Mathematicians

Leslie Howarth

1911-2001
Mathematician
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Fred Hoyle

1915-2001
Astrophysicist, mathematician and writer
Sitter in 4 portraits

Charles Hutton

1737-1823
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Christiaan Huygens

1629-1695
Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Albert Edward Ingham

1900-1967
Mathematician and Lecturer in Mathematics
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir James Hopwood Jeans

1877-1946
Mathematician, astronomer and theoretical physicist
Sitter in 19 portraits

George Barker Jeffery

1891-1957
Mathematician and educationist
Sitter in 4 portraits

Bertha (née Swirles), Lady Jeffreys

1903-1999
Mathematician; wife of Sir Harold Jeffreys
Sitter in 1 portrait

Humphrey Johnson

active 1710-1713
Writing Master and Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Ernest Johnson

1858-1931
Logician
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Jones

1675-1749
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

W.P. Jones

Superintendent, Aerodynamics Division, National Physical Laboratory
Sitter in 1 portrait

Philip Kelland

1808-1879
Mathematician
Sitter in 2 portraits

William Thomson, Baron Kelvin

1824-1907
Mathematician, physicist and inventor
Sitter in 30 portraits

Sir Alfred Bray Kempe

1849-1922
Lawyer and mathematician
Sitter in 2 portraits

Thomas Knox-Shaw

1886-1972
Mathematician; Fellow of Sidney Sussex College
Sitter in 3 portraits

Nicholas Kratzer

1487-?1550
Mathematician and astronomer
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Lambton

1756-1823
Soldier; Superintendent of the Trigonometrical Survey of India
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir John Leslie

1766-1832
Scientist and mathematician
Sitter in 5 portraits

John Edensor Littlewood

1885-1977
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Alfred Lodge

1854-1937
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Ada Lovelace

1815-1852
Mathematician and computer pioneer
Sitter associated with 8 portraits

John Ramsay McCulloch

1789-1864
Statistician and economist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Hector Munro Macdonald

1865-1935
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Colin Maclaurin

1698-1746
Professor of mathematics
Sitter in 3 portraits

Percy Alexander Macmahon

1854-1929
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Benjamin Martin

1705-1782
Lexicographer and author; scientific lecturer and instrument maker
Sitter in 1 portrait

Martin Master

born 1607
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

J.E. Meggitt

active 1958
Scholar and mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Edward Arthur Milne

1896-1950
Mathematician and natural philosopher
Sitter in 8 portraits

Gaspard Monge, comte de Péluse

1746-1818
French mathematician, physicist and public official
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

Sir Asutosh Mookerjee

1864-1924
Lawyer, mathematician and vice chancellor, University of Calcutta
Sitter in 7 portraits

Louis Joel Mordell

1888-1972
Mathematician; Professor of Pure Mathematics
Sitter in 3 portraits

Frank Vigor Morley

1899-1980
Mathematician, essayist, editor and publisher; co-founder of Faber and Faber
Sitter in 1 portrait

Eric Harold Neville

1889-1961
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Max Newman

1897-1984
Mathematician and codebreaker
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Isaac Newton

1642-1727
Mathematical scientist
Sitter associated with 46 portraits

John Newton

1621-1678
Mathematician, astronomer and advocate of educational reform
Sitter in 3 portraits

Peter Nicholson

1765-1844
Mathematician and architect
Sitter in 4 portraits

Geraldine Norman

1940-
Mathematician and journalist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw (née Timpson)

1912-2014
Mathematician, politician and Lord Mayor of Manchester
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Oughtred

1575-1660
Mathematician
Sitter in 7 portraits

Matthias Pasor

1599-1658
Mathematician, linguist and theologian
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Roger Penrose

1931-
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford
Sitter in 2 portraits

Peter Perkins

active 1670s-died 1680
Mathematical Master at Christ's Hospital
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Playfair

1748-1819
Mathematician and geologist
Sitter in 9 portraits

Henry Crozier Plummer

1875-1946
Astronomer, scientist and mathematician
Sitter in 2 portraits

Joseph Proudman

1888-1975
Mathematician and oceanographer
Sitter in 1 portrait

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

1842-1919
Experimental and mathematical physicist
Sitter in 6 portraits

Lewis Fry Richardson

1881-1953
Physicist, meteorologist and mathematician
Sitter in 3 portraits

Herbert William Richmond

1863-1948
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Mark Ridley

1560-1624
Physician and mathematician
Sitter in 3 portraits

Alexander Ritchie-Scott

1874-1962
Mathematician and civil servant
Sitter in 2 portraits

Leonard James Rogers

1862-1933
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Louis Rosenhead

1906-1984
Mathematician; Professor of Applied Mathematics
Sitter in 2 portraits

Edward John Routh

1831-1907
Mathematician
Sitter in 3 portraits

Norman Routledge

1928-2013
Mathematician and teacher at Eton College
Sitter in 1 portrait

Bertrand Russell

1872-1970
Philosopher, mathematician and social reformer
Sitter in 119 portraits

Nicholas Saunderson

1682-1739
Mathematician
Sitter in 9 portraits

George Adolphus Schott

1868-1937
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait