Scientists
- César Barbosa Botanist
- Rodolfo Llinás Neuroscientist
- Manuel Elkin Patarroyo Immunologist
- Julio Garavito Armero Astronomer and mathematician
- Raul Cuero Biologist
- Nathaly Castro Diaz Biologist
- Diego Urbina Space Flight Researcher and Engineer
- Elkin Lucena Medical doctor, performed the first first successful In vitro fertilization, that allowed the birth of the first Latin American test tube baby
- Alberto Villegas performed the first heart transplant in Latin America
- Jorge Reynolds Pombo is an electrical and bio-engineer born in Colombia known worldwide as the inventor in 1958 of the first external artificial pacemaker with internal electrodes.
- José Jerónimo Triana a well known 19th century Colombian botanist
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