List of British scholars
This is a list of scholars from the Isle of Britain.
Medieval
- Alcuin, mathematician and scholar
- Walcher of Malvern, astrologer
- Adelard of Bath, mathematician, astronomer, physicist, alchemist and philosopher
- Robert of Chester, translator
- Robert Grosseteste, philosopher
- Gilbertus Anglicus, physician
- Johannes de Sacrobosco, mathematician and astronomer
- Roger Bacon, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist and philosopher
- John Peckham, astronomer
- William Ockham, theologian, philosopher and physicist
- Richard of Wallingford, mathematician and astronomer
- John Dastin, alchemist
- Thomas Bradwardine, mathematician, physicist, theologian and philosopher
- Simon Bredon, mathematician
- Richard Swineshead, philosopher
- William Heytesbury, philosopher
- John Westwyk, astronomer
- John Ardarne, physician
- George Ripley, alchemist
- Thomas Norton, alchemist
16th–17th century
- Emery Molyneux, astronomer
- William Gilbert, physician and philosopher
- John Gerard, botanist
- Robert Hues, geographer and mathematician
- Francis Bacon, philosopher
- William Crabtree, mathematician and astronomer
- Jeremiah Horrocks, astronomer
- Nicholas Culpeper, physician
- Lawrence Rooke, mathematician and astronomer
- Francis Willoughby, biologist
- İsaac Barrow, mathematician and theologian
- Robert Hooke, scientist: physicist, botanist, biologist, philosopher, sage, mathematician, astronomer, architect, wise, inventor
- İsaac Newton, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, philosopher, theologian, inventor
- Thomas Savery, architect, inventor an polymath
- John Flamsteed, astronomer