Visiting Professors at Gresham College, London, give free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1597, when it created seven professorships; this was later increased to ten. The first visiting professors were appointed in 2000.
| Name | Subject | Started | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baroness Warnock of Weeke | Rhetoric | 2000 |
| 2 | Abdullah Ibrahim [1] | Music | 2000 |
| 3 | Robin Wilson [2] | History of Mathematics | 2001 |
| 4 | Richard Langham Smith [3] | Music | 2003 |
| 5 | Allan Chapman FRAS [4] | History of Science | 2003 |
| 6 | Raj Persaud [5] | Psychiatry | 2004 |
| 7 | Sir Richard J. Evans FRSL FBA [6] | History | 2008 |
| 8 | Sir Vernon Bogdanor CBE FBA FRSA [7] | Political History | 2008 |
| 9 | Glenn D. Wilson [8] | Psychology | 2009 |
| 10 | Simon Thurley CBE [9] | The Built Environment | 2009 |
| 11 | Tony Mann [10] | Computing Mathematics | 2012 |
| 12 | Steve Jones FRS [11] | Genetics | 2013 |
| 13 | Sir Christopher Whitty KCB FRCP FRS [12] | Public Health | 2013 |
| 14 | Lynda Nead FBA [13] | History of Art | 2013 |
| 15 | Jane Caplan [14] | History | 2013 |
| 16 | Helga Drummond [15] | Business | 2014 |
| 17 | Gwen Adshead [16] | Psychiatry | 2014 |
| 18 | Ian Christie FBA [17] | History of Film and Media | 2017 |
| 19 | Craig Clunas [18] | Chinese Art | 2017 |
| 20 | Edith Hall [19] | Classics | 2017 |
| 21 | Roger Kneebone [20] | Medical Education | 2018 |
| 22 | Yorick Wilks [21] | Artificial Intelligence | 2018 |
| 23 | The Revd Canon Richard Burridge [22] | Ethics and Theology | 2018 |
| 24 | Sir Stephen Sparks CBE FRS [23] | Geology | 2018 |
| 25 | Jeremy Summerly [24] | Music History | 2019 |
| 26 | Jim Endersby [25] | History of Science | 2019 |
| 27 | Roberto Trotta [26] | Cosmology | 2019 |
| 28 | Thomas Grant KC [27] | Politics and Law | 2020 |
| 29 | John Mullan [28] | English Literature | 2020 |
| 30 | Martin Daunton [29] | Economic History | 2020 |
| 31 | Imogen Goold [30] | Medical Law | 2021 |
| 32 | Sir Christopher Whitty KCB FRCP FRS [12] | Public Health | 2022 |
| 33 | Ian Mudway [31] | Environmental Health | 2022 |
| 34 | Dominic Broomfield-McHugh [32] | Film and Theatre Music | 2023 |
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