The Lucasian Chair of Mathematics is a Professorship for the Cambridge University founded in 1663. As we can see the list of holders here, there are famous names… i know the names in bold…
- 1664 Isaac Barrow
- 1669 Sir Isaac Newton
- 1702 William Whiston
- 1711 Nicolas Saunderson
- 1739 John Colson
- 1760 Edward Waring
- 1798 Isaac Milner
- 1820 Robert Woodhouse
- 1822 Thomas Turton
- 1826 Sir George Airy
- 1828 Charles Babbage
- 1839 Joshua King
- 1849 Sir George Stokes
- 1903 Sir Joseph Larmor
- 1932 Paul Dirac
- 1969 Sir M. James Lighthill
- 1980 Stephen Hawking