text: Edsger Dijkstra (1930–2002), computer scientist
  David Adriaan van Dorp (1915–1995), chemist
  Eugène Dubois (1858–1944), paleontologist and anatomist
  Christiaan Eijkman (1858–1930), physician and pathologist
  Willem Einthoven (1860–1927), physician
  Anthony Fokker (1890–1939), aviation engineer
  Valerie Frissen (born 1960), social scientist
  Richard D. Gill (born 1951), mathematician
  Arend Heyting (1898–1980), mathematician
  Gerardus 't Hooft (born 1946), physicist
  Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853–1926), physicist
  Jacobus Kapteyn (1851–1922), astronomer
  Willem Hendrik Keesom (1878–1956), physicist
  Hendrik Anthony Kramers (1894–1952), physicist
  Pieter Kok (born 1972), physicist
  Tjalling Koopmans (1910–1985), economist
  Gerard Kuiper (1905–1973), astronomer
  Hendrik Lorentz (1853–1928), physicist
  Arend Lijphart (born 1936), political scientist
  Simon van der Meer (1925–2011), physicist
  Bram Moolenaar (born 1961), computer programmer, author of text-editor Vim
  Wubbo Ockels (1946–2014), astronaut
  Jan Oort (1900–1992), astronomer
  Anton Pannekoek (1873–1960), astronomer
  Guido van Rossum (born 1956), computer programmer, inventor of the Python programming language
  Carel van Schaik (born 1953), primatologist
  Maarten Schmidt (born 1929), astronomer
  Willem de Sitter (1872–1934), mathematician, physicist and astronomer
  Hendrik Tennekes (born 1936), aerodynamics professor
  Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994), economist
  Nico Tinbergen (1907–1988), ecologist
  Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931–2021), physicist
  Frans de Waal (1948-2024), primatologist
  Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903–1996), mathematician
  Pieter Zeeman (1865–1943), physicist
  Frits Zernike (1888–1966), physicist
  Andre Geim (born 1958), Russian-born British-Dutch physicist