Scientists and Inventors
- Benjamin Banneker, surveyor, astronomer, mathematician and almanac author
- Dr. Ben Carson, neurosurgeon
- Rachel Carson, environmentalist
- George Dantzig, mathematical scientist
- Roger L. Easton, principal inventor of Global Positioning System
- Charles Fefferman, mathematician
- Henry Gantt, mechanical engineer
- Solomon Golomb, mathematician who invented pentominoes
- Michael Griffin, NASA administrator
- Arlo Hemphill, explorer/ocean conservationist
- John Mauchly, physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, invented the first general-purpose electronic computer
- Ayub K. Ommaya, neurosurgeon
- Arthur William Savage, inventor of the Savage Model 99
- Paul Reed Smith, luthier
- John Archibald Wheeler, theoretical physicist
- Edward Witten, physicist/mathematician
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