List of English people
This is a partial list of English people of note and of some notable individuals born there, alphabetically within categories:
Inventors
- Christopher Cockerell, (1910-1999), inventor of the hovercraft
- William Congreve, rocketry pioneer
- Abraham Darby, (c. 1678-1717), ironmaster
- James Hargreaves, (1720-1778), weaver and inventor
- John Harrison, (1693-1776), clockmaker
- Rowland Hill, (1795-1879), inventor of the modern postal service
- Thomas Newcomen, (1664-1729), inventor
- Isaac Newton, (1642-1727), founder of modern physics, inventor of the reflector telescope
- James Starley, (1831-1881), bicycle pioneer
- George Stephenson, (1781-1848), engineer
- Charles Wheatstone, (1802-1975), inventor
- Frank Whittle, (1907-1996), co-inventor of the jet engine
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