| Name | Birth/death | Country | Remark |
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| William Albrecht | 1888-1974 | USA |
| Percy Edgar Brown | 1885-1937 | USA |
| Johan Bouma | 1940- | Netherlands |
| John Catt | 1939-2017 | UK | Paleopedologist |
| George Nelson Coffey | 1875-1967 | USA | Pioneer of American soil classification |
| Enrico Dalgas | 1828-1894 | Denmark | Pioneer of soil amelioration and naturalist |
| Charles Darwin | 1809-1882 | UK | Father of modern soil science. First scholarly treatment of soil forming processes |
| Vasily V. Dokuchaev | 1840-1903 | Russia | Variously the father of modern soil science, pedology, soil geography |
| Friedrich Albert Fallou | 1794-1877 | Germany | Founder of modern soil science; coined the term "pedology" |
| Konstantin Glinka | 1867-1927 | Russia | Prominent Russian soil scientist |
| Eugene W. Hilgard | 1833-1916 | USA | Father of modern soil science in the USA |
| Aminul Islam | 1935-2017 | Bangladesh | Soil horizon of Bangladesh land |
| Hans Jenny | 1899-1992 | USA | Influential pedologist |
| Franklin Hiram King | 1848-1911 | USA | Father of American soil physics |
| Nikolai Aleksandrovich Krasil'nikov | 1896-1973 | Russia | Microbiologist |
| Justus von Liebig | 1803-1873 | Germany | Father of soil chemistry |
| Thomas Lyttleton Lyon | 1869-1938 | USA |
| Curtis F. Marbut | 1863-1935 | USA | Father of American pedology |
| Sławomir Miklaszewski | 1874-1949 | Poland | Founder of the Polish pedologie scientific school |
| John Mortvedt | 1932-2012 | USA | Micronutrient fertilizer researcher |
| Bernard Palissy | ~1510-1590 | France | First to research amending soil to replenish minerals |
| Bashiru Ademola Raji | Nigeria |
| Lorenzo A. Richards | 1904-1993 | USA | Soil physicist |
| Pedro A. Sanchez | 1940- | USA | World food systems visionary |
| Olivier de Serres | 1529-1619 | France | Promoted crop rotation as a way of preserving soil nutrients |
| Emil Truog | 1884-1969 | USA |
| Guy D. Smith | 1907-1981 | USA |
| Selman Waksman | 1888-1973 | USA | Soil microbiologist |
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