Los individuos más prominentes incluyen a Roger Bacon, Francis Bacon, William Harvey, Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, Edward Jenner, Henry Cavendish, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Francis Crick, Charles Babbage, Abraham Darby I, Michael Faraday, Charles Darwin, James Chadwick, Barnes Wallis, Alan Turing, Frank Whittle, Tim Berners-Lee y Stephen Hawking.