List of amateur mathematicians

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This is a list of people whose primary vocation did not involve mathematics (or any similar discipline) yet made notable, and sometimes important, contributions to the field of mathematics.

Ahmes (scribe)
Robert Ammann (programmer and postal worker)
Rev. Thomas Bayes (Presbyterian minister)
Harlan J. Brothers (teacher and inventor)
Sir James Cockle (judge)
Martin Demaine (goldsmith and glass artist)

Britney Gallivan (high school student)
James A. Garfield (politician)
Hermann Grassmann (school teacher)
Kurt Heegner (high school teacher)
F. H. Jackson (navy chaplain)
Alfred Bray Kempe (lawyer)
Kathleen Ollerenshaw (politician)
Panini (linguist)
Pingala (musician)
Marjorie Rice (homemaker)
Gaston Terry (civil servant)

And the man widely regarded as "The King of Amateurs",

Pierre de Fermat (lawyer)

See also mathematician.

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