Science and Medicine
- Clayton Anderson (1959–) NASA astronaut assigned to International Space Station Expedition 15
- Henry Beachell (1906–), developer of hybrid rice, which has saved millions around the world from starvation
- George Wells Beadle (1903–1989), geneticist
- Charles Edwin Bessey (1845–1915), botanist, responsible for planting of the Nebraska National Forest
- Leon Douglass (1869–1940), inventor and co-founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company
- John R. Dunning (1907–1975), physicist, played an instrumental role in the development of the atomic bomb
- Doc Edgerton (1903–1990), professor at MIT, pioneer in stroboscopic photography
- Rollins A. Emerson (1873–1947), geneticist, pioneer in researching the genetics of maize
- Jay Wright Forrester (1918–), pioneer of computer engineering
- Daniel Freeman (1826–1908), a homesteader, physician and American Civil War veteran, first person to file for a claim under the Homestead Act of 1862
- Jay Keasling (1964- ), synthetic biology pioneer
- Francis La Flesche (1857–1932) First Native American Anthropologist, Author. Omaha
- Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865–1915), first person to receive federal aid for education and the first American Indian woman to become a Western Medicine physician in the United States
- Max Mathews (1926–2011), wrote first computer music program
- Victor Mills (1897–1997), chemical engineer, inventor of the modern disposable diaper
- Donald Othmer (1904–1995), chemical engineer
- Ivan Sutherland (1938–), inventor of the Sketchpad
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