List of Fellows of the Royal Society

About 8,000 Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society of London since its inception in 1660. Below is an incomplete list of people who are or were notable Fellows or Foreign Members of the Royal Society. The date of election to the Fellowship follows the name. Dates in brackets relate to an award or event associated with the person.

Links to a complete alphabetic list are also provided. The Royal Society itself maintains complete online lists of and of .

Complete list

Partial List of Notable Fellows

A

• Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, 1923, President of the Royal Society (1950–1955)
• Sir George Biddell Airy, 1836, President of the Royal Society (1871–1873)
• Emmanuel Ciprian Amoroso, 1957, Trinidadian physiologist
• Sir David Frederick Attenborough, 1983, naturalist and broadcaster
• John James Audubon, 1830, naturalist and painter

B

• Charles Babbage, 1816, mathematician and inventor, designed first programmable computer
• Joseph Banks, 1766, naturalist, sailed with Captain Cook (1768-1771)
• Max Born, physicist, 1939, Nobel Prize (1954)
• Sydney Brenner, 1965, Nobel Prize (2002)
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1830, engineer and inventor, built Great Western Railway
• Alan Baddeley, 1993, Psychologist

C

• Henry John Carter, 1859, surgeon, geologist and zoologist
• Henry Cavendish, 1760, discoverer of hydrogen
• Sir Ernst Boris Chain, 1949, Nobel Prize (1965)
• Sir Winston S. Churchill, 1941,......
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