Visiting Professors at Gresham College, Holborn, London, give free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1596 / 7, when it appointed seven professors; this has since increased to eight and plus the Visiting Professors.
The first Visiting Professors were appointed in 2000.
| 1 | Baroness Warnock of Weeke | Rhetoric | 1 Sept 2000 |
| 2 | Abdullah Ibrahim | Music | 1 Sept 2000 |
| 3 | Dr Robin Wilson | History of Mathematics | 1 Sept 2001 |
| 4 | Professor Richard Langham Smith | Music | 1 Sept 2003 |
| 5 | Dr Allan Chapman | History of Science | 1 Sept 2003 |
| 6 | Dr Raj Persaud | Psychiatry | 1 Sept 2004 |
| 7 | Professor Richard J. Evans | History | 1 Sept 2008 |
| 8 | Professor Vernon Bogdanor | Political History | 1 Sept 2008 |
| 9 | Dr Glenn D. Wilson | Psychology | 1 Sept 2009 |
| 10 | Dr Simon Thurley | The Built Environment | 1 Sept 2009 |
| 11 | Tony Mann | Computing Mathematics | 1 Sept 2012 |
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