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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	image	description	place of birth	educated at	date of birth	notable work	occupation
Alice Lucas		English translator	Newcastle upon Tyne		1855-07-07	The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm	translator
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	19th 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
Caroline de Crespigny		English poet and translator.	Durham		1797-10-24		poet diarist translator
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 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
Diana V. Ashton			Durham		1840		pianist music teacher translator
Diane Atkinson		British historian	North East England	University of East Anglia University of London	19th 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 Barrett Browning		British poet, author	Coxhoe Hall Durham		1806-03-06	The Battle of Marathon: A Poem	poet screenwriter essayist pamphleteer translator writer
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 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
Eta Cohen		English violinist	Sunderland		1916		writer music teacher violinist
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
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
Helen Glatz		English music teacher and composer	Durham	Royal College of Music	1908-03-13		composer music teacher
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
Isabella Bird		British traveler, writer, photographer and naturalist (1831–1904)	Boroughbridge		1831-10-15	Korea and Her Neighbours	explorer writer naturalist geographer photographer traveler
Jane Gardam		British novelist and children's writer	Coatham North Yorkshire	Bedford College	1928-07-11		writer novelist literary critic children's 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
Janet Graham		English composer, music educator and music therapist.	Consett		1948-06-04		composer music teacher
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
Marjorie Thomas		singer (1923-2008)	Sunderland	Royal Northern College of Music	1923-06-05		opera singer music teacher
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
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
Ursula Dronke		British scholar of Old Norse and medieval studies	Sunderland	Somerville College Newcastle High School for Girls Newcastle upon Tyne Church High School	1920-11-03		author university teacher translator
Veronica Wedgwood		English historian	Northumberland	Lady Margaret Hall Norland Place School	1910-07-20		historian of Modern Age historian
Virginia Nicholson		English historian	Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle	King's College	1955		writer non-fiction writer opinion journalist historian
William Scott Palmer		British physician, journalist and writer	York	London School of Medicine for Women University of Vienna Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland	1848-06-30		physician translator writer journalist

male

article	image	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		120s		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 Myers		British translator	South Shields	Philological Faculty of Moscow State University University of London	1933-08-18		translator
Alan Plumb		British American meteorology professor	Ripon	University of Manchester	1948-03-30		pedagogue meteorologist mathematician
Alan Race			Stockton-on-Tees		19th 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	0740	De dialectica Propositiones ad Acuendos Juvenes Alcuin's sequence Quaestiones in Genesim	theologian poet priest writer philosopher
Alex Kershaw		American writer	York	University College, Oxford	1966		journalist historian of Modern Age historian writer
Alexander Simpson Patterson		Scottish Presbyterian minister	Alnwick	University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow	1805		Christian minister translator
Alfred Cardew Dixon		English mathematician (1865-1936)	Northallerton	Trinity College	1865-05-22	Dixon's identity Dixon's elliptic functions	mathematician writer
Alfred James Jenkinson		translator; senior dean of Brasenose College, Oxford; O. B. E.	Tynemouth		1877		translator
Alfred Rayney Waller		English writer and editor (1867-1922)	York	Peterhouse	1867-08-02		journalist translator editor
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
Algernon Ashton		English Composer and Piano Teacher (1859-1937)	Durham	Hoch Conservatory University of Music and Theatre Leipzig	1859-12-09		composer pianist music teacher diarist
Alistair Ian Blyth		translator and writer	Sunderland		1970		translator writer
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 Hodgson		British translator	Northumberland		1994-01-15		translator
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 Bunting		poet	Benwell & Scotswood	London School of Economics and Political Science Leighton Park School Ackworth School Royal Grammar School	1900-03-01		poet translator
Basil Hall		British theologian and historian (1915-1994)	Ryton		1915-06-23		historian theologian
Basil Hume		Catholic 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		0672	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
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 1847		pathologist surgeon physician neurosurgeon
C. E. M. Joad		British philosopher	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
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 teacher music theorist
Charles Hutton		English mathematician	Newcastle upon Tyne	University of Edinburgh Royal Grammar School	1737-08-14		mathematician inventor
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
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
Cyril Smith		English virtuoso concert pianist	Middlesbrough	Royal College of Music	1909-08-11		autobiographer music teacher pianist
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 Charles McClintock		English botanist (1913-2001)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Trinity College Harrow School	1913-07-04		botanist
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 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
Francis Gibson		English writer	Whitby		1753-01-16		translator
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	1944-09-24		physicist atmospheric physicist planetary scientist
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, 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 scientist
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 Darvel Hill		New Zealand agronomist	Wallsend	University of Western Australia	1938-06-16		agronomist academic trade unionist
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 Lambert		English baritone and voice teacher in Canada	Long Preston		1900-12-17		opera singer music teacher
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 Sandys		English traveller, colonist, poet, translator	Bishopthorpe Palace	St Mary Hall	1578-03-02		travel writer colonizer poet writer translator explorer politician
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
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 Bousfield		English trombonist	York	Guildhall School of Music and Drama	1964-02-16		music teacher
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. 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 Brymer		English clarinettist	South Shields		1915-01-27		clarinetist music teacher musician
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 Kirkup		British writer	South Shields	Durham University	1918-04-23		translator writer university teacher poet journalist
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		British historian (1931-1998)	Newcastle upon Tyne	Rhodes University University of Cambridge	1931-10-23		historian
John D. Thompson		British botanist (1959 - )	Berwick-upon-Tweed		1959		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 Fairbairn		writer	Newcastle upon Tyne				writer translator
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
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 spy
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 Gledson			Northumberland	Princeton University	1945		translator
John Glover		British chemist (1817-1902)	Wallsend		1817-02		chemist
John Grey		English land agent and agriculturist	Glendale		1785-08		agronomist
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 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
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, Guilford	1771-08-22		civil servant statistician politician
John Scott		British entomologist (1823-1888)	Morpeth		1823-09-21		entomologist
John Scott Byerley			Brompton		1780-10-16		writer translator
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	130s		theologian translator philosopher Bible translator writer
John of Hexham		English monk and historian	Hexham		1160		chronicler monk
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 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
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		1950		mythographer classical scholar classical philologist university teacher
Kenneth Bowman		Canadian amateur lepidopterist	Durham	Dulwich College	1875-03-06		collector lepidopterist
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		military historian and foreign policy adviser	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
Lionel Tertis		British musician	West Hartlepool	Royal Academy of Music University of Music and Theatre Leipzig	1876-12-29		violinist composer university teacher violist music teacher music journalist
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
Marmaduke Alexander Lawson		botanist (1840-1896)	Durham	Trinity College	1840		botanist
Martin Charlton		geographic information scientist	Newcastle upon Tyne		1957		geographic information scientist
Martin E. 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 musician
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 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 District	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
Nick Inman			Harrogate		1956		journalist translator photographer traveler writer
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. O. Morris		English composer	York	Harrow School Royal College of Music New College	1886-03-03		composer music teacher
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
Reginald Kell		clarinettist	York	Royal Academy of Music	1906-06-08		clarinetist music professor music teacher
Reginald Spink		British journalist, translator and writer (1905-1994)	York		1905		journalist translator writer
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 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	130s		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
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
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	19th 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
Steven Sproat		English singer-songwriter	Lanchester United Kingdom		1960-11-18		songwriter composer music teacher musician
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 Allen		English operatic baritone (born 1944)	Seaham	Royal College of Music Ryhope Grammar School	1944-09-10		opera singer music teacher
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 Brasch		German author, poet and film director (1945-2001)	Westow	Kadettenschule der NVA	1945-02-19		writer film director poet screenwriter translator playwright film actor
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
Tim Knight			Northallerton		1959-09-10		composer choir director music teacher
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 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 and former 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		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	1637-12-07 1637-12-16		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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