| Name | Category | Year | Motivation |
|---|
| Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt) | Physics | 1904 | "for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies" |
| Cecil of Chelwood, Viscount (Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil) | Peace | 1937 | |
| Edgar Douglas Adrian | Medicine | 1932 | "for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons" |
| Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane) | Peace | 1933 | |
| Sir Edward Victor Appleton | Physics | 1947 | "for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer" |
| Francis William Aston | Chemistry | 1922 | "for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole-number rule" |
| Charles Glover Barkla | Physics | 1917 | "for his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements" |
| Derek H. R. Barton | Chemistry | 1969 | "for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry" |
| Sir James W. Black | Medicine | 1988 | "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment" |
| Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett | Physics | 1948 | "for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation" |
| Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin | Peace | 1949 | |
| Sir William Henry Bragg | Physics | 1915 | "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays" |
| Herbert C. Brown | Chemistry | 1979 | "for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis" |
| James Chadwick | Physics | 1935 | "for the discovery of the neutron" |
| Sir Austen Chamberlain | Peace | 1925 | |
| Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Literature | 1953 | "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values" |
| Ronald H. Coase | Economics | 1991 | "for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy" |
| Sir John Douglas Cockcroft | Physics | 1951 | "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles" |
| Mairead Corrigan | Peace | 1976 | |
| William Randal Cremer | Peace | 1903 | |
| Francis Harry Compton Crick | Medicine | 1962 | "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material" |
| Sir Henry Hallett Dale | Medicine | 1936 | "for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses" |
| Christian de Duve | Medicine | 1974 | "for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell" |
| Angus Deaton | Economics | 2015 | "for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare" |
| Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac | Physics | 1933 | "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory" |
| Robert G. Edwards | Medicine | 2010 | "for the development of in vitro fertilization" |
| Sir Martin J. Evans | Medicine | 2007 | "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells" |
| Sir Alexander Fleming | Medicine | 1945 | "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases" |
| John Galsworthy | Literature | 1932 | "for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga" |
| William Golding | Literature | 1983 | "for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today" |
| Clive W.J. Granger | Economics | 2003 | "for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration)" |
| Sir John B. Gurdon | Medicine | 2012 | "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent" |
| F. Duncan M. Haldane | Physics | 2016 | "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter" |
| Arthur Harden | Chemistry | 1929 | "for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes" |
| Oliver Hart | Economics | 2016 | "for their contributions to contract theory" |
| Walter Norman Haworth | Chemistry | 1937 | "for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C" |
| Seamus Heaney | Literature | 1995 | "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past" |
| Arthur Henderson | Peace | 1934 | |
| Richard Henderson | Chemistry | 2017 | "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution" |
| Antony Hewish | Physics | 1974 | "for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars" |
| John R. Hicks | Economics | 1972 | "for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory" |
| Peter W. Higgs | Physics | 2013 | "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider" |
| Archibald Vivian Hill | Medicine | 1922 | "for his discovery relating to the production of heat in the muscle" |
| Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood | Chemistry | 1956 | "for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions" |
| Alan Lloyd Hodgkin | Medicine | 1963 | "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane" |
| Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins | Medicine | 1929 | "for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins" |
| Michael Houghton | Medicine | 2020 | "for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus" |
| Godfrey N. Hounsfield | Medicine | 1979 | "for the development of computer assisted tomography" |
| John Hume | Peace | 1998 | "for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland" |
| Tim Hunt | Medicine | 2001 | "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle" |
| Andrew Fielding Huxley | Medicine | 1963 | "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane" |
| Niels K. Jerne | Medicine | 1984 | "for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies" |
| Brian David Josephson | Physics | 1973 | "for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects" |
| John Cowdery Kendrew | Chemistry | 1962 | "for their studies of the structures of globular proteins" |
| J. Michael Kosterlitz | Physics | 2016 | "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter" |
| Sir Harold W. Kroto | Chemistry | 1996 | "for their discovery of fullerenes" |
| Anthony J. Leggett | Physics | 2003 | "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids" |
| Tomas Lindahl | Chemistry | 2015 | "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair" |
| John James Rickard Macleod | Medicine | 1923 | "for the discovery of insulin" |
| Sir Peter Mansfield | Medicine | 2003 | "for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging" |
| Archer John Porter Martin | Chemistry | 1952 | "for their invention of partition chromatography" |
| James E. Meade | Economics | 1977 | "for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements" |
| James A. Mirrlees | Economics | 1996 | "for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information" |
| Peter D. Mitchell | Chemistry | 1978 | "for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory" |
| Sir Nevill Francis Mott | Physics | 1977 | "for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems" |
| Philip J. Noel-Baker | Peace | 1959 | |
| Ronald George Wreyford Norrish | Chemistry | 1967 | "for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equlibrium by means of very short pulses of energy" |
| Sir Paul M. Nurse | Medicine | 2001 | "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle" |
| Harold Pinter | Literature | 2005 | "who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms" |
| John A. Pople | Chemistry | 1998 | "for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry" |
| George Porter | Chemistry | 1967 | "for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equlibrium by means of very short pulses of energy" |
| Rodney R. Porter | Medicine | 1972 | "for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies" |
| Cecil Frank Powell | Physics | 1950 | "for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method" |
| Sir William Ramsay | Chemistry | 1904 | "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic system" |
| Peter Ratcliffe | Medicine | 2019 | for oxygen control in cells |
| Owen Willans Richardson | Physics | 1928 | "for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him" |
| Richard J. Roberts | Medicine | 1993 | "for their discoveries of split genes" |
| Sir Robert Robinson | Chemistry | 1947 | "for his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids" |
| Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell | Literature | 1950 | "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought" |
| Sir Martin Ryle | Physics | 1974 | "for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars" |
| Frederick Sanger | Chemistry | 1980 | "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids" |
| Sir Charles Scott Sherrington | Medicine | 1932 | "for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons" |
| William Bradford Shockley | Physics | 1956 | "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect" |
| Michael Smith | Chemistry | 1993 | "for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies" |
| Oliver Smithies | Medicine | 2007 | "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells" |
| Frederick Soddy | Chemistry | 1921 | "for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes" |
| Sir J. Fraser Stoddart | Chemistry | 2016 | "for the design and synthesis of molecular machines" |
| Richard Stone | Economics | 1984 | "for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis" |
| John E. Sulston | Medicine | 2002 | "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'" |
| Richard Laurence Millington Synge | Chemistry | 1952 | "for their invention of partition chromatography" |
| Jack W. Szostak | Medicine | 2009 | "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase" |
| Joseph John Thomson | Physics | 1906 | "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases" |
| George Paget Thomson | Physics | 1937 | "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals" |
| David J. Thouless | Physics | 2016 | "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter" |
| Lord (Alexander R.) Todd | Chemistry | 1957 | "for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes" |
| David Trimble | Peace | 1998 | "for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland" |
| John R. Vane | Medicine | 1982 | "for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances" |
| John E. Walker | Chemistry | 1997 | "for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)" |
| Patrick White | Literature | 1973 | "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature" |
| M. Stanley Whittingham | Chemistry | 2019 | inventor of lithium-ion batteries |
| Geoffrey Wilkinson | Chemistry | 1973 | "for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds" |
| Betty Williams | Peace | 1976 | |
| Charles Thomson Rees Wilson | Physics | 1927 | "for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour" |
| Gregory Winter | Chemistry | 2018 | "for the development of a green chemical industry" |
| Roger Penrose | Physics | 2020 | "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity" |