List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1981

This is a list of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1981.

Fellows

• Norman Laurence Franklin (1924–1986)
• John Guest Phillips (1933–1987)
• Dennis Frederick Evans (1928–1990)
• John Adair Barker (1925–1995)
• Michael Rex Horne (1921–2000)
• Frank Reginald Farmer (1914–2001)
• Fred Brown (1925–2004)
• Autar Singh Paintal (1925–2004)
• David John Wheeler (1927–2004)
• Sir Ian Alexander McGregor (1922–2007)
• Sir Robert William Kerr Honeycombe (1921–2007)
• Sir John McGregor Hill (1921–2008)
• Britton Chance (1913–2010)
• John Ashworth Nelder (1924–2010)
• Walter Plowright (1923–2010)
• Fraser John Bergersen (1929–2011)
• Wallace Leslie William Sargent (1935–2012)
• Ian Butterworth (1930–2013)
• Malcolm Roy Clarke (1930–2013)
• Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich (1923–2017)
• Allan Stuart Hay (1929–2017)
• Robert Norman Clayton (1930–2017)
• Eric Albert Barnard (1927–2018)
• Peter Bradshaw
• David Maurice Brink
• Brandon Carter
• John Horton Conway (1937–2020)
• Rex Malcolm Chaplin Dawson
• Christopher Forbes Graham
• Norman Michael Green
• Herbert Gutfreund
• Kenneth Charles Holmes
• Yuet Wai Kan
• Robert Phelan Langlands
• Simon Hugh Piper Maddrell
• Michael John O'Hara
• Edward Roy Pike
• Kenneth Alwyne Pounds
• Sir David Allan Rees
• Colin Bernard Reese
• Edward Reich
• John Clayton Taylor
• James Dewey Watson
• Steven Weinberg