Brainiacs Born in United States
- Adams, Henry (Boston)
- Aldrin, Buzz (Montclair)
- Andreessen, Marc (Cedar Falls)
- Armstrong, Neil (Wapakoneta)
- Bancroft, Edward (Westfield)
- Banneker, Benjamin (Ellicott City)
- Bernanke, Ben (Augusta)
- Bethune, Mary McLeod (Mayesville)
- Bluford, Guion (Philadelphia)
- Burbank, Luther (Lancaster)
- Carson, Rachel (Springdale)
- Carver, George Washington (Diamond Grove)
- Chu, Steven (St. Louis)
- Cook, Robin (New York)
- Cooper, Gordon (Shawnee)
- Daly, Mary (Schenectady)
- Dean, Howard (East Hampton)
- Dewey, John (Burlington)
- Drew, Charles
- Dyson, Michael Eric (Detroit)
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Boston)
- Faust, Drew Gilpin (New York)
- Feynman, Richard (New York)
- Fischer, Bobby (Chicago)
- Fuller, Buckminster (Milton)
- Fulton, Robert (Little Britain (now Fulton))
- Garfield, Eugene (New York)
- Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (Keyser)
- Giovanni, Nikki (Knoxville)
- Glenn, John (Cambridge)
- Greenspan, Alan (New York)
- Hanna, Jack (Knoxville)
- Heimlich, Henry (Wilmington)
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell Sr. (Cambridge)
- Hubble, Edwin (Marshfield)
- Jemison, Mae C. (Decatur)
- Jobs, Steve (San Francisco)
- Kinsey, Alfred (Hoboken)
- Lawrence, Ernest O. (Canton)
- Lehrer, Tom (New York)
- Locke, Alain LeRoy (Philadelphia)
- Mann, Horace (Franklin)
- McAuliffe, Christa (Boston)
- Mead, Margaret (Philadelphia)
- Narin, Francis (Philadelphia)
- Nye, Bill
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert (New York)
- Page, Larry (Lansing)
- Pauling, Linus (Portland)
- Peterson, Roger Tory (Jamestown)
- Pinsky, Drew (Pasadena)
- Richter, Charles F. (Overpeck)
- Ride, Sally (Encino)
- Salk, Jonas (New York)
- Shepard, Alan (East Derry)
- Sheppard, Sam (Cleveland)
- Shultz, George (New York)
- Slayton, Donald K. "Deke" (Sparta)
- Spock, Dr. (New Haven)
- Sullivan, Anne (Feeding Hills)
- Summers, Lawrence H. (New Haven)
- Tuchman, Barbara (New York)
- Van Allen, James (Mount Pleasant)
- Vinge, Vernor (Waukesha)
- Washington, Booker T. (Franklin County)
- Watson, James (Chicago)
- Williams, William Carlos (Rutherford)
- Woodson, Carter G. (New Canton)
- Wozniak, Steve (San Jose)
- Zinn, Howard (New York)