Science and Medicine
- Roy Chapman Andrews (1884–1960), naturalist (Beloit)
- John Bardeen (1908–1991), Nobel Prize-winning physicist (Madison)
- George Harold Brown (1908–1987), developer of color television (Portage)
- Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (1843–1928), geologist (Beloit)
- John Henry Comstock (1849–1931), entomologist (Janesville)
- Seymour Cray (1925–1996), computer designer (Chippewa Falls)
- John Thomas Curtis (1913–1961), botanist and ecologist, the Bray Curtis dissimilarity is partially named for him (Milwaukee)
- Marshall E. Cusic Jr., Chief of the U.S. Navy Medical Reserve Corps (Marshfield)
- Farrington Daniels (1889–1972), pioneer researcher in Solar energy (Madison)
- Richard Davidson (born 1951), psychologist, pioneer of affective neuroscience (Madison)
- Hector DeLuca, Vitamin D metabolism (Madison)
- Michael Dhuey (born 1958), co-developer of the Macintosh II and the iPod (Milwaukee)
- Olin J. Eggen (1919–1998), astronomer (Orfordville)
- Milton Erickson (1901–1980), founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis, NLP
- Ernst Guillemin (1898–1970), recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor (Milwaukee)
- Donald Knuth (born 1938), computer scientist (Milwaukee)
- Donald Laub (1935–), plastic surgeon (Milwaukee)
- Albert Lehninger (1917–1986), biochemist (Madison)
- Aldo Leopold (1887–1948), ecologist (Madison)
- Karl Paul Link (1901–1978), discovered warfarin (named for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) (Madison)
- William Shainline Middleton (1890–1975), co-founder and Secretary-Treasurer of the American Board of Internal Medicine (Madison)
- John Muir (1838–1914), environmentalist (Portage)
- John Benjamin Murphy (1857–1916), inventor of Murphy's punch sign, Murphy's sign, and the Murphy drip (Appleton)
- Robert B. Pinter (1937–2001), biomedical engineer (Milwaukee)
- Carl Rogers (1902–1987), psychologist and originator of "client-centered therapy" (Madison)
- Francis G. Slack (1897–1985), physicist (Superior)
- Harry Steenbock (1886–1967), Vitamin D catalyzed by sunlight, D-fortified milk; rickets cured (Charlestown, New Holstein, Madison)
- Jeremiah Burnham Tainter (1836–1920), inventor of the Tainter gate (Prairie du Chien)
- James Thomson (born 1958), first scientist to isolate human embryonic stem cells (Madison)
- Darold Treffert, noted psychiatrist (Fond du Lac)
- Charles R. Van Hise (1857–1918), geologist and academic (Fulton)
- Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), sociologist, economist, social theorist (Cato)
- Warren Weaver (1894–1978), pioneer of machine translation (Reedsburg)
- Daniel Hale Williams (1858–1931), surgeon (Janesville)
- Joseph Zimmerman (1912–2004), inventor of the answering machine (Kenosha)
- Otto Julius Zobel (1887–1970), inventor of the m-derived filter and the Zobel network (Ripon)
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