List of Rouse Ball Professors At Cambridge
- 1928-1950 John Edensor Littlewood
- 1950-1958 Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch
- 1958-1969 Harold Davenport
- 1971-1993 John G. Thompson
- 1994-1997 Nigel Hitchin
- 1998-Present William Timothy Gowers
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