Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland are individuals who have been elected by the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society to further "the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science literature and the arts in relation to Asia".

The Society has around 700 fellows, half of whom reside outside Britain. It is administered by a council of twenty fellows. The Society was established in 1823 and became "the main centre in Britain for scholarly work on Asia" with "many distinguished Fellows". Fellows use the post-nominal letters FRAS.

Past and current fellows include leading scholars, writers, and former politicians and governors who have made significant contributions to Asia and their respective fields. Previous Fellows have included British explorers Sir Richard Francis Burton, and Laurence Waddell, Officers of the British East India Company such as Sir Henry Rawlinson, Chief Justice of Ceylon Alexander Johnston, first Asian Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, and many more.

Eligibility
Fellows can be nominated by an existing Fellow, or they can submit an application for fellowship; applications are open to "anyone with a serious interest in Asian Studies", considered regularly, and processed within two months. Students are also eligible to become Student Fellows if they are enrolled in an established course of education.

Notable fellows

 * Sir Jehangir Hormasji Kothari
 * Henry Thomas Colebrooke
 * Sir Richard Francis Burton
 * Edward Byles Cowell
 * Sir Alexander Johnston
 * Thomas Manning
 * Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson
 * Brian Houghton Hodgson
 * C. Sivaramamurti
 * Col. Laurence Waddell
 * Sir Gore Ouseley
 * Sir George T Staunton
 * Sir William Wilson Hunter
 * Sir Stamford Raffles
 * Raja Ram Mohan Roy
 * Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
 * Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy
 * Sir William Jones
 * Sir Aurel Stein
 * Sir Wilfred Thesiger
 * Rabindranath Tagore
 * Sir Khan Bahadur Khuda Bakhsh
 * Siddhartha Paul Tiwari
 * Sir Jadunath Sarkar
 * Diwan Bahadur S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar
 * Sir Richard O. Winstedt
 * Ahmad Hasan Dani
 * Arthur John Arberry
 * George Everest
 * Ahmad Zaki Pasha
 * Johann Georg Bühler
 * David Marshall Lang
 * Anthony Stockwell
 * Elizabeth Anne McCaul Finn
 * George V. Tsereteli
 * Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri
 * Francis Robinson
 * Clinton Bennett
 * William Lancaster
 * Ustad Aashish Khan Debsharma
 * Albert Étienne Jean Baptiste Terrien de Lacouperie (d. 1894)
 * Sushil Kumar De
 * Eric Newby
 * Jean Berlie
 * Daphne Park
 * Mary Boyce
 * William Dalrymple
 * Jamal Malik
 * K M Baharul Islam
 * Tariq Rahman
 * William Sweet
 * Rahul Peter Das
 * Haroon Khan Sherwani
 * Ronald E. Asher
 * Edward Jarvis
 * Michael Ridley
 * Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
 * Anna Suvorova
 * Michael Axworthy
 * Deepak Tripathi
 * B. N. Mukherjee
 * J. M. Gullick
 * Mark Trollope, third Bishop of Korea
 * Bijan Omrani
 * Souhardya De
 * Gordon Corrigan
 * Terra Han
 * Raymond Allchin
 * James J Busuttil