Vincenzo Barone (b. 8 November 1952, Ancona) is an Italian chemist; he is active in the field of theoretical and computational chemistry; full professor of physical chemistry (University of Naples, 1994), professor of theoretical and computational chemistry at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (SNS, 2009); he has been director of SNS from 2016 to 2019 (dimissions). From 2011 to 2013 he was a chairperson of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI); he is also a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (IAQMS), the European Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).