List of amateur mathematicians
# List of amateur mathematicians

This is a list of amateur mathematicians—people whose primary vocation did not involve mathematics (or any similar discipline) yet made notable, and sometimes important, contributions to the field of mathematics.

* Ahmes (scribe)
* Ashutosh Mukherjee (lawyer)
* Robert Ammann (programmer and postal worker)
* John Arbuthnot (surgeon and author)
* Jean-Robert Argand (shopkeeper)
* Leon Bankoff (Beverly Hills dentist)
* Rev. Thomas Bayes (Presbyterian minister)
* Andrew Beal (businessman)
* Isaac Beeckman (candlemaker)
* Chester Ittner Bliss (biologist)
* Napoléon Bonaparte (general)
* Mary Everest Boole (homemaker, librarian)
* William Bourne (innkeeper)
* Nathaniel Bowditch (indentured bookkeeper)
* Achille Brocot (clockmaker)
* Jost Bürgi (clockmaker)
* Marvin Ray Burns (veteran)
* Gerolamo Cardano (medical doctor)
* D. G. Champernowne (college student)
* Thomas Clausen (technical assistant)
* Sir James Cockle (judge)
* Federico Commandino (medical doctor)
* William Crabtree (merchant)
* Nathan Daboll (cooper)
* Felix Delastelle (bonded warehouseman)
* Martin Demaine (goldsmith and glass artist)
* Humphry Ditton (minister)
* Harvey Dubner (engineer)
* Henry Dudeney (civil servant)
* Albrecht Dürer (painter)
* Greg Egan (writer)
* M. C. Escher (graphic artist)
* Eugène Ehrhart (mathematics teacher)
* John Ernest (painter)
* Pasquale Joseph Federico (patent attorney)
* Pierre de Fermat (lawyer)
* Sarah Flannery (high school student)
* Reo Fortune (anthropologist)
* John G.F. Francis (research assistant)
* Benjamin Franklin (printer and diplomat)
* Bernard Frenicle de Bessy
* Gemma Frisius (medical doctor)
* Britney Gallivan (high school student)
* James Garfield (United States President)
* Antoine Gombaud (essayist)
* Thorold Gosset (lawyer)
* Jørgen Pedersen Gram (actuary)
* Hermann Grassmann (school teacher)
* John Graunt (haberdasher)
* George Green (miller)
* Aubrey de Grey (gerontologist)
* André-Michel Guerry (lawyer)
* Charles James Hargreave (judge)
* Oliver Heaviside (telegraph operator)
* Kurt Heegner (private scholar)
* John R. Hendricks (meteorologist)
* Anthony Hill (painter)
* Paul Jaccard (botanist)
* Alfred Bray Kempe (lawyer)
* Thomas Kirkman (church rector)
* Laurence Monroe Klauber (herpetologist)
* Harry Lindgren (civil servant)
* Ada Lovelace (countess)
* Lu Jiaxi (high school physics teacher)
* Kenneth McIntyre (lawyer)
* Danica McKellar (actress)
* Anderson Gray McKendrick (medical doctor)
* Marin Mersenne (theologian)
* Florence Nightingale (nurse and statistician)
* George Phillips Odom Jr. (artist)
* B. Nicolò I. Paganini (schoolboy)
* Pāṇini (linguist)
* Blaise Pascal (heir, private scholar)
* Padmakumar (technician)
* Henry Perigal (stockbroker)
* Kenneth Perko (lawyer)
* Ivan Pervushin (priest)
* Piero della Francesca (painter)
* Pingala (musician)
* William Playfair (draftsman)
* Henry Cabourn Pocklington (schoolmaster)
* François Proth (farmer)
* Ramchundra (head master)
* Marjorie Rice (homemaker)
* Olinde Rodrigues (banker, social reformer)
* Lee Sallows (engineer)
* Robert Schlaifer (classics scholar)
* Robert Schneider (musician and record producer)
* William Shanks (landlord)
* Abraham Sharp (schoolmaster)
* Simon Stevin (merchants clerk)
* Alicia Boole Stott (secretary)
* Paul Tannery (tobacco factory director)
* Gaston Tarry (civil servant)
* Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (bookkeeper)
* Nikola Tesla (engineer, inventor)
* Sébastien Truchet (monk)
* Franciscus Vieta (lawyer)
* Giordano Vitale (soldier)
* Walter Frank Raphael Weldon (evolutionary biologist)
* Johannes Werner (parish priest)
* Caspar Wessel (lawyer)
* Leo Wiener (linguist)
* Frank Wilcoxon (chemist)
* Edouard Zeckendorf (medical doctor)
