| Name | Known for | Affiliation | A |
| Rakesh Agrawal | National Medal of Technology and Innovation for Air separation. | Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. and now at Purdue University |
| Mohammed Al Mady | Executive president of SABIC. | SABIC |
| Sara Akbar | Chief Executive Officer of Kuwait Energy and the Kuwaiti oil fires. | Kuwait University |
| Mukesh Ambani | Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries | Reliance Industries |
| Neal Amundson (1916–2011) | Chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering at University of Minnesota from 1949-1977. Professor, Chemical Engineering and Mathematics 1978-2011, and Provost (1987-1989) at University of Houston. | University of Minnesota and University of Houston |
| Leonid Andrussow (1896–1988) | Developed process to make hydrogen cyanide from ammonia and methane | I. G. Farben (now BASF) |
| Rutherford Aris (1929–2005) | Regents Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota (1958-2005). Pioneered the use of computers to solve optimization problems in kinetics and catalysis. Prolific publication record (see Rutherford Aris bibliography). | University of Minnesota |
| Frances Arnold (1956–) | Pioneer of directed evolution of proteins, the process of using random mutations to optimize protein function. Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2018 | Caltech |
B |
| Robin Batterham | Former Chief Scientist of Australia(1999-2006)
Chief Scientist of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Division of Mineral Engineering | Office of the Chief Scientist (Australia) |
| Jay Bailey (1944–2001) | Pioneer in metabolic engineering | ETH Zurich |
| Frank S. Bates (1954–) | Leader in polymer science and block copolymers | University of Minnesota |
| Henry Bessemer (1813–1898) | Invented Bessemer process for manufacturing steel | Independent inventor |
| Gordon Beveridge (1933–1999) | Former President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University of Belfast | Queen's University of Belfast |
| Samuel Bodman | United States Secretary of Energy (2005–2009) | US Government |
| 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 | BASF and I. G. Farben |
| Jomar Brun | Designer of the world's first industrial heavy water plant, and helped in its sabotage during World War II | Norwegian Institute of Technology |
C |
| John G. Collier (1935–1995) | Two-phase flow and nuclear power expert, head of UKAEA and CEGB | UKAEA |
| John Coulson (1910–1990) | Co-author of what became the standard UK textbook set; Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering | Newcastle University, UK |
D |
| Donald A. Dahlstrom (1920–2005) | Inventor of the Hydrocyclone and related correlations, 1943. Elected to National Academy of Engineering in 1975 for, "Contributions to liquid-solids separation processes in mineral recovery and waste disposal"". | University of Utah |
| Zara Salim Davidson | Raja Puan Besar of Perak. Heads petroleum and petrochemical consulting firm in Malaysia. |
| George E. Davis (1850–1907) | Regarded as the 'founding father' of Chemical Engineering | University of Manchester |
| 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 |
EF |
| James R. Fair (1920–2010) | Notable authority on process design, equipment design and separations | Monsanto Company, University of Texas |
| Richard Felder | Multiple award-winning engineering educator | North Carolina State University |
| Ian Fells | Energy expert and popular science broadcaster | Newcastle University, UK |
| Maria das Graças Foster | CEO of Petrobras. First woman to head a major oil-and-gas company | Petrobras, Brazil |
| Arthur Fry | Inventor of Post-it note | 3M, USA |
G |
| Clifton C. Garvin | Chairman and CEO | Exxon |
| Eugenio Garza Lagüera | Chairman and CEO | FEMSA |
| Karen Klincewicz Gleason | Namesake of Klincewicz method to predict critical values of pure components | MIT |
| Edwin R. Gilliland (1909–1963) | Namesake of the Gilliland correlation used in designing distillation columns | MIT |
| Roberto Goizueta | Former chairman and chief executive of Coca-Cola | Coca-Cola |
| Bill Gore | Founder of W.L. Gore and Associates | W. L. Gore and Associates, DuPont |
| Robert W. Gore | The inventor of Gore-Tex | W. L. Gore and Associates |
| Andrew Grove | former Chairman and CEO | Intel |
| Pierre Gy | developed theory of sampling of particulate materials for analysis | Industrial consultant |
H |
| Fritz Haber (1868–1934) | Received Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1918 for the fixation of nitrogen from the air, the Haber process; also developed chemical warfare agents for the German government during World War I. Received the Rumford Medal in 1932 for, "... the outstanding importance of his work in physical chemistry, especially in the application of thermodynamics to chemical reactions". | University of Karlsruhe (TH) |
| Vladimir Haensel (1914–2002) | Inventor of the "Platforming" (Platinum Reforming) process, which led to the production of low cost high octane gasoline, and contributed to development of catalytic converters for automobiles. | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Judith Hackitt | Chair of UK Health and Safety Executive and President of IChemE. | Health and Safety Executive, IChemE |
| 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 Schering-Plough Corporation; former chairman and CEO for the Pharmacia Corporation | Schering-Plough |
| Beatrice Hicks | Co-founder and first president of the Society of Women Engineers | Society of Women Engineers |
| Csaba Horváth (1930–2004) | Pioneer of modern separation science | Yale University |
| Benjamin Hsiao | Vice-President for Research and Chief Research Officer at Stony Brook University; also the current spokesperson of the Advanced Polymers PRT Beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source located at Brookhaven National Laboratory | Stony Brook University
DuPont Company
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
I |
| Sheldon E. Isakoff | Former director of DuPont and former president of American Institute of Chemical Engineers | DuPont & AIChE |
| Dan Itse | US Politician and holder of four patents on low-emission technology | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
J |
| Lisa P. Jackson | Former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2009-2013) | Environmental Protection Agency |
| Joseph J. Jacobs (1916–2004) | Founder of Jacobs Engineering Group | Jacobs Engineering Group |
| 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 |
| W. W. Keeler (1908–1987) | President and CEO of Phillips Petroleum Company. Graduated in chemical engineering from University of Kansas | Phillips Petroleum Company |
| Trevor Kletz(1922-2013) | Author of books dealing with chemical engineering safety | Loughborough University |
| Marius Kloppers | CEO of BHP Billiton | BHP Billiton |
| Riki Kobayashi (1924–2013) | Professor of Chemical Engineering; well known for his pioneering work in phase equilibrium, physical properties and transport properties which were highly important to the development of the natural gas processing industries. | Rice University |
| Charles Koch | CEO of Koch Industries | Koch Industries |
| David Koch | Executive vice-president of Koch Industries | Koch Industries |
| Fred C. Koch (1900–1967) | Founder of Koch Industries | Koch Industries |
L |
| Robert Langer | Tissue Engineering and Controlled-Release Drug Delivery pioneer | MIT |
| Nicolas Leblanc | Inventor of the Leblanc process for making sodium carbonate from common salt |
| Frank Lees | author and pioneer of Loss Prevention in the process industries | Loughborough University |
| Warren K. Lewis (1882–1975) | American chemical engineering professor; played a role in defining the field of chemical engineering during its early development. Co-developer (with E. R. Gilliland) of Houdry process for petroleum refining. He is also known as the "Father of Modern Chemical Engineering" | MIT |
| Bodo Linnhoff (1948–) | Author of a 1977 thesis that formed the basis for pinch analysis, a methodology to optimize energy usage in processes. | Linnhoff March Ltd. |
| Arthur Dehon Little (1863–1935) | Consultant and co-founder, with William H. Walker, of Arthur D. Little, Inc., a major consulting firm | Arthur D. Little, Inc., MIT |
| Andrew Liveris | Chairman and CEO of Dow Chemical Company. | Dow Chemical Company |
| Yueh-Lin Loo | Inventor of nanotransfer printing; professor of engineering | Princeton University |
M |
| Ramesh Mashelkar | Leading architect of India's science and technology policies and current President of Global Research Alliance. Former Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research. | CSIR India, Global Research Alliance |
| Sheri McCoy | Former CEO of Avon Products. | Avon Products |
| Victor Mills | Leading the team that created the modern disposable diapers and the Pampers brand |
| Mario Molina | Co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in elucidating the threat of chlorofluorocarbon gases to the Earth's ozone layer |
N |
| Dudley Maurice Newitt (1894–1980) | Scientific director of Special Operations Executive developing gadgets for spies during World War II – a real life Q (James Bond). Received Rumford Medal, in 1962 for "... his distinguished contributions to chemical engineering." | Professor at Imperial College |
| Giulio Natta | Received Nobel Prize in 1963 for his works on high polymers | Professor at Politecnico di Milano |
O |
| Lars Onsager | Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1968 | Yale University |
| Adam Osborne (1939–2003) | 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, Oregon State University |
| Robert H. Perry | Author of Handbook in 1934, now Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook | University of Oklahoma |
| Martin Lewis Perl | Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the tau lepton | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
| Nicholas A. Peppas | Pioneer in drug delivery, biomaterials, hydrogels and nanobiotechnology | University of Texas at Austin |
Q |
| K. B. Quinan (1878–1948) | 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 |
| Dan Reneau | President of Louisiana Tech University | Louisiana Tech University |
| George Maxwell Richards | President of Trinidad and Tobago. Previously worked for Shell Trinidad Oil Co. and taught chemical engineering at University of West Indies |
| 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 (1911–2000) | designed the first commercial penicillin production plant |
S |
| Albert Sacco | US astronaut | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Robert Satcher | US astronaut | NASA |
| Lanny Schmidt | Surface science and detailed chemistry | University of Minnesota |
| Man Mohan Sharma | Eminent Indian chemical engineering scientist and first Indian engineer to be elected as a Fellow of Royal Society, UK | Former director of Institute of Chemical Technology |
| Waldo L. Semon | Inventor who patented more than 116 inventions, including polyvinyl chloride (PVC) | B.F. Goodrich |
| L. Douglas Smoot | Research on aerospace and rocket fuel propulsion | Brigham Young University, California Institute of Technology, Lockheed Propulsion Company, Scientific Research Society of America |
T |
| Edward Teller | Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist and "father of the hydrogen bomb" | University of GöttingenBohr InstituteUniversity College LondonGeorge Washington UniversityManhattan ProjectUniversity of ChicagoUC DavisUC BerkeleyLawrence LivermoreHoover Institution |
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| Gautam Thapar | CEO of Indian conglomerate Avantha Group | Avantha Group |
| Martha J. B. Thomas | American chemical engineer who worked on fluorescent lighting and phosphorus | Radcliffe College, Boston University, Sylvania Electric Products |
U |
| Lewis Urry | Invention of long-lasting alkaline batteries | Eveready Battery Co |
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W |
| Bill Wakeham | Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton (2001-2009) and President of IChemE | University of Southampton |
| William Hultz Walker (1869–1934) | Pioneer in teaching chemical engineering. Co-authored, with W. K. Lewis and W. H. McAdams, the first American textbook of chemical engineering, Principles of Chemical Engineering, published in 1924. | MIT |
| Jack Welch | Former chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GE | General Electric |
| Nathaniel C. Wyeth | inventor of PET plastic bottles | DuPont |
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Y |
| Andrew Yakuba | Former Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Office | Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation |
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