British fellows of the Royal Society

Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus, although he developed calculus years before Leibniz. Newton contributed to and refined the scientific method, and his work is considered the most influential in bringing forth modern science.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) and represented a total of five constituencies over that time. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.

English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788–1824)

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the office. As prime minister, she implemented policies that came to be known as Thatcherism. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style.

English philosopher and physician (1632-1704)

English computer scientist (1912–1954)

British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)

British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)

British scientist (1791–1867)

New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)

English computer scientist (born 1955)

British engineer (1736–1819)

British statesman (1804–1881)

English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)

Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)

English physicist and brewer (1818–1889)

Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society (1902-1994)

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II and served as consort of the British monarch from her accession on 6 February 1952 until his death in 2021, making him the longest-serving royal consort in British history.

British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)

German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)

British physicist (1856-1940)

English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)

Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor

British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)

English physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination (1749–1823)

George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)

British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823–1913)

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 (1883–1967)

English historian and politician (1737–1794)

English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)

British chemist

British scientist (1862–1942)

British chemist

Scottish missionary and explorer (1813-1873)

English physicist (1891-1974), who discovered the neutron in 1932

English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)

British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)

English mathematician and philosopher (1861–1947)

King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1660 to 1685 (1630-1685)

British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA

English physicist (1842–1919)

British doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist (1857–1932)

British physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1929–2024)

Scottish chemist (1852–1916)

English mathematician, philosopher and logician (1815–1864)

English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)

English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher

Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer

Scottish physicist and meteorologist (1869-1959)

English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810)

Sir David Frederick Attenborough is an English broadcaster, natural historian and writer. His presenting career began as host of Zoo Quest in 1954, and has spanned eight decades; it includes the nine documentary series forming The Life Collection, Natural World, Wildlife on One, the Planet Earth franchise, The Blue Planet and Blue Planet II. He is the only person to have won BAFTA Awards in black-and-white, colour, high-definition, 3D and 4K resolution. Over his life, he has collected dozens of honorary degrees and awards, including three Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator and one Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Personality - Non-Daily.

English polymath (1773-1829)

British Prime Minister, Conservative politician, and statesman (1848-1930)

King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1685 to 1688 (1633–1701)

English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (*1792 – †1871)

Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography

British biochemist (1918–2013)

English physicist (1892–1965)

English architect (1632–1723)