Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Royal Society are elected to the Royal Society by their peers who consider them to have made "a substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge including mathematics, engineering science and medical science". According to the Society's website, "the main criterion for election as a Fellow is scientific excellence."
The Royal Society is the national academy of sciences of the United Kingdom. The current Fellowship is composed of about 1600 "of the most distinguished scientists from the United Kingdom, other Commonwealth countries and the Republic of Ireland." According to the Society's archives there have been approximately 8,500 Fellows of the society since its foundation in 1660. The Society maintains lists of current Fellows , of past and current Fellows and, among other resources, the Sackler Archive Resource.
See also the following categories Female Fellows of the Royal Society, Foreign Members of the Royal Society, Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society, Presidents of the Royal Society.
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Pages in category "Fellows of the Royal Society"
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- Charles Robartes, 2nd Earl of Radnor
- John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor
- Richard Rado
- John Rae (explorer)
- Stamford Raffles
- M. S. Raghunathan
- Atta ur Rahman (scientist)
- G. N. Ramachandran
- Vulimiri Ramalingaswami
- C. V. Raman
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Arthur Alcock Rambaut
- Andrew Ramsay (geologist)
- Andrew Michael Ramsay
- John G. Ramsay
- William Ramsay
- Jesse Ramsden
- John Ranby
- John Randall (physicist)
- John Randolph (bishop of London)
- William John Macquorn Rankine
- C. R. Rao
- C. N. R. Rao
- Matthew Raper
- Ralph Raphael
- Joseph Raphson
- John Urpeth Rastrick
- Gordon Rawcliffe
- Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet
- Richard Rawlinson
- John Ray
- John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
- Guillaume Thomas François Raynal
- E. Peter Raynes
- Geoffrey Raynor
- David Read (botanist)
- Robert Reading
- René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
- John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale
- Roderick Oliver Redman
- Edward James Reed
- Martin Rees
- Abraham Rees
- Charles Rees
- David Allan Rees
- F. Gwendolen Rees
- Mary Rees
- John Reeves (activist)
- John Reeves (naturalist)
- Charles Tate Regan
- Clement Reid
- William Reid (British Army officer)
- Richard Relhan
- James Meadows Rendel (engineer)
- Alfred Barton Rendle
- James Rennell
- George Rennie (engineer)
- James Rennie
- John Rennie the Elder
- John Rennie the Younger
- Joshua Reynolds
- Osborne Reynolds
- Daniela Rhodes
- George Henry Richards
- Rex Richards (chemist)
- Richard Richards (judge)
- Archibald Read Richardson
- Benjamin Ward Richardson
- John Richardson (naturalist)
- Lewis Fry Richardson
- Owen Willans Richardson
- Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond
- Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
- John Rickman
- Harold Ridley (ophthalmologist)
- Henry Nicholas Ridley
- Stephen Peter Rigaud
- Sydney Ringer
- Ted Ringwood
- Edward Riou
- George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon
- William Ritchie (physicist)
- W. H. R. Rivers
- David Rivett
- Trevor Robbins
- Gareth Roberts (physicist)
- Gareth Roberts (statistician)
- Isaac Roberts
- Richard J. Roberts
- William Chandler Roberts-Austen
- Abraham Robertson
- Alan Robertson (geneticist)
- Benjamin Robins
- Carol V. Robinson
- Harold Roper Robinson
- Thomas Romney Robinson
- Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby
- Robert Robinson (organic chemist)
- George Rochester
- John Roebuck
- Leonard Rogers
- Leonard James Rogers
- Samuel Rogers
- Peter Mark Roget
- Ivan Roitt
- Paolo Antonio Rolli
- Thomas Gerald Room
- Henry Enfield Roscoe
- Frank Rose (chemist)
- Archibald Primrose, 4th Earl of Rosebery
- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
- Iver Rosenkrantz
- James Clark Ross
- John Ross (bishop of Exeter)
- Ronald Ross
- Janet Rossant
- Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse
- Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn
- Joseph Rotblat
- Klaus Roth
- Martin Roth (psychiatrist)
- Miriam Rothschild
- Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild
- Nancy Rothwell
- Edward Routh
- Arthur Rowledge
- George Rowley
- John Shipley Rowlinson
- John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe
- William Roy
- John Forbes Royle
- Arthur William Rucker
- Keith Runcorn
- W. A. H. Rushton
- Bertrand Russell
- Frederick Stratten Russell
- E. John Russell
- John Scott Russell
- Patrick Russell (herpetologist)
- Philip Russell (physicist)
- Ernest Rutherford
- Michael Rutter
- Frederik Ruysch
- Paul Rycaut
- Martin Ryle
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- Joseph Sabine
- Meghnad Saha
- Birbal Sahni
- Helen Saibil
- David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville
- Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans
- Peter St George-Hyslop
- Abdus Salam
- Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio
- Jerome, 2nd Count de Salis
- Edward James Salisbury
- Richard Anthony Salisbury
- Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
- Ekhard Salje
- George Salmon
- Henry Salt (Egyptologist)
- Joseph Salvador
- Giovanni Salvemini
- Osbert Salvin
- Roy Sambles
- Joseph Sambrook
- Ralph Allen Sampson
- Dale Sanders
- Jeremy Sanders
- John Burdon-Sanderson
- John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
- Frederick Sanger
- Wallace L. W. Sargent
- Peter Sarnak
- Owen Saunders
- William Wilson Saunders
- Nicholas Saunderson
- Horace-Bénédict de Saussure
- François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix
- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
- John Savill
- William Scovell Savory
- Jacob Christian Schäffer
- Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
- David Schindler
- Antonio Schinella Conti
- Brian Schmidt
- Robert Hermann Schomburgk
- Basil Schonland
- George Adolphus Schott
- Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber
- Johann Hieronymus Schröter
- Edward Schunck
- Arthur Schuster
- Dennis W. Sciama