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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