List of Cornish scientists

Biologists

• Henry Charlton Bastian, physiologist and neurologist
• Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Nicholson Betts, Indian Army officer and ornithologist
• George Carter Bignell, entomologist
• William Borlase, naturalist, geologist and antiquary, Rector of Ludgvan
• William Clift, naturalist and Fellow of the Royal Society
• Jonathan Couch, naturalist and physician
• Richard Quiller Couch, naturalist
• Frederick Hamilton Davey, botanist
• Jean Golding, epidemiologist
• Henry Brougham Guppy, naturalist and botanist
• Charles Alexander Johns, botanist and clergyman
• Oscar Kempthorne, statistician and geneticist
• William Lobb, plant collector
• John Keast Lord, veterinarian and naturalist
• Richard Lower, blood transfusion pioneer
• John Mayow, physiologist
• William Noye of Paul, entomologist
• Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe, entomologist
• John Ralfs, botanist
• Edward Hearle Rodd, ornithologist
• John Coulson Tregarthen, naturalist
• Ethelwynn Trewavas, ichthyologist
• Sir Richard Vyvyan, Bart, MP for Cornwall and scientist
• William Wagstaff, ornithologist and naturalist
• Elizabeth Andrew Warren, botanist

  Earth scientists

• William Borlase, naturalist, geologist and antiquary, Rector of Ludgvan
• Edward Budge, geologist and clergyman
• Elizabeth Carne, geologist and philanthropist
• Joseph Carne, geologist, industrialist and Fellow of the Royal Society
• Richard Edmonds, geologist and antiquary
• Robert Were Fox, FRS, geologist
• William Gregor, discoverer of titanium and clergyman
• John Hawkins, geologist, traveller and FRS
• Robert Hunt, mineralogist and writer
• Matthew Paul Moyle, meteorologist and mining writer
• Ben Peach, geologist
• William Pengelly, geologist and archaeologist
• John Arthur Phillips, FRS, geologist, metallurgist, mining engineer

  Physical scientists

• John Couch Adams, co-discoverer of the planet Neptune
• Herbert Stanley Allen, physicist
• Edmund Davy, chemist
• Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, chemist and inventor
• Edwin Dunkin, FRS, President of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Institution of Cornwall
• Antony Hewish, astronomer
• Sir William Lower, astronomer and Member of Parliament
• Nathan Mayne, astrophysicist
• William Oliver, FRS, inventor of the Bath Oliver and a founder of the Royal Mineral Water Hospital at Bath
• Roy Sambles, physicist

  Others

• Lancelot Stephen Bosanquet, mathematician
• Davies Gilbert, applied mathematician and technocrat, President of the Royal Society
• Daniel Gumb, mathematician and stonemason who lived in a cave near the Cheesewring at Linkinhorne
• John Hellins, FRS, mathematician, curate of Constantine