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Corneille Jean François Heymans (March 28, 1892, Ghent, Belgium – July 18, 1968, Knokke, Belgium) was a Belgian physiologist. He studied at the prestigious Jesuit College of Sainte Barbe after which he proceeded to the University of Ghent. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1938 for showing how blood pressure and oxygen content of the blood are measured by the body and transmitted to the brain. He succeeded his father, Jean-François Heymans, at the Ghent University as a professor of pharmacology.
Heymans was married to Berthe May, an ophthalmologist. in 1929 and had four children. He died in Knokke from a stroke.
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