List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1986

This is a list of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1986.

Fellows of the Royal Society

 * 1) Adrian Edmund Gill (1937–1986)
 * 2) Thomas Nelson Marsham (1923–1989)
 * 3) Allan Charles Wilson (1934–1991)
 * 4) Dennis Chapman (1927–1999)
 * 5) Michael Smith (1932–2000)
 * 6) Nicholas Harold Lloyd Ridley (1906–2001)
 * 7) Vulimiri Ramalingaswami (1921–2001)
 * 8) John Marmion Edmond (1943–2001)
 * 9) Sir William Mitchell (1925–2002)
 * 10) John Argyris (1916–2004)
 * 11) Gordon Richard Wray (1928–2005)
 * 12) Michael Augustine Raftery (1936–2007)
 * 13) Peter Berners Fellgett (1936–2008)
 * 14) Sir William Ian Axford (1933–2010)
 * 15) Sir Gabriel Horn (1927–2012)
 * 16) Martin Fleischmann (1927–2012)
 * 17) Sir Roy Malcolm Anderson
 * 18) Sir Alec Broers, Baron Broers
 * 19) Geoffrey Burnstock (1929–2020)
 * 20) John Clarke
 * 21) Peter Day
 * 22) Richard Newland Dixon
 * 23) Simon Kirwan Donaldson
 * 24) John Derek Dowell
 * 25) Charon Robin Ganellin
 * 26) John Rodney Guest
 * 27) Werner Israel
 * 28) Sir Alec Jeffreys
 * 29) Allen Kerr
 * 30) Chris J. Leaver
 * 31) George Huntly Lorimer
 * 32) Robert Hall Michell
 * 33) Henry Keith Moffatt
 * 34) Peter Damian Richardson
 * 35) Raymond Edward Smallman
 * 36) Charles James Matthew Stirling
 * 37) Sir John Sulston
 * 38) Dame Jean Olwen Thomas
 * 39) Sir David James Wallace
 * 40) Elizabeth Kerr Warrington

Foreign members

 * 1) Piet Borst
 * 2) Albert Jakob Eschenmoser
 * 3) Antonio Garcia-Bellido
 * 4) Joseph Bishop Keller
 * 5) Edwin Herbert Land (1909–1991)
 * 6) Shosaku Numa  (1929–1992)

Elected under Statute 12

 * 1) Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield (1904–1996)