Numa Edward Hartog (20 May 1846 – 19 June 1871) was a Jewish British mathematician who attracted attention in 1869 for graduating from Cambridge University as Senior Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman but as a Jew had not been admitted to a fellowship.
Hartog's case led to the passage of the Universities Tests Act of 1871, which removed religious barriers to holding fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge.
He was the elder brother of Cécile, Héléna, Marcus, and Philip Hartog, and the cousin of Henri Bergson.
Within weeks, Solicitor-General John Coleridge of the Gladstone government introduced legislation to rectify the situation.
[1] He was a member of the Council of Jews' College and an Honorary Secretary of the Society of Hebrew Literature.