John Couch Adams (1819-1892) predicted existence of planet Neptune independently of Le Verrier. Director of the Cambridge Observatory (1861-1892)

Arnold Noel Argue (?-2001) Junior Assistant Observer at Cambridge Observatory 1953-59, Senior Assistant Observer, 1959-90  (died 9 Feb 2001 aged 78, Obit. C.U.R. 28 Feb 2001)

Sir George Biddell Airy (1801-1892) Plumian Professor 1828-1836, Director of the Cambridge Observatory 1828-1835, Astronomer Royal 1835-1881

Lt. Andrew Doughty Baldrey (1785-1843) naval officer, first Senior Assistant at the Cambridge Observatory from 1829, died at the Observatory 1843.

Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913) author of popular books on astronomy, Director of the Cambridge Observatory 1892-1913

Frank E. Baxandall (1869?-1929) worked with Norman Lockyer on stellar spectra, moved to Cambridge with the Solar Physics Observatory where he was Senior Assistant Observer from 1913-1929

Miss Julia Bell (??) Of Girton College, Computer at the Cambridge Observatory 1902-7

H. J. Bellamy (??) Assistant to Mr Newall 1902-5, left to work at the Royal Naval College, Osborne

Arthur George Berry (??) Senior Assistant at the Cambridge Observatory 1843-1846

Arthur Berry O.B.E. (1862?-1929) Vice-Provost of King's College, Cambridge, FRAS and author of 'A Short History of Astronomy' (1898). Obituary MNRAS 90 (1930) p. 358

Donald E. Blackwell  (1921-2010)  Graduate of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.  Assistant Director of the Solar Physics Observatory, Cambridge 1949-60.  Savilian Professor, Oxford 1960-1988.  Obituary A&G 52(3) (2011) p.37-38

S.E. Bowd (??) Computer at the Cambridge Observatory 1906-10

Arthur H.L. Bowden (1839-1923) Junior Assistant at Cambridge Observatory 1857-1858, Senior Assistant 1858-1863

James Breen (1826-1866) Senior Assistant Observer at the Cambridge Observatory 1846-1858

Hermann Alexander Bruck (1905-2000) John Couch Adams Astronomer 1943-1946

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943-) discovered first Pulsar (1967)

Charles Pritchard Butler (1871-1952) Career in Solar Physics Observatory as Senior Assistant Observer 1889-1937, also a Director of BAA Solar Section

Hugh Ernest Butler (1916-1978) Emmanuel College, Senior Assistant Solar Physics Observatory/Combined Observatories 1946-8, main career at Edinburgh

A.D. Campbell (??) Computer at the Cambridge Observatory 1905-11

Sir John Anthony Carroll K.B.E. (1899-1974) Assistant Director of the Solar Physics Observatory 1925-1930, later career as an Admiralty scientist, Gresham Professor of Astronomy (1964)

Thomas Catton (bapt. 1758 died 1838) Operated an observatory at St. Johns College (1791-1832) see ODNB entry

Rev. James Challis (1803-1882) responsible for the British hunt for Neptune, Plumian Professor: 1836-1882 and Cambridge Observatory Director 1836-1861

T. Christy (??) Junior Assistant at the Cambridge Observatory 1858-60

Bryan Cookson (1874-1909) grandson of R.S. Newall, Assistant in Astrophysics at the Cambridge Observatory 1906-9

Roger Cotes (1682-1716) Plumian Professor: 1707-1716, helped Newton with the second edition of Principia.

Edwin Turner Cottingham  (1869-1940) clockmaker, went on 1919 eclipse expedition with Eddington

George Stickland Criswick (1836-1916) most of career at Greenwich, but was Junior Assistant at the Cambridge Observatory 1854-55

Sir George Howard Darwin (1845-1912) Plumian Professor: 1883-1912, author on the tides

J.C. Dobbie (??) Senior Assistant Observer at the Solar Physics Observatory 1937-45

Richard Dunthorne (1711-1775) established observatory at St. Johns College in 1765, expert on Moon motions