Gustaf Komppa (1867 in Viipuri – 20 January 1949 in Helsinki) was a Finnish chemist best known for a world-first in commercializing total synthesis, that of camphor in 1903.Komppa was born in Viipuri in 1867. He graduated from the University of Helsinki in 1891 and subsequently worked for a while in Switzerland before obtaining his Ph.D. Shortly after returning to Finland he became the professor of chemistry at the Helsinki University of Technology.