Science
- Ethan Allen, co-inventor of the single-action revolver
- Nima Arkani-Hamed, theoretical physicist
- Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
- Luther Burbank, horticulturist
- Vannevar Bush, engineer, inventor and science administrator
- Roderick Chisholm, philosopher
- Daniel Dennett, cognitive scientist and philosopher
- Bob Doyle, scientist, inventor, and philosopher
- Benjamin Franklin, scientist and public official
- Robert Goddard, inventor
- Temple Grandin, doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University
- Elias Howe, inventor
- Dan Itse, chemical engineer and NH public official
- Melvin Johnson, prominent firearms designer
- Richard Karp, computer scientist, computational theorist
- Alan Kay, computer scientist
- Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, Jr., mechanical engineer
- Arthur Little, chemist and chemical engineer
- John McCarthy, computer scientist, cognitive scientist
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor and artist
- William T.G. Morton, dentist and physician
- Richard Muther, industrial engineer
- Lloyd Ohlin, sociologist and criminologist
- Gregory Pincus, scientist, developed birth control pill
- Albert Sacco, chemical engineer and Payload Specialist for NASA
- John Henry Schwarz, theoretical physicist
- Andrew Strominger, theoretical physicist
- Benjamin Thompson, physicist and inventor
- Edward Thorndike, psychologist
- Worcester Warner, mechanical engineer, astronomer
- Samuel Wellman, inventor of the crucible steel furnace
- Daniel Wesson, prominent firearms designer
- Eli Whitney, inventor
- Robert Wood, physicist, inventor
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt, astronomer, luminosity of Cepheid variable stars.
- Albert Abraham Michelson, physicist, First American to receive Nobel Prize in Science.
- Percival Lowell, astronomer, Famous for Mars's canals, now discredited.
- William D. Coolidge, physicist.
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