Lives listing by occupation: mathematician
- Papin, Denis (born 1647–died after 1712), French scientist, physicist, mathematician, inventor
- Peacock, Reverend George (born 1791–died 1858), English mathematician, university teacher
- Playfair, John (born 1748–died 1819), Scottish mathematician, scientist
- Poleni, Giovanni (born 1683–died 1761), Italian mathematician, physicist, engineer
- Ramsay, Andrew Michael, chevalier Ramsay (born 1686–died 1743), Scottish Jacobite, mathematician, philosopher, tutor, historian
- Rémond, Nicolas François (born 1638–died 1725), French civil servant, mathematician, scholar, author
- Riccati, Jacopo (born 1676–died 1754), Italian mathematician, physicist
- Robison, John (born 1739–died 1805), Scottish chemist, mathematician, natural philosopher, university teacher, academician
- Romme, Charles Gilbert (born 1750–died 1795), French mathematician, politician, revolutionary
- Salvemini de Castiglione, Giovanni Francesco Mauro Melchior (born 1708–died 1791), Italian mathematician
- Saunderson, Doctor Nicholas (born 1683–died 1739), English mathematician
- Schard, Johann (born 1660–died 1727), German alchemist, physician, courtier, mathematician, historian
- Schinella Conti, padre Antonio, abbé Conti (born 1677–died 1749), Italian mathematician, academician, playwright
- Sharp, Abraham (born 1653–died 1742), English mathematician, scientific-instrument maker
- Simson, Robert (born 1687–died 1768), Scottish university teacher, mathematician
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