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