Charles James Matthew Stirling FRS, CChem, FRSC (born 1930) is an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, at the University of Sheffield, in England.
Stirling was born on 8 December 1930 to Brigadier Alexander Dickson Stirling and his wife Millicent StirlingHe was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1967, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1986; and gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 1992.The Royal Society describe him as having "made important contributions to physical organic chemistry through his elucidation of organic reaction mechanisms".