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20th-century English mathematicians

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Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
Alfred North Whitehead
English mathematician and philosopher (1861–1947)
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
G.H. Hardy
British mathematician (1877–1947)
Freeman Dyson
theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923–2020)
Andrew Wiles
English mathematician (1953–)
Oliver Heaviside
electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist (1850–1925)
James Hopwood Jeans
British mathematician and astronomer (1877 – 1946)
John Horton Conway
English mathematician (1937–2020)
Hertha Ayrton
English engineer, mathematician and inventor (1854-1923)
Alan Baker
English mathematician (1939-2018)
John Maynard Smith
British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1920-2004)
Timothy Gowers
British mathematician
Simon Donaldson
English mathematician
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
British mathematician and physicist (1886-1975)
Klaus Roth
British mathematician (1925–2015)
James H. Wilkinson
English mathematician (1919–1986)
Lewis Fry Richardson
UK mathematician & polymath (1881–1953)
Harold Jeffreys
British geophysicist and statistician (1891–1989)
Joan Clarke
English cryptanalyst
William Sealy Gosset
British statistician (1876–1937)
Ian Stewart
mathematician and author
Sydney Chapman
British mathematician and geophysicist (1888–1970)
Douglas Hartree
British mathematician and physicist (1897-1958)
William Burnside
English mathematician (1852–1927)
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
Canadian mathematician (1907–2003)
Henry Dudeney
puzzlist and mathematical games designer (1857–1930)
Alicia Boole Stott
Irish-English mathematician (1860-1940)
Dusa McDuff
English American mathematician
Kathleen Ollerenshaw
English mathematician (1912-2014)
Edward Routh
English–Quebecois mathematician (1831–1907)
Horace Lamb
English mathematician (*1849 – †1934)
W. T. Tutte
British-Canadian codebreaker and mathematician (1917-2002)
Richard K. Guy
British mathematician (1916-2020)
Max Newman
British mathematician (1897–1984)
Philippa Fawcett
English mathematician (1868–1948)
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
English mathematician and astronomer (1848-1928)
Nigel Hitchin
English mathematician (1946–)
William Penney, Baron Penney
English mathematician and physicist (1909-1991)
John Lennard-Jones
British scientist (1894-1954)
Christopher Zeeman
British mathematician (1925-2016)
Dorothy Maud Wrinch
mathematician and biochemical theorist (1894–1976)
William Henry Young
English mathematician (1863–1942)
W. W. Rouse Ball
English mathematician and lawyer (1850–1925)
Augustus Edward Hough Love
English mathematician (1863–1940)
Graham Higman
British mathematician (1917–2008)
Philip Hall
British mathematician (1904–1982)
Caroline Series
English mathematician (born 1951)
R. G. D. Allen
British economist (1906–1983)
Ben Joseph Green
British mathematician
Grace Chisholm Young
English mathematician (1878–1944)
Gordon Welchman
British cryptoanalyst (1906–1985)
John Crank
British mathematician (1916-2006)
Percy Alexander MacMahon
British mathematician (1854-1929)
Daniel Pedoe
British mathematician (1910-1998)
Lionel Penrose
British psychiatrist, medical geneticist, mathematician, and chess theorist (*1898 – †1972)
Harold Davenport
English mathematician (1907–1969)
Reuben Goodstein
British mathematician (1912-1985)
Ernest Barnes
English mathematician and clergyman (1874–1953)