This is a list of notable residents of the county of Kent in England who have a Wikipedia page. Persons are grouped by occupation and listed in order of birth. Kent is defined by its current boundaries. Academics, engineers and scientists Charles Culmer (c. 1300s) – supposedly built the fishermen's stairs which Broadstairs is named after William Caxton (c. 1420 – c. 1492) – first person to introduce a printing press into England Richard Knolles (c. 1545–1610) – Ottoman Empire historian Richard Baker (1568–1645) – historian Robert Fludd (1574–1637) – physicist and astrologer John Tradescant the elder (c. 1575–1638) – gardener and botanist John Tradescant the Younger (1608–1662) – gardener and botanist William Harvey (1578–1657) – anatomist John Wallis (1616–1703) – mathematician given partial credit for the development of modern calculus Robert Plot (1640–1696) – naturalist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford Stephen Gray (1666–1736) – physicist and astronomer Thomas Steers (1672–1750) – civil engineer and canal builder Stephen Hales (1677–1761) – physiologist and chemist George Sale (1697–1736) – Islamic studies scholar Thomas Bayes (c. 1702–1761) – mathematician and formulator of Bayes' theorem Edward Jacob – antiquary and naturalist Edward Nairne (1726–1806) – scientific instrument maker James Six (1731–1793) – meteorologist and inventor of the maximum minimum thermometer Catharine Macaulay (1731–1791) – historian Edward Hasted (1732–1812) – Kent historian Lionel Lukin (1742–1834) – possible inventor of the lifeboat William Congreve (1772–1828) – inventor and rocket pioneer Thomas Frederick Colby (1784–1852) – director of the Ordnance Survey Richard Jones (1790–1855) – economist Joshua Trimmer (1795–1857) – geologist John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861) – botanist and geologist Anna Atkins (1799–1871) – botanical photographer George Finlay (1799–1875) – Greek historian George Newport (1803–1854) – entomologist Robert Main (1808–1878) – astronomer Edmund Law Lushington (1811–1893) – Greek scholar and Rector of Glasgow University Joseph Prestwich (1812–1896) – geologist Edward Betts (1815–1872) – railway civil engineering contractor Thomas Russell Crampton (1816–1888) – engineer and designer of the Crampton locomotive Charles Kettle (1821–1862) – New Zealand town planner Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827–1912) – surgeon and President of the Royal Society Nathaniel Barnaby (1829–1915) – Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy Edward James Reed (1830–1906) – Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy John Hulke (1830–1895) – surgeon and geologist Alexander Henry Green (1832–1896) – geologist Fleeming Jenkin (1833–1885) – Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh Robinson Ellis (1834–1913) – Professor of