# List of American mathematicians

This is a list of American mathematicians.

## List

* James Waddell Alexander II (1888–1971)
* Stephanie B. Alexander, elected in 2014 as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to geometry, for high-quality exposition, and for exceptional teaching of mathematics"
* Linda J. S. Allen
* Ann S. Almgren, applied mathematician who works as a senior scientist and group leader of the Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
* Frederick Almgren (1933–1997)
* Beverly Anderson (b. 1943)
* Natascha Artin Brunswick (1909–2003)
* Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander (1941–2021)
* Wealthy Babcock (1895–1990)
* Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806)
* Augustin Banyaga (b. 1947)
* Ruth Aaronson Bari (1917–2005)
* Janet Barnett
* Jon Barwise (1942–2000)
* Richard Bellman (1920–1984)
* Leonid Berlyand (b. 1957)
* Leah Berman (b. 1976)
* Manjul Bhargava (b. 1974)
* George David Birkhoff (1884–1944)
* David Blackwell (1919–2010)
* Archie Blake (1906–1971)
* Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838)
* Andrew Browder (1931–2019)
* Felix Browder (1927–2016)
* William Browder (1934–2025), pioneered the surgery theory method for classifying high-dimensional manifolds.
* Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), taught at North Carolina Central University
* Robert Daniel Carmichael (1879–1967)
* Sun-Yung Alice Chang (b. 1948), researcher in mathematical analysis
* Alonzo Church (1903–1995)
* William Schieffelin Claytor (1908–1967), third African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
* Paul Cohen (1934–2007)
* Don Coppersmith (b. 1950), cryptographer, first four-time Putnam Fellow in history
* Elbert Frank Cox (1895–1969), first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, Cornell University
* Laura Demarco (b. 1974), researcher in dynamical systems and complex analysis
* Joseph J. Dennis (1905–1977), Clark College
* Joseph L. Doob (1910–2004)
* Jesse Douglas (1897–1965)
* Samuel Eilenberg (1913–1998)
* Noam Elkies (b. 1966), mathematical prodigy who works in computational number theory
* Jerald Ericksen (1924–2021)
* Alex Eskin (b. 1965), researcher in rational billiards and geometric group theory
* Christina Eubanks-Turner, American mathematics educator, graph theorist, and commutative algebraist
* Etta Zuber Falconer (1933–2002)
* Benson Farb (b. 1965), researcher in geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology
* Lisa Fauci, applied mathematician who applies computational fluid dynamics to biological processes
* Charles Fefferman (b. 1949)
* Henry Burchard Fine (1858–1928)
* Erica Flapan (b. 1956), researcher in low-dimensional topology and knot theory
* Alfred Leon Foster (1904–1994)
* Ralph Fox (1913–1973)
* Michael Freedman (b. 1951)
* Edgar Fuller
* Murray Gerstenhaber (1927–2024)
* Andrew M. Gleason (1921–2008), WWII codebreaker, major contributor in solving Hilbert's 5th Problem ("restricted" version).
* Thomas Godfrey (1704–1749)
* Ralph E. Gomory (b. 1929)
* Daniel Gorenstein (1923–1992)
* Ronald Graham (1935–2020)
* Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924–2023)
* Phillip Griffiths (b. 1938), major contributor to complex manifold approach to algebraic geometry
* Benedict Gross (b. 1950)
* Frank Harary (1921–2005)
* Joe Harris (mathematician) (b. 1951), prolific researcher and expositor of algebraic geometry
* Euphemia Haynes (1890–1980), first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics
* Gloria Conyers Hewitt (b. 1935)
* George William Hill (1838–1914)
* Einar Hille (1894–1980)
* Alston Scott Householder (1904–1993)
* Nathan Jacobson (1910–1999)
* Katherine Johnson (1918–2020)
* Theodore Kaczynski (1942–2023)
* Howard Jerome Keisler (b. 1936)
* Victor Klee (1925–2007)
* Holly Krieger
* Harold W. Kuhn (1925–2014)
* Kenneth Kunen (1943–2020)
* Solomon Lefschetz (1884–1972)
* Suzanne Lenhart (b. 1954) researcher in partial differential equations; president of the Association for Women in Mathematics, 2001–2003
* James Lepowsky (b. 1944)
* Marie Litzinger (1899–1952), number theorist
* Jacob Lurie (b. 1977), developed derived algebraic geometry
* Saunders Mac Lane (1909–2005)
* W. T. Martin (1911–2004)
* William S. Massey (1920–2017)
* John N. Mather (1942–2017)
* J. Peter May (b. 1939), researcher in algebraic topology, category theory, homotopy theory, and the foundational aspects of spectra
* Barry Mazur (b. 1937)
* Curtis T. McMullen (b. 1958)
* Elliott Mendelson (1931–2020)
* Winifred Edgerton Merrill (1862–1951)
* Kelly Miller (1863–1939)
* Kenneth Millett (b. 1941)
* John Milnor (b. 1931)
* Susan Montgomery (b. 1943)
* E. H. Moore (1862–1932)
* Marston Morse (1892–1977)
* George Mostow (1923–2017)
* Frederick Mosteller (1916–2006)
* David Mumford (b. 1937)
* John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928–2015)
* Edward Nelson (1932–2014)
* Walter Noll (1925–2017)
* Michael O'Nan (1943–2017)
* Richard Palais (b. 1931)
* Benjamin Peirce (1809–1880)
* Javier Perez-Capdevila (b. 1963)
* Vera Pless (1931–2020), mathematician specialized in combinatorics and coding theory
* Jon T. Pitts (1948–2024)
* Daniel Quillen (1940–2011)
* Charles Reason (1818–1893)
* Jeffrey B. Remmel (1948–2017)
* Joseph Ritt (1893–1951)
* Fred S. Roberts (b. 1943)
* Herbert Robbins (1915–2001)
* Julia Robinson (1919–1985), contributor to Hilbert's tenth problem
* J. Barkley Rosser (1907–1989)
* Gerald Sacks (1933–2019)
* John Sarli (living), mathematician and academic
* Thomas Jerome Schaefer
* Dana Scott (b. 1932)
* James Serrin (1926–2012)
* Claude Shannon (1916–2001)
* Isadore Singer (1924–2021)
* Charles Coffin Sims (1938–2017)
* George Seligman (1927–2024)
* Stephen Smale (b. 1930)
* Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017)
* Edwin Spanier (1921–1996)
* Norman Steenrod (1910–1971)
* Elias M. Stein (1931–2018)
* Clarence F. Stephens (1917–2018)
* Lee Stiff (1949–2021)
* Marshall Harvey Stone (1903–1989)
* Theodore Strong (1790–1869)
* Terence Tao (b. 1975)
* John Tate (1925–2019)
* Jean Taylor (b. 1944)
* John G. Thompson (b. 1932)
* Sister Mary Domitilla Thuener (1880–1977)
* William Thurston (1936–2012)
* Clifford Truesdell (1919–2000)
* John Tukey (1915–2000)
* John Urschel (b. 1991)
* Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008)
* Oswald Veblen (1880–1960)
* Mary Shore Walker (1882–1952)
* William C. Waterhouse (1941–2016)
* Herbert Wilf (1931–2012)
* J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr. (1923–2011)
* Amie Wilkinson (b. 1968), researcher in dynamical systems, ergodic theory, chaos theory and semisimple Lie groups
* Hassler Whitney (1907–1989)
* Dudley Weldon Woodard (1881–1965), second African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
* Margaret H. Wright (b. 1944), first woman president of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
* Orit Halpern (born 1972), cyberneticist