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.
| Name | Birth/death | Country | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Albrecht | 1888–1974 | USA | |
| Joselito (Lito) M. Arocena | 1959–2015 | Canada | Founding member of University of Northern British Columbia and became its first Canada Research Chair in 2001 |
| Mary C. Baltz | 1923–2011 | USA | First 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 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 |
| Johanna Döbereiner | 1924–2000 | Brazil | Prominent Brazilian agronomist |
| 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" |
| W. B. George | 1899–1972 | Canada | Kemptville Agricultural School lecturer and chairman of the Fertilizer Advisory Board of Ontario |
| Konstantin Glinka | 1867–1927 | Russia | Prominent Russian soil scientist |
| Eugene W. Hilgard | 1833–1916 | USA | Father of modern soil science in the USA |
| Francis D. Hole | 1913–2002 | USA | Pedologist and educator |
| 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 |
| Ana Maria Primavesi | 1920–2020 | Brazil | Prominent Brazilian soil scientist |
| 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 |
