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.
Work at or for Bletchley Park is given first, followed by achievements elsewhere in parentheses.
- Sir Frank Ezra Adcock
- Stanley Armitage
- Alexander Aitken
- James Macrae Aitken, worked in Hut 6 (Scottish chess champion)
- Hugh Alexander, member of Hut 6 February 1940 - March 1941, later head of Hut 8 (head of the cryptanalysis division at GCHQ; British Chess Champion 1938 & 1956)
- Dennis Babbage
- Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington
- Geoffrey Barraclough
- Keith Batey
- Mavis Lever Batey
- Peter Benenson, worked in the "Testery", (founder of Amnesty International)
- Ralph Bennett
- Francis Birch
- Thomas Boase
- Edward Boyle, intelligence, (Conservative politician)
- Lord Asa Briggs, member of the Watch in Hut 6, (historian)
- Christine Brooke-Rose
- Elizabeth Byng
- William Bundy
- John Cairncross, Soviet spy
- Peter Calvocoressi
- J. W. S. Cassels
- John Chadwick
- Joan Clarke
- Josh Cooper
- Michael Crum, worked on the Siemens and Halske T52 teleprinter cipher, codenamed "STURGEON"
- Alexander Denniston, Deputy Director of GC&CS
- Margaret "Peggy" Erskine-Tulloch (née Seton), one of the first Wrens at Bletchley Park
- Francis Fasson
- Thomas Flowers — Post Office engineer and designer of the Colossus computer
- Leonard Forster
- Hugh Foss
- Harry Golombek (chess player)
- I. J. (Jack) Good
- Nigel de Grey
- Philip Hall
- Harry Hinsley (historian)
- John Herivel, arrived at Bletchley Park in January 1940; discoverer of the "Herivel Tip"; later worked in administration in the "Newmanry" (science historian)
- Peter Hilton, arrived at Bletchley Park in January 1942, worked in Hut 8 until late 1942, moved to Research Section to work on Fish, later in Testery (topologist)
- Leonard Hooper (Director of GCHQ)
- John Jeffreys, supervised manufacture of perforated sheets; initially in charge of Hut 6 with Welchman until May 1940; died in early 1941 (mathematician)
- Roy Jenkins
- Eric Jones, head of Hut 3 (later Director of GCHQ)
- Harold Keen — BTM engineer who built the British bombes
- Dilly Knox
- Leslie Lambert (short story writer as A. J. Alan)
- Peter Laslett
- Arnold Lynch
- Sir John Marriott
- George McVittie
- Stewart Menzies, non-operational Director of GC&CS (head of SIS)
- Stuart Milner-Barry, 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)
- Donald Michie
- Max Newman, head of the "Newmanry" (topologist)
- Rolf Noskwith
- John H. Plumb
- Henry Reed, translator (poet and radio dramatist)
- David Rees Hut 6 (mathematician)
- Bob Roseveare Hut 6 (schoolteacher)
- Miriam Louisa Rothschild
- John Saltmarsh
- D. R. Shackleton Bailey
- Admiral Hugh Sinclair, non-operational Director of GC&CS (head of SIS)
- Howard Smith (later director general of MI5)
- Oliver Strachey
- Derek Taunt, arrived in Bletchley Park in August 1941, worked in Hut 6 (mathematician, later bursar of Jesus College, Cambridge)
- Ralph Tester, head of the Testery and member of a TICOM team (accountant with Unilever)
- John Tiltman
- Edward Travis
- Alan Turing, a head of Hut 8, designer of the bombe
- W. T. Tutte
- Peter Twinn
- Ralph Tymms
- Vernon Watkins
- Gordon Welchman, initially in charge of Hut 6 with Jeffreys, becoming official head of the section until Autumn 1943; later Assistant Director of Mechanisation at Bletchley Park (author of Hut 6 Story, worked on secure communications systems for US forces)
- J. H. C. Whitehead, Newmanry mathematician (topologist, one of the founders of homotopy theory)
- Angus Wilson novelist and short story writer
- F. W. Winterbotham
- Shaun Wylie, 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-Williams (physicist)
- Leslie Yoxall — Hut 8, devised Yoxallismus technique
