Medicine, Science and Technology
- Thomas Starzl, (MS 1950, MD 1952), American surgeon, father of modern transplantation, performed the first liver transplant
- David Applebaum, Israeli physician
- Robert A. Buethe, Surgeon General of the U.S. Air Force
- Andy Carvin, founding editor and former coordinator of the Digital Divide Network
- George W. Crane, Ph.D., M.D., psychologist, physician, author, newspaper columnist
- Segun Toyin Dawodu, MD, JD, MBA, LL.M, MS (MS, Medical Informatics 2012) Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, a Physician and an Attorney who established the first website on socio-political issues of Nigeria.
- Alston Scott Householder (B.A. 1925), mathematician
- Cheddi Jagan, dentist/Guyanese president
- Irene D. Long, Chief Medical Officer, Kennedy Space Center.
- Boris Lushniak, Assistant Surgeon General of the United States
- Charles Horace Mayo, doctor (Mayo Clinic)
- Robert F. Furchgott, Ph.D., 1940, Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine (1998)
- Marc Kirschner (B.A. 1966), founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
- Richard Skrenta, creator of the first computer virus, Elk Cloner
- Joseph Staten, writer and director of the Halo video games
- Sam Treiman, former theoretical physicist and professor of physics at Princeton University
- Jacques Vallee (Ph.D. 1967), computer scientist, astronomer and UFO researcher
- Edward Weiler (B.A. 1971, M.S. 1973, Ph.D. 1976), director, Goddard Space Flight Center
- Gary Kremen, Internet Entrepreneur and private investor, Founder of Match.com, Sex.com, and Clean Power Finance. First investor in Dolores Labs.
- Daniel Hale Williams, first person to perform open heart surgery
- Kermit E Krantz, (B.S. 1945, M.S. 1947, M.D. 1948) Distinguished University Professor of Medicine University of Kansas. Among others, developed the Marshall–Marchetti–Krantz (MMK) and invented the expandable tampon. Namesake of the Arey/Krantz Museum of Anatomy at the Feinberg School of Medicine.
- Pulickel Ajayan, Professor of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Rice University
- Richard Lerner, past president of the Scripps Research Institute, co-inventor of HUMIRA
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