Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, was a British mathematician and physicist, born in County Sligo, Ireland, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Stokes spent his entire career at the University of Cambridge, where he served as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics for 54 years—from 1849 until his death in 1903—the longest tenure held by any Lucasian Professor.
- Occupation
- mathematician, physicist, politician, theologian
- Position held
- member of the 24th Parliament of the United Kingdom, President of the Royal Society, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, chairperson
- Citizenship
- Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
