John Joseph Jolly Kyle (2nd February 1838 – 23rd February 1922) was a an Argentine Chemist born and educated in Stirling, Scotland. He gained Argentine citizenship in 1873 after emigrating to Argentina from Scotland in 1862.
Kyle served as a pharmacist for the Argentine army during the Paraguayan War. He would go on to be appointed chief chemist to the Argentine Mint (1881), professor of organic chemistry at University of Buenos Aires (1889), chemist to the Inspectorate-General of Sanitary Works (1890), professor of industrial chemistry at the Colegio Nacional (1892) and professor of inorganic chemistry at Buenos Aires University (1896). He was director of the first chemistry doctoral thesis in Argentina (1901).
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