John Greenlees Semple

John Greenlees Semple (10 June 1904 in Belfast, Ireland – 23 October 1985 in London, England) was a British mathematician working in algebraic geometry.

[1] He won the Rayleigh Prize in 1929, and became a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh for a year.

He was briefly elected a fellow of St John's College, before taking the position of Chair of Pure Mathematics at Queen's University, Belfast in 1930.

He held the position for six years, remaining active as both a researcher and an administrator, and became Dean of the Faculty of the Arts.

[1] Semple was the third of his parents' five children; two of his siblings also became professors in British universities.