Mathematics
- Abraham Adrian Albert (B.S. 1926, S.M. 1927, Ph.D. 1928) -
- George Birkhoff (Ph.D. 1907) - Bôcher Memorial Prize winner.
- Gilbert Ames Bliss (Ph.D. 1900) -
- Alberto Calderón (Ph.D. 1950) - Cofounded the Chicago school of mathematical analysis. Winner of Bôcher Memorial Prize, the Wolf Prize, and the National Medal of Science.
- Paul J. Cohen (S.M. 1954, Ph.D. 1958) - Fields Medal winner.
- David Eisenbud (Ph.D. 1970) -
- Bernard Galler (Ph.D. 1955) -
- Richard Hamming (B.S. 1947) -
- Thomas W. Hungerford (Ph.D. 1963) -
- John Irwin Hutchinson (Ph.D. 1896) -
- Saunders MacLane (A.M. 1931) - Cofounder of category theory.
- Anil Nerode (Ph.D. 1956) -
- Isadore Singer (Ph.D. 1955) - Abel Prize winner.
- Elias M. Stein (Ph.D. 1959) - Fields Medal winner.
- John Thompson (Ph.D. 1959) - World leader in group theory. Fields Medal and National Medal of Science winner.
- Oswald Veblen (Ph.D. 1903) -
- George W. Whitehead (Ph.D. 1941) -
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