Oxford, United Kingdom

Irish-born British writer and philosopher known for her novels exploring morality, good and evil, and the unconscious, and winner of the Booker Prize

British author who wrote beloved children's classics including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda, selling over 300 million books worldwide

Russo-British-Latvian Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas known for his influential lectures and insightful works

Dutch zoologist and ethologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his foundational discoveries concerning animal behavior and co-founded modern ethology

English scholar and university teacher known for his encyclopaedic masterpiece, The Anatomy of Melancholy

British science fiction writer, novelist, and editor known for works like "Barefoot in the Head" and "Starship"

Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles

Australian pathologist and pharmacologist who shared the Nobel Prize for his instrumental role in developing penicillin into a life-saving medicine

German-British biochemist who discovered the citric acid cycle, also known as the Krebs cycle, a key process in cellular respiration

Polish philosopher and historian of ideas known for his critical analysis of Marxism and later focus on religious questions

English physician and athlete who became the first person in history to run a mile in under four minutes, later a respected neurologist