List of amateur mathematicians
This is a list of amateur mathematicians—people whose primary vocation did not involve mathematics yet made notable, and sometimes important, contributions to the field of mathematics.
- Ahmes
- Ashutosh Mukherjee
- Robert Ammann
- John Arbuthnot
- Jean-Robert Argand
- Leon Bankoff
- Rev. Thomas Bayes
- Andrew Beal
- Isaac Beeckman
- Chester Ittner Bliss
- Napoléon Bonaparte
- Mary Everest Boole
- William Bourne
- Nathaniel Bowditch
- Achille Brocot
- Jost Bürgi
- Marvin Ray Burns
- Gerolamo Cardano
- D. G. Champernowne
- Thomas Clausen
- Cleo
- Sir James Cockle
- Federico Commandino
- William Crabtree
- Nathan Daboll
- Henri Delannoy
- Felix Delastelle
- Martin Demaine
- Humphry Ditton
- Harvey Dubner
- Henry Dudeney
- Albrecht Dürer
- Greg Egan
- M. C. Escher
- Eugène Ehrhart
- John Ernest
- Pasquale Joseph Federico
- Pierre de Fermat
- Sarah Flannery
- Reo Fortune
- John G.F. Francis
- Benjamin Franklin
- Bernard Frenicle de Bessy
- Gemma Frisius
- Britney Gallivan
- James Garfield
- Antoine Gombaud
- Thorold Gosset
- Jørgen Pedersen Gram
- Hermann Grassmann
- John Graunt
- George Green
- Aubrey de Grey
- André-Michel Guerry
- Charles James Hargreave
- Oliver Heaviside
- Kurt Heegner
- John R. Hendricks
- Anthony Hill
- Paul Jaccard
- Alfred Bray Kempe
- Thomas Kirkman
- Laurence Monroe Klauber
- Harry Lindgren
- Ada Lovelace
- Lu Jiaxi
- Kenneth McIntyre
- Danica McKellar
- Anderson Gray McKendrick
- Marin Mersenne
- George Phillips Odom Jr.
- B. Nicolò I. Paganini
- Pāṇini
- Blaise Pascal
- Padmakumar
- Henry Perigal
- Kenneth Perko
- Ivan Pervushin
- Piero della Francesca
- Pingala
- William Playfair
- Henry Cabourn Pocklington
- George R. Price
- François Proth
- Ramchundra
- Marjorie Rice
- Olinde Rodrigues
- Lee Sallows
- Robert Schlaifer
- Robert Schneider
- William Shanks
- Abraham Sharp
- David Smith
- Simon Stevin
- Alicia Boole Stott
- Paul Tannery
- Gaston Tarry
- Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia
- Nikola Tesla
- Sébastien Truchet
- Franciscus Vieta
- Giordano Vitale
- Walter Frank Raphael Weldon
- Johannes Werner
- Caspar Wessel
- Leo Wiener
- Frank Wilcoxon
- Edouard Zeckendorf