Otto Perutz (27 July 1847, Teplice, Bohemia - 18 January 1922, Munich Germany) was an Austrian-German chemist.From 1872 to 1876 Perutz was director of Bayerische Aktiengesellschaft für chemische und landwirtschaftlich-chemische Fabrikate (Bavarian Corporation for Chemical and Agrochemical Products Inc., later Süd-Chemie AG) in Munich-Heufeld.In 1880 he founded his own firm Otto Perutz Trockenplattenfabrik in Munich.