This is a list of people associated with Bletchley Park, the principal centre of Alliedcode-breaking during the Second World War, notable either for their achievements there or elsewhere. Work at or for Bletchley Park is given first, followed by achievements elsewhere in parentheses.
Hugh Alexander, member of Hut 6 February 1940–March 1941, later head of Hut 8 (head of the cryptanalysis division at GCHQ; British Chess Champion 1938 and 1956)
Stephen Michael Alvin Banister, Codebreaker in Hut 6 and inventor of the 'BLISTS' or 'Banister Lists' - a register of Enigma messages showing special indicators to facilitate detection of certain items and identify crib messages. (Under Secretary at the Dept of the Environment)
Rachel Joan Banister (née Rawlence), Codebreaker Hut 6
Sarah Baring, linguist in Hut 4 (socialite and memoirist)
Francis Anthony Blair Fasson, Lieutenant RN was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the "outstanding bravery and steadfast devotion to duty in the face of danger" that he displayed on 30 October 1942 in boarding, with Able Seaman Colin Grazier, the sinking U-boatU-559 and recovering 'short signal' codebooks which provided a breakthrough in Cryptanalysis of the German Naval Enigma but losing his life in the process
Jane Fawcett, was credited with identifying the message that led to the sinking of the battleship Bismarck, a great Allied naval victory[19]
Harry Fensom, the creator of the British Tunny machine which was used in decoding messages in the Lorenz Cipher[20]
Michael Field, foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph for thirty years, living in South America, Southeast Asia and France[citation needed]
Harold Fletcher; Hut 6, involved in Bombe administration from August 1941[21]
Raymond Goodman, head of one shift in Naval Intelligence under Frank Birch
Colin Grazier, Able Seaman RN was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the "outstanding bravery and steadfast devotion to duty in the face of danger" that he displayed on 30 October 1942 in boarding, with Lieutenant Francis Fasson, the sinking U-559 and recovering 'short signal' codebooks which provided a breakthrough in Cryptanalysis of the German Naval Enigma but losing his life in the process
John Herivel, arrived at Bletchley Park in January 1940; discoverer of the "Herivel Tip"; later worked in administration in the "Newmanry" (science historian)
Peter Hilton, arrived at Bletchley Park in January 1942, worked in Hut 8 until late 1942, moved to Research Section to work on Fish, later in Testery (topologist)
John Constantine Ivanoff,[24] Cryptanalyst / Translator in the United States Army Signal Corps. Ordered to British Signal Intelligence Services in London, Ivanoff helped decode secret German transmissions.
John Jeffreys, supervised manufacture of perforated sheets; initially in charge of Hut 6 with Welchman until May 1940; died in early 1941 (mathematician)
Roy Jenkins, codebreaker in the Testery (Labour Member of Parliament and government minister; first British President of the European Commission (1977–81); one of the four principal founders of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981, ennobled as Baron Jenkins of Hillhead; distinguished writer, especially of biographies)
Jones, Sergeant (later Squadron Leader); given overall responsibility for Bombe maintenance by Travis.[25]
Daniel Jones, Japanese, Romanian and Russian codebreaker (Welsh composer)
Dilly Knox, leading cryptologist, cracked the code of the commercial Enigma machines used in the Spanish Civil War, one of the British participants in the conference in which the Poles disclosed to their French and British allies their achievements in Enigma decryption, broke the Abwehr non-steckered Enigma
Solomon Kullback, American mathematician and cryptologist who visited Bletchley Park in May 1942 and cooperated with the British in the solution of more conventional German codebook-based systems. Shortly after his return to the US, Kullback moved into the Japanese section as its chief, and later joined the National Security Agency.
F. L. ("Peter") Lucas, Hut 3 1939–45, translator and intelligence-analyst, acting head Hut 3, C.O. BP Home Guard (writer; lecturer in literature, King's College, Cambridge)
Donald Michie, joined BP in the early summer of 1942' later worked with Colossus; had the idea for modifying it to become Colossus II, which could tackle 'wheel patterns' in addition to 'wheel settings'
Stuart Milner-Barry, member of Hut 6 from early 1940 to the end of the war; head of Hut 6 from Autumn 1943 (chess player and civil servant)
Grafton Melville Richards, ISOS, cryptographer, linguist and academic (Welsh and Celtic Studies). Author of Welsh language novel Y Gelyn Mewnol (The Enemy Within), (1943), Llandybie: Llyfrau'r Dryw.
Anne Segrave [31] (née Anne Hamilton-Grace; was indexer in Hut 3.in 1942,43, worked under F.L. Lucas, then Lavers; received a proposal of marriage from Ralph Tymms)
Gordon Welchman, initially in charge of Hut 6 with Jeffreys, became official head of the section until Autumn 1943; later Assistant Director of Mechanisation at Bletchley Park (author of The Hut Six Story, worked on secure communications systems for US forces)
F. W. Winterbotham, RAF Intelligence Officer, responsible for devising SLU system for secure dissemination of Ultra (author of The Ultra Secret)
Shaun Wylie, arrived at Bletchley in February 1941, head of crib section in Hut 8, transferred in Autumn 1943 to work on Tunny (topologist, mathematics lecturer at Cambridge, and head of mathematics at GCHQ)
^Elphick, Peter (1998) [1997]. Far Eastern File: The Intelligence War in the Far East 1930-1945. London: Hodder & Stoughton. p. 397. ISBN0-340-66584-X.
^Jenkins, David (1992). Battle Surface! Japan's Submarine War Against Australia 1942–44. Milsons Point NSW Australia: Random House Australia. pp. 158, 169. ISBN978-0-09-182638-3.
^Elphick, Peter (1998) [1997]. Far Eastern File: The Intelligence War in the Far East 1930-1945. London: Hodder & Stoughton. p. 397. ISBN0-340-66584-X.
^ ab"Pamela Rose obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 10 November 2021.
^Russell-Jones, Mair and Gethin (2014). My Secret Life in Hut Six. Oxford, England: Lion Hudson. ISBN978-0-7459-5664-0.
^Segrave, Elsa (1990). The Girl from Station X: My Mother's Unknown Life. London: Union Books. ISBN978-1-90-852612-0.
