Index to Blue Plaques alphabetical order of surname

Index to Plaques sorted alphabetically
(mostly blue plaques installed by IOP)

Names in Surname order

Notes:

People who were ennobled may be in this list more than once, for example, Lord Kelvin can be found under 'K' and 'T' for his original name of William Thomson.
People with more than one plaque have more than one 'unveiled' date.
? means missing information.
Click on the surname for further details
For further information link to wikipedia and enter the name in the 'Search' box, enclosed in "" if you want more than one name, for example, "John Canton" or "William Henry Bragg".
the column headed 'Other' is for those with other plaques:
- IOP rooms at headquarters, 76 Portland Place, London (HQ)
- London Blue Plaques,( L ) means 1, folled by a numeral if more than 1
- Royal Society of Chemistry plaques, (RSC)
- Oxfordshire Blue plaques, (OxB)
- Oxford Science Walk, (OxW)

Name	birth date	IOP date unveiled	Other
Sir George Biddell Airy	1801	Oct 2003
Sir Edward Victor Appleton	1892	Dec 1997
John Logie Baird	1888	Mar 1997	L 3
John Stewart Bell	1928	May 2002
Sir William Henry Bragg	1862	Mar 1996
John Buchan	1875	Jun 1999
Rev Nicholas Callan	1799	Apr 1998
John Canton	1718	May 1997
Viscount Cherwell	1886	Sep 2006
John Dalton	1766	Mar 1998
Sir James Dewar	1842	Jun 2004
Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac	1902	Sep 1997
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington	1882	Mar 1998	L
Michael Faraday	1791	Oct 2005	L 2
John Ambrose Fleming	1849	Apr 2001 Apr 2004 Jun 2004	L
Edward Frankland	1825	Apr 2001
Caroline and William Herschel	1738	Mar 2000
Robert Hooke	1738		OxW, HQ
Jeremiah Horrocks	1619	Apr 1997
Daphne Jackson	1936	Apr 1998
Sir James and Lady Jeans	1877	Sep 2000
Sir Harold Jefferies	1891	Jul 2000
Lord Kelvin (William Thomson)	1824	Jan 1999	L
Frederick Alexander Lindemann	1886	Sep 2006
Sir Oliver Lodge	1851	Oct 1997
Sir Ernest Marsden	1889	Sep 2002
James Clerk Maxwell	1831	Sep 2002
Henry Gwyn-Jefferys Moseley	1887		RSC
Sir Charles Algernon Parsons	1854	Mar 2001
Baron William George Penney	1909		OxB
John Henry Poynting	1852	Mar 2001
Joseph Priestley	1733	Apr 1996	L 2
Sir Francis Simon	1893		OxB
Sir Frederick Soddy	1877	Jun 1998
Edmund Clifton Stoner	1899	Mar 1996
William Sturgeon	1783	Dec 1850
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan	1828	Jun 2004
Sylvanus Phillips Thompson	1851	Jun 2002
William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)	1824	Jan 1999
John Tyndall	1820	Jan 1999
Richard Van der Riet Woolley	1906	May 1999
Ernest Walton	1903	Jun 1997
Sir Charles Wheatstone	1802	May 1999
Evan James Williams	1903	May 1995
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson	1869	Apr 1996

Page last updated 24 Aug 2014

Index to Plaques sorted alphabetically (mostly blue plaques installed by IOP)

Names in Surname order

Index to Plaques sorted alphabetically
(mostly blue plaques installed by IOP)