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Medicine graduate from St Andrews. Received Victoria Cross for his 'valour during the Indian mutiny.'

Image of mathematician Josephat Martin Harvey. Image from MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive who don't own the rights to this image, but recognize it as being within the Public Domain.

Josephat Martin Harvey (Funyana Mutyambizi) was a Zimbabwean mathematician born in Salisbury (now Harare) in 1949. Harvey studied at the University of Zimbabwe from 1969 to 1980, specialising in applied mathematics. From 1978 to 1979, he conducted…

Images of mathematician Walter Ledermann. Found on the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, who don't own the rights to these images but have stated that these images are recognized to be in the Public Domain.

Born in Berlin in 1911, Walter Ledermann was a German mathematician. Being Jewish, Ledermann received a scholarship from the International Student Services to study in St Andrews in 1934, effectively fleeing the rising Nazism and antisemitism in…

Hikmat Abu Zayd (حكمت أبو زيد‎) was an Egyptian politician and academic born in the village of Shayk Daud sometime between 1922 and 1923. She obtained a license (Master’s-equivalent) in history from Cairo University in 1940 and a teaching certificate…