List of Fellows of the Royal Society W,X,Y,Z

About 8,000 Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society of London since its inception in 1660.

Below is a list of people who are or were 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. The Society maintains a complete online list.[1]This list is complete up to and including 2016.

List of Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society
A, B, C D, E, F G, H, I J, K, L M, N, O P, Q, R S, T, U, V W, X, Y, Z

List of Fellows

W

Names Election date Notes
Conrad Hal Waddington20/03/19478 November 1905 – 26 September 1975
Kenneth Wade16/03/1989 13 October 1932 - 16 March 2014 Chemist
Walter Wade14/03/1811 1825
Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia21/03/195725 October 1883 – 15 June 1969
Harold William Taylor Wager05/05/190411 March 1862 – 17 November 1929
Lawrence Rickard Wager21/03/19465 February 1904 – 30 November 1965
William Wagstaffe13/03/17181685 – 5 May 1725
Ralph Louis Wain24/03/196029 May 1911 – 14 December 2000
Gabriel Waksman19/04/2012
Richard Irving Walcott14/03/1991
Nicholas John Wald27/05/2004
James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave14/12/174914 March 1715 – 28 April 1763
Herman Waldmann15/03/1990
David J. Wales29/04/2016Chemical physicist
William Wales07/11/1776c. 1734 – 29 December 1798
Alan Walker13/05/1999
Arthur Geoffrey Walker17/03/195517 July 1909 – 31 March 2001
Charles Vincent Walker07/06/18551812 – 24 December 1882
David Alan Walker15/03/1979
Donald Walker21/03/1985 Professor
Edward Walker03/06/186914 September 1820 – 2 March 1893 Schoolmaster
Fowler Walker31/03/1791c. 1732 – 20 August 1804
George Walker30/05/1771c. 1734 – 21 April 1807
George P. L. Walker20/03/19752 March 1926 – 17 January 2005
George Walker Walker01/05/191324 February 1874 – 6 September 1921
Gilbert Thomas Walker05/05/190414 June 1868 – 4 November 1958
James Walker14/06/19006 April 1863 – 6 May 1935
James Walker17/04/182814 September 1781 – 8 October 1862
James Walker09/06/1774c. 1720 – 22 February 1789
James Thomas Walker01/06/18651 December 1826 – 16 February 1896 Surveyor General of India
John Walker27/03/1794d 9 May 1824
John Ernest Walker09/03/1995
John James Walker07/06/18832 October 1825 – 15 February 1900
Miles Walker07/05/193113 August 1868 – 22 January 1941
Robert Walker03/03/1831c. 1801 – 28 September 1865 Wadham College
Thomas Walker05/05/1791died c. 1800 Accountant General
Thomas Walker22/01/1730? September 1702 – 17 September 1764 Barrister
William Walker09/02/1738- 14 October 1742 Ship's captain
Charles Baring Wall01/04/1830c. 1795 – 14 October 1853
Charles Terence Clegg Wall20/03/1969
Martin Wall08/05/17881747 – 21 June 1824
Patrick David Wall16/03/19895 April 1925 – 8 August 2001
Richard Wall31/05/17531694–1778 Diplomat
Alfred Russel Wallace01/06/18938 January 1823 – 7 November 1913
David James Wallace20/03/1986 Physicist
Thomas Wallace19/03/19535 September 1891 – 2 February 1965 Horticulturalist
Augustus Desiré Waller02/06/189212 July 1856 – 11 March 1922
Augustus Volney Waller05/06/185121 December 1816 – 18 September 1870
Edmund Waller20/05/16633 March 1606 – 21 October 1687 Original
Richard Waller27/04/1681c. 1646 – ? January 1715 Botanist
William Waller20/02/1679c. 1639 – 18 July 1699 Soldier & MP
Nathaniel Wallich12/03/182928 January 1786 – 28 April 1854
John Wallis20/05/166323 November 1616 – 28 October 1703 Original
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis22/03/194526 September 1887 – 30 October 1979
Daniel Frank Walls12/03/199213 September 1942 – 12 May 1999
Charles Walmesley01/11/175013 January 1722 – 25 November 1797
Ian Alexander Walmsley19/04/2012
Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford04/03/182414 June 1783 – 29 December 1858
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford19/02/174724 September 1717 – 2 March 1797
Spencer Horatio Walpole22/11/186011 September 1806 – 22 March 1898
Mark Walport19/05/2011
Anthony Edward Walsby11/03/1993Biologist, Bristol Univ.
Arthur Donald Walsh19/03/19648 August 1916 – 23 April 1977
John Walsh08/11/17701 July 1726 – 9 March 1795 Scientist
Alan Walsh20/03/196919 December 1916 – 3 August 1998
Francis Martin Rouse Walshe21/03/194619 September 1885
Robert Boyle-Walsingham05/03/17781736 – October 1779
Henry Walter11/11/181928 January 1785 – 25 January 1859 Clergyman
Johann Gottlieb Walter01/05/17941 July 1734 – 4 January 1818 Anatomist, Frankfurt
Kenneth Walters14/03/1991Rheology, Univ. of Wales
William Walton25/05/1837- 19 September 1863 Clergyman & meteorologist
Humfrey Wanley20/11/170621 March 1672 – 6 July 1726
Olaus Warburg10/01/1805 1805
Henry Warburton16/02/1809? 1784 – 16 September 1858
John Warburton10/04/1834c. 1793 – 2 June 1845 Physician
John Warburton10/03/172028 February 1682 – 11 May 1759
Esay Ward20/02/1668c. 1629 – ? August 1674
Harry Marshall Ward07/06/18881854 – 26 August 1906
Ian Macmillan Ward17/03/1983Physicist, Leeds Univ.
John Ward30/11/1723c. 1679 – 17 October 1758 Gresham Prof of Rhetoric
John Clive Ward18/03/19651 August 1924 – 6 May 2000
John William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley16/11/18159 August 1781 – 6 March 1833
Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward03/06/18521791 – 4 June 1868
Richard Samuel Ward26/05/2005Mathematician, Durham Univ.
Seth Ward20/05/1663? April 1617 – 6 January 1689 Bishop Original
Patience Ward06/04/16817 December 1629 – 10 July 1696
James Ware11/03/180211 February 1756 – 13 April 1815 Ophthalmic Surgeon
Philip Frank Wareing20/03/196927 April 1914 – ? 29 March 1996
Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin12/07/176411 September 1717 – 13 December 1783
Edward Waring02/06/17631734 – 15 August 1798
Richard Hill Waring16/02/1769c. 1721 – 11 October 1794 High Sheriff, Flintshire
Robert Warington02/06/18647 September 1807 – ? 17 November 1867 Chemist, Soc. of Apothecaries
Robert Warington04/06/188622 August 1838 – 20 March 1907 Agricultural Chemist, Rothamsted
David Lee Wark17/05/2007
Anne Elizabeth Warner21/03/198525 August 1940 - 16 May 2012
Joseph Warner06/12/17501717 – 24 July 1801
Frederick Edward Warner18/03/197631 March 1910 – 3 July 2010
Mark Warner19/04/2012
John Ashley Warre01/05/18175 October 1787 – 18 November 1860
Charles Warren29/04/179019 March 1764 – 12 August 1829 Barrister, MP for Dorchester
Charles Warren12/06/18847 February 1840 – 21 January 1927
Graham Barry Warren13/05/1999
John Warren09/12/18304 October 1796 – 16 August 1852 Clergyman and Mathematician
Pelham Warren08/04/18137 October 1778 – 2 December 1835
Richard Warren08/03/1764? 4 December 1731 – 22 June 1797 Physician
Samuel Warren02/04/183523 May 1807 – 29 July 1877
George Warrender08/06/18155 December 1782 – 21 February 1849
Elizabeth Kerr Warrington20/03/1986
John Washington13/02/1845? 1800 – 16 September 1863
Michael Derek Waterfield14/03/1991Biochemist, UCL
Douglas Frew Waterhouse16/03/19673 June 1916 – ? December 2000
Edward Waterhouse29/07/16631619 – 30 May 1670 Clergyman
John Waterhouse06/02/18343 August 1806 – 13 February 1879
John Conrad Waterlow18/03/198213 June 1916 – 19 October 2010 Nutrition scientist, London Univ.
William Alexander Waters18/03/19548 May 1903 – 28 January 1985 Chemist
Jeffrey Clifton Watkins17/03/1988Biochemist, Oxford Univ.
Thomas Watkins23/01/1794c. 1761 – 15 October 1829 Clergyman
Thomas Watkins30/11/1714fl 1714–1729 Mathematician
Winifred May Watkins20/03/19696 August 1924 – 3 October 2003
Alan Andrew Watson11/05/2000Astrophysicist, Leeds
Andrew James Watson15/05/2003
David Meredith Seares Watson11/05/192218 June 1886 – 23 July 1973
Frederick Beilby Watson12/11/1818 1773 – 11 July 1852
James Watson12/03/1778c. 1748 – 2 May 1796 Lawyer
George Neville Watson15/05/191931 January 1886 – 2 February 1965
Henry Watson02/04/1767- 1793 Surgeon
Henry William Watson02/06/188125 February 1827 – 11 January 1903
James Kay Graham Watson19/03/1987
Janet Vida Watson15/03/19791 September 1923 – 29 March 1985
Jonathan Watson09/06/1763c. 1718 – November 1803
Morrison Watson12/06/1884? 1846 – 25 March 1885 Physician
Ralph Watson27/05/1830fl 1830–1835
Richard Watson02/02/1769August 1737 – 4 July 1816
Robert Watson07/02/1751c. 1720 – 2 March 1756
Robert Watson19/05/2011
Thomas Watson09/06/18597 March 1792 – 11 December 1882 Physician
William Watson09/04/17413 April 1715 – 10 May 1787 Chemist
William Watson10/12/1767? 28 August 1744 – c. 1825 Physician & Astronomer
William Watson07/04/1808c. 1759 – 1 June 1818 Sergeant-at-arms
William Watson06/06/19014 August 1868 – 3 March 1919 Asst Prof of Physics, RCS, London
Robert Alexander Watson-Watt20/03/194113 April 1892 – 5 December 1973
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham07/11/175113 May 1730 – 1 July 1782
Alexander Stuart Watt21/03/195721 June 1892 – 2 March 1985
Fiona Mary Watt15/05/2003
James Watt24/11/178519 January 1736 – 25 August 1819
James Watt07/12/18205 February 1769 – 2 June 1848 Son of James Watt the engineer
William Watt18/03/197614 April 1912 – 11 August 1985 Physical Chemist
Anthony Watts 30/04/2014 Geologist, Oxford University
Colin Watts26/05/2005
Henry Watts07/06/186620 January 1815 – 30 June 1884 Chemistry journalist
Philip Watts14/06/190030 May 1846 – 15 March 1926
William Whitehead Watts05/05/19047 June 1860 – 30 July 1947
Andrew Scott Waugh03/06/18583 February 1810 – 21 February 1878
Arthur Goodall Wavell24/05/182729 March 1785 – 10 July 1860
William Wavell05/02/1824- 15 May 1829 Physician
Benjamin Way05/12/1771September 1740 – 22 August 1808 MP for Bridport
Lewis Way23/02/17381698–1771
Dennis Lawrence Weaire13/05/1999
David John Weatherall17/03/1977
Paul Egerton Weatherley15/03/19736 May 1917 – 8 August 2001 Botanist, Aberdeen Univ.
Thomas Weaver09/03/18261772 – 2 July 1855
Colin Edward Webb14/03/1991
Frederick Webb21/03/1822 - 1853
Philip Barker Webb25/03/182410 July 1793 – 31 August 1854
Philip Carteret Webb09/11/17491700 – 22 June 1770
Robert Webb11/11/1762- 9 September 1765
John Webb28/06/1764 - April 1797
Bryan Ronald Webber10/05/2001
William Webber05/06/1766- 30 November 1796
John Webster07/03/18441795 – 21 July 1876 Physician
Richard Everard Webster, Viscount Alverstone19/06/190222 December 1842 – 15 December 1915
Robert Gordon Webster16/03/1989
Godfrey Webster18/05/1786c. 1749 – 3 June 1800
Thomas Webster18/03/184716 October 1810 – 3 June 1875
Richard Weck20/03/19755 March 1913 – 9 January 1986
Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn06/12/178713 February 1733 – 2 January 1805
Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn11/05/193326 February 1882 – 9 October 1948
Josiah Wedgwood16/01/1783? July 1730 – 3 January 1795
Basil Charles Leicester Weedon18/03/197118 July 1923 – 10 October 2003
George Wegg09/02/1758- 25 August 1777
George Samuel Wegg13/11/1777c. 1750 – 4 January 1817 Barrister
Samuel Wegg31/05/175317 November 1723 – 19 December 1802 Barriste, Governor of HBC
Christian Frederick Weichman27/06/172824 August 1698 – 4 August 1770
Johann Friedrich Weidler09/11/1732? 23 April 1691 – 30 November 1755
Felix Jiri Weinberg17/03/1983
Lawrence Weiskrantz20/03/1980
Frederick Ernest Weiss03/05/19172 November 1865 – 7 January 1953 Botanist
Nigel Oscar Weiss12/03/1992
Robin Anthony Weiss15/05/1997Virologist, UCL
Walter Weldon08/06/188231 October 1832 – 20 September 1885
Walter Frank Raphael Weldon05/06/189015 March 1860 – 13 April 1906
Walter Thompson Welford20/03/198031 August 1916 – 18 September 1990
John Welin28/05/1741? 1705 – 31 January 1744 Finnish
Mark Edward Welland09/05/2002
Henry Solomon Wellcome26/05/193221 August 1853 – 25 July 1936
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington25/11/184729 April 1769 – 14 September 1852
Alan Arthur Wells17/03/1977Engineer, Inventor of Wells Turbine
George Philip Wells17/03/195517 July 1901 – 27 September 1985
Peter Neil Temple Wells15/05/2003
William Charles Wells07/11/179324 May 1757 – 18 September 1817
James Raymond Wellsted06/04/18371805 – 25 October 1842
Harry Lambert Welsh15/03/196223 March 1910 – 23 July 1984
James Welsh15/03/1770c. 1723 – June 1778 Physician
John Welsh11/06/185727 September 1824 – 11 May 1859 Supt. of Kew Observatory
Robert Welsted13/03/17181671 – 1 February 1735 Physician
Thomas Francis Wenman21/01/177918 November 1745 – 8 April 1796
Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam17/01/18114 May 1786 – 4 October 1857
William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford06/02/16688 June 1626 – 16 October 1695
Charles Morley Wenyon12/05/192724 March 1878 – 24 October 1948
Paul Gottlieb Werlhof26/02/173624 March 1699 – 26 July 1767
Johann Georg Heinrich Graf von Werthern14/02/17651735–1790
James West09/03/17272 May 1703 – 2 July 1772
John West, 1st Earl De La Warr19/12/17284 April 1693 – 16 March 1766
Peter Christopher West18/05/2006Theoretical Physics, King's College, London
Richard Gilbert West21/03/1968
Stephen Craig West09/03/1995Biochemist, Cancer Research
Thomas Summers West16/03/198918 November 1927 – 9 January 2010 Chemist, Birmingham & Aberdeen Universities
William West19/02/18461793 – 10 September 1851 Chemist
John Hugh Westcott17/03/1983
William Western30/11/1721? 1694 – 22 September 1729
Gerald Westheimer21/03/1985
Richard Westmacott25/05/18371799 – 19 April 1872
Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster10/06/184122 March 1767 – 17 February 1845
Thomas Stanley Westoll20/03/19523 July 1912 – 19 September 1995
Robert Weston28/05/1767 1767–1797 FSA
Stephen Weston01/03/17921747 – 8 January 1830 Clergyman
Edward Wetenhall04/07/16837 October 1636 – 12 November 1713
Alan Marmaduke Wetherell18/03/197131 December 1932 – 13 September 1998
Charles Wetherell16/12/18241770 – 17 August 1846
Caspar Wetstein04/07/1754- August 1760
Johann Jakob Wetstein05/04/17535 March 1693 – 23 March 1754
Anthony de Wevelinchoven05/04/1781- 1789
John Weyland09/06/18144 December 1774 – 8 May 1854
Thomas Whalley07/04/1708fl 1708
Richard Wharton12/07/1810c. 1765 – 13 October 1828 Barrister and MP
William James Lloyd Wharton04/06/18862 March 1843 – 29 September 1905
Frederick Robert Whatley20/03/1975
James Whatman09/01/18403 July 1813 – ? 12 March 1887
William Robert Whatton05/06/183417 February 1790 – 5 December 1835
Charles Wheatstone21/01/1836February 1802 – 19 October 1875
David John Wheeler19/03/19819 February 1927 – 13 December 2004
Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler30/05/196810 September 1890 – 22 July 1976
Michael John Whelan18/03/1976
William Joseph Whelan12/03/1992Biochemist, Miami
Granville Wheler27/06/1728August 1701 – 12 May 1770 Revd. Proved electric current.
George Wheler13/12/16771650 – 15 January 1723 Clergyman and Scholar
William Whewell13/04/182024 May 1794 – 6 March 1866
Paul Whichcote14/01/16755 March 1643 – December 1721
Joseph Whidbey21/11/18051755–1833
Richard Whiddington07/05/192525 November 1885 – 7 June 1970
David Hardy Whiffen17/03/196615 January 1922 – 2 December 2002
John Whishaw23/02/1815c. 1765 – 21 December 1840
Daniel Whistler20/05/16631619 – 11 May 1684 Original
Thomas Dunham Whitaker11/06/18188 June 1759 – 18 December 1821
William Whitaker09/06/18874 May 1836 – 15 January 1925
Samuel Charles Whitbread01/06/185416 February 1796 – 27 May 1879
Charles White18/02/17624 October 1728 – 20 February 1813
Errol Ivor White15/03/195630 June 1901 – 11 January 1985
Frederick William George White17/03/196626 May 1905 – 17 August 1994
John White17/01/17232 December 1699 – 7 September 1769
John Graham White26/05/2005Clinical psychologist, Liverpool
John William White11/03/1993
Michael James Denham White16/03/196120 August 1910 – 16 December 1983
Nicholas John White18/05/2006Prof. of Tropical Medicine, Thailand
Philip Bruce White20/03/194129 December 1891 – 19 March 1949 Microbiologist
Richard White26/06/1661 1661 Mathematician
Robert Stephen White10/03/1994
Simon David Manton White15/05/1997
Taylor White29/04/1725- 26 March 1772
Thomas White17/11/1726- 14 November 1754 Clerk of the Errors
Thomas White19/06/177715 October 1724 – 28 February 1797 Ironmonger
William Archibald Armstrong White13/04/183726 May 1776 – 7 December 1847 Barrister and Antiquarian
William Henry White10/11/1808fl 1808–1827
William Henry White07/06/18882 February 1845 – 27 February 1913
Caleb Whitefoord24/06/17841734 – February 1810
Alfred North Whitehead11/06/190315 February 1861 – 30 December 1947
John Henry Constantine Whitehead16/03/194411 November 1904 – 8 May 1960
John Whitehurst13/05/177910 April 1713 – 18 February 1788
James Hunter Whitelaw14/03/199628 January 1936 – 16 August 2006 Prof of Mechanical Eng., Imperial College
John Whiteside03/07/1718? October 1679 – ? 22 October 1729 Clergyman
Henry Whitfeld09/03/1786c. 1741–1813
Gerald Beresford Whitham18/03/1965Mathematician, Caltech
George Whitmore23/11/1797- 25 November 1805
John Macnaghten Whittaker17/03/19497 March 1905 – 29 January 1984
Edmund Taylor Whittaker11/05/190524 October 1873 – 24 March 1956
Ronald Whittam15/03/1973
Walter Frederick Whittard21/03/195726 October 1902 – 2 March 1966
David Whitteridge19/03/195322 June 1912 – 15 June 1994
Harry Blackmore Whittington18/03/197124 March 1916 – 20 June 2010 Professor of Geology,Cambridge
Peter Whittle16/03/1978
Frank Whittle20/03/19471 June 1907 – 9 August 1996
Joseph Whitworth11/06/185721 December 1803 – 22 January 1887
Robert Whytlaw-Gray10/05/192814 June 1877 – 21 January 1958
Robert Whytt16/04/17526 September 1714 – 15 April 1766
Francois Wicardel, Chevalier de Fleury30/11/1715 1715–1754
John Churchill Wickstead05/04/1716- May 1774
Elsie May Widdowson18/03/197621 October 1906 – 14 June 2000
Samuel Edward Widdrington22/12/18421787 – 11 January 1856 (Born Samuel Edward Cook)
Karel Frantisek Wiesner20/06/196925 November 1919 – 28 November 1986
Vincent Brian Wigglesworth16/03/193917 April 1899 – 11 February 1994
Robert Wight07/06/18556 July 1796 – 26 May 1872
Dale Brian Wigley27/05/2004Scientist, Cancer Research
James Wigram02/04/18355 November 1793 – 29 July 1866
Robert Wigram27/02/180625 September 1773 – 1843
Samuel Wilberforce18/12/18457 September 1805 – 19 July 1873
George Wilbraham08/03/18218 March 1779 – 24 January 1852 MP for Stockbridge, Cheshire and Cheshire North
Roger Wilbraham28/02/1782c. 1744 – ? March 1829 MP for Bodmin
Thomas Wilbraham18/03/1742c. 1702 – 29 March 1782
Johann Karl Wilcke30/04/17896 September 1732 – 18 April 1796
John Paul Wild19/03/1970
Henry Wilde04/06/1886? February 1833 – 29 March 1919
Andrew John Wiles16/03/1989
Wilhelmus Wilhelmius27/01/17431720 – 27 December 1771
Israel Wilkes06/03/1760c. 1722 – 25 November 1805
John Wilkes13/04/174917 October 1727 – 26 December 1797
Maurice Vincent Wilkes15/03/1956
Alex James Wilkie10/05/2001
Andrew Wilkie02/05/2013
Douglas Robert Wilkie18/03/19712 October 1922 – 21 May 1998 Medical Research, UCL
John Wilkins22/04/16631614 – 19 November 1672
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins19/03/195915 December 1916 – 5 October 2004
Charles Wilkins12/06/17881749 – 13 May 1836
William Wilkins02/06/183131 August 1778 – 31 August 1839
James Hardy Wilkinson20/03/196927 September 1919 – 5 October 1986
John Wilkinson28/06/1764- c. 1819
Denys Haigh Wilkinson15/03/1956
Geoffrey Wilkinson18/03/196514 July 1921 – 26 September 1996
John Gardner Wilkinson18/12/18345 October 1797 – 29 October 1875
William Lionel Wilkinson15/03/1990Chemical Engineer (Nuclear Energy)
Mark Wilks23/02/1826c. 1760 – 19 September 1831
Samuel Wilks02/06/18702 June 1824 – 8 November 1911
Robert Willan23/02/180912 November 1757 – 12 April 1812
John Willett Willett08/12/1774- 26 September 1815
Ralph Willett21/06/17641719 – 13 January 1795
Arthur Willey05/06/19029 October 1867 – 26 December 1942
William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland04/12/176015 April 1721 – 31 October 1765 Royal
William Charles Henry Friso, Prince of Orange07/03/17341711 – 22 October 1751 Royal
William Frederick, 2nd Duke of Gloucester14/01/1797 15 January 1776 – 30 November 1834
William Henry, 1st Duke of Gloucester10/01/178014 November 1743 – 25 August 1805 Royal
William IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland10/03/183121 August 1765 – 20 June 1837
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn24/05/18279 October 1775 – 2 September 1850
Watkin Williams-Wynn17/06/17738 April 1749 – 29 July 1789
Alan Frederick Williams15/03/199025 May 1945 – 9 April 1992
Alwyn Williams16/03/19678 June 1921 – 4 April 2004
Carrington Bonsor Williams18/03/19547 October 1889 – 12 July 1981
Charles Greville Hanson Williams05/06/186222 September 1829 – 15 June 1910
Charles James Blasius Williams02/04/18353 February 1805 – 24 March 1889
David Williams15/03/1984
Dionysius Williams08/05/1766? January 1733 – ? June 1775
Dudley Howard Williams17/03/1983
Evan James Williams16/03/19398 June 1903 – 29 September 1945 Atomic Physics, Aberystwyth
Frederic Calland Williams16/03/195026 June 1911 – 11 August 1977
James Gordon Williams10/03/1994
John Williams06/03/182812 April 1778 – 11 August 1849
John Williams23/03/1671? September 1642 – ? November 1680 Baronet
John Lloyd Williams21/05/1801 1801 Physician, Bengal
John Wesley Williams31/01/18391788 – January 1841
Moses Williams05/11/17192 March 1686 – 9 April 1742
Peter Michael Williams13/05/1999
Reeve Williams11/01/1699 1682–1703
Richard Tecwyn Williams16/03/196720 February 1909 – 29 December 1979
Robert Hughes Williams15/03/1990
Robert Joseph Paton Williams16/03/1972
Roger Williams03/02/1664- ? 1665
Stephen Williams13/06/1734c. 1701–1741
Thomas Williams03/06/18584 January 1819 – 23 April 1865 Physician
Timothy John Williams19/04/2012
Alexander William Williamson07/06/18551 May 1824 – 6 May 1904
Benjamin Williamson12/06/18799 January 1827 – 3 January 1916 Irish mathematician
David Theodore Nelson Williamson21/03/196815 February 1923 – 10 May 1992 Electronic Engineer
John Williamson15/06/17491713 – 25 February 1763 Chaplain in Lisbon
Joseph Williamson20/05/166325 July 1633 – 3 October 1701 Original
Robert Williamson13/05/1999Biochemist, London & Melbourne
William Crawford Williamson01/06/185424 November 1816 – 23 June 1895
Henry Norton Willis15/12/1791- 13 August 1819
John Christopher Willis15/05/191920 February 1868 – 21 March 1958
John Raymond Willis12/03/1992
Robert Willis22/04/183027 February 1800 – 28 February 1875
Thomas Willis18/11/166327 January 1621 – 11 November 1675
Edward Nevill Willmer24/03/196015 August 1902 – 8 April 2001
Henry Willoughby, 5th Baron Middleton25/01/178719 December 1726 – 30 June 1800
Hugh Willoughby, 15th Baron Willoughby of Parham14/02/1745- 21 January 1765
Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton30/11/1693c. 1670 – 17 April 1729
Charles Willughby25/07/1683- ? September 1694
Francis Willughby20/05/16631635 – 3 July 1672 Original
Edward Wilmot15/01/173029 October 1693 – 21 November 1786
Robert John Wilmot24/05/182121 December 1784 – 31 May 1841
Ian Wilmut09/05/2002
Alan Geoffrey Wilson18/05/2006
Alan Herries Wilson19/03/19422 July 1906 – 30 September 1995
Alexander Wilson01/03/1838c. 1781 – 28 November 1863 Civil servant
Allan Charles Wilson20/03/198618 October 1934 – 21 July 1991
Arthur James Cochran Wilson21/03/196328 November 1914 – 1 July 1995
Benjamin Wilson05/12/17511721 – 6 June 1788
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson14/06/190014 February 1869 – 15 November 1959
Charles William Wilson04/06/187414 March 1836 – 25 October 1905
Colin James Ness Wilson20151956 - Geologist
George Fergusson Wilson07/06/185525 March 1822 – 28 March 1902 Founder of Wisley Gardens.
Giffin Wilson16/04/1801- ? 1848
Glocester Wilson28/04/1796- ? 1852
Graham Selby Wilson16/03/197810 September 1895 – 5 April 1987
Harold Albert Wilson03/05/19061 December 1874 – 13 October 1964
Horace Hayman Wilson10/04/183426 September 1786 – 8 May 1860
Ian Andrew Wilson11/05/2000Microbiologist, USA
Isaac Wilson24/02/1831c. 1756 – 2 December 1844 Physician to Navy
James Wilson19/05/18031765 – 17 November 1821 Prof of Anatomy to RCS
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx12/06/196911 March 1916 – 24 May 1995
James Thomas Wilson06/05/190914 April 1861 – 2 September 1945 Prof. of Anatomy, Cambridge
John Wilson06/02/184511 December 1804 – 1 December 1875 Philanthropist & Scholar (Bombay)
John Wilson19/02/1846c. 1788 – 10 August 1870 Physician
John Wilson13/03/17836 August 1741 – 18 October 1793
John Tuzo Wilson21/03/196824 October 1908 – 15 April 1993
Robert Wilson20/03/197516 April 1927 – 2 September 2002
Sophie Wilson02/05/2013
William James Erasmus Wilson20/02/184525 November 1809 – 7 August 1884
William Wilson03/05/19231 March 1875 – 14 October 1965 Physicist, St Andrews Univ.
William Edward Wilson04/06/189619 July 1851 – 6 March 1908 Irish astronomer
James Wimshurst09/06/189813 April 1832 – 3 January 1903
Joseph Windham08/11/178121 August 1739 – 21 September 1810
William Windham26/01/17441717 – 30 October 1761
Alan Hardwick Windle15/05/1997
Bertram Coghill Alan Windle01/06/18998 May 1858 – 14 February 1929
Colin George Windsor09/06/199528 June 1938 -
Other Hickman Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth22/04/1773? 30 May 1751 – 12 June 1799
Johann Heinrich Winkler08/01/174712 March 1703 – 18 May 1770
Rowland Winn27/11/16731609–1676 Merchant
Edward Winnington10/01/180514 November 1749 – 9 January 1805 (died before election)
Gregory Paul Winter15/03/1990 April 1951 -
John Winthrop04/04/173425 August 1681 – 1 August 1747
John Winthrop20/05/166312 February 1606 – 5 April 1676 Original
John Winthrop20/02/176619 December 1714 – 3 May 1779
Sir Clifton Wintringham23/12/17421710 – 10 January 1794
Frederick Charles William Wirtemberg, Prince of Wirtemberg11/05/17976 November 1754 – 30 October 1816 honorary
Robert Wissett24/12/1801- 3 December 1820
George Witchell09/07/1767- 29 January 1785
William Withering24/11/1785March 1741 – 6 October 1799
Philip J. Withers29/04/2016Materials physicist
Stephen Withers19/04/2012
Nicolaes Witsen30/11/16898 May 1641 – 10 August 1717
George Witt05/06/183425 March 1804 – 20 February 1869 Surgeon, Bedford Infirmary
William Henry Wittrick20/03/198029 October 1922 – 2 July 1986
Samuel Wix25/02/18139 February 1771 – 4 September 1861
William Wix12/07/1810- c. 1847
Charles Godfrey Woide21/04/17854 July 1725 – 9 May 1790
Nathaniel Matthew Wolf10/04/177724 January 1724 – 15 December 1784
John Wolfe Wolfe-Barry13/06/18957 December 1836 – 22 January 1918 Tower Bridge builder
Arnold Whittaker Wolfendale17/03/1977
Christian, Freiherr von Wolff08/11/171024 January 1679 – 9 April 1754
Eric Wolff20/05/2010
Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson26/05/2005 11 November 1927 – 20 May 2010 honorary
Isaac Wolfson20/06/1963
Alexander Luard Wollaston26/02/182914 June 1804 – ? 10 June 1874
Charlton Wollaston25/03/175623 May 1733 – 26 July 1764
Francis Wollaston27/06/17236 June 1694 – 27 December 1774
Francis Wollaston13/04/176923 November 1731 – 31 October 1815
Francis John Hyde Wollaston23/11/178613 April 1762 – 12 October 1823
George Wollaston17/02/176326 October 1738 – 14
William Hyde Wollaston09/05/17936 August 1766 – 22 December 1828
Daniel Mark Wolpert19/04/2012
Lewis Wolpert20/03/1980embryologist
Alan Marshall Muir Wood20/03/1980
Bernard John Wood14/05/1998Geologist
Graham Charles Wood15/05/1997Prof. of Corrosion Science, UMIST
John Wood01/04/1680- 25 September 1682 Naval surveyor
John Wood08/06/187112 October 1825 – 29 December 1891
John Nicholas Wood15/05/2009 Biomedicine, UCL
Martin Francis Wood19/03/1987
Nicholas Wood02/06/186424 April 1795 – 19 December 1865
Richard Dean Wood15/05/1997molecular biologist
Robert Wood19/11/1789 1789 MP
Robert Wood13/04/1681? 1621 – 9 April 1685
Ronald Karslake Starr Wood18/03/1976Plant Biologist, Imperial College, London
Thomas Wood19/11/1761c. 1708 – 26 June 1799
Thomas Wood20/05/184131 March 1804 – 23 October 1872
Thomas Barlow Wood15/05/191921 January 1869 – 6 November 1929 Prof. of Agriculture, Cambridge Univ.
William Wood24/12/18121774 – ? 26 May 1857
William Page Wood, Baron Hatherley22/12/183629 November 1801 – 10 July 1881
Bennet Woodcroft09/06/185929 December 1803 – 07
Samuel Woodford02/11/166415 April 1636 – 11 January 1700 Clergyman
Thomas Woodford07/04/1708- 26 March 1759
John Henry Woodhouse11/05/2000Prof. of Geophysics, Oxford Univ.
Robert Woodhouse16/12/180228 April 1773 – ? 23 December 1827
Benjamin Woodroffe30/04/1668April 1638 – 14 August 1711
David Phillip Woodruff18/05/2006
Michael Francis Addison Woodruff21/03/19683 April 1911 – 10 March 2001
Donald Devereux Woods20/03/195216 February 1912 – 6 November 1964
Henry Woods11/05/191618 December 1868 – 4 April 1952
Stephen Esslemont Woods21/03/197412 January 1912 – 18 June 1994
Arthur Smith Woodward06/06/190123 May 1864 – 2 September 1944
Charles Woodward29/04/1841? 1789 – 16 April 1877 Agent
Henry Woodward12/06/187324 November 1832 – 6 September 1921
Horace Bolingbroke Woodward04/06/189620 August 1848 – 06
John Woodward30/11/16931 May 1665 – 25 April 1728
Sidney William Wooldridge19/03/195916 November 1900 – 25 April 1963
Trevor Dion Wooley17/05/2007
Michael Mark Woolfson15/03/1984crystallographer, computer simulation
John Thomas Woolhouse02/11/1721c. 1650 – 15 January 1734 Oculist
Herbert Henry Woollard17/03/19381889 – 18 January 1939
Richard van der Riet Woolley19/03/195324 April 1906 – 24 December 1986
John Woolmore27/05/1830c. 1756 – 2 December 1838
Paul Workman29/04/20161952 –
Arthur Wormall15/03/195617 January 1900 – 9 May 1964
Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright04/04/188920 October 1840 – 9 January 1903
Henry Worsley30/11/1705c. 1675 – 15 March 1740 ambassasdor, MP for Newtown, IoW
Richard Worsley18/06/177817 March 1751 – 8 August 1805
Edward Worth11/01/1699c. 1678–1733
Arthur Mason Worthington01/06/189311 June 1852 – 5 December 1916
Brian Stewart Worthington14/05/1998
William Wotton14/12/168713 August 1666 – 13
Peter Woulfe05/02/1767c. 1727–1803
Francis Wrangham15/11/180411 June 1769 – 27 December 1842
Daniel Wray06/03/172928 November 1701 – 29 December 1783
Gordon Richard Wray20/03/198630 January 1928 – 17 August 2005
Christopher Wren30/11/169318 February 1675 – 24 August 1747 Numismatist and Member of Parliament
Matthew Wren22/04/166320 August 1629 – 14 June 1672 Original
Christopher Wren20/05/166320 October 1632 – 25 Feb 1723
Thomas Wren20/05/16631633–1679 Clergyman Original
Charles Romley Alder Wright02/06/18811844 – 25 July 1894
Edward Wright05/04/1759c. 1666 – 20 August 1761 Scottish Physician
Ernest Marshall Wright26/05/2005
John Wright01/06/184321 March 1793 – 13 February 1893 Clergyman
Richard Wright19/03/1767c. 1739 – 14 October 1786
Almroth Edward Wright03/05/190610 August 1861 – 30 April 1947
Thomas Wright12/06/18799 November 1809 – 17 November 1884
William Wright12/03/1778March 1735 – 19 September 1819
John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley29/04/18414 October 1798 – 27 October 1867
Adrian Frederick George Wyatt11/05/2000
John Wyatt12/02/1778- 2 November 1797 Surgeon
Terry Wyatt02/05/2013
William Wyatt08/06/1769c. 1742 – 1 February 1813 Physician
Jeffrey Wyatville27/05/18303 August 1766 – 10 February 1840
Peter Wyche02/05/174525 December 1709 – 1 November 1763
Cyril Wyche20/05/1663c. 1632 – 29 December 1707 Original
Peter Wyche20/05/16631628–1699 Original
Edmund Wylde20/05/1663c. 1618 – c. 1695 Original
Andrew Hamilton Wyllie09/03/1995pathologist
Peter John Wyllie15/03/1984geologist
William Wynde20/05/1663c. 1647 – ? April 1722 Original
Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl10/04/183419 May 1812 – 6 October 1871
Edmund Wyndham06/12/1677c. 1659 -
George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont07/12/179718 December 1751 – 11 November 1837
Henry Penruddocke Wyndham09/01/17834 June 1736 – 3 May 1819
Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards19/03/19704 July 1906 – 5 January 1997
Charles Gorrie Wynne19/03/197018 May 1911 – 1 October 1999
William Wynne06/03/1794- 1815 Knight
William Palmer Wynne04/06/189613 February 1861 – 16 February 1950
Marmaduke Wyvill30/11/1711- 2 November 1722 MP for Richmond.
Marmaduke Wyvill06/02/17351692 – 27 December 1753

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Name Election date Notes
Magdi Habib Yacoub 13/05/1999 heart surgeon
Elihu Yale 30/11/1717 5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721
Ziheng Yang 18/05/2006
Alfred Fernandez Yarrow 11/05/1922 13 January 1842 – 24 January 1932
Frank Yates 18/03/1948 12 May 1902 – 17 June 1994
James Yates 31/01/1839 30 April 1789 – 7 May 1871
Grant David Yeats 01/07/1819 1773 – 14 November 1836
Thomas Pattinson Yeats 08/03/1781 c. 1782
John Yelloly 05/05/1814 30 April 1774 – 31 January 1842
Talbot Yelverton, Earl of Sussex 01/02/1722 2 May 1690 – 27 October 1731
Gerald Francis Yeo 06/06/1889 19 January 1845 – 1 May 1909
Thomas Yeoman 12/01/1764 1708 – 24 January 1781
Julia Yeomans02/05/2013
William Yolland 09/06/1859 17 March 1810 – 5 September 1885
Charles Maurice Yonge 21/03/1946 9 December 1899 – 17 March 1986
James Yonge 30/11/1702 27 February 1647 – 25 July 1721 Naval surgeon & Physician
Sir George Yonge 13/05/1784 1731 – 25 September 1812
Sir William Yonge 23/06/1748 10 August 1755
Charles Yorke 13/12/1750 30 December 1722 – 20 January 1770
Charles Philip Yorke 12/11/1801 12 March 1764 – 13 March 1834
Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke 25/02/1847 2 April 1799 – 17 September 1873
John Yorke 18/02/1773 27 August 1728 – 3 September 1801
Philip James Yorke 07/06/1849 13 October 1799 – 14 December 1874
Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke 06/12/1753 1 December 1690 – 6 March 1764
Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke 29/01/1741 19 March 1720 – 16 May 1790
Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke 25/11/1790 31 May 1757 – 18 November 1834
Warrington Yorke 05/05/1932 11 April 1883 – 24 April 1943 Prof. of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool
Alec David Young 15/03/1973 15 August 1913 – 27 January 2005 aero-engineer
Alfred Young 03/05/1934 16 April 1873 – 15 December 1940
Arthur Young 28/04/1774 11 September 1741 – 20 April 1820
Christopher Alwyne Jack Young 16/03/1972 7 March 1912 – 20 January 1978
Ian Robert Young 16/03/1989
James Young 12/06/1873 13 July 1811 – 13 May 1883
John Zachary Young 22/03/1945 18 March 1907 – 4 July 1997
Pierre Henry John Young 21/03/1974 12 June 1926 – 4 August 1985
Frank George Young 17/03/1949 25 March 1908 – 20 September 1988
George Young 15/02/1781 17 July 1732 – 28 June 1810 Admiral
Robert Young02/05/2013
Samuel Young 26/03/1795 23 February 1766 – 14 December 1826 Civil servant
Sidney Young 01/06/1893 29 December 1857 – 8 April 1937 Professor of Chemistry, Bristol
Thomas Young 19/06/1794 13 June 1773 – 10 May 1829
William Young 10/03/1748 1725 – 8 April 1788
William Young 15/06/1786 1 December 1749 – 10 January 1815
William Henry Young 02/05/1907 20 October 1863 – 7 July 1942
Charles Wright Younghusband 03/06/1852 20 June 1821 – 28 October 1899
George Udny Yule 12/05/1921 18 February 1871 – 26 June 1951

Z

Name Date Elected Notes
Franz Xaver Zach 12/04/1804 4 June 1754 – 2 September 1832
Oliver Louis Zangwill 17/03/1977 29 October 1913 – 12 October 1987 psychologist
Francesco Maria Zannotti 26/02/1741 6 January 1692 – 25 December 1777
Eustachio Zanotti 06/11/1740 27 November 1709 – 15 May 1782
Erik Christopher Zeeman 20/03/1975
Semir Zeki 15/03/1990
Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz 15/03/1979 18 May 1921 – 2 January 2009
John Michael Ziman 16/03/1967 16 May 1925 – 2 January 2005
Andrew Peter Zisserman 17/05/2007
Philip Henry Zollman 22/06/1727 c. 1748
Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman 18/03/1943 30 May 1904 – 31 March 1993 anatomist, evolutionist

Foreign Members

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Name Election date Notes
Otto Heinrich Warburg03/05/19348 October 1883 – 1 August 1970; German chemist, Nobel Prize for Medicine (1931)
James Dewey Watson09/04/1981
Ernst Heinrich Weber19/06/186224 June 1795 – 26 January 1878
Max Wilhelm Carl Weber27/06/19356 December 1852 – 7 February 1937
Wilhelm Eduard Weber21/11/185024 October 1804 – ? 23 June 1890
Carl Wilhelm Weierstrass12/05/188131 October 1815 – 19 February 1897
Detlef Weigel20/05/2010
André Weil21/04/19666 May 1906 – 6 August 1998; French U.S. mathematician group theory, algebraic geometry
Steven Weinberg09/04/1981U.S. physicist, electroweak force, Nobel Prize (1979)
August Friedrich Leopold Weismann30/06/191017 January 1834 – 5 November 1914
Charles Weissmann30/06/1983 Hungarian-born Switzerland British molecular biologist
Friedrich August Ferdinand Christian Went25/05/193318 June 1863 – 24 July 1935
Frank Henry Westheimer30/06/1983 U.S. chemist
Hermann Weyl25/06/19369 November 1885 – 9 December 1955
John Archibald Wheeler09/03/1995
Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann31/01/18842 October 1826 – 23 March 1899
Heinrich Otto Wieland25/06/19314 June 1877 – 5 August 1957
Torsten Nils Wiesel24/06/1982
Eugene Paul Wigner23/04/197017 November 1902 – 1 January 1995
Ellen D. Williams29/04/20165 December 1953 –
Richard Willstätter21/06/192813 August 1872 – 3 August 1942
Edmund Beecher Wilson05/05/192119 October 1856 – 3 March 1939
Edward Osborne Wilson28/06/1990
Øjvind Winge01/05/194719 May 1886 – 5 April 1964 Danish geneticist
Sergius Winogradsky26/06/191914 September 1856 – 24 February 1953
Johannes Wislicenus01/04/189724 June 1835 – 5 December 1902
Edward Witten13/05/1999 U.S. mathematician and physicist, Fields Medal (1990)
Carl Richard Woese18/05/2006
Friedrich Wöhler15/06/185431 July 1800 – 23 September 1882
Peter Guy Wolynes17/05/2007
Robert Williams Wood26/06/19192 May 1868 – 11 August 1955
Robert Burns Woodward26/04/195610 April 1917 – 8 July 1979
Sewall Wright25/04/196321 December 1889 – 3 March 1988
Carl Isaac Wunsch09/05/2002
Karl Adolph Wurtz09/06/186426 November 1817 – 10 May 1884
Kurt Wuthrich20/05/2010
Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff19/04/19519 August 1897 – 2 November 1994

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Name Election date Notes
Eli Yablonovitch 02/05/2013
Mitsuhiro Yanagida 11/05/2000
Chen Ning Yang 18/06/1992
Charles Yanofsky 27/06/1985 U.S. scientist, medicine
Hideki Yukawa 25/04/1963 23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981

Z

Name Year Notes
Richard Neil Zare 13/05/1999 U.S. physicist
Pieter Zeeman 05/05/1921 25 May 1865 – 9 October 1943
Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich 26/04/1979 8 March 1914 – 2 December 1987
Frits Zernike 26/04/1956 16 July 1888 – 10 March 1966
Ahmed Hassan Zewail 10/05/2001
Guangzhao Zhou 19/04/2012
Karl Ziegler 22/04/1971 26 November 1898 – 11 August 1973
Rolf Martin Zinkernagel 14/05/1998
Ferdinand Zirkel 25/11/1897 20 May 1838 – 11 June 1912

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References

  1. ↑ Royal society list, This list is complete up to and including part of 2014.
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