Fritz Albert Lipmann (German pronunciation: [fʁɪts ˈʔalbɛʁt ˈlɪpman] ⓘ; June 12, 1899 – July 24, 1986) was a German-American biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A.

For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953 (shared with Hans Adolf Krebs).

In 1926 he joined Otto Meyerhof at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology, Dahlem, Berlin, for his doctoral thesis.

He was a Research Associate in the Department of Biochemistry, Cornell University Medical College, New York from 1939 to 1941.

In 1953, Lipmann received one half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism."