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1. AKBAR AHMED - anthropologist (Pakistan)
2. DAVID ELLISTON ALLEN - historian (naturalist, administrator)
3. MICHAEL ALLEN - anthropologist (Nepal)
4. NICHOLAS ALLEN - anthropologist (Nepal)
5. GEORGE APPELL - anthropologist (Borneo)
6. LAURA APPELL - anthropologist (Borneo)
7. RAYMOND APTHORPE - anthropologist (Uganda)
8. PETER AVERY - orientalist (Persian)
9. JEAN BACON - computer scientist
10. ASEN BALIKCI - anthropologist (ethnographic film maker)
11. MICHAEL BANTON - sociologist (anthropologist, West Africa)
12. JOHN BARNES - sociologist (anthropologist, East Africa)
13. FREDRICK BARTH - anthropologist (Pakistan)
14. MICHAEL BATE - neuroscientist
15. PATRICK BATESON - ethologist (biologist)
16. JOHN BEATTIE - anthropologist (East Africa)
17. GILLIAN BEER - literary critic
18. JONATHAN BENTHALL - anthropologist (Islam)
19. ANDRE BETEILLE - sociologist (anthropologist, India)
20. TOM BINGHAM - lawyer
21. MAURICE BLOCH - anthropologist
22. JEREMY BOISSEVAIN - anthropologist (Malta)
23. URSULA GRAHAM BOWER - explorer (anthropologist, photographer, Nagaland)
24. SYDNEY BRENNER - microbiologist
25. DAVID BROKENSHA - anthropologist (South Africa)
26. DAN BROWN - chemist (molecular biologist)
27. PETER BURKE - historian
28. LIONEL CAPLAN - anthropologist (Nepal)
29. PAT CAPLAN - anthropologist (East Africa, Nepal)
30. LUIGI LUCA CAVALLI-SFORZA - demographer
31. OWEN CHADWICK - historian (theologian)
32. STEPHEN CLEOBURY - musician
33. JOHN COATES - mathematician
34. ELIZABETH COLSON - anthropologist (East Africa)
35. JEAN AND JOHN COMAROFF - anthropologists (South Africa)
36. JOHN CROSS - soldier (Nepal)
37. DON CUPITT - theologian
38. PHILIPPE DESCOLA - anthropologist (Amazonia)
39. HAL DIXON - biochemist
40. RONALD DORE - sociologist (Japan)
41. MARY DOUGLAS - anthropologist (Central Africa)
42. JOHN DUNN - historian (political theorist)
43. KEN EDWARDS - geneticist (university administrator)
44. SCARLETT EPSTEIN - anthropologist (economist New Guinea, India)
45. STEPHAN FEUCHTWANG - anthropologist (sociologist, Taiwan, China)
46. RUTH FINNEGAN - anthropologist (Sierra Leone, UK)
47. RAYMOND FIRTH - anthropologist (New Zealand, Melanesia, Malaya)
48. ROSEMARY FIRTH - anthropologist (Malaya)
49. MEYER FORTES - anthropologist (West Africa)
50. RONALD FRANKENBERG - sociologist (anthropologist)
51. RICHARD FRIEND - physicist
52. CHRISTOPH VON FURER-HAIMENDORF - anthropologist (Nagaland, India, Nepal)
53. JEAN CLAUDE GALEY - anthropologist (India)
54. PETER GATHERCOLE - anthropologist (museologist, archaeologist, Polynesia)
55. CLIFFORD GEERTZ - anthropologist (Southeast Asia, North Africa, Islam)
56. ERNEST GELLNER - anthropologist (philosopher, sociologist)
57. OWEN GINGERICH - historian of science (astronomer)
58. WYNNE GODLEY - economist
59. JACK GOODY - anthropologist (West Africa, Eurasia)
60. ANTONY GORMLEY - artist
61. PHILIP GULLIVER - anthropologist (East and Central Africa)
62. JOHN GURDON - biologist
63. STUART HALL - sociologist
64. GEOFF HARCOURT - economist
65. KEITH HART - anthropologist (West Africa)
66. HERMANN HAUSER - computer scientist (entrepreneur)
67. GEOFFREY HAWTHORN - sociologist (political theorist)
68. KARL HEIDER - ethnographic film maker (anthropologist)
69. MICHAEL HERZFELD - anthropologist (Greece)
70. ANTONY HEWISH - radio astronomer
71. LES HIATT - anthropologist (Australia)
72. POLLY HILL - anthropologist (economist)
73. ROBERT HINDE - ethologist (zoologist)
74. PAUL HOCKINGS - ethnographic film maker (anthropologist)
75. ANDY HOPPER - computer scientist
76. GABRIEL HORN - zoologist (medic, biologist)
77. STEPHEN HUGH-JONES - anthropologist (Amazonia)
78. HERBERT HUPPERT - geophysicist
79. ANDREW HUXLEY - physiologist
80. WENDY JAMES - anthropologist (Sudan, Ethiopia)
81. LISA JARDINE - historian (English literature)
82. G.I. JONES - anthropologist (colonial officer, West Africa)
83. FRANK KERMODE - literary critic
84. BARRY KEVERNE - neuroscientist
85. RICHARD KEYNES - physiologist
86. GARY KILDEA - ethnographic film maker
87. AARON KLUG - biophysicist (chemist)
88. JEAN LA FONTAINE - anthropologist (East Africa)
89. BERND LAMBERT - anthropologist (Micronesia)
90. OWEN LATTIMORE - explorer (sinologist)
91. EDMUND LEACH - anthropologist (Burma, Sri Lanka)
92. JAMES Z, LEE - demographer (historian, sociologist, China)
93. F.K. LEHMAN - anthropologist (Burma)
94. LIANG BIBO - ethnographic film maker
95. GODFREY LIENHARDT - anthropologist (East Africa)
96. GEOFFREY LLOYD - classicist
97. PETER LOIZOS - anthropologist (Cyprus, ethnographic film maker)
98. YUNG WAI (CHARLIE) LOKE - reproductive immunologist
99. ANNE LONSDALE - classicist (sinologist, administrator)
100. DAVID MACDOUGALL - ethnographic film maker
101. LUCY MAIR - anthropologist (East Africa)
102. MICHAEL MANN - sociologist
103. McKIM MARRIOTT - anthropologist (India)
104. EMANUEL MARX - anthropologist (Israel)
105. PETER MATHIAS - historian
106. ADRIAN MAYER - anthropologist (India, Fiji)
107. IONA MAYER - anthropologist (South Africa)
108. PHILIP MAYER - anthropologist (South Africa)
109. DAN MCKENZIE - geophysicist
110. SIDNEY MINTZ - anthropologist (Caribbean)
111. KEN MOODY - computer scientist
112. SALLY FALK MOORE - anthropologist (Tanzania)
113. ANDREW MORGAN - historian
114. RODNEY NEEDHAM - anthropologist (Borneo)
115. LILIE NIE - anthropologist (Japan, China)
116. PATRICK O'BRIEN - historian
117. ROBERT PAINE - anthropologist (Norway, Newfoundland, Israel)
118. DAVID PARKIN - anthropologist (East Africa)
119. JONATHAN PARRY - anthropologist (India)
120. LAURENCE PICKEN - ethnomusicologist (zoologist)
121. BRIAN PIPPARD - physicist
122. JOHN POLKINGHORNE - physicist (theologian)
123. PAUL RABINOW - anthropologist (Morocco)
124. DAN RABINOWITZ - anthropologist (Israel)
125. MARTIN REES - cosmologist (astrophysicist)
126. COLIN RENFREW - archaeologist
127. ALISON RICHARD - biological anthropologist (administrator)
128. AUDREY RICHARDS - anthropologist (East Africa)
129. KEITH VAN RIJSBERGEN - computer scientist NEW
130. PETER RIVIERE - anthropologist (Brazil)
131. ROBERT ROWTHORN - economist
132. MALCOLM RUEL - anthropologist (East and West Africa)
133. JOHN RUTTER - composer
134. ANNE SALMOND - anthropologist (New Zealand)
135. EDWIN SALPETER - astrophysicist
136. FREDERICK SANGER - biochemist
137. SIMON SCHAFFER - historian of science
138. JAMES SCOTT - anthropologist (political scientist, Malaysia, Burma)
139. DAVID SEDDON - anthropologist (development theorist, Morocco, Nepal)
140. QUENTIN SKINNER - historian
141. DAVID SNELLGROVE - explorer (Tibetologist)
142. AIDAN SOUTHALL - anthropologist (East Africa)
143. M.N. SRINIVAS - sociologist (anthropologist, India)
144. GEORGE STEINER - literary critic
145. MARILYN STRATHERN - anthropologist (New Guinea)
146. PETER SWINNERTON-DYER - mathematician
147. JOHN SULSTON - molecular biologist
148. STANLEY TAMBIAH - anthropologist (Thailand, Sri Lanka)
149. JOHN MEURIG THOMAS - chemist
150. TIEN JU-KANG - anthropologist (Sarawak, China)
151. TERRY TURNER - anthropologist (Amazonia)
152. NEIL TUROK - cosmologist
153. PIERS VITEBSKY - anthropologist (India, Sri Lanka, Siberia)
154. ROY WAGNER - anthropologist (New Guinea, New Ireland)
155. JOHN WALKER - biochemist
156. WANG MINGMING - anthropologist (China)
157. MAURICE WILKES - computer scientist
158. JAMES WOODBURN - anthropologist (East Africa)
159. PETER WORSLEY - sociologist (anthropologist)
160. TONY WRIGLEY - demographer (geographer)
161. NUR YALMAN - anthropologist (Sri Lanka, India, Iran, Turkey)