Waynflete Professors of Pure Mathematics
- 1892–1921 Edwin Bailey Elliott
- 1922–1945 Arthur Lee Dixon
- 1947–1960 J. H. C. Whitehead
- 1960–1984 Graham Higman
- 1984–2006 Daniel Quillen
- 2007– Raphaël Rouquier
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