Science/medicine
- Robert Glover (1815–1859), anaesthetist
- Leo Kinlen, professor of Epidemiology at Oxford.
- Ernest Thompson Seton (1860–1946), naturalist, writer and Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts of America
- Thomas Masterman Winterbottom (1766-1859), Physician, abolitionist, Surgeon General of the Sierra Leone Company, originator of Winterbottom's sign, and founder of South Tyneside College.
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“All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us.... This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one’s brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.”
—Roger Bacon (c. 1214–c. 1294)
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Confucius.