This is a list of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1978.^[1]

Fellows

• Roger Yate Stanier (1916–1982)
• Sir Graham Selby Wilson (1895–1987)
• Alan Frank Gibson (1923–1988)
• Richard Rado (1906–1989)
• Malcolm Davenport Milne (1915–1991)
• Fergus William Campbell (1924–1993)
• Janos Szentagothai (1912–1994)
• Hans Walter Kosterlitz (1903–1996)
• Thomas Philip Stroud Powell (1923–1996)
• Torbjorn Oskar Caspersson (1910–1997)
• James Stanley Hey (1909–2000)
• Barry Edward Johnson (1937–2002)
• Sir Frederick William Page (1917–2005)
• John Rodney Quayle (d. 2006)
• Alastair Ian Scott (1928–2007)
• Donald Allan Ramsay (d. 2007)
• Joseph Victor Smith (d. 2007)
• Sir Denis Eric Rooke (d. 2008)
• John Lander Harper (d. 2009)
• George Alan Garton (d. 2010)
• Har Gobind Khorana (1922–2011)
• John Arthur Joseph Pateman (1926–2011)
• John Murdoch Mitchison (d. 2011)
• Ainsley Iggo (1924–2012)
• Charles Walter Suckling (1920–2013)
• Sir Jack Edward Baldwin
• Norman Keith Boardman
• Alexander Boksenberg
• Keith Anthony Browning
• Philip George Burke
• Sydney Cohen
• Roger Arthur Cowley
• Gordon Henry Dixon
• Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019)
• Archibald Howie
• Donald Lynden-Bell
• John (Jake) MacMillan
• Sir Robin Buchanan Nicholson
• Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh
• Bernard Leslie Shaw
• John Hyslop Steele (1926–2013)
• John Francis Talling (1929–2017)
• Edwin William Taylor
• Peter Whittle
• Charles, Prince of Wales