List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1789

This is a list of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1789.

Fellows

 * 1) James Adair (c.1743–1798), Irish Sergeant-at-Law
 * 2) Abraham Bennet (1749–1799), clergyman and physicist
 * 3) Claude Louis, Count Berthollet (1748–1822), French chemist
 * 4) Johann Elert Bode (1747–1826), German astronomer
 * 5) Jean Dominique Cassini, Count of Thury (1748–1845), French astronomer
 * 6) Jonathan Davies (1736–1809), Eton headmaster
 * 7) Sampson Eardley, Baron Eardley (died 1824)
 * 8) Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Meryon (1745–1816)
 * 9) Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany (1763–1827), Royal Member
 * 10) Adrien Marie Le Gendre (1752–1833), French mathematician
 * 11) John Gillies (1747–1836), historian
 * 12) Samuel Goodenough, Bishop of Carlisle (1743–1827)
 * 13) Henry Frederick William, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn (1745–1790), Royal Member
 * 14) Ewald Friedrich Herzberg (1725–1795), Prussian statesman
 * 15) Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729–1812), German archaeologist
 * 16) Edward Jenner (1749–1823), physician
 * 17) Abraham Gotthelf Kastner (1719–1800), German mathematician
 * 18) Pierre Simon Laplace (1749–1827), French scholar
 * 19) Pierre François Andre Méchain (1744–1805), French astronomer
 * 20) John David Michaelis (1717–1791), Prussian scholar
 * 21) Robert Morse (1743–1818), military engineer
 * 22) George Rogers (died 1816), Navy commissioner
 * 23) George Shaw (1751–1813), botanist and zoologist
 * 24) Johann Karl Wilcke (1732–1796), Swedish physicist
 * 25) Robert Wood, MP