Peter Hofstee, professor of theoretical physics, joined IBM in 1996, currently the chief architect of the Synergistic Processor Element (SPE) of the Cell microprocessor.
Johan Huizinga, historian
Aletta Jacobs, first woman in the Netherlands to receive a MD
Klaas Knot, current President of the Dutch central bank De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB).[3]
Jaap Kunst, ethnomusicologist (studied law)
Wander Lowie, linguist
Wei Ji Ma, professor of psychology and neuroscience
Maurits van Oranje Nassau
John Nerbonne, professor of humanities computing, expert in dialectology, member of the Dutch Royal Academy of Science
Wubbo Ockels, first Dutch astronaut, received a PhD degree in physics and mathematics, 1973
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his experiments on the properties of matter at low temperatures which made, among other things, the production of liquid helium possible
Jan Oort, astronomer
Johannes Jacobus Poortman, philosopher, psychologist
Dagmar Reichardt, professor of Cultural Industry at University of Latvia
Edgars Rinkevics, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
Henk G. Sol, Professor Business Engineering and ICT
Clemens von Bönninghausen, lawyer, botanist, homeopathic physician
Jacques Wallage, former mayor of Groningen
Paramanga Ernest Yonli, Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (2000–2007), studied Economics
Frits Zernike, professor of theoretical physics, received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the phase contrast optical microscope in 1953
(in Dutch)틀:Nl Klaas van Berkel: Universiteit van het Noorden. Vier eeuwen academisch leven in Groningen. Part 1 De oude universiteit 1614-1876. Hilversum, Verloren, 2014. ISBN978-90-8704-466-4