Editing Riga (section)

=== Science ===
*[[Ernst von Bergmann]] (1836–1907), [[Baltic Germans|Baltic German]] surgeon, pioneer of [[aseptic surgery]]
*[[Walter von Boetticher]] (1853–1945), German historian, genealogist and physician
*[[Jakob Benjamin Fischer]] (1731–1793), [[Baltic Germans|Baltic German]] naturalist and [[apothecary]]
*[[Lola Hoffmann]] (1904–1988), physiologist and psychiatrist
*[[Charles Kalme]] (1939–2002), American mathematician and international master of chess
*[[Karlis Kaufmanis]] (1910–2003), astronomer who lectured that the [[Star of Bethlehem]] was a conjunction in 7 BC of the planets [[Jupiter]] and [[Saturn]]
*[[Mstislav Keldysh]] (1911–1978), Soviet mathematician who worked on the first [[Soviet space program|artificial satellite]]
*[[George Nagobads]] (1921–2023), American physician and recipient of the [[Paul Loicq Award]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ushockeyhalloffame.com/page/show/833453-dr-v-george-nagobads|title=Dr. V. George Nagobads|website=[[United States Hockey Hall of Fame]]|access-date=July 8, 2021|archive-date=9 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184422/https://www.ushockeyhalloffame.com/page/show/833453-dr-v-george-nagobads|url-status=live}}; {{cite web|url=https://www.ushockeyhall.com/drgeorgenagobads|title=Dr. V. George Nagobads|website=[[United States Hockey Hall of Fame]]|access-date=July 8, 2021|archive-date=12 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712112620/https://www.ushockeyhall.com/drgeorgenagobads|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Wilhelm Ostwald]] (1853–1932), [[Baltic Germans|Baltic German]] chemist and winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] in 1909
*[[Georg August Schweinfurth]] (1836–1925), [[Baltic Germans|Baltic German]] botanist and ethnologist who explored East Central Africa.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Schweinfurth, Georg August |volume= 24 | page = |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[Georg von Tiesenhausen]] (1914–2018), [[Baltic Germans|Baltic German]] American [[Aerospace engineering|rocket scientist]]
*[[Juris Upatnieks]] (born 1936), Latvian–American physicist, inventor, and pioneer in the field of [[holography]]
*[[Friedrich Zander]] (1887–1933), [[Baltic Germans|Baltic German]] engineer who designed the first Soviet liquid-fuelled rocket
*[[Walter Zapp]] (1905–2003), [[Baltic Germans|Baltic German]] inventor who created the Minox [[Subminiature photography|subminiature camera]]
*[[Nathan A. Zepell]] (1915–1982), inventor and engineer