List of Cornish scientists

This is a list of scientists from Cornwall, a county of England, in the United Kingdom.

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
 * Charles William Peach, naturalist and geologist
 * Benjamin Neeve 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 (1570 – 1615), astronomer and Member of Parliament
 * 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
 * John Hellins, FRS, mathematician, curate of Constantine
 * Sheila Oates Williams (born 1939), Australian mathematician