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Eugène Jules Houdry (Domont, April 18, 1892 - Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, July 18, 1962) was a French, later naturalised American, mechanical engineer (graduated from École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers in 1911) who invented catalytic cracking of petroleum feed stocks.
In 1938, Exxon Research joined a consortium of large oil and processing companies that came up with the concept of fluidized bed catalyst, which is then used for catalytic cracking of crude oil feed in gasoline production.