This is a list of people elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1917.
Fellows James Hartley Ashworth Sir Leonard Bairstow Grenville Arthur James Cole Charles Frederick Cross Henry Drysdale Dakin Arthur Stewart Eve Sir Herbert Jackson John Smyth Macdonald John William Nicholson Sir Robert Howson Pickard Charles Tate Regan Sir Robert Robertson Sir Edward John Russell Samuel George Shattock Frederick Ernest Weiss