List of Ethiopian scientists
The following individuals are notable scientists and engineers from Ethiopia or of Ethiopian descent:
- Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
- paleoanthropologist; discovered Selam, a fossil child of the species Australopithecus afarensis.
- Homo sapiens idaltu.
- Israel Tekahun (born 1991), computer scientist and lecturer; renowned for becoming the first developer outside of Ethiopia. Israel has a youtube channel where he teaches programming in his home language.
- archaeologist with focus on the palaeoarchaeology of the Middle Awash.
- Gullele Botanic Garden in Addis Ababa.
- aerospace engineer at NASA.
- Mesfin Mulugeta Woldegiorgis (born 1983), economist; awarded the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Gifted Students PhD Scholarship PhD in Economics at the University of Jena.
- plant breeder and geneticist; won the 2009 World Food Prize.
- endocrinologist at University of Michigan working with reproductive endocrinology and infertility.
- environmental scientist and the general manager of the Environmental Protection Authority of Ethiopia.
- Artificial IntelligenceTeam.
- Mitiku Haile (born 1951), professor of soil science and founding president at Mekelle University.
- Sossina M. Haile (born 1966), professor of materials science and chemical engineering at the California Institute of Technology.
- Segenet Kelemu (born 1957), molecular plant pathologist; Director General of the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology.
- Aklilu Lemma (1934–1997), physician; co-awarded the 1989 Right Livelihood Award.
- Computer Science at the University of California.
- Prince Claus Award.
- Legesse Wolde-Yohannes (born 1936), horticultural scientist; co-awarded the 1989 Right Livelihood Award.
- Homo sapiens idaltu.
- agronomist; renowned for building one of the finest seed conservation centersin the world.
- physical anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History; director of the Arizona State University Institute of Human Origins.