List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1987
# List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1987

This is a list of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1987.

## Fellows

* Robert McNeill Alexander
* George Brownlee
* Bruce Macintosh Cattanach
* John Frederick Clarke (1927–2013)
* William Compston
* Donald Watts Davies (1924–2000)
* Peter Charles Doherty
* Duncan Dowson
* John William Fozard (1928–1996)
* Coluthur Gopalan
* Peter Raymond Grant
* James Alexander Green
* Norman Neill Greenwood (1949–2012)
* Bryan Desmond Harrison
* Michael Patrick Hassell
* Anthony Rex Hunter
* Herbert Eric Huppert
* Olga Kennard (d. 2023)
* Anthony John Kirby
* William Graeme Laver (d. 2008)
* Rodney Loudon
* Nicholas John Mackintosh
* Sir Peter Mansfield
* Terence Arthur Mansfield
* James Desmond Caldwell McConnell
* Peter Hague Nye (d. 2009)
* David Ian Olive (1937–2012)
* Oliver Penrose
* John Douglas Pettigrew
* Terence Howard Rabbitts
* Benton Seymour Rabinovitch
* Edward Peter Raynes
* Peter Neville Robson (d. 2010)
* Sir Michael Llewellyn Rutter (b.1933)
* Roman Mieczyslaw Sawicki (1930–1990)
* Anthony James Merrill Spencer (1929–2008)
* Patrick Christopher Steptoe (1913–1988)
* William Thomas Tutte (1917–2002)
* James Kay Graham Watson
* Sir Martin Francis Wood

## Foreign members

* David Baltimore (1938–
* Norman Ernest Borlaug (1914–2009)
* Walter Gilbert
* Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (1916–2009)
* George Rankine Irwin (1907–1998)
* Rudolph Arthur Marcus (b.1923)

## Other

* Sir Peter Markham Scott (1909–1989) (elected under statute 12)
* Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Princess Royal (elected a Royal Fellow)
