List of people associated with Bletchley Park
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This is a list of people associated with Bletchley Park
(the British
codebreaking establishment), notable either for their achievements there or elsewhere.
See also Hut 7
for a list of those associated with Japanese codes and either the Far East Combined Bureau
or Wireless Experimental Centre
in the Far East.
Work at or for Bletchley Park is given first, followed by achievements elsewhere in parentheses.
Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park is an estate located in the town of Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire, England, which currently houses the National Museum of Computing...
(the British
United Kingdom
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codebreaking establishment), notable either for their achievements there or elsewhere.
See also Hut 7
Hut 7
Hut 7 was a wartime section of the Government Code and Cypher School in Bletchley Park tasked with the solution of Japanese naval codes such as JN4, JN11, JN40, and JN25...
for a list of those associated with Japanese codes and either the Far East Combined Bureau
Far East Combined Bureau
The Far East Combined Bureau, an outstation of the British Government Code and Cypher School, was set up in Hong Kong in March 1935, to monitor Japanese, and also Chinese and Russian intelligence and radio traffic...
or Wireless Experimental Centre
Wireless Experimental Centre
The Wireless Experimental Centre was one of two overseas outposts of Station X, Bletchley Park, the British signals analysis centre during World War II. The other outpost was the Far East Combined Bureau....
in the Far East.
Work at or for Bletchley Park is given first, followed by achievements elsewhere in parentheses.
- Sir Frank Ezra Adcock, (Professor of Ancient History, Cambridge UniversityProfessor of Ancient History, Cambridge UniversityThe Professorship of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge was established by grace of 27 October 1898. The original electors were the Vice-Chancellor and eight persons elected by the Senate, two being nominated by the Council of the Senate, three by the General Board, and three by the...
) - Alexander AitkenAlexander AitkenAlexander Craig Aitken was one of New Zealand's greatest mathematicians. He studied for a PhD at the University of Edinburgh, where his dissertation, "Smoothing of Data", was considered so impressive that he was awarded a DSc in 1926, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh...
- James Macrae AitkenJames Macrae AitkenJames Macrae Aitken was a Scottish chess player.In 1938 he received a PhD from Edinburgh University on the topic of 'The Trial of George Buchanan Before the Lisbon Inquisition'.He was Scottish champion in 1935, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961 and 1965, the latter jointly with PM...
, worked in Hut 6Hut 6Hut 6 was a wartime section of Bletchley Park tasked with the solution of German Army and Air Force Enigma machine ciphers. Hut 8, by contrast, attacked Naval Enigma...
(Scottish chess champion) - Hugh AlexanderConel Hugh O'Donel AlexanderConel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, CMG, CBE was an Irish-born British cryptanalyst, chess player, and chess writer. He worked on the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during World War II, and was later the head of the cryptanalysis division at GCHQ for over 20 years...
, member of Hut 6 February 1940–March 1941, later head of Hut 8 (head of the cryptanalysis division at GCHQ; British Chess Champion 1938 and 1956) - Stanley Armitage
- Arthur Oliver Lonsdale AtkinA. O. L. AtkinArthur Oliver Lonsdale Atkin , who published under the name A. O. L. Atkin, was a Professor Emeritus of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. As an undergraduate during World War II, he worked at Bletchley Park cracking German codes. He received his Ph.D...
, (mathematician) - Dennis Babbage, Chief cryptanalyst in Hut 6Hut 6Hut 6 was a wartime section of Bletchley Park tasked with the solution of German Army and Air Force Enigma machine ciphers. Hut 8, by contrast, attacked Naval Enigma...
, (sometimes incorrectly said to have been related to Charles BabbageCharles BabbageCharles Babbage, FRS was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer...
) - Jean Barker, Baroness TrumpingtonJean Barker, Baroness TrumpingtonJean Alys Barker, Baroness Trumpington, DCVO, PC is a Conservative member of the House of Lords.Born Jean Alys Campbell-Harris to Major Arthur Campbell-Harris and Doris Robson, she was educated privately. During World War II, she worked in Naval intelligence at Bletchley Park...
née Jean Alys Campbell-Harris - Geoffrey BarracloughGeoffrey BarracloughGeoffrey Barraclough was a British historian, known as a medievalistand historian of Germany.He was educated at Bootham School in York and at Bradford Grammar School...
, (later Chichele Professor of Modern HistoryChichele Professor of Modern HistoryThe Chichele Professorship of Modern History is one of the several Chichele Professorships established from the mid-19th century onwards at All Souls College, Oxford University. The position of Chichele Professor of Modern History was established in 1862...
, University of OxfordUniversity of OxfordThe University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
) - Keith BateyKeith BateyKeith Batey was a codebreaker who, with his wife, Mavis Batey , worked on the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during the World War II.-Education:...
- Mavis Batey née Lever, cryptologist (garden and landscape historian, author, former President of the Garden History Society)
- Peter BenensonPeter BenensonPeter Benenson was an English lawyer and the founder of human rights group Amnesty International . In 2001, Benenson received the Pride of Britain Award for Lifetime Achievement.-Biography:...
, worked in the "TesteryTesteryThe Testery was a section at Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking station during World War II. It was set up in July 1942 under Major Ralph Tester to achieve Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. The three original founding members, cryptographers, and linguists were Captain Jerry Roberts,...
", (founder of Amnesty InternationalAmnesty InternationalAmnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...
) - Ralph Bennett, intelligence officer in Hut 3, later Professor of History at Magdalene College, CambridgeMagdalene College, CambridgeMagdalene College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary Magdalene...
- Francis (Frank) BirchFrancis Birch (cryptographer)Francis Lyall Birch was a British cryptographer. He was educated at Eton and King’s College, Cambridge. He was awarded an OBE in 1919 and CMG in 1945....
, Head of German Naval Section - T. S. R. Boase, (art historian)
- Arthur BonsallArthur BonsallSir Arthur Wilfred Bonsall KCMG CBE is a former director of the British signals intelligence agency, GCHQ, a post he held from 1973 to 1978.-Career:...
, (Director of GCHQ) - Ruth Bourne (née Henry), Bombe Operator and currently Volunteer Guide.
- Edward Boyle, intelligence (Conservative politician)
- Hilary Brett-Smith, cryptologist (later Lady HinsleyHarry HinsleySir Francis Harry Hinsley OBE was an English historian and cryptanalyst. He worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War and wrote widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the Second World War...
) - Lord Asa Briggs, member of the Watch in Hut 6Hut 6Hut 6 was a wartime section of Bletchley Park tasked with the solution of German Army and Air Force Enigma machine ciphers. Hut 8, by contrast, attacked Naval Enigma...
(historian) - Christine Brooke-RoseChristine Brooke-RoseChristine Frances Evelyn Brooke-Rose is a British writer and literary critic, known principally for her later, experimental novels.-Biography:...
- Alan Bruce
- Tommy BrownTommy Brown (GM)Thomas William Brown GM English recipient of the George Medal, and is the youngest person to have ever received that award...
, a 16-year-old NAAFI canteen assistant who was awarded the George MedalGeorge MedalThe George Medal is the second level civil decoration of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth.The GM was instituted on 24 September 1940 by King George VI. At this time, during the height of The Blitz, there was a strong desire to reward the many acts of civilian courage...
for risking his life in helping Francis FassonFrancis Anthony Blair FassonLieutenant Francis Anthony Blair Fasson RN was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the "for outstanding bravery and steadfast devotion to duty in the face of danger" he displayed on the 30 October 1942 in action in the Mediterranean....
and Colin GrazierColin GrazierAble Seaman Colin Grazier was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the "outstanding bravery and steadfast devotion to duty in the face of danger" which he displayed on 30 October 1942 in action in the Mediterranean.-WW2 heroics:...
in recovering 'short signal' codebooks which provided a breakthrough in cryptanalysis of the German Naval Enigma from the sinking U Boat U-559Unterseeboot 559German submarine U-559 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the German Kriegsmarine for service during World War II.Built in 1941 at the Blohm & Voss shipyards in Hamburg, she was most famous for an incident during her sinking in the Mediterranean Sea in 1942, in which British sailors seized... - William BundyWilliam BundyWilliam Putnam "Bill" Bundy was a member of the CIA and foreign affairs advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He had a key role in planning the Vietnam War. After leaving government service he became a historian.-Early years:Raised in Boston, Massachusetts he came from a...
, US Army Signal Corps (later a member of the CIA and foreign affairs advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson) - Elizabeth Byng
- John CairncrossJohn CairncrossJohn Cairncross was a British intelligence officer during World War II, who passed secrets to the Soviet Union...
, Soviet spy - Peter CalvocoressiPeter CalvocoressiPeter John Ambrose Calvocoressi was a British political author, historian and a former intelligence officer at Bletchley Park during World War II.-Early years:...
, intelligence officer (RAF) - J. W. S. CasselsJ. W. S. CasselsJohn William Scott Cassels , FRS is a leading English mathematician.-Biography:Educated at Neville's Cross Council School in Durham and George Heriot's School in Edinburgh, Cassels graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an MA in 1943.His academic career was interrupted in World War II...
- John ChadwickJohn ChadwickJohn Chadwick was an English linguist and classical scholar most famous for his role in deciphering Linear B, along with Michael Ventris.-Early life and education:...
- John ChristieJohn ChristieJohn Christie may refer to:*John Christie , English footballer*John Christie , author, ski historian, Member Maine Ski Hall of Fame*John Christie , opera festival founder...
, codebreaker - Joan Clarke
- William ClarkeWilliam Clarke (cryptographer)William Francis 'Nobby' Clarke was a British intelligence officer and cryptographer of naval codes in both World Wars.In 1915 he was commissioned as an assistant paymaster, having failed the eye examination for executive officer. He knew German, and in March 1916 joined Room 40. His talent was for...
, Head of Naval Section, then of Italian Naval subsection - Tom Colvill, general Manager of the TesteryTesteryThe Testery was a section at Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking station during World War II. It was set up in July 1942 under Major Ralph Tester to achieve Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. The three original founding members, cryptographers, and linguists were Captain Jerry Roberts,...
- Josh CooperJosh Cooper (cryptographer)Joshua Edward Synge Cooper CB, CMG was an English cryptographer.He joined the Government Code and Cipher School as a Junior Assistant in October 1925 to specialise in Russian codes and ciphers. He was down from King’s College London with a First in Russian and was teaching at a preparatory...
, cryptographer - Michael Crum, worked on the Siemens and Halske T52Siemens and Halske T52The Siemens and Halske T52, also known as the Geheimfernschreiber , or Schlüsselfernschreibmaschine , was a World War II German teleprinter cipher machine...
teleprinter cipher, codenamed "STURGEON" - Alexander "Alistair" DennistonAlastair DennistonCommander Alexander Guthrie Denniston CMG CBE RNVR was a British codebreaker in Room 40 and first head of the Government Code and Cypher School and field hockey player...
, Deputy Director of GC&CS - Nakdimon ("Naky") Doniach, RAF, linguist (later GCHQ and Oxford University)
- Peter Edgerley, codebreaker
- Peter Ericsson, TesteryTesteryThe Testery was a section at Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking station during World War II. It was set up in July 1942 under Major Ralph Tester to achieve Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. The three original founding members, cryptographers, and linguists were Captain Jerry Roberts,...
shift-leader, linguist and senior codebreaker - Francis Anthony Blair FassonFrancis Anthony Blair FassonLieutenant Francis Anthony Blair Fasson RN was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the "for outstanding bravery and steadfast devotion to duty in the face of danger" he displayed on the 30 October 1942 in action in the Mediterranean....
, Lieutenant RN was posthumously awarded the George CrossGeorge CrossThe George Cross is the highest civil decoration of the United Kingdom, and also holds, or has held, that status in many of the other countries of the Commonwealth of Nations...
for the "for outstanding bravery and steadfast devotion to duty in the face of danger" that he displayed on the 30 October 1942 in boarding, with Able Seaman Colin GrazierColin GrazierAble Seaman Colin Grazier was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the "outstanding bravery and steadfast devotion to duty in the face of danger" which he displayed on 30 October 1942 in action in the Mediterranean.-WW2 heroics:...
, the sinking U Boat U-559Unterseeboot 559German submarine U-559 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the German Kriegsmarine for service during World War II.Built in 1941 at the Blohm & Voss shipyards in Hamburg, she was most famous for an incident during her sinking in the Mediterranean Sea in 1942, in which British sailors seized...
and recovering 'short signal' codebooks which provided a breakthrough in Cryptanalysis of the German Naval Enigma but losing his life in the process - Margaret "Peggy" Erskine-Tulloch née SetonSeton (surname)Seton is the surname of a prominent Scottish Lowlands family, and may refer to:Hereditary Titles:* The Baronet of Olivestob* The Baronet of Windygoul* The Baronets of Abercorn* The Baronets of Garleton* The Baronets of Pitmedden* The Lords Seton...
, one of the first Wrens at Bletchley Park. - John Davies EvansJohn Davies EvansJohn Davies Evans OBE was an English archaeologist and academic, renowned for his research into the prehistory of the Mediterranean, and especially the prehistoric cultures of Malta. He was a former Director of the Institute of Archaeology in London, a position he held from 1975 until his...
- Harry Fensom, the creator of the British Tunny machine which was used in decoding messages in the Lorenz Cipher
- Michael FieldMichael FieldMichael Field may refer to:* Michael Field , Premier of Tasmania* Michael Field , pseudonym of Katherine Bradley and Edith CooperSee also*Michael Fields...
, foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph for thirty years, living in South America, Southeast Asia and France - Thomas "Tommy" Flowers, Post Office engineer and designer of the Colossus computerColossus computerNot to be confused with the fictional computer of the same name in the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project.Colossus was the world's first electronic, digital, programmable computer. Colossus and its successors were used by British codebreakers to help read encrypted German messages during World War II...
- Leonard Forster
- Hugh FossHugh FossHugh Rose Foss was a British cryptographer.-Life:Foss was born in Kobe, Japan, where his father the Rt Revd Hugh Foss was a missionary bishop, and he learned Japanese....
, cryptographer, head of the Japanese Naval Section (Hut 7) from 1942 to 1943 - 'Freddy' Freeborne, ran the Tabulating Section in Block C
- Alfred FriendlyAlfred FriendlyAlfred Friendly was an American journalist, editor and writer for the Washington Post. He began his career as a reporter with the Post in 1939 and became Managing Editor in 1955. In 1967 he covered the Mideast War for the Post in a series of articles for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for...
, US Army Air ForceUnited States Army Air ForcesThe United States Army Air Forces was the military aviation arm of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II, and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force....
(later editor of the Washington Post) - Harry GolombekHarry GolombekHarry Golombek OBE , was a British chess International Master and honorary grandmaster, chess arbiter, and chess author. He was three times British chess champion, in 1947, 1949, and 1955 and finished second in 1948. He became a grandmaster in 1985.He was the chess correspondent of The Times...
, (chess player) - I. J. (Jack) GoodI. J. GoodIrving John Good was a British mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. After World War II, Good continued to work with Turing on the design of computers and Bayesian statistics at the University of Manchester...
- Colin GrazierColin GrazierAble Seaman Colin Grazier was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the "outstanding bravery and steadfast devotion to duty in the face of danger" which he displayed on 30 October 1942 in action in the Mediterranean.-WW2 heroics:...
, Able Seaman RN was posthumously awarded the George CrossGeorge CrossThe George Cross is the highest civil decoration of the United Kingdom, and also holds, or has held, that status in many of the other countries of the Commonwealth of Nations...
for the "for outstanding bravery and steadfast devotion to duty in the face of danger" that he displayed on the 30 October 1942 in boarding, with Lieutenant Francis FassonFrancis Anthony Blair FassonLieutenant Francis Anthony Blair Fasson RN was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the "for outstanding bravery and steadfast devotion to duty in the face of danger" he displayed on the 30 October 1942 in action in the Mediterranean....
, the sinking U Boat U-559Unterseeboot 559German submarine U-559 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the German Kriegsmarine for service during World War II.Built in 1941 at the Blohm & Voss shipyards in Hamburg, she was most famous for an incident during her sinking in the Mediterranean Sea in 1942, in which British sailors seized...
and recovering 'short signal' codebooks which provided a breakthrough in Cryptanalysis of the German Naval Enigma but losing his life in the process - Nigel de GreyNigel de GreyNigel de Grey , CMG, OBE, British codebreaker. Son of the rector of Copdock, Suffolk, and grandson of the 5th Lord Walsingham, he was educated at Eton College and became fluent in French and German. In 1907 he joined the publishing firm of William Heinemann. He married in 1910...
, cryptologist, in World War I he helped to decrypt the Zimmermann TelegramZimmermann TelegramThe Zimmermann Telegram was a 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire to Mexico to make war against the United States. The proposal was caught by the British before it could get to Mexico. The revelation angered the Americans and led in part to a U.S... - Philip HallPhilip HallPhilip Hall FRS , was an English mathematician.His major work was on group theory, notably on finite groups and solvable groups.-Biography:...
- John HerivelJohn HerivelJohn W. Herivel was a British science historian and former World War II codebreaker at Bletchley Park.As a codebreaker concerned with Cryptanalysis of the Enigma, Herivel is remembered chiefly for the discovery of what was soon dubbed the Herivel tip or Herivelismus...
, arrived at Bletchley Park in January 1940; discoverer of the "Herivel Tip"; later worked in administration in the "Newmanry" (science historian) - Peter HiltonPeter HiltonPeter John Hilton was a British mathematician, noted for his contributions to homotopy theory and for code-breaking during the Second World War.-Life:Hilton was born in London, and educated at St Paul's School...
, arrived at Bletchley Park in January 1942, worked in Hut 8 until late 1942, moved to Research Section to work on Fish, later in TesteryTesteryThe Testery was a section at Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking station during World War II. It was set up in July 1942 under Major Ralph Tester to achieve Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. The three original founding members, cryptographers, and linguists were Captain Jerry Roberts,...
(topologistTopologyTopology is a major area of mathematics concerned with properties that are preserved under continuous deformations of objects, such as deformations that involve stretching, but no tearing or gluing...
) - Harry HinsleyHarry HinsleySir Francis Harry Hinsley OBE was an English historian and cryptanalyst. He worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War and wrote widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the Second World War...
, (historian) - Leonard Hooper, (Director of GCHQ)
- John Jeffreys, supervised manufacture of perforated sheetsPerforated sheetsThe method of Zygalski sheets was a cryptologic technique used by the Polish Cipher Bureau before and during World War II, and during the war also by British cryptologists at Bletchley Park, to decrypt messages enciphered on German Enigma machines....
; initially in charge of Hut 6 with Welchman until May 1940; died in early 1941 (mathematician) - Roy JenkinsRoy JenkinsRoy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM, PC was a British politician.The son of a Welsh coal miner who later became a union official and Labour MP, Roy Jenkins served with distinction in World War II. Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, he served in several major posts in...
, codebreaker in the TesteryTesteryThe Testery was a section at Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking station during World War II. It was set up in July 1942 under Major Ralph Tester to achieve Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. The three original founding members, cryptographers, and linguists were Captain Jerry Roberts,...
(later a Labour Member of ParliamentMember of ParliamentA Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
and government minister, the first British President of the European CommissionEuropean CommissionThe European Commission is the executive body of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Union's treaties and the general day-to-day running of the Union....
(1977–81) and one of the four principal founders of the Social Democratic PartySocial Democratic Party (UK, 1979)The Social Democratic Party was a minor centre left political party founded in Manchester in 1979 by Donald Kean. The party stood one candidate in Warrington at the 1979 UK general election, who received only 144 votes and came bottom of the poll....
(SDP) in 1981, ennobled as Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, was also a distinguished writer, especially of biographies.) - Daniel JonesDaniel JonesDaniel Jones is the name of:* Daniel Jones , phonetician, author of The Pronunciation of English* Daniel Jones , chancellor of the University of Mississippi* Daniel Jones , Welsh composer...
(Welsh composer), Japanese, Romanian and Russian Codebreaker. - Eric JonesEric Malcolm JonesSir Eric Malcolm Jones KCMG CB CBE is a former director of the British signals intelligence agency, GCHQ, a post he held from 1952 to 1960.-Career:...
, head of Hut 3 (later Director of GCHQ) - Harold KeenHarold KeenHarold Hall "Doc" Keen was a British engineer who produced the engineering design, and oversaw the construction of, the British bombe, a codebreaking machine used in World War II to read German messages sent using the Enigma machine. He was known as "Doc" Keen because of his habit of carrying...
, BTMBritish Tabulating Machine CompanyThe British Tabulating Machine Company was a firm which manufactured and sold Hollerith unit record equipment and other data-processing equipment...
engineer who built the British bombeBombeThe bombe was an electromechanical device used by British cryptologists to help decipher German Enigma-machine-encrypted signals during World War II...
s - Dilly KnoxDilly KnoxAlfred Dillwyn 'Dilly' Knox CMG was a classics scholar at King's College, Cambridge, and a British codebreaker...
, leading cryptologist, cracked the code of the commercial Enigma machines used in the Spanish Civil WarSpanish Civil WarThe Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...
, one of the British participants in the conference in which the Poles disclosed to their French and British allies their achievements in Enigma decryption, broke the Abwehr non-steckered Enigma - Leslie Lambert, (short story writer as A. J. Alan)
- Peter LaslettPeter Laslett-Biography:Born Thomas Peter Ruffell Laslett and educated at the Watford Grammar School for Boys, Peter Laslett studied history at St John's College, Cambridge in 1935 and graduated with a double first in 1938. During the war he learned Japanese and worked at Bletchley Park and Washington decoding...
- Hugh Last, (Professor of Ancient History at Brasenose College, Oxford)
- F. L. ("Peter") LucasF. L. LucasFrank Laurence Lucas was an English classical scholar, literary critic, poet, novelist, playwright, political polemicist, and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge....
, Hut 3 1939–45, translator and intelligence-analyst, acting head Hut 3, C.O. BP Home Guard (writer; lecturer in literature, King's College, Cambridge) - Arnold LynchArnold LynchArnold Lynch was an English engineer, known for his work on an optical tape reader which was used in the construction of the Colossus, the first electronic computer...
- Sir John MarriottJohn Marriott (philatelist)John Brook Marriott was a British teacher and philatelist. He was the Keeper of the Royal Philatelic Collection between 1969 and 1995.- Biography :...
, (philatelist) - Victor Masters, TesteryTesteryThe Testery was a section at Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking station during World War II. It was set up in July 1942 under Major Ralph Tester to achieve Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. The three original founding members, cryptographers, and linguists were Captain Jerry Roberts,...
shift-leader and senior codebreaker - George McVittie
- Stewart MenziesStewart MenziesMajor General Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, KCB, KCMG, DSO, MC was Chief of MI6 , British Secret Intelligence Service, during and after World War II.-Early life, family:...
, non-operational Director of GC&CS (head of Secret Intelligence ServiceSecret Intelligence ServiceThe Secret Intelligence Service is responsible for supplying the British Government with foreign intelligence. Alongside the internal Security Service , the Government Communications Headquarters and the Defence Intelligence , it operates under the formal direction of the Joint Intelligence...
) - Donald MichieDonald MichieDonald Michie was a British researcher in artificial intelligence. During World War II, Michie worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, contributing to the effort to solve "Tunny," a German teleprinter cipher.-Early life and career:Michie was born in Rangoon, Burma...
, Joined BP in the early summer of 1942, and later worked with Colossus. Had the idea for modifying it to become Colossus II, which could tackle 'wheel patterns' in addition to 'wheel settings'. - Stuart Milner-BarryStuart Milner-BarrySir Stuart Milner-Barry KCVO, CB, OBE was a British chess player, chess writer, World War II codebreaker and civil servant. He represented England in chess both before and after World War II...
, member of Hut 6 from early 1940 to the end of the war; head of Hut 6 from Autumn 1943 (chess player and civil servant) - Max NewmanMax NewmanMaxwell Herman Alexander "Max" Newman, FRS was a British mathematician and codebreaker.-Pre–World War II:Max Newman was born Maxwell Neumann in Chelsea, London, England, on 7 February 1897...
, head of the "NewmanryNewmanryThe Newmanry was a section at Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking station during World War II. Its job was to develop and employ machine methods in Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. The Newmanry was named after its founder and head, Max Newman...
" (topologist) - Brinley ("Bryn") Newton-John, (father of Olivia Newton-JohnOlivia Newton-JohnOlivia Newton-John AO, OBE is a singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles and 14 of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA...
) - Rolf NoskwithRolf NoskwithRolf Noskwith was a British cryptographer in World War II.He worked in Hut 8 at Bletchley Park on German naval Enigma traffic from 1941 to 1945, and subsequently on other ciphers. He recalled that most people were addressed by their first name there; the two exceptions were Alan Turing, known as...
, cryptographer - Denis Oswald, linguist and senior codebreaker
- Thaddeus ("Teddy") Pilley, RAF Intelligence Officer, linguist in Hut 3 (was made Officier d’Academie by France, and helped found the International Association of Conference Interpreters and the Institute of LinguistsChartered Institute of LinguistsThe Chartered Institute of Linguists, also known as the Institute of Linguists, IOL and IoL , is a British professional and learned society for education that was founded in 1910. It serves to promote proficiency in modern languages worldwide...
; also founded and ran the Linguists' ClubLinguists' Club (London)The Linguists' Club was a language club located in London, which operated between 1932 and 1971.The Club acted as a meeting place and school for linguists, including interpreters, translators, language students, and other members who merely wanted to practise their language skills...
) - John H. Plumb
- Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr.Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr.Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He developed a reputation as a judicial moderate, and was known as a master of compromise and consensus-building. He was also widely well regarded by contemporaries due to his personal good manners and...
, US Army (later a member of the US Supreme CourtSupreme Court of the United StatesThe Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all state and federal courts, and original jurisdiction over a small range of cases...
) - F.T. Prince, (poet)
- Henry Reed, translator (poet and radio dramatist)
- David ReesDavid Rees (mathematician)David Rees ScD Cantab, FIMA, FRS is an emeritus professor of pure mathematics at the University of Exeter, having been head of the Mathematics / Mathematical Sciences Department at Exeter for many years....
, Hut 6 (mathematician) - Jerry RobertsJerry RobertsCaptain Jerry Roberts was born at Wembley, London in November 1920. His father was a pharmacist and his mother an organist who played in the local chapel....
, TesteryTesteryThe Testery was a section at Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking station during World War II. It was set up in July 1942 under Major Ralph Tester to achieve Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. The three original founding members, cryptographers, and linguists were Captain Jerry Roberts,...
shift-leader, linguist and senior codebreaker - James RobertsonJames Robertson (conductor)James Robertson CBE was an English conductor, best known as musical director of Sadler's Wells Opera.Robertson was born in Liverpool and was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge, before studying music at the Leipzig Conservatory and the Royal College of Music in London...
, Blocks A and F, Air Section. Ran BP Recreational Club Choral Society. (later Director of the Sadler's Wells Opera Company) - Bob RoseveareBob RoseveareRobert Arthur Roseveare was a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II and later a schoolteacher.He was born at Repton, Derbyshire where his father, Sir Martin Roseveare, taught at Repton School...
, Hut 6 (schoolteacher) - Miriam Louisa Rothschild
- John Saltmarsh, (historian)
- D. R. Shackleton BaileyD. R. Shackleton BaileyDavid Roy Shackleton Bailey, FBA, was a British scholar of Latin literature who spent his academic life teaching at the University of Cambridge, the University of Michigan, and Harvard...
- Admiral Hugh SinclairHugh SinclairAdmiral Sir Hugh Francis Paget Sinclair KCB , nicknamed "Quex", was a British intelligence officer. Between 1919 and 1921, he was Director of British Naval Intelligence, and helped to set up the Secret Intelligence Service before the Second World War.-Career:Sinclair joined the Royal Navy in the...
, non-operational Director of GC&CS (head of Secret Intelligence ServiceSecret Intelligence ServiceThe Secret Intelligence Service is responsible for supplying the British Government with foreign intelligence. Alongside the internal Security Service , the Government Communications Headquarters and the Defence Intelligence , it operates under the formal direction of the Joint Intelligence...
) - Howard Smith (later director general of MI5MI5The Security Service, commonly known as MI5 , is the United Kingdom's internal counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its core intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service focused on foreign threats, Government Communications Headquarters and the Defence...
) - Frank Stanton
- Rosemary Stanton
- Oliver StracheyOliver StracheyOliver Strachey , a British civil servant in the Foreign Office was a cryptographer from World War I to World War II....
, head of the section deciphering Abwehr messages - Alan Stripp, worked on Japanese codes (author of 'Codebreaker in the Far East, etc)
- Derek TauntDerek TauntDerek Roy Taunt was a British mathematician who worked as a codebreaker during World War II at Bletchley Park....
, arrived in Bletchley Park in August 1941, worked in Hut 6 (mathematician, later bursar of Jesus College, Cambridge) - Telford TaylorTelford TaylorTelford Taylor was an American lawyer best known for his role in the Counsel for the Prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II, his opposition to Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, and his outspoken criticism of U.S...
, US Army (later Counsel for the Prosecution at the Nuremberg TrialsNuremberg TrialsThe Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany....
) - Ralph TesterRalph TesterRalph P. Tester was an administrator at Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking station during World War II. He founded and supervised a section named the Testery for breaking TUNNY .-Background:...
, linguist, head of the TesteryTesteryThe Testery was a section at Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking station during World War II. It was set up in July 1942 under Major Ralph Tester to achieve Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. The three original founding members, cryptographers, and linguists were Captain Jerry Roberts,...
and member of a TICOMTICOMTICOM was a project formed in World War II by the United States to find and seize German intelligence assets, particularly cryptographic ones. The project was stimulated chiefly by the US military cryptography organizations, and had support from the highest levels.Several teams were sent into the...
team (accountant with Unilever) - John Tiltman
- John ThompsonJohn Thompson-Academics:* Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson , English archeologist and Mayan scholar* John G. Thompson , mathematician* John Thompson , professor at Cambridge...
, codebreaker - Edward TravisEdward TravisSir Edward Wilfred Harry Travis KCMG CBE was a British cryptographer and intelligence officer, becoming the operational head of Bletchley Park during World War II, and later the head of GCHQ.-Career:...
- Michael Trumm
- Alan TuringAlan TuringAlan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS , was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which played a...
, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, designer of the bombeBombeThe bombe was an electromechanical device used by British cryptologists to help decipher German Enigma-machine-encrypted signals during World War II...
, head of Hut 8Hut 8Hut 8 was a section at Bletchley Park tasked with solving German naval Enigma messages. The section was led initially by Alan Turing...
, (pioneering computer scientistComputer scientistA computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....
) - W. T. TutteW. T. TutteWilliam Thomas Tutte, OC, FRS, known as Bill Tutte, was a British, later Canadian, codebreaker and mathematician. During World War II he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in Cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major German code system, which had a significant impact on the Allied...
- Peter TwinnPeter TwinnPeter Frank George Twinn was a British mathematician, World War II codebreaker and entomologist.-Education and codebreaking:...
, was the first British cryptographer to read a German military Enigma message, became the head of the Abwehr Enigma section - Ralph Tymms
- Jean ValentineJean Valentine (bombe operator)Jean Valentine was an operator of the bombe decryption device in Hut 11 at Bletchley Park in England, designed by Alan Turing and others during World War II. She was a member of the "Wrens" . She was one of a number of women that worked at Bletchley Park. During this time, she lived in Steeple ...
, leading WRNSWomen's Royal Naval ServiceThe Women's Royal Naval Service was the women's branch of the Royal Navy.Members included cooks, clerks, wireless telegraphists, radar plotters, weapons analysts, range assessors, electricians and air mechanics...
, Bombe operator - Langdon Van Norden, US Army Signal Corps (later chairman of the board of the Metropolitan Opera Association)
- Vernon WatkinsVernon WatkinsVernon Phillips Watkins , was a British poet, and a translator and painter. He was a close friend of Dylan Thomas, who described him as "the most profound and greatly accomplished Welshman writing poems in English"....
- Neil Leslie WebsterNeil Leslie WebsterNeil Leslie Webster was an army Major who worked in intelligence in World War 2. He was key figure in radio intelligence and cryptography and worked in the Fusion Room at Bletchley Park and was closely involved in the hunt for cribs for the Enigma machine.-Early life:Neil Webster was born on...
, major in SIXTA, signals intelligence and codebreaking - Gordon WelchmanGordon WelchmanGordon Welchman was a British-American mathematician, university professor, World War II codebreaker at Bletchley Park, and author.-Education and early career:...
, initially in charge of Hut 6 with Jeffreys, became official head of the section until Autumn 1943; later Assistant Director of Mechanisation at Bletchley Park (author of The Hut Six Story, worked on secure communications systems for US forces) - J. H. C. WhiteheadJ. H. C. WhiteheadJohn Henry Constantine Whitehead FRS , known as Henry, was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory. He was born in Chennai , in India, and died in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1960....
, Newmanry mathematician (topologist, one of the founders of homotopy theoryHomotopyIn topology, two continuous functions from one topological space to another are called homotopic if one can be "continuously deformed" into the other, such a deformation being called a homotopy between the two functions...
) - Angus WilsonAngus WilsonSir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson, CBE was an English novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and later received a knighthood for his services to literature.-Biography:Wilson was born in Bexhill, Sussex, England, to...
, novelist and short story writer - F. W. WinterbothamF. W. WinterbothamFrederick William Winterbotham was a British Royal Air Force officer who during World War II supervised the distribution of Ultra intelligence. Later, Winterbotham published the first popular account of Ultra....
, RAF Intelligence Officer, responsible for devising SLU system for secure dissemination of Ultra (author of The Ultra Secret) - Shaun WylieShaun WylieShaun Wylie was a British mathematician and World War II codebreaker.-Early life:Wylie was born in Oxford, England, the fourth son of Sir Francis Wylie, later the first Warden of Rhodes House in Oxford. He was educated at Dragon School and then Winchester College...
, arrived at Bletchley in February 1941, head of crib section in Hut 8, transferred in Autumn 1943 to work on Tunny (topologist, mathematics lecturer at Cambridge, and head of mathematics at GCHQ) - Charles Wynn-WilliamsCharles Wynn-Williams-Early life and studies:He was the elder child of William Williams, a physics teacher and later divisional inspector of schools for north and mid-Wales. His mother was Mary Ellen Wynn, known as Nell, daughter of Robert Wynn, a shopkeeper at Llanrwst. Liberal in politics and a fluent Welsh speaker,...
, (physicist) - Leslie YoxallLeslie YoxallAlbert Leslie Yoxall was a British codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II. He devised a method to assist in solving Enigma messages which was dubbed Yoxallismus. After the war he worked at GCHQ until the mid-1970s.-Early life:Yoxall was born in Salford, and was the youngest out of four...
, Hut 8Hut 8Hut 8 was a section at Bletchley Park tasked with solving German naval Enigma messages. The section was led initially by Alan Turing...
, devised Yoxallismus technique