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Scientists, Physicians and Inventors
- Dr. Agustin Stahl, Botanist - Stahl is considered to be Puerto Rico's first renowned scientist, conducted investigations and experiments in the fields of botany, ethnology and zoology.
- Amri Hernandez-Pellerano, NASA engineer - Hernández-Pellerano designs, builds and tests the electronics that will regulate the solar array power in order to charge the spacecraft battery and distribute power to the different loads or users inside various spacecraft at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
- Dr. Ariel Lugo, Scientist and ecologist - Dr. Lugo is the Director of the International Institute of Tropical Forestry within the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, based in Puerto Rico. He is a founding Member of the Society for Ecological Restoration and Member-at-Large of the Board of the Ecological Society of America.
- Dr. Carlos E. Chardón, a.k.a. the "Father of Mycology in Puerto Rico" - Chardón is the first Puerto Rican mycologist. Discovered the aphid "Aphis maidis", the vector of the mosaic of sugar cane, in 1922. Author of the "Chardón Plan" and first Puerto Rican to hold the position of Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico.
- Dr. Carlos Del Castillo, former Program Scientist for the Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Program at NASA Headquarters, in Washington, D.C.. Recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) award, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.
- Dr. Carlos Ortiz Longo, Mechanical engineer - Chief of Crew Health Care Systems and Exercise Countermeasures in NASA.
- Dr. Carlos Albizu Miranda Psychologist, educator - First Hispanic Educator to have a North American University renamed in his honor and one of the first Hispanics to earn a PhD in Psychology in the United States.
- Dr. Diego R. Solís, Physician - Solís made Puerto Rican medical history when he performed the first simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplant in Puerto Rico.
- Dr. Eduardo Santiago Delpín, Surgeon - Santiago Delpin wrote the first book in Spanish about organ transplant.
- Enectalí Figueroa-Feliciano, Astronaut applicant and astrophysicist in NASA - Figueroa pioneered the development of position-sensitive detectors.
- Dr. Felix Soto Toro, Electrical engineer, astronaut applicant - Soto Toror developed the Advanced Payload Transfer Measurement System (ASPTMS)(Electronic 3D measuring system).
- Fermín Tangüis, Scientist, businessman, agriculturist - Tangüis developed the Tanguis cotton in Peru and saved that nation's cotton industry.
- Fernando López Tuero, Agricultural scientist and agronomist - López Tuero discovered the bug (believed at first to be a germ) which was destroying Puerto Rico's sugar canes.
- Dr. Fernando E. Rodríguez Vargas, Dentist, scientist - Rodríguez Vargas discovered the bacteria which causes dental cavity.
- Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias, Physician and activist - Rodriguez-Trias was a physician and activist. She was the first Latina president of The American Public Health Association, a founding member of the Women's Caucus of the American Public Health Association and the recipient of the Presidential Citizen's Medal.
- Dr. Isaac González Martínez, Urologist - González Martínez was the first Puerto Rican urologist and a pioneer in the fight against cancer in the island.
- Jorge N. Amely Vélez, Inventor - Amely Vélez is an electrical engineer and inventor who holds various patents in the field of Medical Technology.
- Dr. José F. Cordero, Pediatrician - Cordero is the founding director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Joseph M. Acaba, Astronaut, scientist, educator - First Puerto Rican astronaut.
- Dr. Juan R. Correa-Pérez PhD, scientist, clinical andrologist and embryologist - Dr. Correa-Pérez is a scientist who is credited with becoming the first clinical Andrologist and Embryologist in Puerto Rico.
- Dr. Juan R. Cruz, NASA scientist - Played an instrumental role in the design and development of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) parachute.
- Lissette Martinez, Electronic engineer, rocket scientist - Martinez is the lead electrical engineer for the Space Experiment Module program at the Wallops Flight Facility located in Virginia which is part of NASA's Goddard Flight Facility.
- Dr. Manuel Martínez Maldonado, MD; MACP, is a Nephrologist, educator, poet and author - Martínez Maldonado has authored numerous scientific publications and discovered a natriuretic hormone.
- Dr. María Cordero Hardy, physiologist, educator and scientist - Cordero Hardy's research on vitamin E helped other scientists understand about how the vitamin works in the human body.
- Dr. Mario R. García Palmieri, Cardiologist - García Palmieri is the first Hispanic to have the distinction of being designated a "Master" by the American College of Cardiology.
- Mercedes Reaves, Research engineer and scientist - Reaves is responsible for the design of a viable full-scale solar sail and the development and testing of a scale model solar sail at NASA Langley Research Center.
- Miguel Rodríguez, mechanical engineer - Rodríguez is the Chief of the Integration Office of the Cape Canaveral Spaceport Management Office.
- Dr. Miriam Rodon-Naveira, PhD, Puerto Rican NASA scientist - Rodón-Naveira was the first Hispanic woman to hold the Deputy Directorship for the Environmental Sciences Division within the National Exposure Research Laboratory.
- Monserrate Roman, Scientist, microbiologist - Roman helped build the International Space Station.
- Dr. Nitza Margarita Cintron, Scientist - Chief of NASA's (JSC) Space and Health Care Systems Office.
- Olga D. Gonzalez-Sanabria, NASA engineer - Gonzalez-Sanabria is the highest ranking Hispanic at NASA Glenn Research Center and a member of the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame.
- Dr. Orlando Figueroa, Mechanical engineer at NASA - Previously the NASA Mars Czar Director for Mars Exploration and the Director for the Solar System Division in the Office of Space Science at NASA Headquarters is now the Director, Applied Engineering & Technology at the NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center (as the "Director of Engineering" he manages the full scope of engineering activities at Goddard.
- Dr. Pedro Beauchamp, Surgeon - The first Puerto Rican specialist certified by the American Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Board, who performed the first in vitro fertilization (IVF) technique on the island in 1985.
- Dr. Pedro Rodriguez, Inventor, Mechanical Engineer - Rodríguez is the director of a test laboratory at NASA. He invented a portable, battery-operated lift seat for people suffering from knee arthritis.
- Dr. Ramon E. Lopez, Physicist - Dr. Lopez, a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Texas at Arlington, is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and recipient of the 2002 Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service. He is the co-author of a book on space weather entitled "Storms from the Sun"
- Dr. Ramón M. Suárez Calderon, Scientist, cardiologist, educator and hematologist - His investigations led to the identification of the proper and effective treatment of a type of anemia known as Tropical Espru, the application of complex methods, such as electrocardiography and radioisotope, to be used in clinics and the identification and treatment of the disease which causes heart rheumatism.
- Dr. Ricardo Alegría, Anthropologist, archaeologist and educator - "Father of Modern Puerto Rican Archaeology".
- Rosa A. González (RN) - Founder of "The Association of Registered Nurses of Puerto Rico" and author of various books related to her field where she denounced the discrimination against women and nurses in Puerto Rico.
- Dr. Sixto Gonzalez, Scientist - First Puerto Rican Director of the Arecibo Observatory the world's largest single dish radio telescope.
- Dr. Victor Manuel Blanco, Astronomer - In 1959, Blanco discovered a "Blanco 1", a galactic cluster. Blanco was the second Director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, which has the largest 4-m telescope in the Southern Hemisphere, In 1995, the telescope was dedicated in his honor and named the "Víctor M. Blanco Telescope" and is also known as the "Blanco 4m"
- Dr. Yajaira Sierra Sastre, Astronaut applicant, Nanotechnologist and educator - Sierra Sastre was chosen to take part in a new NASA project. She will live for four months isolated in a planetary module to simulate what life will be like for astronauts at a future base on Mars at a base in Hawaii. Sierra Sastre is an aspiring astronaut.
- Puerto Rican scientists and inventors - List of notable Puerto Rican scientists and inventors.
- List of Puerto Ricans in the United States Space Program - List of notable Puerto Ricans in NASA.
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