Engineers
- Sir Benjamin Baker (1840–1907), civil engineer
- William Baker (1817–1878), railway engineer
- Joseph Bazalgette (1819–1891), civil engineer
- James Beatty (1820–1856) railway engineer
- Sir Henry Bessemer (1813–1898), metallurgy engineer
- James Brindley (1716–1772), canal engineer
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), transport engineer
- Sir Sydney Camm (1894–1966), aeronautical engineer
- Donald Campbell, railway engineer
- William Tierney Clark (1783–1852), civil engineer
- Sir Geoffrey de Havilland (1882–1965), aeronautical engineer
- Sir John Ambrose Fleming (1848–1945), electrical engineer
- Tommy Flowers (1908–1998), designer and builder of the first electronic computer
- Eric Laithwaite (1908–1998), engineer
- William Mackenzie (1794–1851), civil engineer and contractor
- R.J. Mitchell (1895–1937), aeronautical engineer
- Sir Henry Royce (1863–1933), engineer
- George Stephenson (1781–1848), railway engineer
- Nevil Shute (1899–1960), aeronautical engineer and author
- Thomas Telford (1757–1834), engineer
- Sir Barnes Wallis (1887–1978), engineer
- John Webster (1845–1914), engineer
- Sir Joseph Whitworth (1803–1887), engineer
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