List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1981
# List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1981

This is a list of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1981.

## Fellows

* Norman Laurence Franklin (1924–1986)
* John Guest Phillips (1933–1987)
* Dennis Frederick Evans (1928–1990)
* John Adair Barker (1925–1995)
* Michael Rex Horne (1921–2000)
* Frank Reginald Farmer (1914–2001)
* Fred Brown (1925–2004)
* Autar Singh Paintal (1925–2004)
* David John Wheeler (1927–2004)
* Sir Ian Alexander McGregor (1922–2007)
* Sir Robert William Kerr Honeycombe (1921–2007)
* Sir John McGregor Hill (1921–2008)
* Britton Chance (1913–2010)
* John Ashworth Nelder (1924–2010)
* Walter Plowright (1923–2010)
* Fraser John Bergersen (1929–2011)
* Wallace Leslie William Sargent (1935–2012)
* Ian Butterworth (1930–2013)
* Malcolm Roy Clarke (1930–2013)
* Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich (1923–2017)
* Allan Stuart Hay (1929–2017)
* Robert Norman Clayton (1930–2017)
* Eric Albert Barnard (1927–2018)
* Peter Bradshaw
* David Maurice Brink
* Brandon Carter
* John Horton Conway (1937–2020)
* Rex Malcolm Chaplin Dawson
* Christopher Forbes Graham
* Norman Michael Green
* Herbert Gutfreund
* Kenneth Charles Holmes
* Yuet Wai Kan
* Robert Phelan Langlands
* Simon Hugh Piper Maddrell
* Michael John O'Hara
* Edward Roy Pike
* Kenneth Alwyne Pounds
* Sir David Allan Rees
* Colin Bernard Reese
* Edward Reich
* John Clayton Taylor
* James Dewey Watson
* Steven Weinberg
