Sciences
- Francis Maitland Balfour, professor of animal morphology at Cambridge
- Sir Joseph Banks, explorer
- Sir Gavin de Beer
- James Bond, ornithologist
- Sir Arthur Evans, archaeologist
- Sir Ronald Fisher, pioneer of statistics
- Aubrey de Grey
- Henry Bence Jones, Physician and chemist
- Sir William Jones, philologist
- Thomas Henry Manning, Arctic zoologist
- St. George Jackson Mivart, biologist
- Nicholas Patrick, NASA astronaut
- Arthur Cecil Pigou, Economist
- George Julius Poulett Scrope, Geologist
- Charles Rothschild, Entomologist
- Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, scientist & civil servant
- William Spottiswoode, President of the Royal Society
- John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, physicist & Nobel Prize laureate, Chancellor of Cambridge University
- William Fox Talbot, pioneer of photography
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