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Herbert Spencer
English philosopher and political theorist (1820–1903)
Edward Jenner
English physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination (1749–1823)
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823–1913)
William Harvey
English physician (1578-1657)
Richard Owen
English biologist and paleontologist (1804–1892)
Max Perutz
Austrian-born British molecular biologist (1914-2002)
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
Tim Hunt
Biochemist; Nobel laureate
John Maynard Smith
British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1920-2004)
Thomas Cavalier-Smith
British biologist (1942–2021)
Francis Darwin
British naturalist and son of Charles Darwin (1848-1925)
Anne McLaren
British developmental biologist (1927–2007)
Mary Elizabeth Barber
British naturalist, botanist, entomologist, ornithologist, botanical and scientific collector, scientific illustrator, painter and poet (1818-1899)
John Needham
English biologist and Roman Catholic priest (1713-1781)
Hugh Huxley
English biologist (1924-2013)
George Busk
surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist (1807-1886)
St. George Jackson Mivart
English biologist and critic of natural selection (1827–1900)
Marian Stamp Dawkins
British biologist
Henry Charlton Bastian
British biologist (1837-1915)
Roland Trimen
British entomologist (1840-1916)
Frederick Wollaston Hutton
British-born New Zealand scientist (1836–1905)
Robert Bakewell
British agriculturalist (1725–1795)
Patrick Bateson
British biologist
Colin Pittendrigh
British/American chronobiologist (1918-1996)
Winifred Elsie Brenchley
British botanist and agricultural scientist (1883–1953)
V. C. Wynne-Edwards
British zoologist (1906–1997)
Angela McLean
British zoologist and Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Oxford
Kenneth Murray
British biologist (1930-2013)
Walter Bodmer
German-born British human geneticist (born 1936)
William Bate Hardy
British biologist (1864-1934)
Jack Heslop-Harrison
British botanist (1920-1998)
Charles Edward Beevor
English neurologist and anatomist
Ernest William Lyons Holt
British soldier and scientist (1864-1922)
Mary Osborn
British molecular biologist
Michael Ashburner
English biologist, geneticist, and bioinformatician (1942–2023)
Ian Newton
English ornithologist
Ruth Gates
American marine biologist (1962-2018)
R. J. Berry
British biologist (1934–2018)
Aubrey Manning
zoologist, broadcaster
Paul Workman
biologist