Milan Randić (born 1 October 1930)[1][2] is a Croatian American scientist recognized as one of the leading experts in the field of computational chemistry.

[3] Randić was born in the city of Belgrade, where his parents, originally from Kostrena in the Croatian Primorje, lived at the time.

From 1960 to 1970, Randić worked at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb, Croatia, where he founded the Theoretical Chemistry Group.

Between 1971 and 1980, he was a visiting professor at various universities in the United States, including Johns Hopkins, MIT, Harvard, Tufts, and Cornell.

His research during this period increasingly focused on the application of Discrete Mathematics and Graph Theory to the characterization of molecules and biomolecules.