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 .
The main article for this
category is
Fellow of the Royal Society .
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B
George Back
Ralph Alger Bagnold
Ralph Bagnold
Edward Battersby Bailey
John Baillie of Leys
Samuel Baker
Arthur Balfour
Thomas Graham Balfour
Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore
Edward Bancroft
Frederick Banting
Ludovico, Count di Belgiojoso
Robert Barlow (Royal Navy officer)
Francis Basset, 1st Baron de Dunstanville and Basset
Geoffrey Beale
North Ludlow Beamish
William Beatty (surgeon)
Lord Amelius Beauclerk
Francis Beaufort
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
Frederick William Beechey
John Bentinck
J. D. Bernal
Sir Richard Bickerton, 2nd Baronet
Cecil Bisshopp, 12th Baron Zouche
William Bligh
Thomas Blount (inventor)
Archibald Campbell, 1st Baron Blythswood
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Frank Bonsall
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
E. J. Bowen
George E. P. Box
William Lawrence Bragg
John Campbell, 1st Marquess of Breadalbane
Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
John Egerton, 7th Earl of Bridgewater
John Briggs (East India Company officer)
Thomas Brisbane
Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)
Thomas Graham Brown
Stanley Bruce
Marc Isambard Brunel
Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
John Fox Burgoyne
Denis Parsons Burkitt
Joshua Harold Burn
William Burnett
James Burney
Edward Burton (zoologist)
John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
P. A. Buxton
Lord Byron
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Charles Cadogan, 2nd Baron Cadogan
Arthur Cain
John Call
Sir John Call, 1st Baronet
H. G. Callan
John Cameron (1817–1878)
John Campbell (Royal Navy officer)
John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle
John Carnac
Proby Cautley
Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
James Chadwick
Charles II of England
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Francis Rawdon Chesney
Watson Cheyne
Albert Chibnall
Hugh Childers
George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley
Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
Rickard Christophers
Winston Churchill
Sir George Clerk, 6th Baronet
Thomas Henry Shadwell Clerke
Robert Clive
Charles Close
Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet
John Cockcroft
Edward Codrington
Thomas Frederick Colby
Thomas Colepeper (colonel)
Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet
Arthur Conolly
James Cook
Sir Samuel Cornish, 1st Baronet
John Corse Scott
John Le Couteur
David P. Craig
John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford
R. E. B. Crompton
Francis Crozier
David Douglas Cunningham
Edward Cust
Sir Edward Cust, 1st Baronet