Editing South Dakota State University (section)

===Academia, science, and technology===
*[[John Merton Aldrich]] (1888), zoologist, entomologist and curator of insects at the [[United States National Museum]]
*[[Stephen Foster Briggs]] (1907), inventor of the [[Briggs & Stratton]] engine
*[[Theodore Schultz]] (1928), economist, Nobel laureate, 1979 [[Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel|Nobel Prize in Economics]], and chair of [[Chicago School of Economics]]
*[[Irwin Gunsalus]], discovered [[lipoic acid]], founder of [[International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology|United Nations International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology]], and chair of [[National Academy of Sciences]]
*[[Robert H. Burris]] (1936), [[National Academy of Sciences]] Professor of Biochemistry at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]]
*[[Cleveland L. Abbott]], professor and coach of [[Tuskegee University]] and namesake of Tuskegee's [[Abbott Memorial Alumni Stadium]]
*[[Gene Amdahl]] (1948), Architect of the [[IBM 360]], [[IBM 704]], [[IBM 709]], and [[Amdahl's Law]]
*[[John Mortvedt]] (1953), soils scientist
*[[Vern L. Schramm]] (1963), Professor of Biochemistry at the [[Albert Einstein College of Medicine]]
*[[Roger Zwieg]] (1964), NASA astronaut and flight instructor
*[[Cynthia Larive]] (1980), current Chancellor of the [[University of California, Santa Cruz]]
*[[Josephine Santiago-Bond]] (2005), Chief of the Advanced Engineering Development Branch at [[National Aeronautics and Space Administration]]