Science and Medicine
- Sir Cecil Wakeley, 1st Baronet KBE CB (1892–1979), President of the Royal College of Surgeons.
- Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850–1885), inventor of the process of eliminating phosphorus from iron by means of the Bessemer converter
- Peter Twinn, mathematician and cryptographer
- Colin Tudge, (born 1943) – British science writer
- Dr Joseph Harold Frederick Glover, doctor and eminent surgeon
- Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook KCB, KCVO FRS (1854 to 1935) – physicist
- Sir Hugh M. Rigby Bart., KCVO – Serjeant-Surgeon to King George V and Surgeon-in-Ordinary to the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VIII.
- Dr Uli Arndt, FRS (1924–2006)
- Dr Alec Coppen, MD DSc FRCP FRCPsych (born 1923)
- G B Dowling (1891–1976)
- Dr James W Fellows-Smith
- Harold Hartley (1878–1972)
- M E Hearn (1972–2005)
- Sir Reginald Murley, KBE, TD, MS, FRCS (1916–1997)
- E H Nicholls (born 1973)
- Dr Brian D Owen-Smith (born 1938)
- G W Pickering (1904–1980)
- Robert Neal Rudmose-Brown (1879–1957)
- Professor Karol Sikora, MA, PhD, MB BChir (born 1948)
- S G Thomas (1850–1885)
- A P Thomson (1890–1977)
- R R Tilleard-Cole (born 1923)
- H M Vernon (1870–1951)
- Laurence Gill (born 1968) B.Eng, M.Sc., Dip. Stat. Senior Lecturer and Head of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Department, Trinity College Dublin
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