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Edward Gibbon
English historian and politician (1737–1794)
Peter Ackroyd
English author (born 1949)
Alfred Edward Housman
British classical scholar and poet (1859-1936)
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912–1998)
Mary Beard
English classicist (born 1955)
Michael Ventris
British architect and linguist (1922-1956)
Jane Ellen Harrison
British classical scholar, linguist and feminist (1850–1928)
Richard Bentley
English classical scholar, critic and theologian and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1662–1742)
Benjamin Jowett
English writer and classical scholar (1817–1893)
Moses I. Finley
American-born British academic and classical scholar (1912–1986)
Bettany Hughes
English popular historian, author, and broadcaster
George Grote
English historian and political radical (1794–1871)
John Chadwick
English linguist and classical scholar (1920-1998)
Michael Grant
British classicist, numismatist, historian and author (1914-2004)
Elizabeth Carter
English poet and polymath (1717 – 1806)
Gilbert Murray
Anglo-Australian scholar (1866-1957)
John Beazley
British art historian and archaeologist (1885–1970)
Francis William Newman
English scholar and writer (1805–1897)
Arnold Hugh Martin Jones
British historian of classical antiquity (1904–1970)
Churchill Babington
English scholar, archaeologist and naturalist (1821-1889)
Judith Herrin
British archaeologist
John Cheke
16th-century English classical scholar and statesman
Richard Porson
English classical scholar (1759–1808)
Thomas Taylor
English translator and Neoplatonist (1758-1835)
John Boardman
British classical archaeologist (1927-2024)
Paul Cartledge
British ancient Greece historian (born 1947)
Jonathan Barnes
British historian and philosopher (born 1942)
Maurice Bowra
English classical scholar, literary critic and academic (1898–1971)
F. M. Cornford
British classical scholar (1874–1943)
Robin Lane Fox
British historian, educator and writer (born 1946)
Robert Scott
British academic and priest (1811–1887)
Andrew Dalby
British academic
Kenneth Dover
British hellenist and classical philologist (1920–2010)
Percy Gardner
British archaeologist (1846-1937)
William Woodthorpe Tarn
British classical scholar and historian of classical antiquity (1869–1957)
Alan Wace
British archaeologist (1879–1957)
Frank Adcock
British classical historian (1886–1968)
Martin Bernal
British political historian (1937- 2013)
Averil Cameron
English historian of late antiquity (born 1940)
Howard Hayes Scullard
British historian (1903–1983)
Myles Burnyeat
British scholar of ancient philosophy (1939–2019)
Harold Mattingly
British classicist, numismatist, author (1884–1964)
William Wilkins
English architect, classical scholar and archaeologist (1778–1839)
Joshua Barnes
British classical scholar (1654-1712)
H. D. F. Kitto
British classical scholar (1897–1982)
Samuel Butler
English classical scholar and schoolmaster (1774-1839)
Simon Hornblower
English historian of ancient Greece (born 1949)
George Derwent Thomson
British classical scholar and philosopher (1903–1987)
John Antony Cramer
English classical scholar and geographer (1793–1848)
John Edwin Sandys
English classical scholar (1844-1922)
Ingram Bywater
English classical scholar (1840–1914)
David Sedley
British philosopher and historian (born 1947)
William Warde Fowler
British ornithologist and classicist
Michael Angold
British byzantinist
Jasper Griffin
British classical scholar (1937–2019)
Charles Wordsworth
bishop of Saint Andrews and cricketer (1806-1892)
Francis J. Haverfield
British historian and archaeologist (1860-1919)
H. W. F. Saggs
British assyriologist & academic (1920–2005)
Richard Talbert
British-American historian and classicist (born 1947)
Thomas Gaisford
English classical scholar