List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1942

This is a list of people elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1942.

Fellows

 * Joshua Harold Burn
 * Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
 * Malcolm Dixon
 * Sir Edward Charles Dodds
 * Arthur Fage
 * Neil Hamilton Fairley
 * Philip Hall
 * Charles Samuel Hanes
 * George Hugh Henderson
 * Thomas Percy Hilditch
 * Edward Hindle
 * Arthur Holmes
 * Dudley Maurice Newitt
 * Sir Clifford Copland Paterson
 * John Keith Roberts
 * Herbert Wakefield Banks Skinner
 * David Thoday
 * Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd of Trumpington
 * Sir Arthur Elijah Trueman
 * Sir Alan Herries Wilson

Foreign members

 * Alfred Newton Richards
 * Leopold Ruzicka
 * Nicholas Ivanovich Vavilov
 * Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov

Statute 12

 * Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey of the Chart