List of Famous Aquarians
Arthur Philip Coote
John Polanyi
John Charles Polanyi, is a chemist of ethnic Hungarian origin residing in Canada. He won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his research in chemical kinetics. Polanyi was born in Berlin, Germany prior to his family emigrating in 1933 to the United Kingdom where he was subsequently educated at the University of Manchester, and did postdoctoral research at the National Research Council in Canada and Princeton University in New Jersey. Polanyi's first academic appointment was at the University of Toronto, and he remains there as of 2019. In addition to the Nobel Prize, Polanyi has received numerous other awards, including 33 honorary degrees, the Wolf Prize in Chemistry and the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering. Outside his scientific pursuits, Polanyi is active in public policy discussion, especially concerning science and nuclear weapons. His father, Mihály (Michael), was a noted chemist and philosopher. His uncle Karl Polanyi was a renowned political-economist, best known for his seminal work, The Great Transformation. According to György Marx he was one of "The Martians", a group of prominent Hungarian scientists who emigrated to the United States in the first half of the 20th century.
Thomas Lister, 2nd Baron Ribblesdale
Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet
Sir Patrick Alexander Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, DL was a British baronet and Chief of the Clan Macnaghten.
Christopher Stokowski
Edward Malcolm Haughton
Mary Laura Troubridge
Duje Čop
Duje Čop is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Standard Liège.
Julia Elizabeth Heald
Edgar Whitehead
Sir Edgar Cuthbert Fremantle Whitehead,, OBE, was a Rhodesian politician. He was a longstanding member of the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly, although his career was interrupted by other posts and by illness. In particular he had poor eyesight, and wore very thick glasses, and later suffered deafness whilst in office. As an ally of Sir Roy Welensky, he was Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1958 to 1962. His government was defeated in the 1962 general election by the Rhodesian Front.