- He was posthumously inducted into the Cryptologic Hall of Honor in 2014.
- When his homosexuality came to light, the British government gave him the choice of either jail time or chemical castration. He chose chemical castration.
- Jack Copeland, a professor of philosophy, credited him with shortening the war in Europe by 2-4 years, and in the process saving 14-21 million lives. However this does not take into account the fact that the United States would still have developed atomic weapons by 1945. It also overlooks the Soviet contribution.
- He was the uncle of Dermot Turing.
- In 2020 an official history of UK spy agency GCHQ said Bletchley Park's contribution to World War II is often overrated by the British public.
- Winston Churchill refused to intervene to help spare Turing from prosecution in 1954. In that same year Churchill opposed a suggestion to decriminalize homosexuality in England and Wales.
- In the film "The Imitation Game", Turing is shown single-handedly inventing and physically building the British Bombe - one of the main methods used to break Germany's Enigma-enciphered messages during World War II - which was simply untrue. As his nephew explained, a predecessor of the Bombe was actually invented by Polish crypt-analysts.
- Turing's nephew Dermot, author of "Reflections of Alan Turing" and other titles relating to his uncle, said there was mythologizing about the mathematician's role at Bletchley. He said it was Polish code-breakers who provided the basis for the cracking of the German machine, and that unlike what was portrayed in the 2014 film "The Imitation Game", his uncle's Bombe creation was "in the hands of engineers by 1939 and delivered to Bletchley Park in 1940". He said, "It didn't work too well but by the time of the Battle of Britain they had a souped-up version. Turing's main work at Bletchley Park was done by 1939 before Britain was really at war.".
- He was the inspiration for the character of Dr. Judson in The Curse of Fenric: Part One (1989).
- He has often been mistakenly credited with the achievements of Tommy Flowers and Polish code-breakers.
- Turing had already left Bletchley Park in 1939 before World War II began.
- In 2021 his nephew said Turing's contribution to the Allied victory in World War II has been greatly overstated.
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