diff --git a/numpy/core/defchararray.py b/numpy/core/defchararray.py
index ab1166ad263f..e264fa210753 100644
--- a/numpy/core/defchararray.py
+++ b/numpy/core/defchararray.py
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 
 """
 import functools
-import sys
 from .numerictypes import (
     string_, unicode_, integer, int_, object_, bool_, character)
 from .numeric import ndarray, compare_chararrays
diff --git a/numpy/core/records.py b/numpy/core/records.py
index 5bd13a698739..b3474ad01ac0 100644
--- a/numpy/core/records.py
+++ b/numpy/core/records.py
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
   array([2., 2.])
 
 """
-import os
 import warnings
 from collections import Counter
 from contextlib import nullcontext
diff --git a/numpy/distutils/fcompiler/nv.py b/numpy/distutils/fcompiler/nv.py
index 8e9f1683558a..212f34806fc4 100644
--- a/numpy/distutils/fcompiler/nv.py
+++ b/numpy/distutils/fcompiler/nv.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-import sys
-
 from numpy.distutils.fcompiler import FCompiler
 
 compilers = ['NVHPCFCompiler']
diff --git a/numpy/f2py/crackfortran.py b/numpy/f2py/crackfortran.py
index 6453bbecb159..984bd642b6f1 100755
--- a/numpy/f2py/crackfortran.py
+++ b/numpy/f2py/crackfortran.py
@@ -139,7 +139,6 @@
     The above may be solved by creating appropriate preprocessor program, for example.
 
 """
-import io
 import sys
 import string
 import fileinput
diff --git a/numpy/lib/npyio.py b/numpy/lib/npyio.py
index 9552579cf4e6..0208da9accd8 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/npyio.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/npyio.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import sys
 import os
 import re
 import functools
diff --git a/numpy/ma/core.py b/numpy/ma/core.py
index 63d42eccad08..4c204cac2e46 100644
--- a/numpy/ma/core.py
+++ b/numpy/ma/core.py
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@
 from numpy import expand_dims
 from numpy.core.numeric import normalize_axis_tuple
 from numpy.core._internal import recursive
-from numpy.compat import pickle
 
 
 __all__ = [
diff --git a/numpy/ma/extras.py b/numpy/ma/extras.py
index bd5fc2ca3bb2..c139f4640d1e 100644
--- a/numpy/ma/extras.py
+++ b/numpy/ma/extras.py
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
 
 import numpy as np
 from numpy import ndarray, array as nxarray
-import numpy.core.umath as umath
 from numpy.core.multiarray import normalize_axis_index
 from numpy.core.numeric import normalize_axis_tuple
 from numpy.lib.function_base import _ureduce
diff --git a/numpy/typing/_array_like.py b/numpy/typing/_array_like.py
index 9f57b22956cc..2283c98d7483 100644
--- a/numpy/typing/_array_like.py
+++ b/numpy/typing/_array_like.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import sys
-from typing import Any, overload, Sequence, TYPE_CHECKING, Union, TypeVar
+from typing import Any, Sequence, TYPE_CHECKING, Union, TypeVar
 
 from numpy import (
     ndarray,
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
     str_,
     bytes_,
 )
-from ._dtype_like import DTypeLike
 
 if sys.version_info >= (3, 8):
     from typing import Protocol
diff --git a/numpy/typing/_callable.py b/numpy/typing/_callable.py
index d9cb0f1571a5..8f838f1ae0bb 100644
--- a/numpy/typing/_callable.py
+++ b/numpy/typing/_callable.py
@@ -43,11 +43,9 @@
     _BoolLike_co,
     _IntLike_co,
     _FloatLike_co,
-    _ComplexLike_co,
     _NumberLike_co,
 )
 from . import NBitBase
-from ._array_like import ArrayLike
 from ._generic_alias import NDArray
 
 if sys.version_info >= (3, 8):