| 1 |
Isaac Newton |
23,671 |
 |
| 2 |
Tim Berners-Lee |
6,860 |
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| 3 |
Thomas Paine |
6,244 |
 |
| 4 |
Alan Turing |
4,749 |
 |
| 5 |
Robert Hooke |
4,052 |
 |
| 6 |
Michael Faraday |
3,904 |
 |
| 7 |
Arthur C. Clarke |
3,295 |
 |
| 8 |
Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
2,180 |
 |
| 9 |
John Harrison |
1,286 |
 |
| 10 |
Francis Galton |
1,164 |
 |
| 11 |
William Fox Talbot |
914 |
 |
| 12 |
Frank Whittle |
882 |
 |
| 13 |
Barnes Wallis |
864 |
 |
| 14 |
George Stephenson |
768 |
 |
| 15 |
Henry Bessemer |
596 |
 |
| 16 |
Richard Arkwright |
585 |
 |
| 17 |
Jethro Tull (agriculturist) |
483 |
 |
| 18 |
Clive Sinclair |
353 |
 |
| 19 |
Joseph Swan |
333 |
 |
| 20 |
Charles Wheatstone |
323 |
 |
| 21 |
Thomas Newcomen |
309 |
 |
| 22 |
Robert Stephenson |
257 |
 |
| 23 |
Alan Blumlein |
251 |
 |
| 24 |
George Cayley |
238 |
 |
| 25 |
James Puckle |
221 |
 |
| 26 |
William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong |
211 |
 |
| 27 |
Ian Wilmut |
204 |
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| 28 |
William Willett |
196 |
 |
| 29 |
John Kay (flying shuttle) |
175 |
 |
| 30 |
William Oughtred |
171 |
 |
| 31 |
Geoffrey Pyke |
162 |
 |
| 32 |
Trevor Baylis |
157 |
 |
| 33 |
Abraham Darby I |
156 |
 |
| 34 |
William De Morgan |
155 |
 |
| 35 |
William Henry Perkin |
149 |
 |
| 36 |
Thomas Savery |
147 |
 |
| 37 |
William Petty |
143 |
 |
| 38 |
John Searl |
140 |
 |
| 39 |
Oliver Joseph Lodge |
139 |
 |
| 40 |
Joseph Whitworth |
131 |
 |
| 41 |
Rowland Hill (postal reformer) |
130 |
 |
| 42 |
Christopher Cockerell |
121 |
 |
| 43 |
Thomas Highs |
120 |
 |
| 44 |
Hubert Cecil Booth |
117 |
 |
| 45 |
Henry Cole |
114 |
 |
| 46 |
Peter Mansfield |
113 |
 |
| 47 |
Theresa Berkley |
107 |
 |
| 48 |
Joseph Bramah |
107 |
 |
| 49 |
Isaac Pitman |
104 |
 |
| 50 |
Frederick W. Lanchester |
102 |
 |
| 51 |
Samuel Crompton |
102 |
 |
| 52 |
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor |
101 |
 |
| 53 |
John Nevil Maskelyne |
101 |
 |
| 54 |
John Wilkinson (industrialist) |
98 |
 |
| 55 |
Harry Ricardo |
92 |
 |
| 56 |
William George Horner |
89 |
 |
| 57 |
Edmund Cartwright |
87 |
 |
| 58 |
John Milne |
86 |
 |
| 59 |
Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland |
85 |
 |
| 60 |
John Arnold |
79 |
 |
| 61 |
Alexander Parkes |
78 |
 |
| 62 |
William Stanley (inventor) |
73 |
 |
| 63 |
Henry Shrapnel |
72 |
 |
| 64 |
Joseph Aspdin |
72 |
 |
| 65 |
Percy Shaw |
72 |
 |
| 66 |
John Theophilus Desaguliers |
72 |
 |
| 67 |
Henry Mill |
70 |
 |
| 68 |
Daniel Quare |
70 |
 |
| 69 |
Frederick Scott Archer |
69 |
 |
| 70 |
James Starley |
68 |
 |
| 71 |
Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet |
67 |
 |
| 72 |
Henry Maudslay |
66 |
 |
| 73 |
John Kemp Starley |
64 |
 |
| 74 |
Frank Hornby |
61 |
 |
| 75 |
Edwin Beard Budding |
60 |
 |
| 76 |
James B. Francis |
57 |
 |
| 77 |
George Daniels (watchmaker) |
57 |
 |
| 78 |
Michael Aldrich |
56 |
 |
| 79 |
Stephen Hales |
55 |
 |
| 80 |
Keith Campbell (biologist) |
55 |
 |
| 81 |
Matthew Murray |
54 |
 |
| 82 |
Benjamin Huntsman |
52 |
 |
| 83 |
William Fothergill Cooke |
52 |
 |
| 84 |
Henry Tizard |
50 |
 |
| 85 |
Louis Essen |
49 |
 |
| 86 |
George Graham (clockmaker) |
48 |
 |
| 87 |
Wordsworth Donisthorpe |
48 |
 |
| 88 |
Rudolph Ackermann |
44 |
 |
| 89 |
Percy Pilcher |
44 |
 |
| 90 |
George Albert Smith (inventor) |
43 |
 |
| 91 |
Philip Astley |
42 |
 |
| 92 |
William Jessop |
42 |
 |
| 93 |
George Atwood |
42 |
 |
| 94 |
Samuel Andrews (chemist) |
42 |
 |
| 95 |
James Frost (cement maker) |
42 |
 |
| 96 |
Owen Finlay Maclaren |
41 |
 |
| 97 |
Bryan Donkin |
41 |
 |
| 98 |
Hiram Codd |
41 |
 |
| 99 |
Thomas Hancock (inventor) |
41 |
 |
| 100 |
Samuel Morland |
40 |
 |
| 101 |
Emery Molyneux |
40 |
 |
| 102 |
John Hadley |
38 |
 |
| 103 |
Alex Moulton |
38 |
 |
| 104 |
John Roebuck |
37 |
 |
| 105 |
Samuel Hartlib |
37 |
 |
| 106 |
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti |
37 |
 |
| 107 |
John Shore |
36 |
 |
| 108 |
Alfred Bird |
35 |
 |
| 109 |
John Kay (spinning frame) |
35 |
 |
| 110 |
Guy Stewart Callendar |
35 |
 |
| 111 |
Hertha Marks Ayrton |
34 |
 |
| 112 |
Arthur Paul Pedrick |
34 |
 |
| 113 |
Jeremy Fry |
34 |
 |
| 114 |
Walter Hancock |
34 |
 |
| 115 |
William Sturgeon |
33 |
 |
| 116 |
John Frederic Daniell |
33 |
 |
| 117 |
George William Manby |
33 |
 |
| 118 |
Robert Forester Mushet |
33 |
 |
| 119 |
Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester |
32 |
 |
| 120 |
William Eccles |
32 |
 |
| 121 |
Samuel Lister, 1st Baron Masham |
32 |
 |
| 122 |
Archibald Low |
32 |
 |
| 123 |
George Pocock (inventor) |
32 |
 |
| 124 |
Denys Fisher |
32 |
 |
| 125 |
H. J. Round |
31 |
 |
| 126 |
Samuel Brown (engineer) |
30 |
 |
| 127 |
Richard Leach Maddox |
30 |
 |
| 128 |
John Wyatt (inventor) |
30 |
 |
| 129 |
Allan Beckett |
30 |
 |
| 130 |
Timothy Hackworth |
29 |
 |
| 131 |
John Walker (inventor) |
29 |
 |
| 132 |
Alastair Pilkington |
29 |
 |
| 133 |
Harry Grindell Matthews |
28 |
 |
| 134 |
Thomas Clifford Allbutt |
28 |
 |
| 135 |
Henry Fourdrinier |
28 |
 |
| 136 |
Harry Brearley |
27 |
 |
| 137 |
Roxey Ann Caplin |
27 |
 |
| 138 |
Alexander Muirhead |
27 |
 |
| 139 |
L. E. Baynes |
27 |
 |
| 140 |
George Ravenscroft |
27 |
 |
| 141 |
Jedediah Strutt |
26 |
 |
| 142 |
Dennistoun Burney |
26 |
 |
| 143 |
James Henry Atkinson |
26 |
 |
| 144 |
Sampson Mordan |
26 |
 |
| 145 |
Augustus Applegath |
25 |
 |
| 146 |
William Strutt (inventor) |
25 |
 |
| 147 |
Jack Odell |
25 |
 |
| 148 |
Everard Calthrop |
25 |
 |
| 149 |
William Wouldhave |
24 |
 |
| 150 |
Henry Doulton |
24 |
 |
| 151 |
William Howard Livens |
24 |
 |
| 152 |
F. W. Jordan |
24 |
 |
| 153 |
Platt Brothers |
24 |
 |
| 154 |
William Greener |
24 |
 |
| 155 |
Leonard Digges (scientist) |
23 |
 |
| 156 |
John Ramsbottom (engineer) |
23 |
 |
| 157 |
Charles Batchelor |
23 |
 |
| 158 |
William Lee (inventor) |
23 |
 |
| 159 |
Michael Gerzon |
23 |
 |
| 160 |
John Penn (engineer) |
23 |
 |
| 161 |
George Dowty |
22 |
 |
| 162 |
James Parker (cement maker) |
22 |
 |
| 163 |
Walter Gordon Wilson |
22 |
 |
| 164 |
Dan Albone |
22 |
 |
| 165 |
William Gossage |
22 |
 |
| 166 |
John Braithwaite |
21 |
 |
| 167 |
John C. Swallow |
21 |
 |
| 168 |
Harold Ridley (ophthalmologist) |
20 |
 |
| 169 |
Richard Lovell Edgeworth |
20 |
 |
| 170 |
Charles Albert Keeley |
20 |
 |
| 171 |
Clement Clerke |
20 |
 |
| 172 |
Frederick Bakewell |
20 |
 |
| 173 |
Howard & Bullough |
20 |
 |
| 174 |
John George Aulsebrook Kitchen |
20 |
 |
| 175 |
Princess Anne of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg |
20 |
 |
| 176 |
Charles Henry Foyle |
19 |
 |
| 177 |
Sidney Gilchrist Thomas |
19 |
 |
| 178 |
Edwin Hill (engineer) |
19 |
 |
| 179 |
James Six |
19 |
 |
| 180 |
Robert Hope-Jones |
19 |
 |
| 181 |
Bertram Hopkinson |
19 |
 |
| 182 |
Joseph Harding |
19 |
 |
| 183 |
John William Norie |
19 |
 |
| 184 |
Gladstone Adams |
18 |
 |
| 185 |
William Hale (British inventor) |
18 |
 |
| 186 |
Asa Lees |
18 |
 |
| 187 |
George Richards Elkington |
17 |
 |
| 188 |
George Shillibeer |
17 |
 |
| 189 |
Joseph Bancroft Reade |
17 |
 |
| 190 |
Edward Lyon Berthon |
17 |
 |
| 191 |
Shelford Bidwell |
17 |
 |
| 192 |
Richard Towneley |
17 |
 |
| 193 |
Thomas Mudge (horologist) |
17 |
 |
| 194 |
David Hartley (the Younger) |
16 |
 |
| 195 |
Joseph Clement |
16 |
 |
| 196 |
Sir Frank Bowden, 1st Baronet |
16 |
 |
| 197 |
John Wright (inventor) |
16 |
 |
| 198 |
John Heathcoat |
16 |
 |
| 199 |
Josiah Latimer Clark |
16 |
 |
| 200 |
William Tritton |
16 |
 |
| 201 |
Otis King |
16 |
 |
| 202 |
Rex Paterson |
16 |
 |
| 203 |
Bennet Woodcroft |
16 |
 |
| 204 |
Thomas Edmondson |
16 |
 |
| 205 |
George Julius |
15 |
 |
| 206 |
Alexander Lodge |
15 |
 |
| 207 |
William Bickford |
15 |
 |
| 208 |
Beauchamp Tower |
15 |
 |
| 209 |
Sir John Carden, 6th Baronet |
15 |
 |
| 210 |
Francis Pettit Smith |
15 |
 |
| 211 |
James Hargreaves (chemist) |
15 |
 |
| 212 |
Edward Stone (clergyman) |
15 |
 |
| 213 |
Lionel Lukin |
14 |
 |
| 214 |
William Gascoigne (scientist) |
14 |
 |
| 215 |
Thomas Boulsover |
14 |
 |
| 216 |
John Whitehurst |
14 |
 |
| 217 |
James Pickard |
14 |
 |
| 218 |
Peter Chilvers |
14 |
 |
| 219 |
Lewis Paul |
14 |
 |
| 220 |
Charles Brooke (surgeon) |
14 |
 |
| 221 |
Robert Crawford Johnson |
14 |
 |
| 222 |
Ralph Wedgwood (inventor) |
14 |
 |
| 223 |
Joseph Hansom |
13 |
 |
| 224 |
William Edward Ayrton |
13 |
 |
| 225 |
Claude Friese-Greene |
13 |
 |
| 226 |
Eleanor Coade |
13 |
 |
| 227 |
John Oakey |
13 |
 |
| 228 |
William Brunton |
13 |
 |
| 229 |
John Doulton |
13 |
 |
| 230 |
Stuart Macrae (inventor) |
13 |
 |
| 231 |
Sarah Guppy |
13 |
 |
| 232 |
George Garrett (inventor) |
12 |
 |
| 233 |
William Shipley |
12 |
 |
| 234 |
Cornelius Varley |
12 |
 |
| 235 |
John Fowler (agricultural engineer) |
12 |
 |
| 236 |
John Serson |
12 |
 |
| 237 |
Henry Moule |
12 |
 |
| 238 |
Joseph Hudson (inventor) |
12 |
 |
| 239 |
Thomas Phillips (engineer) |
12 |
 |
| 240 |
Frederick Walton |
12 |
 |
| 241 |
James Kennedy (engineer) |
12 |
 |
| 242 |
Edward Nairne |
11 |
 |
| 243 |
James Lowe |
11 |
 |
| 244 |
James Wimshurst |
11 |
 |
| 245 |
John Bentinck |
11 |
 |
| 246 |
Gowin Knight |
11 |
 |
| 247 |
Thomas Rawlinson |
11 |
 |
| 248 |
Emily Cummins |
11 |
 |
| 249 |
William Weston Young |
11 |
 |
| 250 |
Martin Burgess |
11 |
 |
| 251 |
Marie Killick |
11 |
 |
| 252 |
James Sidney Drewry |
11 |
 |
| 253 |
John Isaac Hawkins |
11 |
 |
| 254 |
Henry Hindley |
10 |
 |
| 255 |
Edgar Purnell Hooley |
10 |
 |
| 256 |
Bernhard Baron |
10 |
 |
| 257 |
C. F. Varley |
10 |
 |
| 258 |
Humphrey Gainsborough |
10 |
 |
| 259 |
John Barton (engineer) |
10 |
 |
| 260 |
Robert Cocking |
10 |
 |
| 261 |
John Birkinshaw |
10 |
 |
| 262 |
Charles Plimpton |
10 |
 |
| 263 |
William Palliser |
10 |
 |
| 264 |
Frederick Beaumont |
10 |
 |
| 265 |
Richard Hall Gower |
9 |
 |
| 266 |
Thomas Shaw Brandreth |
9 |
 |
| 267 |
Pete Malcolm |
9 |
 |
| 268 |
Charles Benham |
9 |
 |
| 269 |
George Frederick Ansell |
9 |
 |
| 270 |
Thomas Ralph Merton |
8 |
 |
| 271 |
Henry Davis Pochin |
8 |
 |
| 272 |
William Cotton (banker) |
8 |
 |
| 273 |
Ray Thackeray |
8 |
 |
| 274 |
Ali Guryel |
8 |
 |
| 275 |
John Calley (engineer) |
8 |
 |
| 276 |
Mandy Haberman |
7 |
 |
| 277 |
David Roberts (engineer) |
7 |
 |
| 278 |
David Keith-Lucas |
7 |
 |
| 279 |
Evan Leigh |
7 |
 |
| 280 |
Charles William Lancaster |
7 |
 |
| 281 |
Henry Gregory (instrument maker) |
7 |
 |
| 282 |
Granville Bradshaw |
7 |
 |
| 283 |
Robert Lochner (engineer) |
7 |
 |
| 284 |
Edward Davy |
6 |
 |
| 285 |
William Peter Durtnall |
6 |
 |
| 286 |
Leonard George Chapman |
6 |
 |
| 287 |
Thomas Shelton (stenographer) |
6 |
 |
| 288 |
Nicholas Wood |
6 |
 |
| 289 |
John Dickinson (inventor) |
less than 5 views |
|
| 290 |
Thomas Fowler (inventor) |
less than 5 views |
|
| 291 |
Denis Johnson (inventor) |
less than 5 views |
|
| 292 |
John Inshaw |
less than 5 views |
|
| 293 |
John Lethbridge |
less than 5 views |
|
| 294 |
Adrian Stephens (inventor) |
less than 5 views |
|
| 295 |
Geoffrey Frank Grant |
less than 5 views |
|
| 296 |
Edward Ormerod |
less than 5 views |
|
| 297 |
Edward Bury |
less than 5 views |
|
| 298 |
George Fosbery |
less than 5 views |
|
| 299 |
Christopher Cock |
less than 5 views |
|
| 300 |
Peter Dollond |
less than 5 views |
|
| 301 |
Thomas Frederick Colby |
less than 5 views |
|
| 302 |
C. Thomas Elliott |
less than 5 views |
|
| 303 |
Leon Warnerke |
less than 5 views |
|
| 304 |
Joseph Johnson (watch maker) |
less than 5 views |
|
| 305 |
Albert E. Richardson |
less than 5 views |
|
| 306 |
Frederick Wicks |
less than 5 views |
|
| 307 |
Frederick Wratten |
less than 5 views |
|
| 308 |
Edgar Larner |
less than 5 views |
|
| 309 |
Richard Newsham |
less than 5 views |
|
| 310 |
John Lees (inventor) |
less than 5 views |
|
| 311 |
William Clark (inventor) |
less than 5 views |
|
| 312 |
Kingsmill Eyre |
less than 5 views |
|
| 313 |
George Haden |
less than 5 views |
|
| 314 |
Henry Hunnings |
less than 5 views |
|
| 315 |
English inventors |
less than 5 views |
|
| 316 |
George Gibson Bussey |
less than 5 views |
|
| 317 |
Thomas Hornor (artistic surveyor) |
less than 5 views |
|