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20th-century English engineers

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Amy Johnson
pioneering English aviator (1903–1941)
Hertha Ayrton
English engineer, mathematician and inventor (1854-1923)
Christopher Cockerell
English engineer (1910–1999)
Delia Derbyshire
English musician and composer of electronic music (1937–2001)
Tommy Flowers
British engineer, helped to design Colossus during World War II (1905–1998)
Innes Ireland
British racecar driver
Ronald Rawson
boxer (1892–1952)
Peter Rice
Irish engineer (1935–1992)
Beatrice Shilling
British aeronautical engineer
Caroline Haslett
British electrical engineer and electricity industry administrator, editor (1895–1957)
Horace Darwin
British engineer (1851-1928)
Archibald Low
British physicist (1888–1956)
Frederic Calland Williams
English engineer
Hilda Phoebe Hudson
British mathematician (1881-1965)
Francis Thomas Bacon
English engineer (1904–1992)
Laura Annie Willson
British engineer and suffragette (1877-1942)
Cecil Reginald Burch
British physicist (1901-1983)
John Adams
British physicist (1920–1984)
Alan Blumlein
English electronics engineer (1903-1942)
Donald Bailey
British civil engineer (1901–1985)
George Jackson Churchward
English railway engineer and locomotive designer
Stanley Hooker
aircraft engine engineer (1907-1984)
Daphne Jackson
British nuclear physicist (1936–1991)
Bill Hudson
WW2 SOE agent (1910–1995)
Donald Hill
British historian and engineer (1922–1994)
William McFee
American writer (1881–1966)
Marie Killick
English audio engineer who patented the truncated-tip sapphire stylus in 1945 for playing gramophone records
James H. Ellis
British cryptographer (1924-1997)
Verena Holmes
English mechanical engineer and inventor (1889–1964)
Reginald Engelbach
English egyptologist (1888-1946)
R. E. B. Crompton
British engineer (1845-1940)
Alan W. Bishop
British engineer (1920–1988)
Charles Husband
British engineer (1908-1983)
Cameron Earl
British automotive engineer
William Fairhurst
British chess player and bridge designer (1903-1982)
James N. Goodier
professor of applied mechanics at Stanford University (1905-1969)
Rudolf Kingslake
British engineer (1903-2003)
Beryl May Dent
English mathematical physicist (1900–1977)
L. E. Baynes
English aeronautical engineer
Claude W. Kinder
British engineer
George Reginald Starr
British engineer
W.E.W. Petter
British aircraft designer
W. E. Butler
British occult writer (1898–1978)
Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave
Mathematician, engineer
Thomas Parker
English electrical engineer and inventor