V · D · MPresidenti della Royal SocietyXVII secoloVisconte Brouncker (1662) · Joseph Williamson (1677) · Christopher Wren (1680) · John Hoskyns (1682) · Cyril Wyche (1683) · Samuel Pepys (1684) · Conte di Carbery (1686) · Conte di Pembroke (1689) · Robert Southwell (1690) · Charles Montagu (1695) · Lord Somers (1698)XVIII secoloIsaac Newton (1703) · Hans Sloane (1727) · Martin Folkes (1741) · Conte di Macclesfield (1752) · Conte di Morton (1764) · James Burrow (1768) · James West (1768) · James Burrow (1772) · John Pringle (1772) · Joseph Banks (1778)XIX secoloWilliam Hyde Wollaston (1820) · Humphry Davy (1820) · Davies Gilbert (1827) · Duca di Sussex (1830) · Marchese di Northampton (1838) · Conte di Rosse (1848) · Lord Wrottesley (1854) · Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1858) · Edward Sabine (1861) · George Biddell Airy (1871) · Joseph Dalton Hooker (1873) · William Spottiswoode (1878) · Thomas Henry Huxley (1883) · Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1885) · William Thomson (1890) · Joseph Lister (1895)XX secoloWilliam Huggins (1900) · Lord Rayleigh (1905) · Archibald Geikie (1908) · William Crookes (1913) · Joseph John Thomson (1915) · Charles Scott Sherrington (1920) · Ernest Rutherford (1925) · Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1930) · William Henry Bragg (1935) · Henry Hallett Dale (1940) · Robert Robinson (1945) · Lord Adrian (1950) · Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1955) · Howard Walter Florey (1960) · Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (1965) · Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1970) · Lord Todd (1975) · Andrew Huxley (1980) · George Porter (1985) · Sir Michael Atiyah (1990) · Sir Aaron Klug (1995)XXI secoloLord May (2000) · Lord Rees (2005) · Sir Paul Nurse (2010) · Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2015) · Adrian Smith (2020)