Yoshito Kishi (岸 義人, Kishi Yoshito, 13 April 1937 – 9 January 2023)[1] was a Japanese chemist who was the Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University.

[2][3] He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University where he worked with Robert Burns Woodward.

[3] Since 1974, Kishi had been a professor of chemistry at Harvard University.

[4][5] Kishi's research has focused on the total synthesis of complex natural products.

The accomplishments of his research group include the total syntheses of palytoxin, mycolactones, halichondrins, saxitoxin, tetrodotoxin, geldanamycin, batrachotoxin and many others.