List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1987

This is a list of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1987.

Fellows

 * Robert McNeill Alexander
 * George Brownlee
 * Bruce Macintosh Cattanach
 * John Frederick Clarke (1927–2013)
 * William Compston
 * Donald Watts Davies (1924–2000)
 * Peter Charles Doherty
 * Duncan Dowson
 * John William Fozard (1928–1996)
 * Coluthur Gopalan
 * Peter Raymond Grant
 * James Alexander Green
 * Norman Neill Greenwood (1949–2012)
 * Bryan Desmond Harrison
 * Michael Patrick Hassell
 * Anthony Rex Hunter
 * Herbert Eric Huppert
 * Olga Kennard (d. 2023)
 * Anthony John Kirby
 * William Graeme Laver (d. 2008)
 * Rodney Loudon
 * Nicholas John Mackintosh
 * Sir Peter Mansfield
 * Terence Arthur Mansfield
 * James Desmond Caldwell McConnell
 * Peter Hague Nye (d. 2009)
 * David Ian Olive (1937–2012)
 * Oliver Penrose
 * John Douglas Pettigrew
 * Terence Howard Rabbitts
 * Benton Seymour Rabinovitch
 * Edward Peter Raynes
 * Peter Neville Robson (d. 2010)
 * Sir Michael Llewellyn Rutter (born 1933)
 * Roman Mieczyslaw Sawicki (1930–1990)
 * Anthony James Merrill Spencer (1929–2008)
 * Patrick Christopher Steptoe (1913–1988)
 * William Thomas Tutte (1917–2002)
 * James Kay Graham Watson
 * Sir Martin Francis Wood

Foreign members

 * David Baltimore (1938–
 * Norman Ernest Borlaug (1914–2009)
 * Walter Gilbert
 * Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (1916–2009)
 * George Rankine Irwin (1907–1998)
 * Rudolph Arthur Marcus (born 1923)

Other

 * Sir Peter Markham Scott (1909–1989) (elected under statute 12)
 * Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Princess Royal (elected a Royal Fellow)