Philosophers
- Donald Adamson (born 1939)
- G.E.M. Anscombe (1919–2001), philosopher
- Anselm of Canterbury(born 1033), philosopher, famous for creation of the Ontological Argument
- A.J. Ayer (1910–1989), philosopher
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626), philosopher and essayist
- Roger Bacon (1214–1294), medieval philosopher, alchemist, and theologian
- Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), philosopher, founder of Utilitarianism
- R.M. Hare (1907–2002), philosopher
- H.L.A. Hart (1907–1992), legal philosopher
- Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), philosopher
- William Godwin (1756–1836), political philosopher
- John Locke (1632–1704), philosopher
- John Stuart Mill (1806–1873), economist, political philosopher
- G.E. Moore (1873–1958), philosopher
- Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)
- William of Ockham (c. 1285 – 1349), philosopher, theologian, created Ockham's Razor
- Thomas Paine (1737–1809), theorist
- Derek Parfit (born 1942), philosopher
- Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976), philosopher
- Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), philosopher
- Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900), philosopher
- Peter Strawson (1919–2006), philosopher
- William Whewell (1794–1866), philosopher
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), mathematician
- Bernard Williams (1929–2003), philosopher
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