List of People From Kent - Academics, Engineers and Scientists

Academics, Engineers and Scientists

• Charles Culmer (c. 1300s) – supposidly built the fishermen's stairs which Broadstairs is named after
• William Caxton (c. 1420–c. 1492) – first person to introduce a printing press into England
• Richard Knolles (c. 1545–1610) – Ottoman Empire historian
• Richard Baker (chronicler) (1568–1645) – historian
• Robert Fludd (1574–1637) – physicist and astrologer
• John Tradescant the elder (c. 1575–1638) – gardener and botanist
• John Tradescant the younger (1608–1662) – gardener and botanist
• William Harvey (1578–1657) – anatomist
• John Wallis (1616–1703) – mathematician given partial credit for the development of modern calculus
• Robert Plot (1640–1696) – naturalist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford
• Stephen Gray (scientist) (1666–1736) – physicist and astronomer
• Thomas Steers (1672–1750) – civil engineer and canal builder
• Stephen Hales (1677–1761) – physiologist and chemist
• George Sale (1697–1736) – Islamic studies scholar
• Thomas Bayes (c. 1702–1761) – mathematician and formulator of Bayes' theorem
• Edward Jacob (–1756) – historian and botanist
• Edward Nairne (1726–1806) – scientific instrument maker
• James Six (1731–1793) – meteorologist and inventor of the Maximum minimum thermometer
• Catherine Macaulay (1731–1791) – historian
• Edward Hasted (1732–1812) – Kent historian
• Lionel Lukin (1742–1834) – possible inventor of the lifeboat
• William Congreve (inventor) (1772–1828) – inventor and rocket pioneer
• Thomas Frederick Colby (1784–1852) – director of the Ordnance Survey
• Richard Jones (economist) (1790–1855) – economist
• Joshua Trimmer (1795–1857) – geologist
• John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861) – botanist and geologist
• Anna Atkins (1799–1871) – botanical photographer
• George Finlay (1799–1875) – Greek historian
• George Newport (1803–1854) – entomologist
• Robert Main (1808–1878) – astronomer
• Edmund Law Lushington (1811–1893) – Greek scholar and Rector of Glasgow University
• Joseph Prestwich (1812–1896) – geologist
• Edward Betts (1815–1872) – railway civil engineering contractor
• Thomas Russell Crampton (1816–1888) – engineer and designer of the Crampton locomotive
• Charles Kettle (1821–1862) – New Zealand town planner
• Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827–1912) – surgeon and President of the Royal Society
• Nathaniel Barnaby (1829–1915) – Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy
• Edward James Reed (1830–1906) – Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy
• John Hulke (1830–1895) – surgeon and geologist
• Alexander Henry Green (1832–1896) – geologist
• Fleeming Jenkin (1833–1885) – Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh
• Robinson Ellis (1834–1913) – Professor of Latin at Trinity College, Oxford
• James Holden (engineer) (1837–1925) – locomotive engineer
• Frank Rutley (1842–1904) – geologist and petrographer
• William Robert Brooks (1844–1922) – American astronomer
• Henry George Smith (1852–1924) – chemist
• James Fletcher (1852–1908) – Canadian entomologist, botanist and writer
• Aubyn Trevor-Battye (1855–1922) – zoologist and writer
• Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933) – lexicographer
• Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) – mathematician and philosopher
• Herbert Baker (1862–1946) – South Africa architect
• Baillie Scott (1865–1945) – architect
• Patrick Young Alexander (1867–1943) – aeronautical pioneer
• Frank Finn (1868–1932) – ornithologist
• Reginald Punnett (1875–1967) – geneticist and creator of the Punnett square
• William Sealy Gosset (1876–1937) – chemist and statistician
• Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) - novelist,traveler and gardner
• Henry Tizard (1885–1959) – chemist and inventor
• John Edensor Littlewood (1885–1977) – mathematician
• Arthur Waley (1889–1966) – orientalist and sinologist
• Reg Balch (1894–1994) – ecologist and photographer
• A. J. Arkell (1898–1980) – North Africa scholar
• Stanley Hooker (1907–1984) – jet engine engineer
• Simone Weil (1909–1943) – French philosopher and mystic
• Richard Beeching (1913–1985) – engineer and chairman of British Railways
• Maurice Lister (1914–2003) – chemist
• Sheila Sherlock (1918–2001) – physician and hepatologist
• George E. P. Box (1918–2001) – statistician
• John Aspinall (zoo owner) (1926–2000) – zoo owner
• Peter Hemingway (1929–1995) – architect
• David Harvey (geographer) (born 1935) – Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York
• Michael Pearson (born 1936) – expert on clocks and clock-making
• David L. Clarke (1937–1976) – archaeologist noted for his work on processual archaeology
• Diarmaid MacCulloch (born 1951) – Professor of 'the History of the Church' at the University of Oxford
• Daniel Tammet (born 1979) – autistic savant and record pi reciter