English inventors

Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus, although he developed calculus years before Leibniz. Newton contributed to and refined the scientific method, and his work is considered the most influential in bringing forth modern science.

English computer scientist (1912–1954)

English computer scientist (born 1955)

American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist (1737–1809)

English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)

English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)

British eugenist, polymath, and behavioural geneticist (1822–1911)

English physicist known for magnetic resonance imaging

English physician (1731-1802)

Nobel laureate in chemistry & American chemist

British inventor and photographer (1800–1877)

British scientist and inventor (1802–1875)

inventor of the steam turbine (1854-1931)

English engineer, mathematician and inventor (1854-1923)

British inventor, pioneer of the spinning industry (1753-1827)

English mathematician and Anglican minister (1574–1660)

English entrepreneur and inventor (1940–2021)

English electrical engineer and physicist (1849-1945)

British aeronautics engineer (1773-1857)

English potter and founder of the Wedgwood company (1730–1795)

British physicist and inventor (1828-1914)

British physicist (1851-1940)

English mathematician (1745–1807)

British inventor

English engineer (1910–1999)

British embryologist (1944–2023)

English cotton weaver; inventor of the spinning jenny

British musician

British inventor

British inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company (born 1947)

British agricultural pioneer, activist of the British Agricultural Revolution

English inventor, scientist, engineer, industrialist (1810-1900)

Inventor of stainless steel (1871–1948)

British inventor

English engineer, entrepreneur (1804–1887)

English physicist and electrical engineer (1847-1908)

British filmmaker (1864–1959)

English courtier, Queens godson and author

Austrian-British chemist

British politician (1772–1828)

English inventor of the photographic collodion process (1813–1857)

British engineer

British polymath (1868–1946)

British engraver and instrument maker

clockmaker (1747-1811)

British geologist, mining engineer and inventor of the horizontal pendulum seismograph (1850-1913)

metallurgist and inventor of the early plastic Parkesine (1813–1890)

anarchist and inventor (1847–1914)

British businessman (1854-1901)

British Army general

British clockmaker (1713-1788)

British academic, diplomat and spy

English inventor of the hydraulic press

British clockmaker, inventor, and geophysicist (1673-1751)

British inventor (1781-1859)

English inventor (1937-2018)

English industrialist

English equestrian, circus owner, and inventor, regarded as being the "father of the modern circus"

English photographer, inventor and physician (1816–1902)

English toy inventor, businessman and politician (1863-1936)