing expert in World War I and first vice-president of the Institution of Chemical Engineers De Beers

R

Lee Raymond ExxonMobil chairman and Chief Executive Officer ExxonMobil
George Maxwell Richards President of Trinidad and Tobago
Jack Richardson Co-wrote the textbook which became UK standard Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering Swansea University
Norbert Rillieux Inventor who is most noted for developing the process that turned sugar from a luxury to a common commodity
Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau designed the first commercial penicillin production plant

S

Albert Sacco US astronaut Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Lanny Schmidt Surface science and detailed chemistry University of Minnesota
Waldo L. Semon Inventor who patented more than 116 inventions, including polyvinyl chloride (pvc) B.F. Goodrich
Thomas Kilgore Sherwood American chemical engineering professor, after whom the Sherwood number in mass transfer is named MIT
Jack Steinberger Nobel Prize in Physics, 1988 Columbia University

T

U

Lewis Urry Invention of long-lasting alkaline batteries Eveready Battery Co

V

John von Neumann Mathematician and Computer Scientist Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

W

Jack Welch Former chairman and Chief Executive Officer General Electric
Nathaniel C. Wyeth inventor of PET plastic bottles DuPont

X

Y

Z

Zara Salim Davidson Wife of the of the Raja Muda (Crown Prince) of Perak