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List of scientists born in the North East of England

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article	image	description	place of birth	educated at	date of birth	notable work	occupation
Toby Kendall		archaeologist	Saltburn-by-the-Sea	University of Bradford			archaeologist

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article	description	place of birth	educated at	date of birth	notable work	occupation
Angela Milner	British paleontologist (1947-2021)	Gosforth	Newcastle upon Tyne Church High School	1947-10-03		paleontologist curator
Anna Howard Shaw	American physician and activist (1847-1919)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Albion College Boston University School of Theology Boston University School of Medicine	1847-02-14		suffragist theologian autobiographer physician Christian minister writer
Anne Astin	Australian biochemist	Durham		1973		academic biochemist
Anne Cooke	British biologist	South Shields	University of Glasgow	1945-01-14		pathologist biologist
Anne Curry	British military historian	Chester-le-Street		1954-05-27		medievalist historian university teacher
Anne Isabella Byron	English mathematician and the wife of poet wife of Lord Byron	County Durham		1792-05-17		poet mathematician writer aristocrat activist
Anne Mandall Johnson	infectious disease epidemiologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Newnham College Newcastle University	1954-01-30		epidemiologist
Anne Monson	English botanist and collector of plants and insects (1726-1776)	Darlington		1726-06-25		botanist botanical collector scientific collector
Anne Seller	British philosopher	Harrogate	Bedford High School University of Leeds	1941		philosopher university teacher
Barbara Harbottle	archaeologist	Gosforth	Girton College	1931-08-23		archaeologist
Barbara Ward	British economist; life peer (1914-1981)	Heworth	University of Paris Somerville College	1914-05-23		economist journalist writer politician
Belle Rennie	[née Moorhouse], (1875–1966), educationist	Westoe		1875-02-17		pedagogue
Benedicta Ward	British theologian and historian	Durham	St Anne's College University of Manchester Bolton School	1933-02-04		historian theologian nun
Beverley Skeggs	British sociologist	Middlesbrough	University of York University of Keele	20th century		sociologist
Camilla Wedgwood	British anthropologist (1901-1955)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Bedales School Bedford College Newnham College Newcastle-under-Lyme School	1901-03-25		anthropologist
Caroline Vout	British classicist and art historian (born c.1972)	Durham	Newnham College	1972		classical scholar academic
Carolyn Hardy	Horticulturalist	Richmond		1930-06-16		horticulturist
Catherine Muriel Rob	British botanist (1906-1975)	Thirsk		1906		botanist botanical collector
Charlotte Roberts	bioarchaeologist	Harrogate	University of Bradford University of Leicester	1957-05-25		anthropologist archaeologist nurse nurse scientist pathologist
Christian Howard	British Anglican leader	Castle Howard		1916-09-05		theologian
Christiane Sinding		Hexham		1945-12-08		historian of science physician
Christine Dobbin	English-born Australian historian	Bishop Auckland	University of Sydney University of Oxford	1941		historian
Christine Holt	British developmental neuroscientist	Wylam	University of Sussex King's College London	1954-08-28		neuroscientist
Constance Leetham	British physiologist	York		1888-04-22		physiologist
Constance Sladen	English architectural historian and philanthropist	York		1848		architectural historian philanthropist artist
D. M. E. Foster	Ph.D. University of London 1960	Darlington	University of London Polam Hall School Bedford College	1933-12-03		mathematician
Daisy Hildyard	British novelist and mathematics historian	Ryedale		1984		novelist historian of mathematics essayist
Diane Atkinson	British historian	North East England	University of East Anglia University of London	20th century		historian biographer women's rights activist
Dorothy Auchterlonie	Australian writer and academic	Sunderland	University of Sydney	1915-05-28		poet literary critic writer literary historian journalist opinion journalist university teacher
Dorothy E. Smith	Canadian anthropologist	Northallerton	London School of Economics and Political Science University of California, Berkeley	1926-07-06		anthropologist sociologist
Dorothy Robson	British scientist and World War II civilian casualty	Guisborough	University of Leeds	1919-11-10		scientist
Edith Sitwell	British poet (1887-1964)	Scarborough		1887-09-07	Façade	poet essayist literary critic writer biographer
Elizabeth Elstob	English linguist and feminist (1683-1756)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1683-09-29		linguist historian translator women's rights activist feminist
Elizabeth M. Shaw	British hydrologist	Hebburn	Bedford College Durham University	1928-02-14	Hydrology in Practice	hydrologist university teacher
Elizabeth Smith	English translator, linguist, and Biblical scholar	Durham		1776-12		translator biblical scholar orientalist
Elspeth Garman	Professor of Molecular Biophysics	Rothbury	Durham University University of Oxford	1954	Cryo bio-crystallography	crystallographer
Emily Gerard	British-Austrian writer	Chesters Roman Fort		1849-05-07		novelist children's writer critic writer collector of fairy tales
Emily J. Rayfield	British palaeontologist	Northallerton	University of Cambridge			paleontologist paleobiologist
Emma Dench	English ancient historian, classicist, and academic administrator	York	Wadham College The King's High School for Girls	1963-04-14		historian
Emma Hart	English computer scientist	Middlesbrough	University of Oxford	1967		computer scientist artificial intelligence researcher
Ethel Snowden	British socialist, feminist, women's suffrage and pacifist campaigner (1881-1951)	Pannal		1881-09-08		politician women's rights activist pacifist suffragist
Eugenie Henderson	Henderson [married name Meier], Eugénie Jane Andrina (1914–1989), phonetician and linguistic scholar	Newcastle upon Tyne	University College London	1914-10-02		linguist university teacher
Fiona Hill	American foreign policy adviser (born 1965)	Bishop Auckland	Harvard University University of St Andrews Moscow State Linguistic University	1965-10 1965		political scientist
Florence Trevelyan	Italian conservationist (1852-1907)	Hexham		1852-02-07		naturalist
Gertrude Bell	British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926)	Washington	Lady Margaret Hall Queen's College London	1868-07-14		explorer archaeologist writer mountaineer diplomat photographer spy assyriologist politician arabist
Gladys Mary Wrigley	British American geologist	York	Aberystwyth University Yale University	1885-09-14		geologist journal editor
Glenis Willmott	British politician (born 1951)	Horden	Nottingham Trent University	1951-03-04		politician trade unionist medical researcher physician
Harriet Bridgeman	British art historian	County Durham	Trinity College Dublin Heathfield School	1942-03-30		art historian
Helen Collingwood Fortune Hopkins	British botanist (1953- )	Hartlepool		1953		botanist
Hilary Lappin-Scott	British microbiologist	Middlesbrough	University of Warwick University of Calgary	1955-05-23		microbiologist
Hilda D. Oakeley	British philosopher	Durham	Somerville College McGill University University of Oxford University of London	1867-10-12		philosopher university teacher
Honor Bridget Fell	British scientist and zoologist	North Yorkshire	University of Edinburgh Madras College Wychwood School	1900-05-22		immunologist zoologist
Isabella Bird	British traveler, writer, photographer and naturalist (1831–1904)	Boroughbridge		1831-10-15	Korea and Her Neighbours	explorer writer naturalist geographer photographer traveler botanical collector
Jane Gardam	British novelist and children's writer	Coatham North Yorkshire	Bedford College	1928-07-11		writer novelist literary critic children's writer short story writer
Jane Glover	British-born conductor and music scholar	Helmsley	St Hugh's College Haberdashers Monmouth School for Girls	1949-05-13		conductor musicologist
Jane Ridley	English historian	Northumberland	Nuffield College Cranborne Chase School	1953-05-15		historian biographer writer
Jane Squire	mathematician and feminist	York		1686		mathematician women's rights activist
Julia Wilmotte Henshaw	Canadian botanist and writer (1869-1937)	Durham		1869-08-08		botanist geographer writer political activist ambulance driver photographer
Julie Mennell	vice chancellor of the University of Cumbria	Middlesbrough		1970-02-04		scientist police officer
Kate Maxwell		Gateshead	University of Glasgow	1979-06-17		composer scientist
Kate Wilson	British Molecular Biologist	Shipton	Harvard University University of Cambridge			molecular biologist
Katherine Mathieson	scientist; Chief Executive of the British Science Association.	Durham	Bayes Business School Selwyn College Imperial College London City, University of London University of Cambridge	1975-08-17		biologist
Katherine Routledge	British archaeologist (1866 – 1935)	Darlington	Somerville College	1866-08-11		anthropologist archaeologist
Kathleen Gough	British anthropologist	Hunsingore	King James's School Girton College	1925-08-16		anthropologist university teacher feminist
Kathleen Hughes	British historian (1926-1977)	Middlesbrough		1926-09-08		church historian historian
Kathleen Mary Tillotson	English literary scholar	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Ackworth School Somerville College	1906		literary scholar literary critic
Lesley Milroy	American linguist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1944-03-05		linguist sociologist
Liz Sockett	British microbiologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	University College London University of Oxford	1962		microbiologist
Margaret Greig	British mathematician	Gosforth	Newnham College Newcastle High School for Girls	1922-02-11		mathematician
Margaret Hayman	British mathematics educator (1923-1994)	New Earswick	Newnham College	1923-08-07		mathematician
Margaret Plues	English botanist (1828-1903)	Ripon		1828		botanist nun writer mycologist governess
Margaret Raine Hunt	British writer (1831-1912)	County Durham		1831-10-14		linguist novelist translator
Margaret Rebecca Dickinson	British botanist, botanical artist & illustrator (1821-1918)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1821-07-22		botanical illustrator watercolorist botanist botanical collector
Marie Lebour	British marine biologist (1876-1971)	Northumberland	Durham University University of Leeds	1876-08-20		biologist marine biologist scientific illustrator zoologist botanist
Marion Emma Young	British botanist (1903—2000)	Benwell	University of Leeds	1903-06-22		botanist botanical collector
Marion Isobel Newbigin	Scottish geographer, biologist and zoologist (1869-1934)	Alnwick	University of Edinburgh	1869		biologist marine biologist zoologist editor geographer
Marion Paton	Accountant and code breaker	Aldborough		1923		cryptanalyst accountant
Martha Kneale	British philosopher	Skipton	Somerville College	1909		philosopher
Mary Astell	English feminist writer (1666-1731)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1666-11-12		writer philosopher women's rights activist
Mary Bateson	British historian (1865-1906)	Robin Hood's Bay	Newnham College The Perse School Stephen Perse Foundation	1865-09-12		historian suffragist
Mary Bradburn	British mathematics educator	Normanby	Royal Holloway, University of London	1918-03-17		mathematician
Mary Grey	British theologian	Houghton-le-Spring	University of Oxford Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	1941-06-16		theologian
Mary Osborn	British molecular biologist	Darlington	Pennsylvania State University Harvard University Cheltenham Ladies' College Newnham College	1940-12		molecular biologist
Mary Ward	English Venerated Catholic (1585-1645)	Newby with Mulwith		1585-01-23		pedagogue nun
Maud Sellers	Curator and Guild Member	Harrogate	Trinity College Dublin Newnham College	1861		curator historian archivist
Melanie J. Leng	geoscientist and researcher	Scarborough	Scarborough Sixth Form College			geologist
Mildred Blaxter	sociologist (1925–2010)	Jesmond	St Anne's College	1925-03-27		sociologist university teacher
Nancy Siraisi	American medical historian	Catterick	University of Oxford CUNY Graduate School and University Center	1932		medical historian historian university teacher
Nicole Westmarland	British criminologist	Darlington	University of York Teesside University	1977		criminologist
Olive Checkland	English historian	Newcastle upon Tyne		1920		historian
Pat Barker	British writer	Thornaby-on-Tees	London School of Economics and Political Science Durham University	1943-05-08	Union Street Blow Your House Down The Century's Daughter Regeneration Trilogy Another World Border Crossing Double Vision Life Class Toby's Room	writer novelist screenwriter historian
Penelope Walton Rogers	archaeologist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1950		medieval archaeologist
Priscilla Bawcutt		Malton		1931		philologist literary scholar editor
Rachel Ford Thompson	English botanist and temperance activist (1856-1906)	York		1856-08-31		botanist botanical collector activist
Rachel Pain	British geographer	Northumberland		1968-08-16		geographer university teacher
Sally Bidgood	British botanist (1948-2018)	Corbridge	Ackworth School	1948-04-13		botanist trade unionist
Sarah F. Wood	UK tech executive & Quixote scholar (1973-)	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Cambridge University College London	1973-05		businessperson entrepreneur merchant literary scholar investor academic business executive
Sarah Wanless	English ornithologist and research ecologist	Scarborough	University of Aberdeen			ornithologist
Selina Todd	British historian	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Sussex University of Warwick	1975-02-19	El poble. Ascensió i caiguda de la classe obrera britànica (1910-2010)	historian university teacher
Stella Rayner O'Donnell	English-born Australian pharmacologist and educator	Harrogate		1938-07-06		pharmacologist academic
Veronica Wedgwood	English historian	Northumberland	Lady Margaret Hall Norland Place School	1910-07-20		historian of Modern Age historian translator
Virginia Nicholson	English historian	Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle	King's College	1955		writer non-fiction writer opinion journalist historian

male

article	description	place of birth	educated at	date of birth	notable work	occupation
Aaron Arrowsmith	English cartographer and hydrographer	Winston		1750-07-14 1748-07-14		cartographer publisher
Abel Chapman	British conservationist and writer	Bishopwearmouth		1851-10-04		naturalist writer
Abhisit Vejjajiva	Thai politician	Newcastle upon Tyne	St John's College Eton College Nuffield College	1964-08-03		economist politician university teacher
Adam of Bockenfield	English Franciscan philosopher	Bockenfield		1220s		philosopher
Adrian Raine	British psychologist	Darlington	University of Oxford	1954-01-27		psychologist criminologist
Aelred of Rievaulx	English writer, abbot, and saint	Hexham		1110	De spirituali amicitia	writer hagiographer historian monk chronicler Catholic priest
Alan Broadbent	British mathematician	Consett	St John's College	1903-05-31		mathematician
Alan Bruce Thompson	English geologist and petrologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Manchester	1947-05-01		geologist petrologist
Alan C. Nixon		Lake District	University of Saskatchewan University of California, Berkeley	1908		chemist
Alan Cowey	British neuroscientist (1935-2012)	Sunderland	Emmanuel College	1935-04-28		neuroscientist
Alan E. M. Nairn	researcher	Newcastle upon Tyne		1927-09-09		researcher geologist
Alan Garton	biochemist	Scarborough		1922-06-04		biochemist
Alan Plumb	British American meteorology professor	Ripon	University of Manchester	1948-03-30		pedagogue meteorologist mathematician
Alan Race		Stockton-on-Tees		20th century		theologian
Alan S. Duncan	British economist	Gateshead	University of York University of Manchester School of Social Sciences	1965-01-13		economist
Alan Simpson		Gateshead		1912-07-23		historian
Alan T. Peacock	British economist	Ryton	University of St Andrews Grove Academy	1922-06-26		economist university teacher writer
Alan Woodworth Johnson	English organic chemist (1917–1982)	South Shields		1917-09-29		chemist
Albany Hancock	English naturalist, biologist and supporter of Charles Darwin (1806-1873)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal Grammar School	1806-12-24		zoologist biologist geologist scientific illustrator
Albert Christopher Addison	writer, Newspaper reporter	Northallerton		1862-04-22		historian
Alcuin	8th century English scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher	York	St Peter's School	740	De dialectica Propositiones ad Acuendos Juvenes Alcuin's sequence Quaestiones in Genesim	theologian poet writer philosopher Catholic priest
Alex Kershaw	American writer	York	University College, Oxford	1966		journalist historian of Modern Age historian writer
Alfred Cardew Dixon	English mathematician (1865-1936)	Northallerton	Trinity College	1865-05-22	Dixon's identity Dixon's elliptic functions	mathematician writer
Alfred Richard Allinson	British academic, author, and voluminous translator of continental European literature	Newcastle upon Tyne	Lincoln College	1852-12		writer linguist translator university teacher
Alfred Richard Orage	British politician (1873-1934)	Dacre		1873-01-22		philosopher publisher journalist
Alfred Sidgwick	British logician and philosopher	Skipton		1850		logician philosopher
Allan Boardman	British physicist	Northumberland	Durham University			physicist
Almroth Wright	British microbiologist and immunologist	Middleton Tyas	Trinity College Dublin Imperial College School of Medicine School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin	1861-08-10		immunologist microbiologist physician
Andrew Ainslie Common	British astronomer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1841-08-07		astronomer
Andrew Chadwick	political scientist	Middlesbrough	University of Birmingham London School of Economics and Political Science	1970		political scientist
Andrew Gibb Maitland	Australian geologist (1864-1951)	Birkby		1864-11-30		geologist
Andrew Thomson	British historian (1936-2014)	Stockton-on-Tees	Cornell University St Edmund Hall St. Bees School	1936-01-26		historian
Andrew White Tuer	British printer	Sunderland		1838-12-25		writer historian
Angelo Raine	British priest and antiquarian	York		1877-09-29		priest historian antiquarian
Angus Maddison	British economist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Selwyn College Johns Hopkins University	1926-12-06		economist university teacher
Anthony Birley	British archaeologist (1937–2020)	Bardon Mill	Magdalen College Clifton College	1937-10-08		anthropologist classical archaeologist university teacher
Anthony Robinson	surgeon and botanist (1700-1768)	Sunderland		1700		botanist
Anthony Rowley	British author and linguist	Skipton	University of Bayreuth	1953-07-22		linguist university teacher Germanist
Arnold Barratt McMillin	British historian (born 1941)	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of London	1941-06-21		literary scholar philologist slavist
Arthur Carty	Canadian chemist	Rowlands Gill	University of Nottingham	1940-09-12		chemist
Arthur Headlam	British bishop (1862–1947)	Whorlton	Winchester College New College Reading School	1862-08-02		theologian Anglican priest
Arthur Hinsley	Catholic cardinal	Carlton	English College Ushaw College	1865-08-25		theologian Catholic priest Catholic bishop
Arthur Holmes	English geologist	Gateshead	Imperial College London Gateshead Grammar School	1890-01-14		geophysicist geologist
Arthur Hubert Terry	English linguist, translator and critic	York	University of Cambridge St Peter's School Trinity Hall	1927-02-17		translator linguist university teacher
Arthur Humble Evans	British ornithologist (1855-1943)	Scremerston	Clare College University of Cambridge	1855-02-23		botanist ornithologist
Arthur Lee Dixon	British mathematician	Pickering	Worcester College Kingswood School	1867-11-27		mathematician university teacher
Arthur Willey	director of Colombo Museum, Ceylon	Scarborough	University College London Christ's College Kingswood School	1867-10-09		zoologist naturalist
Banesh Hoffmann	American mathematician and physicist (1906-1986)	Richmond	Merton College Princeton University	1906-09-06		mathematician physicist actor
Barrie Dobson	English historian (1931-2013)	Stockton-on-Tees	Wadham College Barnard Castle School	1931-11-03		historian
Basil Hall	British theologian and historian (1915-1994)	Ryton		1915-06-23		historian theologian
Basil Hume	British Roman-Catholic Benedictine monk and prelate, archbishop of Westminster, cardinal (1923-1999)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Ampleforth College University of Fribourg Newcastle Preparatory School St Martin's Ampleforth	1923-03-02		theologian Catholic priest Catholic bishop
Bede	English monk and saint	Jarrow		672	Ecclesiastical History of the English People Chronica minora The Reckoning of Time On times De natura rerum	hagiographer poet church historian translator theologian writer Bible translator historian hymnwriter
Bentley Beetham	British mountain climber, ornithologist and photographer	Darlington	Barnard Castle School	1886-05-01		ornithologist photographer school teacher
Bernard Bosanquet	English philosopher	Alnwick	Balliol College Harrow School	1848-06-14	The Distinction between Mind and Its Objects	philosopher
Bernard Comrie	British linguist	Sunderland	University of Cambridge	1947-05-23		linguist
Bernard Dearman Burtt	British botanist (1902-1938)	York		1902-06-14		botanist
Bijan Omrani		York	Wellington College Lincoln College	1979		classical scholar writer
Brian Dobson	British archaeologist (1931-2012)	Hartlepool	Hatfield College Durham University	1931-09-13		classical archaeologist docent
Brian Foster	British physicist	Crook	University of Oxford Wolsingham School	1954-01-04		physicist university teacher
Brian Kidd Ridley	British physicist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University	1931-03-02 1931		physicist
Brian Walton	British bishop	Seamer	Peterhouse Magdalene College Royal Grammar School	1600	Walton Polyglot Bible	priest theologian writer
Bruce Haywood	American educator	York	McGill University Harvard University	1925-09-30		Germanist
Bryan Henry Darnell	British born South African politician and New Zealand land surveyor and civil engineer (1820-1906)	Darlington		1820		surveyor civil engineer politician
Byrom Bramwell	British pathologist	North Tyneside	University of Edinburgh	1847-12-18		pathologist surgeon physician neurosurgeon
C. E. M. Joad	British philosophera	Durham	Balliol College Dragon School Blundell's School	1891-08-12		civil servant professor philosopher peace activist author farmer
C. Northcote Parkinson	British naval historian	Barnard Castle	Emmanuel College Britannia Royal Naval College King's College London St Peter's School	1909-07-30	Parkinson's law	historian writer novelist opinion journalist journalist
C. Peter Flynn	American physicist	Stockton-on-Tees	University of Cambridge University of Leeds	1935-08-18		physicist
Charles Aitken	British art administrator (1869-1936)	Bishophill	New College	1869-09-12		exhibition curator
Charles Ambrose Storey	British academician (1888-1967)	Blackhill		1888-08-21		orientalist academic
Charles Bertram Smales	botanist and botanical collector (1870-1927)	Whitby		1870		botanist
Charles Daniels	British archaeologist (1932–1996)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1932-08-10		archaeologist
Charles Hardwick	British historian	Slingsby		1821		historian
Charles Hedley	Australian zoologist (1862-1926)	North Yorkshire	Eastbourne College	1862-02-27		zoologist naturalist malacologist
Charles Herbert Kitson	British musician	Leyburn	Selwyn College	1874-11-13		organist musicologist music educator music theorist
Charles Hutton	English mathematician	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Edinburgh Royal Grammar School	1737-08-14		mathematician inventor
Charles Johnson	British archivist and historian (1870–1961)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1870-05-02		archivist historian
Charles Wakefield (numismatist)	British numismatist and museum curator	York		1834		numismatist
Charles Whiting	British writer and historian (1926-2007)	York	University of Leeds	1926-12-18		historian
Chas Chandler	English musician (1938–1996)	Heaton		1938-12-18		guitarist record producer musician talent agent talent manager composer
Chris Walton	British librarian and music historian	Billingham		1963-07-06		librarian music historian university teacher musicologist conductor composer
Christopher Dawson	American classical philologist (1908-1972)	Sunderland		1908-04-20		classical scholar university teacher classical philologist
Christopher Hill	British historian	York	Balliol College St Peter's School	1912-02-06		historian
Christopher John Lamb	English biologist (1950-2009)	York	University of Oxford University of Cambridge Fitzwilliam College	1950-03-19		biologist
Clement Antrobus Harris		York		1862-04-02		composer musicographer
Clements Markham	British geographer (1830-1916)	Stillingfleet	Westminster School Cheam School	1830-07-20 1830		explorer writer geographer civil servant historian translator traveler botanist
Colin McGinn	British philosopher (born 1950)	West Hartlepool	University of Manchester	1950-03-10		philosopher university teacher
Colin Renfrew	British archaeologist	Stockton-on-Tees	St John's College St Albans School	1937-07-25 1937-10-27		archaeologist anthropologist prehistorian politician university teacher
Colin Snedeker	British-born American chemist (1936–2016)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1936-01-05		chemist inventor
Colin Thain	British political scientist	Bedlington	University of Manchester	1959-01-20		political scientist
Corbet Page Stewart	Scottish biochemist and academic	Durham	University of Edinburgh	1896		university teacher biochemist
D. A. Cruse	British linguist (1934-2020)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1934		linguist docent
Dan Hicks	British archaeologist and anthropologist	Spennymoor	University of Bristol St John's College Bishop Vesey's Grammar School University of Oxford	1972		anthropologist archaeologist curator university teacher
Daniel Oliver	English botanist (1830–1916)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1830-02-06		botanist pteridologist librarian university teacher
Dave Cliff	British musician	Hexham	Royal Birmingham Conservatoire	1944-06-25		jazz musician jazz guitarist human computer scientist
David Cushing	British biologist	Alnwick	Balliol College	1920-03-14		biologist
David Daiches	British writer and historian	Sunderland	Balliol College University of Edinburgh George Watson's College	1912-09-02		poet literary historian university teacher writer literary critic biographer
David E. Daykin	Ph.D. University of Reading 1961	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Reading			mathematician university teacher
David E. Minnikin	microbiologist	Newton	Trinity College, Oxford			microbiologist
David G. Robinson	British botanist	North Shields		1947-05-15		botanist university teacher
David George Kendall	British statistician	Ripon	The Queen's College Ripon Grammar School	1918-01-15	Kendall's notation	mathematician statistician
David Hamer		Billingham		1934		cryptologist historian mathematician writer
David Harker	British historian of popular music	Guisborough	University of Cambridge	1946-11-05		music historian
David J. Richardson	British biochemist	Whitley Bay	University of Keele University of Birmingham	1964		biochemist
David Laidler	Canadian economist	North Shields	London School of Economics and Political Science Syracuse University University of Chicago	1938-08-12		economist
David Lindsay Keir	British historian and Master of Balliol College, Oxford (1895-1973)	Bellingham	University of Glasgow New College	1895-05-22		historian
David M. Moore	British botanist (1933-2013)	Barnard Castle	University College	1933-07-26		botanist university teacher botanical collector
David M. Wilson	British archaeologist, art historian, and museum curator	Dacre	Kingswood School St John's College Lund University	1931-10-30		art historian archaeologist university teacher exhibition curator
David Macey	British historian and translator	Sunderland		1949-10-05		linguist translator historian
David McClintock	English botanist (1913-2001)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Trinity College Harrow School	1913-07-04		botanist
David Pawson	British minister	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Cambridge Durham University Wesley House	1930-02-25		pastor writer chaplain theologian priest
David Phillips	British Chemist	South Shields	University of Birmingham	1939-12-03		chemist
David S. Byrne	sociologist	South Shields	Newcastle University London School of Economics and Political Science	1947-01-09		academic sociologist university teacher
David Stoddart	British geographer and scientific collector ( 1937– 2014)	Stockton-on-Tees	University of Cambridge	1937-11-15		geographer university teacher
David Sweetman	British writer	Dilston Castle		1943-03-16		novelist literary critic biographer poet writer television director radio personality
David Thorns	New Zealand sociologist (1943–2020)	County Durham	University of Sheffield University of Exeter	1943-08-26		sociologist urban planner
David Womersley		South Shields		1957-01-29		scholar of English
Denis Forster	American chemist	Hebburn	Imperial College London	1941-02-28		chemist
Dennis Chapman	British chemist (1927 - 1999)	Sunderland		1927-05-06		chemist
Dennis Gibson	Australian academic and mathematician	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Hull Newcastle University	1942		mathematician academic administrator
Densil Neve Barr	UK science fiction author (1918-1994)	Harrogate United Kingdom		1918-09-12		writer chemist
Denys Hay	British historian (1915-1994)	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Oxford	1915-08-29		historian of Modern Age university teacher
Denys Haynes	British classical archaeologist	Harrogate	University of Bonn Trinity College Marlborough College	1913-02-15		curator classical archaeologist art historian archaeologist
Derek Geldart		Stockton-on-Tees		1931-09-04		chemist
Derek W. Moore	British mathematician (1931-2008)	South Shields	University of Cambridge Jesus College	1931-04-19		mathematician university teacher saxophonist
Derek Wanless	British banker (1947-2012)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Harvard University King's College Royal Grammar School	1947-09-29		banker statistician
Desmond C. Derbyshire	British linguist	Durham		1924		linguist
E. W. Middlemast	British educator in India	Wallsend	St John's College	1864-12-09		mathematician academic
Edward Backhouse	English Quaker philanthropist and writer	Darlington		1808-05-08		drawer church historian philanthropist
Edward Collingwood	Fellow of the Royal Society FRSE, mathemetician, and scientist	Lilburn Tower	University of Paris Trinity College University of Cambridge Royal Naval College, Osborne Britannia Royal Naval College Aberystwyth University	1900-01-17		mathematician
Edward Docx	British writer: novelist, dramatist, journalist.	Newcastle upon Tyne	Christ's College St Bede's College	1972		literary critic novelist writer journalist
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon	British Liberal statesman (1862-1933)	Fallodon	Balliol College Winchester College Temple Grove School	1862-04-25		politician diplomat ornithologist tennis player real tennis player aristocrat
Edward Jones Williams	Welsh engineer in Patagonia	Durham		1857-07-19		engineer railway engineer geologist
Edward Joseph Dent	British musicologist	Yorkshire Little Ribston	Eton College King's College Bilton Grange	1876-07-06 1876-07-16		musicologist music historian composer translator
Edward Mellanby	Medical scientist, discoverer of vitamin C	West Hartlepool	Emmanuel College Barnard Castle School	1884-04-08		biochemist pharmacologist
Edward Naylor	British musician	Scarborough	Emmanuel College Royal College of Music	1867-02-09		composer organist musicologist
Edward Pritchard Gee	British zoologist	County Durham	Durham School Emmanuel College University of Cambridge	1904		naturalist zoologist
Edward Robson	English botanist and antiquarian (1763–1813)	Darlington		1763		botanist
Edward Simpson	British geologist and forger (born 1815)	Sleights		1815		geologist archaeologist
Edwin Bramwell	Scottish neurologist	North Shields	University of Edinburgh	1873		neurologist
Edwin Clarke	British medical historian and neurologist	Felling	University of Chicago	1919-06-18		medical historian neurologist physician
Edwin Pears	British historian (1835–1919)	York	University of London	1835-03-18		historian lawyer journalist barrister
Ephraim Anderson	British bacteriologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University	1911-10-28		bacteriologist microbiologist
Ernest Arthur Bell	British biochemist and Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1926-2006)	Gosforth	Durham University Trinity College Dublin	1926-06-20		biochemist botanist university teacher
Ernest Findlay Scott	theologican (1868-1954)	Durham		1868-03-18		theologian biblical scholar university teacher
Ernest Hodgson	toxicologist	Hetton-le-Hole		1932-07-26		professor entomologist toxicologist
Ernest Thompson Seton	British/American author, artist and naturalist, and one of the founders of the scouting movement	South Shields	Académie Julian Jarvis Collegiate Institute	1860-08-14	Teachers' manual of bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds Bird-Lore, Volume I	naturalist writer screenwriter essayist scientific illustrator artist children's writer
Ernest Walter Brooks	English ancient historian and Syriac scholar (1863-1955)	Hambleton		1863-08-30		historian translator syriacist
F. M. Powicke	British historian (1879-1963)	Alnwick	Victoria University of Manchester Balliol College	1879-06-16		medieval historian lecturer university teacher
Francis Arthur Bainbridge	British physiologist	Stockton-on-Tees	Trinity College	1874-07-29		physiologist
Francis Blackburne	archdeacon of Cleveland and activist	Richmond	St Catharine's College, Cambridge	1705-06-09		theologian
Frank Elgee	British archaeologist	North Ormesby		1880-11-08		anthropologist archaeologist
Frank Hawley		Norton		1906-03-31		linguist
Frank Oldfield	British geographer and paleoecologist	Pickering		1936-02-19		geographer paleoecologist
Frank Pasquill	English meteorologist	Trimdon	Durham University University College	1914-09-08		meteorologist physicist
Frank Webster	British sociologist	Durham	Durham University	1950-09-27		sociologist
Fred Olsen	British-born American art collector and chemist (1891–1986)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Washington University in St. Louis	1891		chemist
Fred Taylor	British physicist (1944–2021)	Amble	University of Liverpool Jesus College University of Oxford	1944-09-24		physicist atmospheric physicist planetary scientist researcher
Frederick Apthorp Paley	English classical scholar (1815–1888)	Easingwold	Shrewsbury School St John's College	1815-01-14		classical scholar writer botanist
Frederick John Jackson	British ornithologist and colonial administrator	Catterick	Shrewsbury School	1860-02-17		explorer ornithologist
Frederick Miller (paediatrician)	British paediatrician	Newbiggin-by-the-Sea	Newcastle University	1911-11-05		scientist
Frederick Orpen Bower	British botanist (1855–1948)	Ripon	University of Strasbourg University of Strasbourg University of Würzburg	1855-11-04		botanist
Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster	British-American information scientist (1933-2013)	Durham		1933-09-04		librarian library scientist
Frederick William Sanderson	British educationist (1857-1922), headmaster at Oundle School from 1892 to 1922	Brancepeth	Christ's College Durham University Hatfield College	1857		educational theorist teacher
Gabriel Lasker	American anthropologist	New Earswick	Harvard University	1912-04-24		anthropologist
Gary Fildes	British astronomer	Sunderland		1965-09-27		astronomer
Geoffrey Jefferson	British neurologist (1886-1961)	Stockton-on-Tees		1886-04-10		neurologist surgeon
George Abbey	British gardener and horticulturalist (1835–1917)	Stillingfleet		1835-09-02		botanist gardener horticulturist head gardener columnist
George Anderson	English cricketer born in 1826	Aiskew		1826-01-20		cricketer actuary
George Betts	Canadian political scientist	Skipton	University of London University of Alberta Victoria University of Wellington	1930-12-09	Betts on Wellington: a City And Its Politics	political scientist
George Biddell Airy	English mathematician and astronomer (*1801 – †1892)	Alnwick	Colchester Royal Grammar School Trinity College	1801-07-27		mathematician astronomer physicist university teacher writer
George Bolam	land agent and naturalist (1859-1934)	Barmoor		1859-11-08		land agent naturalist
George Brown	English missionary, anthropologist and natural history specimen collector (1835–1917)	Barnard Castle		1835-12-07		missionary diarist writer translator collector ethnologist botanist ornithologist botanical collector
George Caley	English botanist and explorer in Australia (1770-1829)	Craven		1770-06-10		botanist explorer botanical collector
George Edward Massee	British botanist (1850–1917)	Scampston		1845-12-20	British fungi with a chapter on lichens	botanist mycologist scientific illustrator
George Frederick Stout	British philosopher and psychologist	South Shields	University of Cambridge	1860-01-06		psychologist philosopher university teacher
George French Angas	English explorer, naturalist and painter who emigrated to Australia and became a museum director (1822-1886)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1822-04-25	The Kafirs illustrated	explorer painter naturalist zoologist accountant
George Herbert Bailey	British chemist (1852-1924)	Teesdale		1852-05-17		chemist university teacher
George Jobey	British archaeologist (1918-1991)	Percy Main	Durham University			archaeologist
George Leo Watson	mathematician (1909-1988)	Whitby	Trinity College University of London	1909-12-13		mathematician university teacher
George Malcolm Brown	British geologist (1925-1997)	Redcar	St Cross College Durham University	1925-10-05		geologist
George Nicholson	English botanist and horticulturist (1847–1908)	Ripon		1847-12-07		horticulturist botanist
George Peacock	English mathematician and Anglican cleric (1791–1858)	County Durham	Trinity College University of Cambridge	1791-04-09		mathematician astronomer university teacher
George Redmayne Murray	British doctor	Newcastle upon Tyne	Eton College Trinity College	1865-06-20		biologist physician
George Rochester	British physicist	Wallsend	Durham University	1908-02-04		physicist university teacher
George Russell	English horticulturist	Stillington		1857		horticulturist
George Slater	British geologist and glaciologist (1874–1956)	Sharow	Royal College of Science	1874		geologist glaciologist teacher
George Stewardson Brady	British copepodologist (1832-1921)	Gateshead		1832-04-18		carcinologist zoologist copepodologist scientific illustrator writer
George Tate	English antiquarian, topographer and naturalist from Alnwick	Alnwick		1805-05-21 1805		naturalist topographer antiquarian draper postmaster businessperson botanist
George Vasey	19th century American botanist (1822-1893)	Snainton	Berkshire Medical College	1822-02-28		botanist agrostologist
George W. Temperley	British ornithologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Gateshead Grammar School	1875-10-29		ornithologist
George Wall	botanist (1821-1894)	North Shields	Harrow School	1821		botanist
Gerald Manners	British geographer (1932–2009)	County Durham		1932-08-07		economic geographer geographer university teacher
Gilbert Archey	New Zealand ethnologist, zoologist and museum director (1890–1974)	York	University of Canterbury	1890-08-04		ethnologist zoologist ornithologist paleontologist
Gilbert Ronald Bainbridge	British physicist	Felling	Hatfield College	1925-11-28		physicist
Giles Munby	British naturalist (1813–1876)	York	University of Edinburgh	1813		botanist physician
Godfrey Linge	geographer	Durham	University of Canterbury	1932-09-05		geographer
Godfrey Norman Agmondisham Vesey		Harrogate		1923-06-22		philosopher university teacher
Graham Wallas	English socialist, social psychologist, educationalist	Sunderland	Corpus Christi College Shrewsbury School	1858-05-31		psychologist sociologist
Guy Eaden Shewell	British entomologist (1913-1996)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1913-07-16		entomologist dipterologist
H. L. A. Hart	English legal philosopher (1907–1992)	Harrogate	Cheltenham College New College Bradford Grammar School	1907-07-18		jurist law professor philosopher
H. T. Dickinson	English historian	Gateshead	Durham University Gateshead Grammar School Newcastle University	1939-03-09		historian
Hans Munthe-Kaas	Norwegian mathematician	Northallerton	Norwegian University of Science and Technology Norwegian Institute of Technology	1961-03-28		mathematician
Harold A. Wilson	English physicist (1874-1964)	York	University of Cambridge	1874-12-01		physicist
Harold Jeffreys	British geophysicist and statistician	Fatfield	Durham University St John's College Newcastle University University of Cambridge	1891-04-22	Jeffreys number Jeffreys prior	mathematician astronomer statistician seismologist
Harry Beevers	English-born American physiologist (1924-2004)	County Durham	Durham University Wolsingham School	1924-01-10		biologist physiologist botanist
Harry Lindgren	Australian mathematician and linguist	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Western Australia	1912		mathematician linguist engineer
Henry Atkinson	British astronomer	Bavington		1781-06-28		astronomer mathematician
Henry Baker Tristram	English clergyman, Biblical scholar, traveller and ornithologist (1822-1906)	Eglingham	Lincoln College Durham School	1822-05-11		Anglican priest ornithologist botanist naturalist
Henry Bowman Brady	British paleontologist and pharmacist	Gateshead	Ackworth School	1835-02-23 1835		paleontologist pharmacist zoologist botanist
Henry Dresser Atkinson	Australian clergyman and naturalist (1841-1921)	Selby	Magdalene College Trinity College Dublin	1841-05-13		Anglican priest ornithologist naturalist
Henry Eeles Dresser	English ornithologist and businessman (1838-1915)	Thirsk		1838-05-09		ornithologist businessperson
Henry Elderfield	British oceanographer and Geochemist who deciphered chemical signatures in the modern and ancient oceans	North Yorkshire	University of Liverpool University of Cambridge	1943-04-25		chemist
Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton	British politician (1830-1911)	Sunderland	St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School	1830-05-16		politician statistician
Henry H. Slater	British ornithologist, entomologist and botanist (1851-1934)	Stanhope	St Catharine's College, Cambridge	1851		ornithologist entomologist botanist Anglican priest
Henry Hervey Baber	British philologist	Slingsby		1775		theologian librarian
Henry Heylyn Hayter	Anglo-Australian statistician	Eden Vale	Charterhouse School	1821-10-28		statistician civil servant writer
Henry Hodgkin	Medical doctor and British Quaker missionary.	Darlington		1877-04-21		physician missionary pacifist
Henry Liddell	British classical scholar and administrator (1811–1898)	Bishop Auckland	Christ Church Charterhouse School	1811-02-06		lexicographer linguist classical philologist university teacher classical scholar
Henry McIlwain		Newcastle upon Tyne		1912		biochemist university teacher
Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland	English aristocrat (1564-1632)	Tynemouth		1564-04-27		astronomer physician alchemist geographer mathematician
Henry Sidgwick	English philosopher	Skipton	Trinity College Rugby School	1838-05-31		philosopher economist university teacher writer
Henry Smeathman	British entomologist (1742-1786)	Scarborough		1742-02-09		botanist naval officer entomologist writer
Henry Tuke Mennell	British botanist and conchologist (1835 - 1923)	Scarborough		1835-06-19		botanist conchologist tea dealer
Herbert Edward Read	English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art (1893-1968)	Muscoates	University of Leeds	1893-12-04 1893-11-04	Education Through Art	art historian poet writer philosopher anarchist literary critic critic
Herbert McCabe	English-born Irish Dominican priest, theologian and philosopher (1926-2001)	Middlesbrough	University of Manchester	1926-08-02		philosopher writer theologian
Herbert Tomlinson	Physicist and FRS; first Principal of Chelsea Polytechnic (1845-1931)	York	Christ Church St Peter's School	1846-11-18 1845-11		physicist designer
Hugh Edwin Strickland	British scientist (1811-1853)	Reighton	Oriel College	1811-03-02		ornithologist zoologist geologist
Hugh Trevor-Roper	British historian (1914-2003)	Glanton	Christ Church Charterhouse School Belhaven Hill School Merton College	1914-01-15	The Last Days of Hitler The Last Days of Hitler	politician historian of Modern Age historian university teacher journalist essayist military officer intelligence officer opinion journalist
Hugh Watson	British malacologist (1885–1959)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1885-06-01		malacologist
Hyam Maccoby	British scholar of Judeo-Christian religious tradition (1924-2004)	Sunderland	Balliol College	1924-03-20		Judaic scholar historian university teacher writer librarian theologian
Ian Almond	professor	Skipton	University of Edinburgh	1969-09-21		literary scholar writer university teacher man of letters
Ian Graham Gass	British geologist (1926-1992)	Gateshead		1926-03-20		volcanologist geologist
Ian H. Goodall	British archaeologist (1948-2006)	York	Cardiff University	1948		archaeologist historian
Ian Jarvie	British philosopher	South Shields	London School of Economics and Political Science	1937-07-08		sociologist
Ian Macmillan Ward	British physicist	Stockton-on-Tees	Magdalen College Royal Grammar School	1928-04-09		researcher physicist
Ian Masser	British urban planner	York		1937-09-14		urban planner geographic information scientist geographer economist university teacher
Ian Vernon Hogg	British historian and author	Durham		1926-10-29		historian non-fiction writer writer weapon historian
Iolo Aneurin Williams	British journalist, author, art historian and botanist	Middlesbrough	King's College Rugby School	1890-06-18		journalist art historian author botanist
J. Douglas Porteous	geographer	York		1943-11-26		geographer
J. Drew Smith	mycologist (1922-2003)	Ireshopeburn	King's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne	1922-08-02		mycologist priest
J. P. E. Harper-Scott		Easington	Durham University University of Oxford	1977-12-03		musicologist
J. W. S. Cassels	British mathematician	Durham	University of Edinburgh George Heriot's School Trinity College University of Cambridge Neville's Cross Primary School	1922-07-11	JN-25	mathematician university teacher
J. Wilfrid Jackson	British geologist and paleontologist (1880-1978)	Scarborough		1880-06-15		geologist archaeologist paleontologist
Jack Heslop-Harrison	British botanist (1920-1998)	Middlesbrough	Queen's University Belfast Newcastle University Park View School	1920-02-10		botanist engineer university teacher
Jack Scott	British meteorologist (1923-2008)	Ferryhill	Nottingham Trent University	1923-11-09		meteorologist television presenter
James Backhouse	English botanist and missionary (1794–1869)	Darlington		1794-07-08		botanist
James Backhouse	English botanist, archaeologist, and geologist (1825–1890)	York	Bootham School	1825		botanist
James Backhouse	English nurseryman and ornithologist (1861-1945)	York		1861-04-14		horticulturist
James Cook	British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)	Marton		1728-10-27		explorer cartographer naval officer seafarer botanist
James Dall	New Zealand botanist, botanical and zoological collector (1840-1912)	York		1840-11-25		botanist botanical collector scientific collector
James Dalton	clergyman and botanist (1764-1843)	York	University of Cambridge	1764-11-14		botanist vicar
James Egan Moulton	Anglo-Australian headmaster and Methodist minister (1841–1909)	Northumberland	Kingswood School	1841-01-04		translator theologian Bible translator
James Hutton Kidd	Horticulturist, community leader	Hexham		1877-09-12		horticulturist gardener
James John Joicey	British entomologist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1871		lepidopterist entomologist
James Kenner	13 April 1885 - 30 June 1974	Morpeth		1885-04-13		organic chemist
James Maxlow	Australian geologist and scientist	Middlesbrough		1949		geologist
James Rutherford	1906–1963 professor at University of Auckland, historian	Dunston		1906		military personnel historian
James Stourton	English art historian	York	Ampleforth College Magdalene College	1956-07-03		art historian
James Wood	literary critic	Durham	Eton College Jesus College Chorister School	1965-11-01	The book against God (novel)	writer literary critic university teacher
James Wycliffe Headlam	British historian	Durham	King's College Eton College	1863-12-24		historian biographer
Jeremiah Dixon	British astronomer	Cockfield		1733-07-27	Mason–Dixon Line	astronomer
John Alexander Herbert	British Museum curator of manuscripts; (1862-1948)	Gateshead		1862		curator
John Arrowsmith	British geographer	Winston		1790		cartographer
John Arrowsmith	English theologian (1602-1659)	Gateshead	St John's College	1602-03-29		theologian
John Ash	British ornithologist (1925-2014)	Gosforth	Durham University Imperial College London Pocklington School	1925-05-26		ornithologist
John Bailey	English agriculturist and engraver (1750-1819)	Blades Field Farmhouse And Attached Outbuilding To East		1750		farmer writer land agent mathematician surveyor printmaker copper engraver teacher
John Basil Hume	British surgeon and lecturer	Whitby		1893-09-29		anatomist surgeon
John Beckwith	English art exhibition curator (1918-1991)	Whitby		1918-12-02		exhibition curator art historian curator university teacher
John Bird	British mathematical instrument maker	County Durham		1709		astronomer
John Brigham Ward	British born New Zealand entomologist and physicist (1928-2016)	Harrogate		1928-01-10		entomologist physicist
John Brown	English divine and author	Rothbury	St John's College	1715-11-05		writer philosopher essayist poet playwright satirist Anglican priest
John Burdon-Sanderson	English physiologist (1828–1905)	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Edinburgh University of Paris	1828-12-21		physician university teacher physiologist
John Carr	English mathematician (1948-2016)	East Heddon	University of Oxford	1948-08-29		mathematician
John Clarke	British writer and politician (1885-1959)	Jarrow		1885-02-04		politician circus performer peace activist poet
John Convey	Canadian metallurgist	Craghead		1910-03-29		metallurgist
John Corner	British mathematician and physicist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Peterhouse Royal Grammar School	1916-01-24		mathematician physicist
John D. Omer-Cooper	historian of Africa (1931-1998)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Rhodes University Corpus Christi College	1931-10-23		historian history teacher university teacher editor
John D. Thompson	British botanist (1959 - )	Berwick-upon-Tweed		1959	Plant Evolution in the Mediterranean Plant Evolution in the Mediterranean: Insights for Conservation	botanist ecologist researcher
John Edward Hull	arachnologist	Northumberland		1862		arachnologist Parson-naturalist parson
John Erickson	British military historian (1929-2002)	South Shields	St John's College	1929-04-17		historian
John Ewbank Leefe	botanist (1824-1889)	Richmond	Trinity College	1824 1813-05-13		botanist
John F. Runciman	musicologist and music critic	South Shields		1866		music critic musicologist
John Fleming	British art historian, born 1919	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Trinity College	1919		art historian
John Forster	English biographer and critic	Newcastle upon Tyne	University College London Jesus College Royal Grammar School	1812-04-02	Life of Charles Dickens	literary critic writer biographer journalist historian
John Fothergill	English physician and plant collector (1712–1780)	Bainbridge	University of Edinburgh Medical School	1712-03-08		botanist physician plantation owner abolitionist
John Francis Walker	Geologist and Palaeontologist	York	Sidney Sussex College University of Bonn	1839-11-25		geologist paleontologist curator barrister
John Frank Davidson	British chemist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Trinity College	1926-02-07		chemical engineer chemist
John G. Hawthorne	English and American archaeologist and academic (1915–1977)	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Cambridge University of Chicago Harvard University	1915-06-06		archaeologist
John Gardner	English spy and thriller novelist (1926-2007)	Northumberland Seaton Delaval	St John's College	1926-11-20	Boysie Oakes	journalist theologian novelist writer screenwriter
John Gilbert Baker	British botanist (1834-1920)	Guisborough	Bootham School Ackworth School	1834-01-13	A new flora of Northumberland and Durham with sketches of its climate and physical geography	botanist ecologist pteridologist
John Glover	British chemist (1817-1902)	Wallsend		1817-02		chemist
John Haldon	British historian of Byzantine history	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Birmingham Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	1948-10-23		historian Byzantinist university teacher
John Hancock	English naturalist, ornithologist, taxidermist and landscape architect (1808-1890)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal Grammar School	1808		botanist ornithologist ichthyologist
John Henry Middleton	British archaeologist	York	Exeter College	1846-10-05		exhibition curator art historian
John Hick	English philosopher of religion and theologian (1922-2012)	Scarborough	University of Edinburgh Oriel College Scarborough College	1922-01-20		paramedic philosopher university teacher theologian
John Hutchinson	English botanist, taxonomist and author (1884-1972)	Wark		1884-04-07		botanist gardener
John Hutchinson	English theologian	Spennithorne		1674		philosopher
John Hymers	British mathematician	Ormesby	St John's College	1803-07-20		mathematician
John Jackson	English clergyman, born 1686	Sessay	Hall Cross Academy	1686-04-04		theologian author
John Joule	British chemist	Harrogate	Princeton University Victoria University of Manchester University of Manchester	1937		chemist
John Lilburne	English political activist (1614-1657)	Sunderland Royal Borough of Greenwich	Royal Grammar School	1614		politician philosopher
John Lockwood Kipling	British artist (1837-1911)	Pickering	Woodhouse Grove School	1837-07-06		illustrator painter visual artist art educator museologist
John Lough	British university teacher (1913-2000)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1913-02-19		university teacher romanist philosopher historian
John Lynch	Emeritus Professor of Latin American History at the University of London (1927-2018)	The Boldons	University of Edinburgh University of London	1927-01-11		historian
John Marley	English mining engineer and geologist	Heighington		1823-11-11		engineer mining engineer geologist
John McGrady	English chemist and academic	Ryton	St Catherine's College Australian National University University of Oxford	1968-04-30		chemist cricketer professor
John McManners	British historian	Ferryhill	Durham University St Edmund Hall	1916-12-25		historian military officer
John Middleton	British land surveyor and agriculturist (1751–1833)	Streatlam and Stainton		1751-02		land surveyor agronomist
John N. Gray	British political philosopher (born 1948)	South Shields	Exeter College	1948-04-17		philosopher writer university teacher political scientist
John Nelson Tarn	British historian of architecture and urban planning	Newcastle upon Tyne		1934-11-23		architectural historian historian of urban planning
John Oxley	Australian politician	Kirkham		1785-01-01 1784-07-06		explorer naturalist botanist politician
John Percival	British agricultural botanist (1863-1949)	Carperby	St John's College	1863-04-03		botanist
John Richard Walbran	British antiquarian	Ripon		1817		anthropologist archaeologist historian
John Rickman	English statistician and civil servant (1771-1840)	Newburn	Lincoln College Royal Grammar School, Guildford	1771-08-22		civil servant statistician politician
John Scott	British entomologist (1823-1888)	Morpeth		1823-09-21		entomologist
John Snow	English epidemiologist and physician	York	Westminster Hospital Medical School University of London	1813-03-15		physician epidemiologist anesthesiologist
John Stansfield Gayner	British medical practicioner (1872-1954)	Sunderland		1872-05-03		medic naturalist
John Stewart Turner	Australian botanist, educationist, and conservationist (1908-1991)	Middlesbrough		1908-09-09		botanist
John Summerson	British architectural historian	Darlington	University College London Harrow School	1904-11-25		architectural historian university teacher
John Thomas Dunn	19th and 20th-century analytical chemist and academic	Newcastle upon Tyne		1858		chemist
John Thomas Walbran	surveyor	Ripon		1848		surveyor
John Thornhill	British naturalist, from Durham	County Durham		1760		naturalist economic agent
John Turnbull Thomson	British surveyor (1821-1884)	Glororum	University of Aberdeen	1821-08-10		civil engineer engineer surveyor
John Tweddell	English classical and archaeological scholar	Hexham		1769-06-01		classical scholar archaeologist
John Vaughan Thompson	British Military Surgeon, Marine Biologist, Zoologist, Botanist, and published Naturalist (1779-1847)	Berwick-upon-Tweed		1779-11-19		botanist zoologist marine biologist
John Walker	British inventor (1781-1859)	Stockton-on-Tees		1781-05-29	match	inventor chemist
John Wallis	English cleric and antiquarian	Northumberland	The Queen's College	1714		entomologist botanist
John White	English-born scholar of Maori language and culture (1826-1891)	Cockfield		1826-01-03		ethnologist ethnographer
John William Heslop-Harrison	British botanist (1881-1967)	Birtley	Durham University	1881		botanist university teacher entomologist
John William Nicholson	English mathematician (1881-1955)	Darlington	Harris Manchester College University of Cambridge	1881-11-01		mathematician university teacher scientist
John Wycliffe	English theologian and early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church	Hipswell	Merton College The Queen's College	1320s		theologian translator philosopher Bible translator writer
John of Hexham	English monk and historian	Hexham		1160		chronicler
Jonathan Riley-Smith	British historian	Harrogate	Eton College Trinity College	1938-06-27 1938		medievalist historian university teacher
Jonathan Wright	British historian	Hartlepool		1969-10-14		historian non-fiction writer
Jonathan Wynyard Haynes	British army officer in the Gold Coast (Ghana; 1839–1914)	Osmotherley		1839-07-04		military officer zoological collector
Joseph Allen Harris	Canadian politician and research chemist, discoverer of promethium (1900-1972)	Long Preston	University of British Columbia University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign	1900-07-06		chemist
Joseph Angus	English minister, teacher and biblical scholar	Bolam	King's College London Royal Grammar School	1816-01-16		Christian minister biblical scholar
Joseph Barnard Davis	British physician, craniologist.	York	University of St Andrews	1801-06-13		physician anthropologist
Joseph Blenkinsopp	American scholar	Durham	University of Oxford University of London Pontifical Biblical Institute	1927-04-03		biblical scholar university teacher theologian
Joseph Chatt	British chemist	Horden	University of Cambridge	1914-11-06		chemist university teacher
Joseph Desmond O'Connor	British linguist	Harrogate	University College London	1919-12-10		linguist phonetician
Joseph Foster	British genealogist (1844-1905)	Sunniside		1844-03-09	Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714 Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 Men-at-the-Bar	historian genealogist
Joseph Gillis	Israeli mathematician	Sunderland	Trinity College University of Cambridge	1911-08-03		mathematician
Joseph Ritson	British writer (1752-1803)	Stockton-on-Tees		1752-10-02	Ancient Songs, from the Time of King Henry the Third, to the Revolution	musicologist literary critic children's writer collector of fairy tales writer
Joseph Shaw Bolton	British physician	Whitby	UCL Medical School	1867		physician neurologist
Joseph Swan	British physicist and inventor (1828-1914)	Sunderland		1828-10-31		chemist physicist inventor
Joshua Alder	British zoologist (1792-1867)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1792		zoologist malacologist
Joshua Harold Burn	British pharmacologist (1892-1981)	Barnard Castle	Emmanuel College Barnard Castle School	1892-03-06		pharmacologist university teacher scientist
Julian Higgins	statistician	Middlesbrough	University of Reading			statistician researcher professor
Karl J. Friston	British neuroscientist	York	University of Cambridge Gonville and Caius College	1959-07-12	free energy principle	neuroscientist university teacher
Keith Boddy	English medical physicist	Stockton-on-Tees		1937-11-01		physicist
Keith Browning	British meteorologist	Sunderland	Imperial College London The Commonweal School	1938-07-31		meteorologist
Keith Ward	British philosopher, theologian, priest and scholar	Hexham	University of Wales Linacre College	1938-08-22		theologian university teacher Anglican priest philosopher priest
Ken Dowden	English classical scholar	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Oxford	1950		mythographer classical scholar classical philologist university teacher
Kenneth Bowman	Canadian amateur lepidopterist	Durham	Dulwich College	1875-03-06		collector lepidopterist
Kenneth Sillito	English violinist and conductor	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal Academy of Music	1939-03-05		violinist conductor artistic director (music)
Kevin Dowd	economist	Middlesbrough	University of Sheffield	1958		economist
Kirpal Nandra	British physicist	North Shields	University of Leicester	1966		physicist astrophysicist
Lancelot Brown	British landscape architect	Kirkharle		1716-08		horticulturist architect landscape architect gardener
Lawrence Freedman	British military historian	Tynemouth	University of York Nuffield College Victoria University of Manchester Whitley Bay High School	1948-12-07		political scientist non-fiction writer university teacher
Leslie Crombie	English chemist (1923-1999)	York	King's College London	1923-06-10		chemist
Leslie Curry	British-Canadian geographer	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Auckland Durham University Johns Hopkins University	1922-11-23		geographer
Leslie Peter Wenham	British historian and archaeologist	Richmond	Durham University	1911		anthropologist archaeologist historian
Leslie W. Hepple	archaeologist	Tynemouth		1947-07-24		archaeologist geographer
Lesslie Newbigin	Christian missionary	Newcastle upon Tyne	Queens' College Leighton Park School Westminster College	1909-12-08		theologian missionary writer
Lewis Fry Richardson	UK mathematician & polymath (1881–1953)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Newcastle University King's College Bootham School	1881-10-11	Richardson extrapolation modified Richardson iteration Richardson number	cartographer mathematician psychologist physicist meteorologist peace and conflict researcher polymath
Lindsay Kemp	British mime (1938-2018)	South Shields		1938-05-03		choreographer actor ballet dancer mime artist film actor stage actor dancer pedagogue
Lionel Masters	archaeologist (1942-2019)	South Shields		1942-08		archaeologist
Lyndon Emsley	British chemist	Durham	Imperial College London University of Lausanne	1964-11-29		university teacher chemist researcher
MLT	computer hacker	Newcastle upon Tyne	Northumbria University	1994		hacktivist
Malcolm Boyd		Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University Dame Allan's School	1932-05-24		musicologist
Malcolm Neesam	English historian and writer	Harrogate	University of Leeds	1946-06-28		historian librarian archivist writer
Malcolm Rogers	British art curator, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, from 1994 through 2015	Scarborough	Christ Church Magdalen College Oakham School	1949		curator
Marc Smith	English-French historian and palaeographer	Newcastle upon Tyne	École des chartes École pratique des hautes études French School of Rome	1963-07-25		historian palaeographer archivist research fellow
Marcus Graham	British entomologist	West Rainton	Trinity College Dublin University of Oxford	1915-03-25		entomologist
Marmaduke Alexander Lawson	botanist (1840-1896)	Durham	Trinity College	1840		botanist
Martin Charlton	geographic information scientist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1957		geographic information scientist
Martin Ephraim Mosely	English entomologist (1877-1948)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1877-08-06		entomologist
Martin Rees	British cosmologist and astrophysicist	York	Trinity College Shrewsbury School University of Cambridge	1942-06-23		physicist astronomer politician university teacher astrophysicist cosmologist
Martyn Amos	British computer scientist	Hexham	Coventry University	1971		computer scientist engineer
Matt Ridley	British author and journalist	Northumberland	Magdalen College Eton College	1958-02-07		banker journalist zoologist politician economist writer land owner
Matthew Poole	English Nonconformist theologian and biblical commentator (1624–1679)	York	Emmanuel College	1624		theologian
Maurice Platnauer	British classicist (1887-1974)	York	Shrewsbury School New College	1887-06-18		classical philologist translator
Maxwell Staniforth	British soldier, railwayman, clergyman and scholar (1893–1985)	Hinderwell	Charterhouse School Christ Church	1893-06-23		translator soldier classical scholar priest
Michael Bryan	British art historian (1757–1821)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1757-04-09	Dictionary of painters and engravers	art historian art collector art dealer
Michael Crawley	British ecologist, Emeritus Professor of Plant Ecology at Imperial College London	Rothbury	University of Edinburgh Imperial College London	1949-03-09		ecologist academic
Michael Gough	British archaeologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Dragon School Peterhouse	1916-08-02	The Origins of Christian Art	art historian archaeologist
Michael Hall	British conductor and musicologist	Tyne and Wear		1932-03-26		conductor musicologist
Michael J. C. Gordon	computer scientist	Ripon	University of Edinburgh Gonville and Caius College Dartington Hall	1948-02-28		computer scientist engineer
Michael J. Ferguson	biochemist	County Durham	University of London University of Manchester	1957		biochemist researcher
Michael Shanks	British archaeologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Peterhouse Whitley Bay High School	1959-06-26		anthropologist art historian archaeologist university teacher historian academic classical scholar
Michael Skinner	English rugby union footballer	Newcastle upon Tyne		1958-11-26		rugby union player television presenter computer scientist
Myles Power	British science YouTuber	Middlesbrough	University of Manchester University of Toronto Macmillan Academy	1985		YouTuber chemist podcaster
N. T. Wright	Anglican bishop	Morpeth	Exeter College Sedbergh School Merton College	1948-12-01 1948-11-01		theologian politician historian university teacher Anglican priest
Nathaniel Davison	English diplomat, known for his writings on Egyptian archaeology	Longhoughton		1736		diplomat archaeologist
Neil Bartlett	English-American chemist (1932-2008)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University Newcastle University	1932-09-15	noble gas compound	chemist university teacher
Neil Young	British writer, curator and filmmaker	Easington		1971		writer curator filmmaker
Nicholas Bingham	British mathematician	York	Churchill College Trinity College Trinity College, Oxford University of Cambridge	1945-03-19		mathematician
Nicholas Carlisle	Antiquary and librarian	York		1771		lexicographer librarian antiquarian seller
Nicholas Carr	British classical scholar	Newcastle upon Tyne	Christ's College Pembroke College	1524		university teacher classical scholar
Nicholas Darnell	English cricketer, barrister, and Catholic priest	Stockton-on-Tees	Exeter College	1817		cricketer historian barrister
Nicholas Hitchon	British nuclear physicist and participant in the Up documentary television series	Skipton	Merton College Ermysted's Grammar School	1957-10-22		nuclear physicist university teacher
Nicholas Patrick	American astronaut	Saltburn-by-the-Sea	Harrow School Trinity College Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1964-11-19		astronaut engineer
Nicholas Ridley	Bishop of London; Anglican Saint	Tynedale	University of Paris Pembroke College Royal Grammar School	1500		priest theologian
Nicholas Temperley	English merchant, magistrate and mycologist (1844-1923)	Hexham		1844		merchant justice of the peace mycologist
Nigel Fortune	English musicologist, political activist	Northumberland	University of Cambridge University of Birmingham Handsworth Grammar School	1924-12-05		musicologist
Nigel Glover	British particle physicist	Sunderland	Durham University Downing College	1961-06-20		physicist
Nigel Hamilton	British writer, academic and broadcaster	Alnmouth	Trinity College Westminster School Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	1944-02-16		military historian biographer
Norman Dennis	British sociologist (1929-2010)	Sunderland	London School of Economics and Political Science	1929-08-16		sociologist
Norman Penney	British historian of the Quakers, librarian, and editor	Darlington		1858		historian of religion librarian editor
Norman Powell Williams	Anglo-Catholic theologian	Durham	Christ Church	1883		theologian
Oliver Gillie	British journalist and scientist	Northumberland	University of Edinburgh	1937-10-31		science journalist journalist scientist science communicator
P. Maurice Casey	British scholar of New Testament and early Christianity (1942-2014)	Sunderland	Durham University	1942-10-18		biblical scholar
Paul C. Doherty	British educator and author	Middlesbrough	University of Oxford University of Liverpool	1946-09-21		writer historian novelist
Paul Kennedy	British historian	Wallsend	St Antony's College Newcastle University St. Cuthbert's High School	1945-06-17		geopolitical analyst university teacher historian
Paul Stewart	British endocrinologist	Harrogate	University of Edinburgh	1959-07-06		physiologist
Paul Turner	English literary scholar (1917-2005)	West Hartlepool		1917-05-11		scholar of English
Paul W. Franks	American philosopher	Newcastle upon Tyne	Balliol College Harvard University Gateshead Talmudical College	1964		philosopher university teacher
Percival Turnbull	British archaeologist (1953-2016)	Coxhoe	UCL Institute of Archaeology	1953		archaeologist university teacher
Peter Addyman	British archaeologist	Harrogate	Sedbergh School Peterhouse	1939-07-12		medieval archaeologist
Peter Arnold-Craft	British headmaster and historian	Nunnington	Brasenose College	1926-01-08		historian
Peter Coles	British astrophysicist	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Sussex Magdalene College Royal Grammar School	1963-06-04		astrophysicist
Peter Davison	American poet	Newcastle upon Tyne	Harvard University	1928-06-27		writer poet literary historian editor university teacher
Peter Evans	English musicologist	Hartlepool		1929-11-07		musicologist university teacher
Peter Frank	Professor of Russian politics	Whitby		1934-05-06		political scientist
Peter Gilliver	British lexicographer	Middlesbrough	University of Sheffield Jesus College Barnard Castle School	1964-06-14		lexicographer linguist editor
Peter Hicks	British musicologist	Wallsend	University College London St John's College	1964-02-01		musicologist historian musician choir director organist translator classical philologist
Peter Higgs	British physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1929–2024)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Cotham School City of London School King's College London	1929-05-29	Higgs boson	theoretical physicist researcher particle physicist physicist
Peter Hunter Blair	British academic and historian (1912–1982)	Gosforth		1912-03-22		historian
Peter Kidson	English art historian (1925-2019)	York		1925-08-23		art historian architectural historian architect university teacher
Peter Smith	British architectural historian (1926-2013)	Winlaton	King Edward VI School University of Oxford	1926		writer architectural historian
Peter Swinnerton-Dyer	British mathematician (1927-2018)	Ponteland	Trinity College	1927-08-02		mathematician bridge player university teacher
Peter Townsend	British sociologist (1928-2009)	Middlesbrough	St John's College	1928-04-06		sociologist university teacher
Phil O'Keefe	British geographer and development specialist	North Shields	Ushaw College	1948-12		geographer
Philip Lake	British geologist (1865–1949)	Morpeth	St John's College	1865-04-09		geologist
Pit Corder	language scholar from England (1918-1990)	York	Bootham School Merton College	1918-10-06		paramedic linguist
Prideaux John Selby	English ornithologist, botanist and illustrator (1788–1867)	Alnwick	University College, Oxford Durham School Durham University	1788-07-23		botanist ornithologist illustrator
R. W. Southern	British historian	Newcastle upon Tyne	Balliol College Royal Grammar School	1912-02-08		historian
Ralph Nicholson Wornum	British art historian (1812-1877)	Norham	University College London	1812-12-29		art historian writer librarian curator art critic
Ralph Riley	British geneticist	Scarborough	Audenshaw School	1924-10-23		geneticist
Ralph Russell	British scholar of Urdu literature (1918-2008)	Kirk Hammerton	St John's College	1918-05-21		linguist academic
Ralph Tate	British botanist (1840-1901)	Alnwick		1840-03-11		botanist geologist
Raphael Sealey	British-American classical scholar, ancient historian (1927–2013)	Middlesbrough	University College, Oxford	1927-08-14		historian classical scholar
Raymond Gibson	British zoologist	Catterick		1938-11-23		zoologist university teacher
Renford Bambrough	philosopher (1926-1999)	Sunderland		1926-04-29		philosopher university teacher
Richard A. Fletcher	British medieval historian (born 1944)	York	Harrow School Worcester College	1944-03-28		historian university teacher
Richard Abbay	British astronomer, botanist, parish priest and poet (1844-1927)	Ouseburn		1844-02-11		clergyman botanist astronomer poet
Richard Allen Downing	British hydrogeologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University	1928-03-18		hydrogeologist
Richard Bartle	British writer, video game designer and computer scientist	Ripon	University of Essex	1960-01-10	MUD1 Designing Virtual Worlds From MUDs to MMORPGs: The History of Virtual Worlds	writer university teacher computer scientist
Richard Clive Cookson	British chemist	Hexham	Harrow School Trinity College	1922-08-27 1922		chemist
Richard Drury	British curator and art critic	Scarborough		1967-09-03		curator translator art critic art historian exhibition curator university teacher museologist gallerist
Richard Flohil	Canadian music publicist, journalist and promoter	Selby		1934		musician publicist artistic director reporter
Richard Fothergill	British politician	Lowbridge Estate		1822-11-08		politician ironmaster
Richard Holdsworth	English theologian	Newcastle upon Tyne	St John's College	1590		theologian
Richard Laws	English mammalogist and Antarctic scientist; 2nd Director BAS	Whitley Bay	St Catharine's College, Cambridge	1926-04-23		scientist
Richard Pickersgill	British sailor	West Tanfield		1749-04-18		seafarer cartographer
Richard Robinson	British politician, chemist	Whitby		1849-10-16		chemist
Richard Robson	chemist	Glusburn	University of Oxford	1937-06-04		chemist
Richard Rolle	English hermit and religious writer (c.1300–1349)	North Yorkshire	University of Oxford University of Paris	1300s		translator hermit theologian
Richard Runciman Terry	British composer (1865-1938)	Ellington	King's College	1865-01-03		conductor musicologist composer
Richard Shilleto	British scholar	Ulleskelf	Trinity College Shrewsbury School Repton School	1809-11-25		classical scholar
Richard Spruce	British botanist and explorer (1817–1893)	Ganthorpe		1817-09-10		botanist explorer entomologist pteridologist bryologist naturalist
Richard Waugh	English merchant and botanist (1768-1806)	Lanchester		1768		botanist merchant
Robert Atkinson	Anglo-Irish academic, philologist and textual scholar	Yorkshire Gateshead		1839-04-06		writer linguist
Robert Benson Bowman	Bookseller and publisher (1808-1882)	Richmond		1808-05-14		botanist bookseller
Robert Bernasconi	British philosopher	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Sussex	1950-08-05		philosopher university teacher
Robert Blair	English archaeologist and antiquarian	South Shields		1845-06-08		archaeologist
Robert Brough Smyth	Anglo-Australian geologist, author and social commentator	Wallsend		1830 1830-02-18		geologist ethnologist mining engineer meteorologist writer
Robert Clephan	British merchant and archaeologist	Gateshead		1839-11-08		merchant archaeologist writer
Robert Douglas	American horticulturist (1813-1897)	Gateshead		1813-04-20		horticulturist naturalist
Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet	English scientist and music theorist (1841-1912)	Alnwick	Balliol College Eton College Royal College of Music	1841-07-31		astronomer musicologist music theorist barrister
Robert Howard Hodgkin	British historian	Newcastle upon Tyne	Repton School Leighton Park School Balliol College	1877-04-24		historian university teacher
Robert Kaye Greville	British botanist (1794-1866)	Bishop Auckland	University of Edinburgh	1794-12-13		botanist bryologist mycologist botanical illustrator
Robert Ker Porter	British artist, writer and diplomat	Durham	Durham School Royal Academy of Arts	1777		painter diplomat politician landscape painter traveler writer botanist
Robert Malcolm Errington	British historian and classical scholar (born 1939)	Howdon	Durham University	1939-07-05		historian of classical antiquity university teacher historian
Robert Morrison	British evangelist and first Christian Protestant missionary to China	Bullers Green	Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry	1782-01-05		lexicographer linguist translator writer Bible translator missionary
Robert Nares	English clergyman, author and philologist (1753-1829)	York	Christ Church	1753-06-09		writer librarian clergyman editor linguist scholar of English priest lexicographer
Robert Pashley	British economist	York	Trinity College	1805-09-04		economist
Robert Robson	English historian	Haltwhistle	Queen Elizabeth High School Trinity College	1929-08-11		historian
Robert Sayer	English publisher, map and printseller	Sunderland		1725		cartographer publisher visual artist
Robert Sherlaw Johnson	British musician and scholar (1932-2000)	Sunderland	University of Leeds Durham University Royal Academy of Music Gosforth Academy	1932-05-21		composer pianist scholar campanologist
Robert William Atkinson	British chemist in Japan	Newcastle upon Tyne	Royal School of Mines	1850		chemist
Robert Wilson	British astronomer (1927-2002)	South Shields	University of Edinburgh King's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne	1927-04-16		astronomer
Robertus Dixon	British scientist	Heworth		1647-07-17		astronomer
Roland Carl Backhouse	British computer scientist and mathematician	Middlesbrough	Churchill College Imperial College London University of London	1948-08-18		mathematician university teacher computer scientist programmer
Ronald Illingworth	Illingworth, Ronald Stanley (1909–1990), expert in child health	Harrogate	Bradford Grammar School Yale University	1909		scientist pediatrician
Sacheverell Sitwell	British art and architectural historian and writer, baronet (1969-1988)	Scarborough	Balliol College Eton College	1897-11-15		writer literary critic poet biographer critic art historian architectural historian
Sam William Heads	British entomologist and palaeontologist	Northumberland	University of Portsmouth	1983-04-22		paleontologist entomologist
Samuel Newby Curle	British mathematician	Sunderland	Victoria University of Manchester St. Bede's Grammar School	1930-06-18		mathematician
Samuel Tolansky	British physicist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University Imperial College London	1907-11-17		physicist
Scott Davidson	academic	Newcastle upon Tyne	Downing College	1954-09-24		political scientist
Seebohm Rowntree	British philanthropist industrialist and sociologist writer	York	Bootham School	1871-07-07	How far it is possible to provide Satisfactory Houses for the Working Classes at rents which they can afford to pay	sociologist businessperson
Selby Knox	British chemist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1944-09-24		chemist professor
Shaykh Said Ismail	Imam from the Yemeni Community in Cardiff; from a mixed family background (1930-2011)	South Shields		1930-09		imam welder
Silvanus P. Thompson	British academic physicist (1851-1916)	York	Bootham School University of London	1851-06-19		engineer physicist university teacher writer
Simon Myers	Professor of Mathematical Genomics	Darlington	Royal Latin School Worcester College Jesus College	1977-06-27		statistician academic
Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet	Quaker, sinologist	Darlington	Winchester College Merton College	1873-10-20		linguist historian diarist
Sir John Smith-Dodsworth, 8th Baronet	English-New Zealand naturalist	Thornton Watlass Hall	Ampleforth College	1935-03-04		naturalist
Sir Lowthian Bell, 1st Baronet	Ironmaster, industrial chemist, railway owner (1816-1904)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1816-02-18 1816-02-15 1816		inventor politician metallurgist chemist businessperson entrepreneur aristocrat
Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, 6th Baronet	British botanist and historian (1797-1879)	Newcastle upon Tyne	University College, Oxford Harrow School	1797-03-31		botanist geologist photographer
Smithson Tennant	British chemist (1761-1815)	Selby	University of Edinburgh Christ's College Beverley Grammar School	1761-11-30		chemist
Stanley Eveling	British philosopher and writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Oxford Durham University	1925		playwright journalist philosopher
Stanley Peat	British carbohydrate chemist	South Shields		1902-08-23		chemist
Stanley R. Dennison	British economist and university administrator	North Shields	Trinity College	1912 1912-06-15		economist
Stephen Chapman	Australian teacher and chemist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Newcastle University	1959-05-12		teacher chemist
Stephen Graham	British urban theorist	North Shields		1965-02-26		geographer university teacher urban theorist
Stephen Liddle	British chemist	Sunderland	Newcastle University	20th century		chemist researcher
Steve Ellis	British poet and literary scholar	York		1952		poet literary critic literary scholar university teacher man of letters
Steve Flint	railway modeller, writer, editor and photographer	Scarborough		1954		model railroader writer railway historian photographer magazine editor
Steven Runciman	British historian of the Middle Ages (1903–2000)	Northumberland Glasgow	Eton College Trinity College	1903-07-07	A History of the Crusades	medievalist historian Byzantinist
Tempest Anderson	British eye surgeon, photographer and volcanologist	York	St Peter's School University College London University of Leeds	1846-12-07		volcanologist photographer surgeon
Terence Burns, Baron Burns	British economist	Hetton-le-Hole	University of Manchester	1944-03-13		economist politician business executive
Terry Deary	writer	Sunderland	University of Sunderland Monkwearmouth Academy East Point Academy	1946-03-04		writer children's writer stage actor theatrical director historian
Theodore Rigg	New Zealand agricultural chemist, scientific administrator (1888–1972)	Settle	St John's College	1888-04-06		chemist
Thomas Addison	19th-century British physician and scientist	Longbenton	University of Edinburgh King's College London Royal Grammar School	1793-04-02		physician scientist
Thomas Alcock Beck	British historian (1795-1846)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Trinity College Hawkshead Grammar School	1795-05-31		historian
Thomas Baker	English antiquarian, born 1656	Lanchester	St John's College	1656-09-14		antiquarian historian
Thomas Bell	English land surveyor and book collector	Newcastle upon Tyne		1785-12-16		surveyor bookseller
Thomas Belt	English geologist and naturalist (1832-1878)	Newcastle upon Tyne		1832-11-27		geologist naturalist
Thomas Bewick	English engraver and natural history author (1753-1828)	Mickley		1753-08-10 1753-08-12	Mother Goose’s Melody	ornithologist printmaker painter illustrator wood engraver copper engraver historian xylographer
Thomas Burnet	English theologian and writer (1635-1715)	Croft-on-Tees		1635		philosopher theologian
Thomas Carter	British ornithologist and pastoralist (1863-1931)	Masham		1863-04-06		ornithologist scientific collector
Thomas Caverhill Jerdon	British zoologist, botanist, and physician (1811-1872)	Durham	University of Edinburgh	1811-10-12		botanist physician zoologist ornithologist entomologist zoological collector botanical collector
Thomas Cresap	American settler	Skipton		1694		frontiersman politician surveyor trader soldier gentleman farmer
Thomas D Bennett	British materials chemist	South Shields	University of Cambridge	1986		researcher materials chemist
Thomas Doubleday	English political activist, author, songwriter, poet	Newcastle upon Tyne		1790		politician songwriter economist
Thomas Gale	British antiquarian; (1635-1702)	Scruton	Trinity College Westminster School	1636		classical philologist university teacher mythographer Anglican priest historian
Thomas Gray	mining engineer and local historian (1847 -1924)	Washington		1847-09-22		mining engineer historian
Thomas Guy Masters	Seismologist	York	University of Cambridge	1954		seismologist
Thomas Havelock	English mathematician	Newcastle upon Tyne	St John's College	1877		mathematician university teacher
Thomas Hudson Nelson	British ornithologist (1856-1916)	Bishop Auckland		1856-02-12		ornithologist
Thomas J. Foggitt	British botanist (1810–1895)	Durham		1810		botanist
Thomas Jackson Foggitt	British botanist (1858–1934)	Thirsk		1858-03-02		botanist pharmacist
Thomas Johnson	English botanist and Royalist soldier of the English Civil War	Selby		1600-09-07		botanist
Thomas Manson	British biblical scholar	North Shields	University of Glasgow Westminster College	1893-07-22		biblical scholar religious studies scholar
Thomas Nossiter	British academic	Stockton-on-Tees	Exeter College Nuffield College	1937-12-24		lecturer political scientist sociologist
Thomas Nuttall	English botanist and zoologist in America (1786-1859)	Settle		1786-01-05		botanist pteridologist zoologist ornithologist writer
Thomas Renton Elliott	physician and physiologist (1877-1961)	Willington		1877-10-11		physiologist
Thomas Rymer Jones	British surgeon and zoologist	Whitby		1810		zoologist surgeon
Thomas Stackhouse	English theologian and controversialist	Witton-le-Wear		1677		theologian
Thomas Stanley Westoll	English geologist	Hartlepool	Newcastle University	1912-07-03		anatomist geologist paleontologist
Thomas Stevenson	English toxicologist and forensic chemist (1838-1908)	Rainton	University of London Guy's Hospital Medical School	1838-04-14		toxicologist physician forensic scientist lecturer
Thomas Turton	British mathematician and clergyman (1780-1864)	York	St Catharine's College, Cambridge Queens' College	1780-02-05		mathematician priest university teacher
Thomas Wharton	English anatomist (1614–1673)	Winston	Pembroke College	1614-08-31		anatomist
Thomas Wright	astronomer (1711-1786)	County Durham	King James I Academy	1711-09-22	An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe	astronomer mathematician architect
Timothy Kristian Charles Mace		Catterick		1955-11-20		engineer astronaut
Tony Weetman	Dean of the Medical School at University of Sheffield	Durham	Newcastle University	1953-04-29		medical faculty endocrinologist
Trevor Ian Shaw	English biochemist and physiologist	York	Clare College	1928-03-18		physiologist
Trevor McMillan	English radiobiologist, Vice-Chancellor of Keele University	Gateshead	University of Lancaster	1959-10-02		biologist radiologist
Tweedy John Todd	English doctor (1789-1840)	Berwick-upon-Tweed	University of Aberdeen	1789		biologist surgeon
Ullin Place	British philosopher (1924-2000)	Yorkshire Northallerton	Rugby School Corpus Christi College	1924-10-24		philosopher psychologist university teacher
Uthred of Boldon	Benedictine monk, theologian and writer	The Boldons		1320		monk theologian
Vigo Auguste Demant	British priest and theologian	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University Harris Manchester College Ely Theological College	1893-11-08		theologian Anglican priest
Vince Cable	British politician, leader of the Liberal Democrats (born 1943)	York	Fitzwilliam College University of Glasgow	1943-05-09		politician economist
W. B. R. King	British geologist	West Burton	Jesus College Uppingham School	1889-11-12		geologist
W. Brian Harland	British geologist (1917-2003)	Scarborough	Bootham School Gonville and Caius College	1917-03-22		geologist university teacher
W. H. Auden	British-American poet (1907–1973)	York	Christ Church University of Oxford Gresham's School St Edmund's School	1907-02-21	The Orators	poet screenwriter literary historian playwright writer librettist university teacher literary critic essayist composer translator
Wally Herbert	British polar explorer (1934-2007)	United Kingdom York		1934-10-24		explorer polar explorer surveyor writer illustrator
Walter Crawley	British tennis player and entomologist (1880-1940)	Masham	St John's School, Leatherhead	1880-03-29		tennis player entomologist
Wesley Stoker Barker Woolhouse	British actuary	North Shields		1809-05-06		actuary musicologist music theorist musician mathematician
Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston	British geologist (1828-1909)	York	St John's College	1828-06-02		geologist ornithologist paleontologist curator
Wilfrid Norman Bailey	British mathematician (1893-1961)	County Durham	Victoria University of Manchester University of Cambridge	1893-09-05		mathematician
Will Ashton	Australian artist (1881-1963)	Clifton	Académie Julian	1881-09-20		painter curator
Will Hay	English comedian, actor, film director & astronomer (1888-1949)	Stockton-on-Tees		1888-12-06		actor comedian screenwriter astronomer film director stand-up comedian stage actor film actor engineer
Will Lawson	Australian writer (1876-1957)	Durham		1876-09-02		historian poet
William Alvara Humphrey	British geologist and mineralogist	York		1876-11-08		geologist
William Andrews Nesfield	English landscape architect and artist (1793-1881)	Chester-le-Street	Durham School	1793-06-16		horticulturist painter
William Arthur Bone	British chemist	Stockton-on-Tees	University of Manchester Ackworth School	1871-03-19		chemist university teacher
William Bateson	British geneticist and biologist (1861-1926)	Whitby	St John's College Rugby School	1861-08-08		geneticist biologist
William Bedlington	New Zealand land surveyor (1823-1891)	Ovingham		1823-09-27		surveyor engineer
William Brice	British ethnographer and linguist	Richmond	Jesus College	1921-07-03		linguist ethnologist anthropologist ethnographer
William Bullerwell	English geologist	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University	1916-09-27		geologist geophysicist
William Burley Lockwood	historian	Normanby	University of Manchester	1917-04-13		linguist writer lexicographer
William Chapman Hewitson	British naturalist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1806-01-09		naturalist lepidopterist illustrator ornithologist
William Crawford Williamson	English naturalist and palaeobotanist (1816-1895)	Scarborough	University College London	1816-11-24		botanist geologist paleontologist paleobotanist
William D. Clark	British economist	Haltwhistle	University of Chicago	1916-07-28		economist writer
William Daniel Gill	geologist (1916–92)	Hillam		1916-06-29		geologist
William Delisle Hay	British mycologist, novelist, and pulp writer (1853-18??)	Bishopwearmouth		1853 1851		botanist science fiction writer mycologist
William Elstob	English chaplain	Newcastle upon Tyne	Eton College St Catharine's College, Cambridge The Queen's College	1674		rector linguist translator theologian historian
William Emerson	British mathematician	Hurworth-on-Tees		1701-05-14		mathematician
William Foggitt	British botanist (1835–1917)	Yarm		1835-02-02		botanist
William G. Whittaker	English-Scottish composer, pedagogue, conductor, musicologist, Bach scholar, publisher and writer	Newcastle upon Tyne	Durham University	1876-07-23		composer musicologist music journalist conductor music professor
William Gowland	British archaeologist	Sunderland	Imperial College London	1842-12-16		anthropologist archaeologist engineer
William Grainge	British antiquarian (1818-1895)	Dishforth		1818-01-25		antiquarian poet stationer bookseller historian
William Green		Belford		1844		photographer chemist
William Greenwell	British archaeologist	Lanchester	Durham University Durham School	1820-03-23		anthropologist archaeologist priest
William Harrison Cook	chemist	Alnwick	Stanford University University of Alberta	1903-09-02		chemist biochemist
William Hepworth Thompson	British classical philologist (1810-1886)	York	Trinity College	1810-03-27		classical philologist academic classical scholar university teacher
William Herdman Elliott	British Australian biochemist	Durham		1925-06-05		biochemist
William Hewson	British physiologist	Hexham	University of Edinburgh	1739-11-14		anatomist surgeon physiologist
William Hutton	British geologist (1797-1860)	Sunderland		1797-07-26		botanist geologist paleontologist
William J. Eccles	British historian of Canada	North Yorkshire	McGill University	1917		historian
William Jackson Bean	British botanist (1863-1947)	Malton	Holgate School, Barnsley	1863-05-26	Trees and shrubs hardy in the British Isles	botanist
William Kay	English cleric and academic	Pickering	Giggleswick School Lincoln College	1820-04-08		biblical scholar cleric
William Kenneth Richmond		Darlington		1910		pedagogue
William King	Anglo-Irish geologist	Sunderland		1809-04-22		archaeologist prehistorian geologist paleoanthropologist university teacher paleontologist
William Lambton	British geographer	Northallerton		1756 1753		surveyor geographer
William Lax	astronomer	Ravensworth	Trinity College	1761		mathematician astronomer
William Martin	eccentric and self-proclaimed philosopher (1772-1851)	Haltwhistle		1772-06-21		philosopher poet
William Neile	British mathematician	Bishopthorpe	Wadham College University of Oxford	1637-12-16	Semicubical parabola	mathematician
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse	Anglo-Irish astronomer (1800-1867)	York	Magdalen College Trinity College Dublin	1800-06-17	Leviathan of Parsonstown	astronomer politician
William Philipson	English-born New Zealand botanist and explorer (1911–1997)	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Cambridge University of London Dame Allan's School Durham University Downing College	1911-12-06		botanist writer explorer botanical collector academic
William Ralph Inge	English author, Anglican dean and professor of divinity (1860–1954)	Crayke	Eton College King's College	1860-06-06		priest writer theologian
William Scoresby	English Arctic explorer and whaler (1789–1857)	Cropton	Queens' College	1789-10-05		explorer scientist
William Scoresby	Arctic whaler and navigator (1760–1829)	Cropton		1760-05-03		scientific explorer
William Shanks	Amateur calculator, school owner	Corsenside		1812-01-25		mathematician
William Stubbs	British historian and Anglican bishop (1825–1901)	Knaresborough	Christ Church Ripon Grammar School	1825-06-21		cleric Anglican priest legal historian medievalist historian university teacher parson writer
William Turner	16th century English Protestant reformer, physician and natural historian	Morpeth	Pembroke College	1510		physician naturalist Anglican priest ornithologist botanist
Zachary Grey	British historian	Burniston		1686-05-06		historian

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