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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. In general, they are 'not' listed in the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

★ Ahmes (scribe)

★ Robert Ammann (programmer and postal worker)

★ John Arbuthnot (surgeon and author)

★ Jean-Robert Argand (bookkeeper)

★ Rev. Thomas Bayes (Presbyterian minister)

★ Harlan J. Brothers (teacher and inventor)

★ Sir James Cockle (judge)

★ Martin Demaine (goldsmith and glass artist)

★ Bernard Frénicle de Bessy (counsellor)

★ Britney Gallivan (high school student)

★ James Garfield (United States President)

★ Thorold Gosset (lawyer)

★ Hermann Grassmann (school teacher)

★ Oliver Heaviside (telegraph operator)

★ Kurt Heegner (high school teacher)

★ F. H. Jackson (navy chaplain)

★ Alfred Bray Kempe (lawyer)

★ Kathleen Ollerenshaw (politician)

★ Rudolf Ondrejka (veterinarian)

★ Nicolò Paganini (schoolboy)

★ Panini (linguist)

★ Pingala (musician)

★ François Proth (farmer)

★ Marjorie Rice (homemaker)

★ William Shanks (landlord)

★ Gaston Tarry (civil servant)
And the man widely regarded as "The King of Amateurs",

★ Pierre de Fermat (lawyer)

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See also

★ W. W. Rouse Ball

★ Arthur Cayley

★ Ada Dietz

★ Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

★ Buckminster Fuller

★ Angelo Genocchi

★ Ludwig Immanuel Magnus

★ William James Sidis

★ Mathematician