Carel S. Scholten (Amsterdam, 1925 – 2009) was a physicist and a pioneer of computing.
In 1947 he was asked by the Dutch Mathematisch Centrum (which later became the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) to collaborate in building an automatic calculator with his friend and fellow student Bram Loopstra.
Their first system, the ARRA I was not a success, but its successor, the ARRA II, on which Gerrit Blaauw also collaborated, was.
In 1954 work started on the ARMAC, which he built together with Loopstra and Edsger W. Dijkstra, who was responsible for the software and collaborated with Scholten for more than 30 years.
In 1991 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.