Heinrich Hubert Maria Josef Houben (born in Waldfeucht (Rheinland), Germany in 1875, died 1940 in Tubingen) was a German chemist. He made achievements within ketone synthesis, terpenes, and camphor studies. After being wounded several times on the front lines in World War I, Houben was made head of the war laboratory.

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• Biographies of Josef Houben and Theodor Weyl