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British fluid dynamicists

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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
William John Macquorn Rankine
civil engineer (1820–1872)
James Hopwood Jeans
British mathematician and astronomer (1877 – 1946)
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
British mathematician and physicist (1886-1975)
Lewis Fry Richardson
UK mathematician & polymath (1881–1953)
Horace Lamb
English mathematician (*1849 – †1934)
James Lighthill
British applied mathematician (1924–1998)
William Froude
British engineer and naval architect (1810–1879)
Ralph Alger Bagnold
English 20th-century desert explorer, geologist and soldier
Ralph Allen Sampson
Irish-British astronomer (1866-1939)
Fritz Ursell
British mathematician (1923-2012)
Sydney Goldstein
British mathematician noted for his contribution to fluid dynamics (1903–1989)
Alfred Barnard Basset
British mathematician
Brooke Benjamin
British mathematician and physicist (1929–1995)
Hermann Glauert
British aerodynamicist (1892–1934)
Henry Selby Hele-Shaw
British engineer (1854–1941)
John Ffowcs Williams
British engineer-scientist, researcher of numerical aeroacoustics (1935-2020)
Herbert Huppert
British geophysicist
Keith Moffatt
British mathematician (1935-)
George Barker Jeffery
British mathematical physicist (1891-1957)
Keith Stewartson
British mathematician (1925-1983)
David Crighton
British mathematician and physicist (1942–2000)
Robert Edmund Froude
British engineer (1846-1924)
Albert E. Green
British applied mathematician and research scientist in theoretical and applied mechanics (1912-1999)
Antony Jameson
British aerospace engineer
Joseph Proudman
British mathematician and oceanographer
Michael S. Longuet-Higgins
British mathematician (1925-2016)
John Trevor Stuart
British mathematician (1929–2023)