List of British scientists

This is a list of British scientists.

A[edit]

Alcuin (735-804), scholar and theologian
Adelard (1080-1150), mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, physicist philosopher
Frederick Abel (1827–1902), chemist
Arthur Adams (1820–1878), physician and naturalist
William Grylls Adams (1836-1915), physicist and astronomer
Edgar Douglas Adrian (1889–1977), electrophysiologist
Arthur Aikin (1773–1855), chemist
William Aiton (1731–1793), botanist
John Albery (1936–2013), physical chemist
John Arderne (1307-1392), physician and surgeon
Francis William Aston (1877–1945), physicist
David Attenborough (born 1926), naturalist
Charlotte Auerbach (1899–1994), geneticist
David Axon (1951–2012), astrophysicist

B[edit]

Bede (672-735), mathematician and astronomer
Charles Babbage (1791–1871), mathematician and computer pioneer
Roger Bacon (1219–1292 approximately), philosopher, advocate of the scientific method
John Logie Baird (1888–1946), television pioneer
Isaac Barrow (1640-1676), mathematician
James Bradley (1692-1762), astronomer
John Hutton Balfour (1808–1884), botanist
Neil Bartlett (1932–2008), chemist
Derek Barton (1918–1998), chemist
Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892), naturalist
Patrick Bateson (1938–2017), zoologist
Michael Bearpark (born 20th century), chemist
John Beddington (born 1945), population biologist
Thomas Bell (1792–1880), zoologist
David Bellamy (1933–2019), botanist
Ralph Benjamin (1922–2019), inventor
Edward Turner Bennett (1797–1836), zoologist
George Bentham (1800–1884), botanist
Robert Bentley (1821–1893), botanist
Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955), computer scientist
Kevin Beurle (1956–2009), space scientist
Thomas Bewick (1753–1828), wood-engraver and natural history author
Sheila Bingham (Rodwell) (1947–2009), nutritional epidemiologist
Ann Bishop (1899–1990), biologist who studied Plasmodium
Joseph Black (1728–1799), chemist
John Blackwall (1790–1881), naturalist who studied spiders
Thomas Blakiston (1832–1891), naturalist
William Thomas Blanford (1832–1905), geologist
David Mervyn Blow (1931–2004), biophysicist
Edward Blyth (1810–1873), ornithologist
Edward August Bond (1815–1898), palaeographer
Edmund John Bowen (1898–1980), physical chemist
Humphry John Moule Bowen (1929–2001), chemist
Edward Augustus Bowles (1865–1954), botanist
Robert Boyle (1627–1691), "father of chemistry"
Charles Vernon Boys (1855–1944), physicist
Dennis Bray (born 20th century), biologist
Malcolm Brenner (born 1951), clinical scientist who studies gene therapy and immunotherapy
Sydney Brenner (1927–2019), molecular biologist
Alan Brisdon (born 20th century), fluorine chemist
Donald Broadbent (1926–1993), experimental psychologist
Robert Brown (1773–1858), botanist
David Bruce (1855–1931), pathologist and microbiologist who discovered Brucella
Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762–1829), physician, geographer, zoologist, and botanist
John Burdon-Sanderson (1828–1905), physiologist
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943), astrophysicist
Alan Butement (1904–1990), physicist

C[edit]

Robert W. Cahn (1924–2007), metallurgist
Sandy Cairncross (born 1948), epidemiologist
George Caley (1770–1829), explorer and botanist
Philip Pearsall Carpenter (1819–1877), conchologist
Mark Catesby (1683–1749), naturalist
Richard Caton (1842–1926), physiologist
Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), physicist and chemist
Colin Cherry (1914–1979), cognitive scientist
Harriette Chick (1875–1977), microbiologist and protein scientist
Samuel Hunter Christie (1784–1865), physicist and mathematician
G. Marius Clore FRS (born 1955), molecular biophysicist
Marcela Contreras (born 1942), blood expert and immunologist
Verona Conway (1910–1986), plant ecologist
Athel Cornish-Bowden (born 1943), biochemist
Roger Coset (1682-1716), mathematician
Charles Coulson (1910–1974), theoretical chemist
Archibald Scott Couper (1831–1892), chemist
Brian Cox (born 1968), physicist
William Crabtree (1610-1644), mathematician and astronomer
Eva Crane (1912–2007), entomologist
Francis Crick (1916–2004), molecular biologist
Andrew Crosse (1784–1855), pioneer in the study of electricity
Alexander Crum Brown (1838–1922), organic chemist
Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654), botanist
Allan Cunningham (1791–1839), botanist
William Curtis (1746–1799), botanist

D[edit]

John Dalton (1766–1844), chemist: "father of modern atomic theory"
Charles Darwin (1809–1882), originator of the theory of natural selection
Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), naturalist
George Darwin (1845-1912), astronomer
Donald Davies (1924–2000), computer scientist
Humphry Davy (1778–1829), chemist and inventor
Richard Dawkins (born 1941), ethologist and evolutionary biologist
James Dewar (1842–1923), chemist and physicist
Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778–1855), botanist and conchologist
Paul Dirac (1902–1984), theoretical physicist
Deborah Doniach (1912–2004), clinical immunologist
James Donn (1758–1813), botanist
Henry Doubleday (1808–1875), entomologist
David Douglas (1799–1834), botanist

E[edit]

George Edwards (1693–1773), ornithologist
Harry Julius Emeléus (1903–1993), inorganic chemist
Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809–1880), zoologist

F[edit]

Hugh Falconer (1808–1865), palaeontologist
Michael Faraday (1791–1867), pioneer of electricity
John Farrah (1849–1907), English botanist and meteorologist
Barry Fell (1917–1994), zoologist
David Fell (born 1947), biochemist and systems biologist
James Fisher (1922–1970), ornithologist
Ronald Fisher (1890–1962), geneticist and statistician
John Flamsteed (1646-1719), astronomer
Jim Flegg (born 20th century), ornithologist
Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), physician and microbiologist
Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher (1878–1950), entomologist
E. B. Ford (1901–1988), ecological geneticist
Jeff Forshaw (born 1968), particle physicist
Robert Fortune (1813–1880), botanist
Carey Foster (1835–1919), chemist and physicist
Henry Foster (1797–1831), naval surveyor
Ruth Fowler Edwards (1930–2013), geneticist
Edward Frankland (1825–1899), chemist
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), philosopher, physicist, political scientist
Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), X-ray crystallographer
Elizabeth Fulhame (18th–19th centuries), chemist, pioneer in study of catalysis
Vera Furness (1921–2002) industrial chemist

G[edit]

William Gascoigne (1610-1644), mathematician and astronomer
Patrick Geddes (1854–1932), biologist and geographer
John Gerard (1545–1611/12), botanist
Michael Gerzon (1945–1996), acoustic physicist
William Gilbert (1544-1603), philosopher and physician
Charles Henry Gimingham (1923–2018), botanist
Stephan Gray (1666-1736), physicist who studied electrostatic induction
Frederick DuCane Godman (1834–1919), naturalist and ornithologist
Jane Goodall (born 1934), primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist
June Goodfield (born 1927), historian of science
Dougal Goodman (born 20th century), low-temperature physicist
Guy Goodwin (born 1947), neuroscientist
George Gordon (1806–1879), botanist
Raymond Gosling (1926–2015), physicist
Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888), naturalist
John Gould (1804–1881), ornithologist
Monica Grady (born 1958), space scientist
Thomas Graham (1805–1869) chemist
George Robert Gray (1808–1872), zoologist
John Edward Gray (1800–1875), zoologist
Malcolm Green (1936–2020), inorganic chemist
Edward Grey (1862–1933), ornithologist
Frederick Griffith (1879–1941), bacteriologist
Robert Grosseteste (1168-1253), mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, theologian
Albert Günther (1830–1914), zoologist
Frederick Guthrie (1833–1886), physicist and chemist
Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (1879–1967), botanist and mycologist

H[edit]

J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964), evolutionary biologist
John Scott Haldane (1860–1936), physiologist
Wendy Hall (born 1952), computer scientist
Edmond Halley (1656–1742), astronomer
Frances Mary Hamer (1894–1980), chemist
William Donald Hamilton (1936–2000), evolutionary biologist
Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley (1819–1899), conchologist and malacologist
William Vernon Harcourt (1789–1871), clergyman and student of glass
Arthur Harden (1865–1940), biochemist
Anita Harding (1952–1995), neurologist
Thomas Hardwicke (1755–1835), naturalist
Alister Clavering Hardy (1896–1985), marine biologist
Richard Harrison (born 20th century), physicist
William Henry Harvey (1811–1866), phycologist
Charles Hatchett (1765–1847), mineralogist and analytical chemist
Walter Norman Haworth (1883–1950), chemist
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018), cosmologist
Arthur Hay (1824–1878), ornithologist
Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925), mathematician and physicist
James Hector (1834–1907), geologist and naturalist
John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861), mineralogist and botanist
William Herschel (1738-1822), astronomer
Vernon Heywood (born 1927), botanist
Julia Higgins (born 1942), polymer scientist
Peter Higgs (born 1929), particle physicist
Archibald Vivian Hill (1886–1977), physiologist,
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897–1967), physical chemist
Peter Hirsch (born 1925), minerals scientist
George Hockham (1938–2013), electromagnetic engineer
Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994), chemist
Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800–1894), naturalist
Anthony Hollander (born 1964), integrative biologist
Robert Hooke (1635–1703), natural philosopher
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), botanist
William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), botanist
Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861–1947), biochemist
Jeremiah Horrocks (1618-1641), astronomer
Victor Horsley (1857–1916), medical scientist
Albert Howard (1873–1947), botanist
Henry Eliot Howard (1873–1940), ornithologist
Allan Octavian Hume (1829–1912), ornithologist
Rob Hume (born 20th century), ornithologist
Robert Hues (1553-1632), geographer
Rosalinde Hurley (1929–2004), microbiologist
Harold Edwin Hurst (1880–1978), hydrologist
Janet Husband (born 20th century), radiologist
Frederick Hutton (1835–1905), biologist and geologist
Hugh Huxley (1924–2013), muscle biochemist
Julian Sorell Huxley (1887–1975), zoologist and evolutionary theorist
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), zoologist

I[edit]

Ray Iles (born 20th century), oncologist
Jan Ingenhousz (1730–1799), botanist
Jane Ingham (1897–1982), botanist
Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893–1970), mechanistic organic chemist
Keith Ingold (born 1929), chemist
Tom Iredale (1880–1972), conchologist and ornithologist

J[edit]

William Jardine (1800–1874), naturalist
Alec Jeffreys (born 1950), geneticist
Edward Jenner (1749–1823), pioneer immunologist
John Gwyn Jeffreys (1809–1885), conchologist and malacologist
Thomas C. Jerdon (1811–1872), zoologist and botanist
Harren Jhoti (born 1962), structural biologist
Joanne Johnson (born 1977): geologist, Antarctic scientist
Mark H. Johnson (born 1960), cognitive neuroscientist
Pauline Johnson (born 20th century), immunologist and microbiologist
James Prescott Joule (1818-1889), physicist and chemist

K[edit]

Henrik Kacser (1918–1995), geneticist and biochemist
Charles K. Kao (1933–2018), electrical engineer and physicist
Alan R. Katritzky (1928–2014), chemist
Janet Kear (1933–2004), ornithologist
Frank Kearton (1911–1992), chemist
Peter Keightley (born 20th century), evolutionary geneticist
Douglas Kell (born 1953), biochemist
David Kelly (1944–2003), weapons expert
1st Baron Kelvin, born William Thomson (1824–1907), mathematical physicist
John Kendrew (1917–1997) biochemist and crystallographer
Gerald A. Kerkut (1927–2004), zoologist and physiologist
Ebenezer Kinnersley (1711-1778), physicist
Alexander King (1909–2007), chemist
Norman Boyd Kinnear (1882–1957), zoologist
William Kirby (1759–1850), entomologist
Aaron Klug (1926–2018), biophysicist and chemist
Gilbert Knowles (1667–1734), botanist
Jeremy Knowles (1935–2008), enzyme chemist
Rudolf Kompfner (1909–1977), engineer and physicist
Harry Kroto (1939–2016), chemist.
John Howard Kyan (1774–1850), inventor of a process for preserving wood

L[edit]

David Lack (1910–1973), ornithologist
Patrick Laidlaw (1881–1940), virologist
Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761–1842), botanist
Hugh Lamprey (1928–1996), ecologist
John Latham (1740–1837), ornithologist
John Latham (1937–2021), physicist
Colin Leakey (1933–2018), tropical botanist
Louis Leakey (1903–1972), archaeologist and naturalist
Louise Leakey (born 1972), paleontologist
Mary Leakey (1913–1996), paleoanthropologist
Meave Leakey (born 1942), paleontologist
Richard Leakey (1944–2022), paleontologist and archaeologist
John Henry Lefroy (1817–1890), physicist and magnetism surveyor
John Lennard-Jones (1894–1954), theoretical physicist
John Lightfoot (1735–1788), conchologist and botanist
John Lindley (1799–1865), botanist
Joseph Lister (1827–1912), pioneer of antiseptic surgery
Christopher Longuet-Higgins (1923–2004), theoretical chemist and cognitive scientist
John Claudius Loudon (1783–1843), botanist
Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), mathematician and computing pioneer
James Lovelock (1919–2022), father of the Gaia hypothesis
Percy Lowe (1870–1948), ornithologist
Martin Lowry (1874–1936), physical chemist
Richard Lydekker (1849–1915), naturalist

M[edit]

John Macadam (1827–1865), botanist
George G. Macfarlane (1916–2007), researcher on radar
William MacGillivray (1796–1852), naturalist
Walcher of Malvern (death 1135), mathematician
Harry Marsh (1926–2023), carbon chemist
Charles James Martin (1866–1955), epidemiologist
John Martyn (1699–1768), botanist
Thomas Martyn (1735–1825), botanist, entomologist and conchologist
Francis Masson (1741–1805), botanist
Neil D. Mathur (born 20th century), materials physicist
James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), physicist
Harold Maxwell-Lefroy (1877–1925), entomologist
John McCafferty (born 20th century), immunologist
Robert May (1936–2020), ecologist and mathematician
Edmund Meade-Waldo (1855–1934), ornithologist
Archibald Menzies (1754–1852), naturalist
Peter H Millard (1937–2018), geriatrician
Philip Miller (1691–1771), botanist
John F. B. Mitchell (born 1948), climatologist
Peter Mitchell (1920–1992), biochemist
George Jackson Mivart (1827–1900), biologist
Henry Moseley (1887–1915), physicist, originator of the concept atomic number
William Musgrave (1655–1721), physician and antiquary

N[edit]

John Napier (1550–1617), mathematician, physicist and astronomer
John Needham (1713–1781), naturalist
Joseph Needham (1900–1995), biochemist and historian
Charles F. Newcombe (1851–1924), botanist
John Newlands (1837–1898), chemist who studied the periodicity of elements
Alfred Newton (1829–1907), zoologist
Isaac Newton (1642–1726/27), mathematician, physicist and astronomer
Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1844–1899), zoologist
William Nicholson (1753–1815), chemist
Denis Noble (born 1936), physiologist
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897–1978), chemist
Thomas Norton (1416-1513), alchemist
Paul Nurse (born 1949), biochemist and geneticist

O[edit]

William of Ockham (1287-1347), physicist and philosopher
William Ogilby (1808–1873), naturalist
Bridget Ogilvie (born 1938), parasitologist
William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (1863–1924), ornithologist
Tony Orchard (1941–2005) inorganic chemist.
Edward Latham Ormerod (1819–1873), physician and entomologist
Eleanor Anne Ormerod (1828–1901), entomologist
William Charles Osman Hill (1901–1975), anatomist and primatologist
Ian Osterloh (born 20th century), clinical researcher
Richard Owen (1804–1892), biologist, palaeontologist and taxonomist

P[edit]

Edward Palmer (1829–1911), botanist
Woodbine Parish (1796–1882), geology and palaeontologist
William Paterson (1755–1810), botanist and explorer
Arthur Lindo Patterson (1902–1966), X-ray crystallographer
Robert Patterson (1802–1872), naturalist
David Peakall (1931–2001), toxicologist
Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), naturalist and antiquary
Joseph Barclay Pentland (1797–1873), geographer
William Henry Perkin (1838–1907), organic chemist
William Henry Perkin, Jr. (1860–1929), organic chemist
Max Perutz (1914–2002), x-ray crystallographer and molecular biologist
George Perry (born 1771), naturalist
Samuel Victor Perry (1918–2009), muscle biochemist
Eva Philbin (1914–2005), chemist
Chris Phillips (born ca. 1958), physicist
Constantine John Phipps (1744–1792), explorer
David Andrew Phoenix (born 1966), biochemist
Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1860–1905), entomologist
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1828–1917), entomologist
Henry Piddington (1797–1858), meteorologist
Andrew Pitman (born 1964), atmospheric scientist
Reginald Innes Pocock (1863–1947), taxonomist
Vicky Pope (born 20th century), climatologist
John Pople (1925–2004), theoretical chemist
Cicely Popplewell (1920–1995), computer scientist
George Porter (1920–2002), chemist
Thomas Littleton Powys (1833–1896), ornithologist
James Price (1752—1783), chemist
Joseph Hubert Priestley (1883–1944), botanist
Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), chemist and philosopher

R[edit]

Stamford Raffles (1781–1826), statesman and botanist
Venki Ramakrishnan (born 1952), structural biologist
William Ramsay (1852–1916), chemist who discovered the noble gases
Matthew Raper (1705–1778), astronomer and mathematician
Chris Rapley (born 1947), climatologist
John Ray, also written John Wray (1627–1705), naturalist
Lovell Augustus Reeve (1814–1865), conchologist
Michael Reiss (born 1960), bioethicist
Osborne Reynolds (1842–1912), physicist
Tracey Reynolds (born early 1970s), sociologist
John Richardson (1787–1865) naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer
Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855–1956) botanist, geologist and naturalist
George Ripley (1415-1490), alchemist
Robert Robinson (1886–1975) organic chemist
Sheila Rodwell (Sheila Bingham, 1947–2009), nutritional epidemiologist
Lawrence Rooke (1622-1662), mathematician and astronomer
Miriam Louisa Rothschild (1908–2005), entomologist
Walter Rothschild (1868–1937), zoologist
William Roxburgh (1759–1815), botanist
Gordon Rugg (born 1955), computer scientist
Daniel Rutherford (1749–1819), physician, chemist and botanist
Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937), physicist, known as the father of nuclear physics
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), philosopher and mathematician

S[edit]

Joseph Sabine (1770–1837), botanist and horticulturist
Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195-1256), mathematician and astronomer
Edward James Salisbury (1886–1978), botanist
Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761–1829), botanist
Frederick Sanger (1918–2013), biochemist
Herbert M. Sauro (born 1960), biochemist and systems biologist
Thomas Savery (17-18th century), Engineer who invented the first commercial steam pump
Philip Sclater (1829–1913), zoologist
Henry Seebohm (1832–1895), ornithologist
Prideaux John Selby (1788–1867), botanist and ornithologist
Sydney Selwyn (1934–1996), medical microbiologist
Nigel Shadbolt (born 1956), computer scientist
Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847–1909), zoologist
George Shaw (1751–1813), botanist and zoologist
George Ernest Shelley (1840–1910), ornithologist
John Sherwood (ca. 1933 to 2020), physical organic chemist
Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1922), physiologist and neuroscientist
Andrew Smith (1797–1872), zoologist
Edgar Albert Smith (1847–1916), zoologist and conchologist
Frederick Smith (1805–1879), entomologist
George D. W. Smith (born 1943), materials scientist
James Edward Smith (1759–1828), botanist
John Maynard Smith (1920–2004), biologist
Douglas Spalding (1841–1877), behaviourist
Walter Baldwin Spencer (1860–1929), anthropologist
Charles Stanhope (1753–1816), mathematician and physicist
Edward Stanley (1775–1851), naturalist
James Francis Stephens (1792–1853), zoologist
Frederick Campion Steward (1904–1993), botanist
James Stirling (1953–2018), physicist
Peter A. Stott (born 20th century), climatologist
John Struthers (1823–1899), anatomist
Audrey Stuckes (1923–2006), material scientist
Samuel Stutchbury (1798–1859), naturalist and geologist
William John Swainson (1789–1855), ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist and entomologist
Robert Swinhoe (1836–1877), naturalist
Peter Sykes (1923–2003), chemist
William Henry Sykes (1790–1872), ornithologist
Frederick Soddy (1877-1956), chemist

T[edit]

Oldfield Thomas (1858–1929) zoologist
Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford, 1753–1814), physicist and inventor
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1942), mathematician and biologist
William Thompson (1805–1852), ornithologist and naturalist
Charles Wyville Thomson (1832–1882), marine biologist
J. J. Thomson (1856–1940), physicist
William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1824–1907), physicist
Samuel Tickell (1811–1875), ornithologist
Stephen Toulmin (1922–2009), philosopher and historian of science
John Sealy Townsend (1868–1957), mathematical physicist
Thomas Stewart Traill (1781–1862), doctor and naturalist
Eric Trist (1909–1993), psychologist
Henry Baker Tristram (1822–1906), ornithologist
Bernard Tucker (1901–1950), ornithologist
Marmaduke Tunstall (1743–1790), ornithologist
Alan Turing (1912–1954), computer scientist
Arthur James Turner (1889–1971), textile technologist
William Turton (1762–1835), naturalist

U[edit]

James Underwood (born 1942), pathologist
Olga Uvarov (1910–2001), veterinary surgeon

V[edit]

Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785–1840), zoologist

W[edit]

Nicholas Wald (born 20th century), Professor of Preventive Medicine
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), naturalist and biologist
Richard of Wallingford (1292-1336), mathematician, astronomer, astrologer
Kevin Warwick (born 1954), computer scientist and neurobiologist
Charles Waterton (1782–1865), naturalist
Andrew Watson (born 1952), marine biologist
Alexander Watt (1892–1985), botanist
John Westwyk (born 14th century), astronomer
Edwin C. Webb (1921–2006), biochemist
Philip Barker Webb (1793–1854), botanist
Hugh Algernon Weddell (1819–1877), botanist
Richard Burkewood Welbourn (1919–2005), endocrinologist
Michael Wells (born 20th century), pathologist
Thomas Summers West (1927–2010), chemist
Michael Whelan (born 1931), materials scientist
William Joseph Whelan (1924–2021) biochemist
Gilbert White (1720–1795), naturalist
John White (c. 1756–1832), botanist
Frank Whittle (1907–1996), engineer and aviation pioneer
Elsie Widdowson (1906–2000), nutritionist
Maurice Wilkins (1916–2004), biophysicist
James H. Wilkinson (1919–1986), numerical analyst
Mark Williamson (born 20th century), biologist
Francis Willoughby (1635-1672), ornithologist and ichthyologist
Alan Wilson (born 1939), mathematician
Alexander Wilson (1766–1813), ornithologist
E. A. Wilson (1872–1912), naturalist
Greg Winter (born 1951), molecular biologist
Heinz Wolff (1928–2017), bioengineer
John Wray, also written John Ray (1627–1705), naturalist

Y[edit]

William Yarrell (1784–1856), naturalist
John Zachary Young (1907–1997), neurophysiologist
Thomas Young (1773–1829), polymath