Henry Aaron Hill ( May 30,1915-1979 ) was an American fluorocarbon chemist who became the first African American president of the American Chemical Society.

Henry Hill was born in St. Joseph. He graduated from Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1936, before completing a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1942.

After receiving his Ph.D., Hill joined the Atlantic Research Associates in Newtonville, Massachusetts, as a research chemist. He became research director there and became vice president in 1944. Hill was a civilian employee of the office of Scientific Research and Development in 1944. In 1946, Hill moved to Dewey and Almy Chemical Co. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a research group leader. In 1952, he became assistant manager and co- founder of National Polychemicals, Inc., of Wilmington, Massachusetts. Hill founded Riverside Laboratory in 1961 for research, development and consulting.

Hill’s research focused on chemical intermediates for the production of polymer products.

Hill served on the boards of the American Chemical Society (1971-1978) and Rohm & Hass, and he was a trustee of Johnson C. Smith University. Hill also worked in the area of consumer safety, serving as chairman of the Compliance Committee of the National Motor Vehicle Safety Advisory Council and was a member of the Information Council on Fabric Flammability. In 1968, Hill was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to the National Commission on Product Safety (a predecessor to the Consumer Product Safety Commission).