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 Fellow or Foreign Member 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 complete online list. This list is complete up to and including 2019.

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List of fellows

J Name Election dateNotes Daniel Ernest Jablonski11 June 171320 November 1660 – 25 May 1741, German theologian, and reformer James Julian Bennett Jack15 May 1997 Kenneth Henderson Jack20 March 198012 October 1918 – 28 January 2013 Sir David Jack12 March 1992 22 February 1924 – 8 November 2011 Pharmacologist, Glaxo Cyril Jackson16 January 17721746 – 31 August 1819 Derek Ainslie Jackson20 March 194723 June 1906 – 20 February 1982 Henry Bradwardine Jackson6 June 190121 January 1855 – 14 December 1929 Herbert Jackson3 May 191717 March 1863 – 10 December 1936 Chemist Humphry Jackson19 November 17721717 – ? 29 June 1801 Chemist James Anthony Jackson9 May 2002 John Jackson17 March 193812 February 1887 – 9 December 1958 John Jackson30 November 1694c. 1672–1724 John Hughlings Jackson6 June 18784 April 1835 – 7 October 1911 Julian Jackson3 April 184530 March 1790 – 16 March 1853 Colonel (Russian Army) and geographer Richard James Jackson18 May 2006 Roy Jackson11 May 2000Prof. of Chem. Eng., Princeton. Samuel Jackson8 November 1798fl 1798 surgeon Stephen Philip Jackson 16 May 2008 Professor of Biology, Cambridge William Lawies Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton5 February 189117 February 1840 – 4 April 1917 Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley19 March 195330 October 1904 – 17 February 1970 Fellow 19 March 1953 William Jacob23 April 1807c. 1762 – ? 17 December 1851 Joannes Adolphus Jacobaeus25 June 172421 May 1698 – 3 August 1772 Professor of Medicine Patricia Ann Jacobs11 March 1993 geneticist. Theodore Jacobsen22 June 1727- 25 April 1772 Francis Jacquier10 December 17417 June 1711 – 3 July 1788 Nicolas Joseph Jacquin3 April 178817 February 1727 – ? 24 October 1817 John Conrad Jaeger19 March 197030 July 1907 – 15 May 1979 James Jago2 June 187018 December 1815 – 18 January 1893 Eric Jakeman15 March 1990 Jean Jallabert13 November 174026 July 1712 – 11 March 1768 James II, King of Great Britain and Ireland9 January 166514 October 1633 – 6 September 1701 Anthony Trafford James17 March 19836 March 1922 – 7 December 2006 Henry James9 June 18488 June 1803 – 14 June 1877 Ioan Mackenzie James21 March 1968 Michael Norman George James16 March 1989 Reginald William James17 March 19559 January 1891 – 7 July 1964 Sydney Price James7 May 193117 September 1870 – 17 April 1946 Army physician William James30 March 1775c. 1721 – 16 December 1783 William James9 April 1767- 11 December 1786 William Owen James20 March 195221 May 1900 – 15 September 1978 Botanist, Oxford University Guy Antony Jameson9 March 1995 Graeme Jameson2018-05-091936 Robert Jameson25 May 182611 July 1774 – 19 April 1854 Robin Ralph Jamison20 March 196912 July 1912 – 18 March 1991 Francis Robert Japp4 June 18859 February 1848 – 1 August 1925 William Jardine7 June 186024 February 1800 – 21 November 1874 William Fleming Hoggan Jarrett20 March 19802 January 1927 – 27 August 2011 Paul Gordon Jarvis15 May 199723 May 1935 – 5 February 2013 Jacobus Jattica12 February 1736fl 1736 Louis de Jaucourt8 January 175627 September 1704 – 3 February 1780 James Hopwood Jeans3 May 190611 September 1877 – 16 September 1946 John Jebb18 February 177917 February 1736 – 2 March 1786 John Jebb26 February 182427 September 1775 – 9 December 1833 Richard Jebb28 March 1765? October 1729 – 4 July 1787 physician Geoffrey Jefferson20 March 194710 April 1886 – 29 January 1961 George Barker Jeffery6 May 19269 May 1891 – 27 April 1956 Henry Martyn Jeffery3 June 18805 January 1826 – 3 November 1891 Edward Jeffreys28 October 1669fl 1655–1702 Alec John Jeffreys20 March 1986 Harold Jeffreys7 May 192522 April 1891 – 18 March 1989 John Jeffreys12 May 1726- 20 July 1741 John Gwyn Jeffreys2 April 184018 January 1809 – 24 January 1885 Julius Jeffreys7 January 1841? 1801 – 13 May 1877 Walter Jeffreys14 November 1717fl 1717–1753 Joseph Jekyll3 June 17901 January 1754 – 8 March 1837 Barrister & MP Joseph Jekyll5 June 183423 September 1802 – 23 November 1841 Son of above. George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe28 June 19905 April 1918 – 22 February 2007 Henry Jenkes30 November 1674- August 1697 Charles Frewen Jenkin7 May 193124 September 1865 – 23 August 1940 Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin1 June 186525 March 1833 – 12 June 1885 Richard Jenkins18 February 184119 February 1785 – 30 December 1853 Civil Servant & MP of Shrewsbury David Stewart Jenkinson14 March 1991 25 February 1928 – 16 February 2011 Soil Scientist Rothamsted Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool22 May 17947 June 1770 – 4 December 1828 Edward Jenner26 February 178917 May 1749 – 26 January 1823 William Jenner2 June 186430 January 1815 – 11 December 1898 John Jennings18 November 1779fl 1779 Philip Jennings1 March 1821c. 1783 – 20 December 1849 Niels Kaj Jerne20 March 198023 December 1911 – 7 October 1994 John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent21 December 18099 January 1735 – 14 March 1823 Thomas Best Jervis15 March 18382 August 1794 – 3 April 1857 William Francis Drummond Jervois7 June 188810 September 1821 – 16 August 1897 John Jesse5 May 18426 January 1801 – 26 September 1863 Amateur naturalist of Llanbedr Hall, Wales. George Jessel25 November 188014 February 1824 – 21 March 1883, Solicitor General (1871–1873) Thomas Michael Jessell14 March 1996 Thomas Jett30 November 1714- 1 July 1730 Barrister William Stanley Jevons6 June 18721 September 1835 – 13 August 1882 Harren Jhoti2018-05-091962 – John Leonard Jinks19 March 197021 October 1929 – 6 June 1987 Joao, Duke of Braganza17 November 17571719–1806 Richard Paul Jodrell9 January 177213 November 1745 – 26 January 1831 Paul Jodrell15 November 178112 November 1746 – 6 August 1803 Archduke John of Austria8 February 18161782–1859 Royal Alan Woodworth Johnson18 March 196529 September 1917 – 5 December 1982 Chemist Barry Edward Johnson16 March 19781 August 1937 – 5 May 2002 Mathematician Brian Frederick Gilbert Johnson14 March 1991 Cuthbert William Johnson10 March 184221 September 1799 – 8 March 1878 Barrister Edward John Johnson10 March 1836? 1795 – 7 February 1853 George Johnson6 June 187229 November 1818 – 3 June 1896 Physician George Henry Sacheverell Johnson18 January 18381808 – 4 November 1881 Mathematician James Rawlins Johnson26 June 1817- 1840 Physician Kenneth Langstreth Johnson18 March 1982 Louise Napier Johnson15 March 1990 Manuel John Johnson5 June 185623 May 1805 – 28 February 1859 Martin Johnson 30 April 2014 Physiologist, Cambridge University Percival Norton Johnson30 April 18461793 – 1 June 1866 Robert Augustus Johnson17 April 17881745 – 9 January 1799 William Johnson18 March 198220 April 1922 – 13 June 2010 Prof. of Mech Eng, Cambridge Univ. Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird14 March 1991 Alexander Johnston22 November 181025 April 1775 – 6 March 1849 James Finlay Weir Johnston15 June 183713 September 1796 – 18 September 1855 John Johnstone18 March 18131768 – 28 December 1836 physician Charles Jasper Joly5 May 190427 June 1864 – 4 January 1906 John Joly2 June 18921 November 1857 – 8 December 1933 Bennett Melvill Jones16 March 193928 January 1887 – 31 October 1975 Prof. of Aeronautical Eng., Cambridge Univ. Charles Handfield Jones6 June 18501 October 1819 – 30 September 1890 physician Douglas Samuel Jones21 March 196810 January 1922 – 27 November 2013 Mathematician E. Yvonne Jones2017-05-05 Ewart Ray Herbert Jones16 March 195016 March 1911 – 7 May 2002 Francis Edgar Jones16 March 196716 January 1914 – 10 April 1988 electronics, co-developed "Oboe" Frederic Wood Jones7 May 192523 January 1879 – 29 September 1954 Geoffrey Melvill Jones15 March 1979 Harry Jones20 March 195212 April 1905 – 15 December 1986 Prof of Mathematics Henry Jones27 June 1723- January 1727 Henry Bence Jones30 April 184631 December 1813 – 20 April 1873 Humphrey Owen Jones2 May 191220 February 1878 – 12 August 1912 John Kenyon Netherton Jones21 March 195728 January 1912 – 13 April 1977 chemist, Bristol University John Viriamu Jones7 June 18942 January 1856 – 2 June 1901 Jonathan Dallas George Jones15 May 2003 Owen Thomas Jones6 May 192616 April 1878 – 5 May 1967 Reginald Victor Jones18 March 196529 September 1911 – 17 December 1997 Richard Anthony Lewis Jones18 May 2006 Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh20 May 16639 February 1641 – 5 January 1712 Original Fellow Roger Jones18 March 1736- 1748 Physician & Natural Historian Steve Jones201224 March 1944 - Thomas Jones4 June 183524 June 1775 – 29 July 1852 Optician Thomas Alwyn Jones12 March 1992 Thomas Rupert Jones6 June 18721 October 1819 – 13 April 1911 Physician & Prof of Geology Thomas Rymer Jones21 March 184420 March 1810 – 10 December 1880 Prof of Physiology, London Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones9 January 18001765 – 26 November 1811 MP Thomas Wharton Jones30 April 18409 January 1808 – ? 7 November 1891 Surgeon Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones15 March 1990 William Jones30 November 17111675 – ? 1 July 1749 William Jones30 April 177228 September 1746 – 27 April 1794 William Jones22 June 177530 July 1726 – 6 January 1800 Carole Jordan15 March 1990 astrophysicist Gibbes Walker Jordan29 May 1800c. 1757 – 16 February 1823 barrister Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan5 May 19327 December 1861 – 12 January 1959 John Philip Jordis27 April 1681fl 1681–1715 Brian David Josephson19 March 1970 physicist, Nobel Prize (1973) James Prescott Joule6 June 185024 December 1818 – 11 October 1889 Bruce Arthur Joyce11 May 2000 Dominic Joyce2012 Charles Joye17 November 1748? 1719 – ? April 1776 Richard Jozsa2019-04-1613 November 1953 – Jorge Juan y Santacilia9 November 1749? 5 January 1713 – ? 21 June 1773 John Wesley Judd7 June 187719 February 1840 – 3 March 1916 Alfred John Jukes-Browne6 May 190916 April 1851 – 14 August 1914 Joseph Beete Jukes2 June 185310 October 1811 – 29 July 1869 Calestous Juma18 May 2006 James Jurin1 April 1756c. 1731 – 3 July 1762 Commissioner for Peace, Northumberland James Jurin14 November 1717? December 1684 – 29 March 1750 Antoine de Jussieu11 December 17186 July 1686 – 22 April 1758 Bernard de Jussieu22 June 172717 August 1699 – 6 November 1777 John Obadiah Justamond14 December 177514 October 1737 – 27 March 1786 Surgeon Henry Justel7 December 16811620 – ? 24 September 1693 James Justice22 October 1730fl 1730–1757 Horticulturalist

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