A soil scientist is a contributor to soil science. Soil scientists include agrologists, pedologists and soil classifiers.

The following is a list of notable soil scientists.

NameBirth/deathCountryRemark
William Albrecht1888–1974USA
Joselito (Lito) M. Arocena1959–2015CanadaFounding member of University of Northern British Columbia and became its first Canada Research Chair in 2001
Mary C. Baltz1923–2011USAFirst woman soil scientist officially assigned in the field for NRCS
Vera A. Baltz 1866–1943 Russia One of the first female soil scientists in Russia
Percy Edgar Brown1885–1937USA
Johan Bouma1940–Netherlands
John Catt1939–2017UKPaleopedologist
George Nelson Coffey1875–1967USAPioneer of American soil classification
Enrico Dalgas1828–1894DenmarkPioneer of soil amelioration and naturalist
Charles Darwin1809–1882UKFather of modern soil science. First scholarly treatment of soil forming processes
Johanna Döbereiner1924–2000BrazilProminent Brazilian agronomist
Vasily V. Dokuchaev1840–1903RussiaVariously the father of modern soil science, pedology, soil geography
Friedrich Albert Fallou1794–1877GermanyFounder of modern soil science; coined the term "pedology"
W. B. George1899–1972CanadaKemptville Agricultural School lecturer and chairman of the Fertilizer Advisory Board of Ontario
Konstantin Glinka1867–1927RussiaProminent Russian soil scientist
Eugene W. Hilgard1833–1916USAFather of modern soil science in the USA
Francis D. Hole1913–2002USAPedologist and educator
Aminul Islam1935–2017BangladeshSoil horizon of Bangladesh land
Hans Jenny1899–1992USAInfluential pedologist
Franklin Hiram King1848–1911USAFather of American soil physics
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Krasil'nikov1896–1973RussiaMicrobiologist
Justus von Liebig1803–1873GermanyFather of soil chemistry
Thomas Lyttleton Lyon1869–1938USA
Curtis F. Marbut1863–1935USAFather of American pedology
Sławomir Miklaszewski1874–1949PolandFounder of the Polish pedologie scientific school
John Mortvedt1932–2012USAMicronutrient fertilizer researcher
Bernard Palissy~1510–1590FranceFirst to research amending soil to replenish minerals
Ana Maria Primavesi1920–2020BrazilProminent Brazilian soil scientist
Bashiru Ademola RajiNigeria
Lorenzo A. Richards1904–1993USASoil physicist
Pedro A. Sanchez1940–USAWorld food systems visionary
Olivier de Serres1529–1619FrancePromoted crop rotation as a way of preserving soil nutrients
Emil Truog1884–1969USA
Guy D. Smith1907–1981USA
Selman Waksman1888–1973USASoil microbiologist
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