List of British scientists

A

• Francis William Aston
• David Axon

  B

• Francis Bacon - philosopher, "father of the scientific method"
• Roger Bacon - philosopher, polymath, early advocate of the scientific method
• Michael Bearpark
• John Beddington
• Ralph Benjamin
• Tim Berners-Lee - inventor of the World Wide Web, physicist and computer scientist, and professor at University of Southampton and MIT
• Kevin Beurle
• David Mervyn Blow
• Edward August Bond
• Edward Augustus Bowles
• C. V. Boys
• Dennis Bray
• Malcolm Brenner
• Donald Broadbent
• W. A. S. Butement

  C

• Robert W. Cahn
• Sandy Cairncross
• James Cameron
• Richard Caton
• Colin Cherry
• Harriette Chick
• Samuel Hunter Christie
• G. Marius Clore FRS
• Marcela Contreras
• Verona Conway
• Brian Cox
• Eva Crane
• Francis Crick
• Henry Holmes Croft
• Andrew Crosse

  D

• John Dalton - "father of modern atomic theory"; Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures
• Charles Darwin - naturalist; theory of evolution
• Donald Davies - one of the three "fathers of the Internet"
• Humphry Davy
• Richard Dawkins
• Paul Dirac
• Deborah Doniach

  F

• Michael Faraday
• Adrian Farrel
• Axel Firsoff
• Alexander Fleming
• Jeff Forshaw
• Carey Foster
• Henry Foster
• Rosalind Franklin
• Francis Crick

  G

• Ed Gallagher
• Michael Gerzon
• June Goodfield
• Dougal Goodman
• Guy Goodwin
• Raymond Gosling
• Monica Grady
• Malcolm Green
• Robert Grosseteste
• Frederick Guthrie
• Helen Gwynne-Vaughan

  H

• Wendy Hall
• Edmond Halley
• William Vernon Harcourt
• Anita Harding
• Richard Harrison
• Stephen Hawking - theoretical physicist and cosmologist
• Oliver Heaviside
• Vernon Heywood
• Julia Higgins
• Peter Higgs
• Harold Hillman
• Peter Hirsch
• George Hockham
• Anthony Hollander
• Victor Horsley
• Rosalinde Hurley
• Harold Edwin Hurst
• Janet Husband

  I

• Ray K Iles

  J

• Alec Jeffreys
• Edward Jenner - pioneer immunologist
• Harren Jhoti
• Mark H. Johnson
• Joanne Johnson - geologist, Antarctic scientist
• Daniel Jubb

  K

• Maged N. Kamel Boulos
• Charles K. Kao
• Frank Kearton, Baron Kearton
• David Kelly
• Alexander King
• Rudolf Kompfner
• John Howard Kyan

  L

• Patrick Laidlaw
• John Henry Lefroy
• John Lennard-Jones
• Chris Lightfoot
• Ada Lovelace

  M

• George G. Macfarlane
• Harry Marsh
• Charles James Martin
• Neil D. Mathur
• James Clerk Maxwell - physicist, mathematician, formulated electromagnetic theory
• John McCafferty
• Peter H Millard
• John F. B. Mitchell
• Kieran Moriarty
• William Musgrave

  N

• Sir Isaac Newton

  O

• Bridget Ogilvie
• Ian Osterloh

  P

• Woodbine Parish
• Arthur Lindo Patterson
• David Peakall
• Joseph Barclay Pentland
• Chris Phillips
• Henry Piddington
• Andrew Pitman
• Vicky Pope
• Cicely Popplewell
• Joseph Priestley

  R

• Matthew Raper
• Chris Rapley
• Michael Reiss
• Sheila Rodwell
• Gordon Rugg
• Bertrand Russell - philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic
• John Burdon-Sanderson

  S

• Sydney Selwyn
• Nigel Shadbolt
• George D. W. Smith
• Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope
• James Stirling
• Peter A. Stott
• Peter Sykes

  T

• Benjamin Thompson
• J. J. Thomson
• William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
• John Sealy Townsend
• Eric Trist
• Alan Turing - mathematician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist
• Arthur James Turner

  U

• James Underwood
• Olga Uvarov

  W

• Nicholas Wald
• Kevin Warwick
• Andrew Watson
• Alexander Watt
• Richard Burkewood Welbourn
• Michael Wells
• Thomas Summers West
• M. J. Whelan
• Elsie Widdowson
• Maurice Wilkins
• James H. Wilkinson
• Alan Wilson
• Greg Winter
• Heinz Wolff

  Y

• Thomas Young