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Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer
J. R. R. Tolkien
British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
Norman Blake
British linguist
Friedrich Hayek
Austrian and British economist
Arthur Sullivan
English composer of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo
William Sterndale Bennett
British musician
Stephen Hawking
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
Kwame Anthony Appiah
British-American philosopher and writer
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer
John Henry Newman
English cleric and cardinal
Ralph Vaughan Williams
British composer
Christopher Wren
English architect
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
Karl Popper
Austrian-British philosopher of science
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian and scholar
Augustus De Morgan
British mathematician, philosopher and university teacher (1806-1871)
George Frideric Handel
German-British Baroque composer
T. S. Eliot
American born British poet
Stuart Hall
sociologist and cultural theorist
Zaha Hadid
Iraqi-British architect
Bertrand Russell
British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel laureate
Richard Dawkins
English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
Enoch Powell
British politician
Roger Scruton
English philosopher and writer
W. H. Auden
British-American poet
W. H. Auden
Anglo-American poet
John Ruskin
English writer and art critic
Alan Turing
British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist
Ralph Cudworth
English philosopher
Isaac Newton
British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics
Anthony Burgess
English writer and composer
Goldwin Smith
British historian and journalist
Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens
British sociologist
Richard Branson
English business magnate, investor and philanthropist
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath
Chaim Weizmann
Zionist leader, 1st president of Israel
Patrick Stewart
British actor
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, author
George Wythe
First American law professor, a noted classics scholar and Virginia judge, as well as a prominent opponent of slavery