Alchymie a alchymisté

Legendární alchymisté

  • Hermes Trismegistus
  • Ostanes, the Persian
  • Nicolas Flamel

Alchymisté v řecko-římském Egyptě

  • Marie Židovka (Mary the Jewess)
  • Pseudo-Democritus
  • Agathodaemon
  • Zosimos of Panopolis (c. 300)
  • Olympiodorus of Thebes (c. 400)
  • Cleopatra the Alchemist
  • Pseudo-Aristotle
  • Pseudo-Plato
  • Stephen of Alexandria
  • Indian alchemists[edit]
  • Kanada, sage and philosopher (6th century BC)
  • Nagarjuna, the 10th century South Indian king
  • Yogi Vemana
  • Siddhar Tamil sage and philosophers
  • Nayanmars Tamil sage and philosophers
  • Alvars Tamil sage and philosophers
  • Vallalar, Tamil 18th Century sage and philosopher
  • Arunagirinathar Tamil 15th Century sage and philosopher
  • Karunakara swamigal Tamil 19th Century

Čínští alchymisté

  • Wei Boyang
  • Zhang Guo the Elder (c. 600)

Islámští alchymisté

  • Further information: Alchemy and chemistry in medieval Islam
  • Khalid ibn Yazid, "Calid" (d. 704)
  • Jābir ibn Hayyān, "Geber" (c. 721 – 815)
  • Dhul-Nun al-Misri (b. 796)
  • Al-Farabi, "Alfarabi" (870 – 950/951)
  • Al-Kindi, "Alkindus" (801 – 873), a critic of alchemy
  • Ibn Umail, circa 900 AD
  • Muhammad ibn Zakarīya Rāzi, "Rhazes" (864 – 930)
  • Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina, "Avicenna" (980 – 1037), kritik alchymie, otec moderní medicíny
  • Al-Tughrai (1061–1121)
  • Artephius (cca 1150)

Evropští alchymisté

  • Alain de Lille (narozen mezi 1115 až 1128 – zemřel 1202(1203?))
  • Albertus Magnus (1193–1280)
  • Roger Bacon (1214–1294)
  • Pseudo-Geber (Spain, 13th century)
  • Ramon Llull (Raymond Lulli) (1235–1315)
  • Papež John XXII (1249–1334)
  • John Dastin (ranné 14. století)
  • Arnold of Villanova (1245 – ?(before 1311))
  • Jean de Meung (c.1250 – c.1305)
  • Petrus Bonus (ranné 14. století)
  • Ortolanus or Hortulanus (fl. 1358)
  • Jean de Roquetaillade (Johannes de Rupescissa ) (d. 1336)
  • Gilles de Rais (1401–1440)
  • Bernard Trevisan (Bernard of Treves) (1406–1490)
  • George Ripley (Anglie, 15. století)
  • Thomas Norton (c. 1433-c. 1513)
  • Johannes Trithemius (1462–1516)
  • Johann Georg Faust (cca 1480–1540)
  • Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535)
  • Paracelsus (1493–1541)
  • Thomas Charnock (1516/1524/1526–1581)
  • François Hotman (1524–1590)
  • John Dee (1527–1609)
  • Gerhard Dorn (cca 1530–1584)
  • Martin Ruland the Elder (1532-1602)
  • Richard Stanihurst (1547–1618)
  • Tycho Brahe (1546–1601)
  • Samuel Norton (1548–1621)
  • Edward Kelley (1555–1597)
  • Basilius Valentinus (Basil Valentine) (16/17. století)
  • Andreas Libavius (1555–1616)
  • François Béroalde de Verville (1556–1626)
  • Heinrich Khunrath (cca 1560–1605)
  • Oswald Croll (cca 1563-1609)
  • Melchior Cibinensis (16. století)
  • Jean D'Espagnet (1564 – cca 1637)
  • Michał Sędziwój (1566–1636)
  • Benedictus Figulus (born 1567)
  • Michael Maier (1568–1622)
  • Martin Ruland the Younger (1569 – 1611)
  • Jacob Boehme (1575–1624)
  • Jan Baptist van Helmont (1577–1644)
  • Arthur Dee (1579–1651)
  • Johann Daniel Mylius (cca 1583-1642)
  • William Backhouse (1593 – 1662)
  • Baro Urbigerus
  • Ali Puli (17. století)
  • Daniel Stolz von Stolzenberg (Daniel Stolcius) (1600–1660)
  • Johannes Nicolaus Furichius (1602-1633)
  • Edward Dyer (zemřel 1607)
  • Elias Ashmole (1617–1692)
  • Thomas Henshaw (1618–1700)
  • Edmund Dickinson (1624–1707)
  • Johann Friedrich Schweitzer (1625–1709)
  • Giuseppe Francesco Borri (1627–1695)
  • Robert Boyle (1627–1691)
  • George Starkey (alchemist) (1628–1665)
  • Eirenaeus Philalethes
  • Hening Brand (c.1630–1710)
  • Johann Kunckel (1630–1703)
  • Johann Joachim Becher (1635–1682)
  • Isaac Newton (1642–1727)
  • Claude Duval (1643–1670)
  • Dionysius Andreas Freher (1649–1728)
  • Georg von Welling (1652-1727)
  • Anton Josef Kirchweger ((d.1746))
  • Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795)
  • James Price (1752–1783)
  • Count of St Germain (zemřel 1784)
  • Johann Christoph von Wöllner (1732–1800)
  • August Strindberg (1849–1912)
  • Franz Tausend (1884–1942)
  • Johann Isaac Hollandus
  • Fulcanelli (pseudonym; pozdější 19. století - ranné 20. století)

Revival a moderní alchymisté

  • Frater Albertus (Dr. Albert Reidel) (1911–1984)
  • Eugène Canseliet (1899–1982)
  • Marie-Louise von Franz (1915–1998)
  • Carl Jung (1875 – 1961)
  • Max Magnus Norman (1973 – )
  • Terrence McKenna (1946–2000)
  • Diane Di Prima (1932 – )

Fiktivní alchymisté

  • Diablo, an enemy of the Fantastic Four
  • Characters from Fullmetal Alchemist
  • Riccardo and Aureolus Lorenzo Belli, Haunting Ground
  • Ivy Valentine, Soul Calibur
  • Rorolina Frixell, Totooria Helmold, and Merurulince Rede Arls, Arland Series
  • Magnus, The Vampire Chronicles
  • The Alchemist, The Venture Bros.
  • Daitokuji, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
  • Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter
  • Sydney Sage, Vampire Academy
  • Myrnin, Morganville Vampires
  • Mrs. Muvias, The Secret Series
  • Epiphany Greaves-Constantine, Hellblazer
  • Otomai, Wakfu
  • Claude Frollo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Count Manzeppi, The Wild Wild West