Academia
- Manjul Bhargava, mathematician
- Raj Chetty, professor of economics
- Leon O. Chua, computer scientist
- Margaret Chung, first female Chinese physician in the United States
- S. I. Hayakawa, professor of English, president of San Francisco State University, and U.S. Senator
- Sumiko Hennessy, professor of social work
- Hao Huang, Frankel Chair of Music, ethnomusicologist, Scripps College
- Jaegwon Kim, professor of philosophy
- Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati, professor of economics
- Eswar Prasad, economist
- Raghuram Rajan, economist and an international academician
- Amartya Sen, economist and philosopher
- Jim Toy, gay activist & educator
- S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, NYU mathematician
- Ocean Vuong, writer, poet, professor
- Thomas Zacharia, computational material sciences
- Astrid S. Tuminez, Utah Valley University, President
- Conrado Gempesaw, Former President, St. John's University
Science
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 1983 Nobel laureate in Physics.
- Min Chueh Chang, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill.
- Shiing-Shen Chern, mathematician and winner of the 1983 Wolf Prize for his work in differential geometry.
- Steven Chu, Nobel laureate in Physics in 1997 for research on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light and former United States Secretary of Energy.
- David D. Ho, HIV/AIDS researcher
- June Huh, mathematician, 2022 Fields Medal winner.
- Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist
- Har Gobind Khorana, shared the Nobel laureate in "Physiology or Medicine" in 1968 for work in genetics and protein synthesis.
- Tsung-Dao Lee, received the 1957 Nobel Laureate in Physics for work in particle physics along with Chen Ning Yang.
- Yuan T. Lee, 1986 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
- Syukuro Manabe, 2021 Nobel Laureate in Physics
- Shuji Nakamura, 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics
- Yoichiro Nambu, 2008 Nobel laureate in Physics
- Santa J. Ono, former President University of Cincinnati, immunologist and vision scientist, current President of University of Michigan
- Charles J. Pedersen, 1987 Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
- Ching W. Tang, inventor of the organic light-emitting diode and the hetero-junction organic photovoltaic cell. Winner of the 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
- Terence Tao, mathematician, 2006 Fields Medal winner.
- Samuel C.C. Ting, 1976 Nobel laureate in physics for discovering the existence of a new particle called j/psi.
- Roger Y. Tsien, 2008 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, for the discovery of the green fluorescent protein.
- Daniel Tsui, 1998 Nobel laureate in Physics for contributions to the discovery of the fractional Quantum Hall effect.
- Chien-Shiung Wu, winner of the 1978 Wolf Prize in Physics. First woman to be elected president of American Physical Society.
- Chen Ning Yang, received the 1957 Nobel Laureate in Physics for work in particle physics along with Tsung-Dao Lee.
- Shing-Tung Yau, mathematician, 1982 Fields Medal winner.
