In Science and Technology
- Salman "Sal" Khan, an educator, famous for Khan Academy
- Abdul Qadeer Khan, an engineer from Pakistan, considered the founder of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme
- Fazlur Khan, Bengali-American structural engineer and designer of Chicago's Sears Tower and John Hancock Center
- M S Khan (1910–1978), a Bengali academic from Bangladesh, "father of the Library and Information Science discipline in Bangladesh"
- Geoffrey Khan, (b. 1958), professor of Semitic Languages at the University of Cambridge.
- Dr. Rana Abdul Qayyum Khan, (b. 1968), World renowned Canadian neurologist known for his work on Parkinson's disease.
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