Dr. Christopher S. Foote (5 June, 1935 – 13 June, 2005) was a professor of chemistry at UCLA and an expert in reactive oxygen species. He published more than 250 articles, editorials, and notes. Dr. Foote was cited over 14,000 times with an average of 450 citations per year since 1989. He was also famously known for his textbook Organic Chemistry .

The American Chemical Society gave Dr. Foote their Baekeland award in 1975, named him a Cope Scholar in 1994, and gave him the Tolman Medal in 1996. In 2000 an international symposium in honor of his 65th birthday was held in Hawaii. The Christopher S. Foote Chair of chemistry at UCLA is also named after him.