Lonsdale Road

There have been a number of notable residents of Lonsdale Road, especially scientists, including two Nobel Prize winners.^[8] The following have been residents on the road:

• Sir Ludwig Guttmann (1899–1980), neurologist.^[9]
• John Herivel (1918–2011), mathematician, World War II codebreaker at Bletchley Park and historian of science.^[6][7][10]
• Sir Peter Hirsch (1925–2025), metallurgist.^[11]
• Tony Honoré (1921–2019), lawyer and jurist.^[12]
• Dame Louise Johnson (1940–2012), biochemist and protein crystallographer.^[11]
• Bertram Mandelbrote (1923–2010), psychiatrist and pioneer of mental healthcare.^[13][14]
• Jean Robinson (1930–2025), healthcare campaigner.^[15][16]
• Abdus Salam (1926–1996), physicist, Nobel Laureate in Physics (1979).^[11]
• Paul Thompson (born 1935), sociologist and pioneer of oral history.^[17]
• Niko Tinbergen (1907–1988), biologist and ornithologist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.^[12][18]
• Sir Douglas Veale (1891–1973) University Registrar

Three of the houses on the road bear blue plaques. The Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board erected the plaques to Nikolaas Tinbergen^[19] and Ludwig Guttmann.^[20] The third, to John Herivel, is a private one created and installed by his daughter Susan.^[21]

51°46′48″N 1°15′44″W / 51.77992°N 1.26222°W / 51.77992; -1.26222