Mathematicians

John Couch Adams

1819-1892
Astronomer and mathematician
Sitter in 3 portraits

Elias Allen

circa 1588-1653
Mathematical instrument maker
Sitter in 2 portraits

Thomas Allen

1540?-1632
Mathematician and antiquary
Sitter in 1 portrait

Khadambi Asalache

1935-2006
Poet, novelist, philosopher of mathematics and civil servant
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Michael Francis Atiyah

1929-2019
Mathematician; Director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Thomas Aylesbury, Bt

1576-1657
Patron of mathematical learning
Sitter associated with 1 portrait

Hertha Ayrton

1854-1923
Electrical engineer, mathematician and suffragette
Sitter in 1 portrait

Charles Babbage

1791-1871
Mathematician, mechanical engineer, philosopher and computer pioneer
Sitter in 5 portraits

Sir Robert Stawell Ball

1840-1913
Astronomer and mathematician
Sitter in 8 portraits

Peter Barlow

1776-1862
Mathematician, physicist and optician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Ernest William Barnes

1874-1953
Mathematician; scientist; theologian and bishop
Sitter in 8 portraits

(Thomas) Brooke Benjamin

1929-1995
Mathematical physicist and mathematician; Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Oxford
Sitter in 1 portrait

Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

1891-1970
Mathematician; Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
Sitter in 1 portrait

Hugh Blackburn

1823-1909
Mathematician and college administrator
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Hermann Bondi

1919-2005
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

George Boole

1815-1864
Mathematician; inventor of Boolean logic
Sitter in 2 portraits

Jacob Bronowski

1908-1974
Mathematician, poet and humanist
Sitter in 4 portraits

William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker

1620-1684
Mathematician; first President of the Royal Society
Sitter in 4 portraits

George Brown

circa 1650-1730
Mathematician; minister of religion
Sitter in 1 portrait

Christopher J. Budd

1960-
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Sitter in 1 portrait

Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon

1707-1788
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Jedidiah Buxton

1707-1772
Illiterate calculating genius
Sitter in 2 portraits

Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot

1753-1823
French mathematician and politician
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Carr

1786-1833
Professor of mathematics at Durham
Sitter in 1 portrait

Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright

1900-1998
Mathematician
Sitter in 5 portraits

Arthur Cayley

1821-1895
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Robert Chamberlain

1632?-1696
Merchant and mathematician
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sydney Chapman

1888-1970
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Kingdon Clifford

1845-1879
Mathematician and metaphysician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Edward Foyle Collingwood

1900-1970
Mathematician and medical administrator
Sitter in 5 portraits

Leslie John Comrie

1893-1950
Astronomer and computational mathematician
Sitter in 2 portraits

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet

1743-1794
French politician and mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Thomas George Cowling

1906-1990
Mathematician, Professor of Applied Mathematics
Sitter associated with 2 portraits

Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter

1907-2003
Mathematician
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir George Howard Darwin

1845-1912
Mathematician and astronomer; son of Charles Darwin
Sitter in 3 portraits

William Davis

1771-1807
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Dawson

1734-1820
Surgeon, mathematician and teacher
Sitter in 2 portraits

William Reginald Dean

1896-1973
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Dee

1527-1608
Mathematician and astrologer
Sitter in 4 portraits

Abraham de Moivre

1667-1754
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

René Descartes

1596-1650
French philosopher and mathematician
Sitter in 10 portraits

Arthur Thomas Doodson

1890-1968
Mathematician and oceanographer
Sitter in 3 portraits

Alexander John Ellis

1814-1890
Philologist and mathematician
Sitter in 2 portraits

William Emerson

1701-1782
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Robert Godfrey Faussett

1827-1908
Mathematician and divine
Sitter in 1 portrait

George Ridsdale Goldsbrough

1881-1963
Mathematician
Sitter in 2 portraits

John Gray

died 1769
Mathematician; author of 'A Treatise of Gunnery'
Sitter in 3 portraits

William John Greenstreet

1861-1930
Mathematician; editor of the Mathematical Gazette
Sitter in 1 portrait

Olinthus Gilbert Gregory

1774-1841
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Rowan Hamilton

1805-1865
Mathematician
Sitter in 2 portraits

Robert Harrison

1715-1802
Mathematician and linguist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Douglas Rayner Hartree

1897-1958
Physicist and mathematician
Sitter in 4 portraits

Thomas Haselden

died 1740
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Thomas Henry Havelock

1877-1968
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

Walter Kurt Hayman

1926-2020
Professor of Pure Mathematics
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Thomas Little Heath

1861-1940
Civil servant, mathematician, classical scholar and author
Sitter in 6 portraits

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Bt

1792-1871
Mathematician and astronomer; son of William Herschel
Sitter in 18 portraits | Artist of 1 portrait

Anthony Hill

1930-2020
Artist, mathematician and writer
Sitter in 3 portraits

Ernest William Hobson

1856-1933
Mathematician
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Hodgson

1678-1755
Mathematical master at Christ's Hospital
Sitter in 2 portraits