Mathematics and Science
- Camille Jordan (1838–1922) a French mathematician (Jordan–Hölder theorem)
- David Starr Jordan (1851-1931), an American biologist
- Henryk Jordan (1842–1907), a Polish physicist and philanthropist
- Johann Christoph Jordan, an 18th-century Slavist
- Pascual Jordan (1902-1980), a German theoretical and mathematical physicist (Jordan algebra)
- Thomas Brown Jordan, a British mechanical engineer of the 19th century
- V. Craig Jordan, a British and American pharmacologist
- Wilhelm Jordan (geodesist) (1842–1899) German geodesist (Gauss–Jordan elimination algorithm)
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