This is a list of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1996.^[1]

Fellows

• Alfred Rodney Adams
• Jan Mary Anderson
• Jonathan Felix Ashmore
• David Beach
• John Michael Brown
• Christopher Martin Dobson
• Patrick Joseph Dowling
• Dianne Edwards
• Peter Philip Edwards
• Andrew Christopher Fabian
• William James Feast
• Michael Denis Gale (1943–2009)
• David Gubbins
• Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane
• Thomas Michael Jessell
• Sir David Philip Lane
• Martin Geoffrey Low (1950-2013)
• Andrew Geoffrey Lyne
• Nicholas Stephen Manton
• Francis Patrick McCormick
• Iain MacIntyre (d. 2009)
• Thomas Wilson Meade
• Stewart Crichton Miller (1934-1999)
• Ian Mark Mills
• Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan
• Linda Partridge
• Malcolm Peaker
• John Anthony Pickett
• Peter Nicholas Pusey
• Sir Martin Roth (1917-2006)
• Christopher Tadeusz Czeslaw Sachrajda
• Ekhard Karl Hermann Salje
• Timothy Shallice
• George David William Smith
• Edwin Smith
• David Ian Stuart
• Grant Robert Sutherland
• Martin John Taylor
• Phillip Vallentine Tobias (1925–2012)
• James Hunter Whitelaw (1936-2006)

Foreign members

• James Edwin Darnell
• Jacques Louis Lions (1928-2001)
• Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
• James Robert Rice
• Michael G Rossmann
• Martin Schwarzschild (1912-1997)