Gil Martins Felippe (May 25, 1934 – August 19, 2014) was a Brazilian scientist (Plant Physiology) and writer.

Gil Felippe received a PhD[1] from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, where he did post-doctoral work in plant physiology.

His primary and secondary studies were done at the Instituto de Educação Dr. Alvaro Guião, in São Carlos.

He was always very active doing his own research work, in the lab and in the field, mainly in cerrado regions.

He was a coordinator of the Biology area of the Foundation for Implementation of Research of the State of São Paulo - FAPESP (1982) and coordinator of the Group of Research in Zoology and Botany of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq (1982–1985).