Fellows of the Royal Society

Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)

Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)

Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman and entrepreneur known for his leadership of Tesla, SpaceX, X, and xAI. Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2025; as of April 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth to be US$809 billion.

Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)

Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (18 January 168910 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, intellectual, historian, and political philosopher.

British Poet Laureate (1809–1892)

Indian physicist (1888–1970)

Indian mathematician (1887–1920)

Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)

British political economist (1766–1834)

British Field Marshal, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1828–1830, 1834

Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)

Soviet physicist

Swiss mathematician (1700-1782)

theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient

German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1788–1850)

British historian and politician (1800–1859)

Swiss mathematician (1667-1748)

South African biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002

British statesman and prime minister (1784–1865)

English painter (1723–1792)

Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany

Swiss astronomer

English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)

King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1764-1795)

Nobel prize winning Swedish biologist

Dutch Zoologist, ethologist (1907-1988)

British geologist (1797–1875)

German philosopher (1679–1754)

British statesman who founded Singapore (1781-1826)

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1846–1852 and 1865–1866 (1792–1878)

Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India (1746-1794)

French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647–1713)

Danish immunologist

English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist (1857–1936)

English anthropologist (1832–1917)

Prime Minister of Great Britain (1693-1768)

Corsican leader (1725–1807)

British politician (1779–1848)

Dutch botanist, chemist, humanist, and physician (1668–1738)

British Prime Minister (1730-1782)

kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician (1944-2022)

English philosopher and historian of science (1794–1866)

Bengali Astrophysicist (1893–1956)

Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet (1708-1777)

British Egyptologist (1853–1942)

Genevan scientist (1740-1799)

elected Fellow of the Royal Society in London, including Honorary, Foreign and Royal Fellows

chemist, physician and botanist from the Netherlands (1727-1817)

Indian chemist

Dutch naturalist (1692–1761)

Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason (1757–1834)

British politician (1810-1895)

English portrait painter (1769–1830)

Grand Duke of Tuscany

Genevan philosopher and naturalist (1720–1793)

Russian statesman and general

British psychologist (1871–1938)

English geologist (1785–1873)