Editing Brookline, Massachusetts (section)

=== Academics, scientists, and technologists ===

* [[Lily Batchelder]] (21st century), professor at [[New York University]] and former chief tax counsel to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee
* [[Zabdiel Boylston]] (1679–1766), physician who introduced inoculation against smallpox to the North American colonies in 1721
* [[Stanley Cavell]] (1926–2018), professor of philosophy, winner of a [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellowship]]
* [[Marvin Minsky]] (1927–2016), [[Artificial Intelligence]] theorist, inventor, author, professor
* [[Herman Chernoff]] (born 1923), statistician
* [[Harvey Cushing]] (1869–1939), "father of modern neurosurgery"<ref name="journey">{{cite web |title=Harvey Cushing: A Journey Through His Life: Marriage and Family |url=http://doc.med.yale.edu/historical/cushing/marriage.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150809110414/http://doc.med.yale.edu/historical/cushing/marriage.html |archive-date=August 9, 2015 |access-date=August 3, 2015 |publisher=Yale Medical Historical Library}}</ref>
* [[Alice Ettinger]] (1899–1993), radiologist
* [[Edward Fredkin]] (1934–2023), digital physics pioneer, inventor of the [[trie]] data structure, the [[Fredkin gate]] and the [[Billiard-Ball Computer]] Model for [[reversible computing]]
* [[Fayette F. Forbes]] (1851–1935), water engineer, plant collector, and botanist with a particular interest in algae and diatoms
* [[Irwin Freedberg]] (1933–2005), dermatologist
* [[Sheldon Glashow]] (born 1932), Nobel Prize-winning physicist
* [[Robert R. Glauber]] (1939–2021), Harvard faculty, former chairman of [[National Association of Securities Dealers|NASD]]
* [[Robert Goldwyn]] (1930–2010), editor-in-chief of ''Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery'' for 25 years, professor of surgery at [[Harvard Medical School]], and chief of [[Plastic Surgery]] at [[Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center|Beth Israel Hospital]]
* [[Irene Jakab]] (1919–2011), psychiatrist, [[Humanistic psychology|humanist]] and longtime Brookline resident who was a member of the faculties of [[Harvard University]], the [[University of Pittsburgh]] and the [[McLean Hospital]]
* [[Victor Kac]] (born 1943), mathematician, MIT faculty, creator of Kac-Moody algebras, creator of Superalgebra
* [[Jeffrey Karp]] (born 1975), biomedical researcher
* [[Ruth Sager]] (1918–1997), plant geneticist
* [[Lawrence Summers]], former Harvard president, former secretary of the treasury, and nephew of the Nobel Prize laureate [[Paul Samuelson]]