text: Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692–1761), Dutch scientist, scientific instrument maker and inventor of Leyden jar
  Frederik Ruysch (1638–1731), botanist and anatomist
  Marie du Saar (1860–1955), ophthalmologist
  Frans van Schooten (1615–1660), mathematician
  Willebrord Snell (1580–1626), astronomer and mathematician
  Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856–1894), mathematician
  Simon Stevin (1548–1620), mathematician and engineer
  Jan Swammerdam (1637–1680), scientist
  Franciscus Sylvius (1614–1672), physician and anatomist
  Nicolaes Tulp (1593–1674), physician, surgeon and mayor of Amsterdam
  Gustav de Vries (1866–1934), mathematician
  Hugo de Vries (1848–1937), geneticist
  Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837–1923), physicist
  Nicolaes Witsen (1641–1717), statesman, shipbuilder, geographer and cartographer
  Hendrik Zwaardemaker (1857–1930), scientist
  20th century
  Wiebe Bijker (born 1951), social scientist
  Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920–2017), physicist
  Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (1881–1966), mathematician
  Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (1918–2012), mathematician
  Hendrik Casimir (1909–2000), physicist
  Paul J. Crutzen (1933–2021), atmospheric chemist
  David van Dantzig (1900–1959), mathematician
  Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933), physicist
  Chaim Elata (born 1929), Israeli professor of mechanical engineering, President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Chairman of the Israel Public Utility Authority for Electricity
  George Uhlenbeck (1900–1988), theoretical physicist
  Samuel Goudsmit (1902–1978), Dutch-American physicist
  Dirk Brouwer (1902–1966), astronomer
  Cornelis Johannes van Houten (1920–2002), astronomer
  Tom Gehrels (1925–2011), astronomer
  Willem Johan Kolff (1911–2009), physician and inventor
  Peter Debye (1884–1966), chemist
  Robbert Dijkgraaf (born 1960), physicist