Medicine and Life Sciences
- Johan Jacob Döbelius (1674–1743), professor of medicine, headmaster, discovered Ramlösa hälsobrunn
- Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778), father of modern taxonomy. (studied his first year in Lund, transferred to Uppsala)
- Johan Gottschalk Wallerius (1709-1785), chemist and mineralogist, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
- Anders Jahan Retzius (1742-1821), naturalist.
- Carl Adolph Agardh (1785-1859), naturalist (botanist) and clergyman, finally bishop of Karlstad.
- Anders Retzius (1796-1860), anatomist
- Carl Fredrik Fallén (1764-1830), botanist and entomologist.
- Axel Gustaf Gyllenkrok (1783-1865), zoologist.
- Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt (1785-1874), entomologist.
- Elias Magnus Fries (1794-1878), mycologist. (student from 1811, Professor from 1824, from 1834 professor at Uppsala)
- Anders Gustaf Dahlbom (1806–1859), entomologist.
- Jacob Georg Agardh (1813-1901), botanist.
- Gustaf Retzius (1842-1919), anatomist.
- Rune Elmqvist (1906-1996), developed first implantable pacemaker. (M.D.)
- Sune Bergström (1916-2004), biochemist, Nobel laureate, see above
- Arvid Carlsson (1923-), physician, Nobel laureate, see above
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