Category
page 1British Nobel laureates
Bertrand Russell
British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
T. S. Eliot
US-British poet (1888–1965)
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
Doris Lessing
British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer (1919–2013)
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)

J. J. Thomson
British physicist (1856-1940)
Kazuo Ishiguro
British novelist (born 1954)
William Golding
British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1911–1993)
Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)
Friedrich Hayek
Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)
V. S. Naipaul
Trinidadian-British writer (1932–2018)
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013)

William Henry Bragg
British scientist (1862–1942)

James Chadwick
English physicist (1891-1974), who discovered the neutron in 1932
Ronald Ross
British doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist (1857–1932)
John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
English physicist (1842–1919)

William Ramsay
Scottish chemist (1852–1916)
Peter Higgs
British physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1929–2024)

William Lawrence Bragg
Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Scottish physicist and meteorologist (1869-1959)
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist (1918–2013)
Dennis Gabor
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography

Mairead Maguire
peace activist (born 1944)

George Paget Thomson
English physicist (1892–1975)

Owen Willans Richardson
British physicist (1879-1959)
Brian David Josephson
Welsh physicist

Francis William Aston
British chemist (1877-1945)
Betty Williams
Northern Irish peace activist (1943–2020)

Patrick Blackett
British physicist (1897-1974)
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Nobel prize winning American and British structural biologist
Charles K. Kao
Hong Kong-British-American physicist

C. F. Powell
British physicist
Antony Hewish
English physicist and radio astronomer (1924–2021)
Andre Geim
Russian-born Dutch-British physicist

Konstantin Novoselov
Russian-British physicist known for graphene work
Maurice Wilkins
New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist

David J. Thouless
British physicist (1934–2019)
Charles Scott Sherrington
English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857–1952)

Anthony James Leggett
British physicist (1938–2026)

Nevill Francis Mott
English physicist, Nobel prize winner

Arthur Harden
British biochemist

Archibald Hill
English physiologist and biophysicist (1886-1977)

Austen Chamberlain
British politician (1863-1937)
Hans Krebs
German-British biochemist (1900-1981)
Michael Kosterlitz
British physicist
Duncan Haldane
professor of physics at Princeton University
Ronald Coase
British economist and Nobel laureate (1910–2013)
Aaron Klug
British chemist and biophysicist
David Trimble
First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002

Ernst Chain
Jewish-German-born British biochemist (1906–1979)

Peter Medawar
English-brazilian biologist (1915–1987)

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
English physical chemist (1897-1967)
John Richard Hicks
British economist (1904-1989)

Max Perutz
Austrian-born British molecular biologist (1914-2002)

George Porter
British chemist (1920–2002)

Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd
British biochemist (1907-1997)
Norman Angell
British politician (1872-1967)