List of British scientists

This is a list of British scientists.

The famous British mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, philosopher Sir Isaac while experimenting in Newton's laboratory The Anglo-Irish scientist Robert Boyle, who is considered the founder of Modern Chemistry

## A[edit]

Adelard Of Bath

* 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]

Francis Bacon Roger Bacon Isaac Barrow

* 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

* 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]

Robert Hooke Edmond Halley

* 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