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)
• John Arbuthnot (surgeon and author)
• 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.