List of English people

This is a partial list of English people of note and of some notable individuals born there, alphabetically within categories:

Scientists

• Arthur Aikin, (1773-1854), chemist and mineralogist
• Charles Babbage, (1791-1871), mathematician
• Joseph Banks, (1743-1820), naturalist
• Thomas Bayes, (c. 1702-1761), mathematician
• Tim Berners-Lee, (born 1955), computer scientist
• George Boole, (1815-1864), mathematician
• Robert Boyle, (1627-1691), philosopher and physicist
• Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, (1897-1974), physicist
• Isaac Barrow, (1630-1677), mathematician
• Henry Cavendish, (1731-1810), scientist
• Sir George Cayley, (1773-1857), polymath and aviator
• Francis Crick, (1916 - 2004), molecular biologist
• John Dalton, (1766-1844), chemist and physicist
• Charles Darwin, (1809-1882), Founder of The Theory of Evolution
• Richard Dawkins, (born 1941), biologist
• Horace Donisthorpe (1870-1951), entomologist, myrmecologist and coleopterist
• Paul Dirac, (1902-1984), physicist
• Arthur Eddington, (1882-1944), physicist
• Michael Faraday, (1791-1867), scientist
• Ronald Fisher, (1890-1962), geneticist and statistician
• Rosalind Franklin, (1920-1958), molecular biologist
• J. B. S. Haldane, (1892-1964), geneticist
• Stephen Hawking, (born 1942), cosmologist
• Oliver Heaviside, (1850-1925), physicist
• C. A. R. Hoare, computer scientist
• Robert Hooke, (1635-1703), scientist
• John Herschel, (1792-1871), mathematician and astronomer
• Edward Jenner, (1749-1823), doctor
• R. V. Jones, (1911-1997), physicist
• James Prescott Joule, (1818-1889), physicist
• Joseph Lister, (1827-1912), surgeon
• Bernard Lovell, astronomer
• James Lovelock, (born 1919), scientist
• Martin Lowry, (1874-1936), chemist
• John William Lubbock, (1803-1865), banker, mathematician and astronomer
• Sir Charles Lyell, (1797-1875), geologist
• John Maynard Smith, geneticist
• Desmond Morris, (born 1928), zoologist
• Roger Needham, (1935-2003), computer scientist
• Isaac Newton, (1642-1727), founder of modern physics, last of the alchemists
• Roger Penrose, (born 1931), cosmologist
• Joseph Prestwich, (1812-1896), geologist
• Joseph Priestley, (1733-1804), chemist
• Adam Sedgwick, (1785-1873), geologist
• Joseph Wilson Swan, (1828-1914), physicist and chemist
• J. J. Thomson, (1856-1940), physicist
• Henry Tizard, scientist
• Alan Turing, (1912-1954), mathematician
• Alfred Russel Wallace, (1823-1913), naturalist
• Robert Watson-Watt, (1892-1973), scientist
• Alfred North Whitehead, (1861-1947), mathematician
• Maurice Vincent Wilkes, (born 1913), computer scientist
• James H. Wilkinson, (1919-1986), mathematician
• William Hyde Wollaston, (1766-1828), chemist
• Thomas Young, (1773-1829), scientist