Presidents of The Royal Society
| Years | President | Profession | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1662-1677 | The Viscount Brouncker | Mathematician | |
| 1677-1680 | Sir Joseph Williamson | Civil servant and politician | |
| 1680-1682 | Sir Christopher Wren | Architect | |
| 1682-1683 | Sir John Hoskyns | Baronet | |
| 1683-1684 | Cyril Wyche | Lawyer and politician | |
| 1684-1686 | Samuel Pepys | Naval administrator and Member of Parliament | |
| 1686-1689 | The Earl of Carbery | Politician | |
| 1689-1690 | The Earl of Pembroke | Politician | |
| 1690-1695 | Sir Robert Southwell | Diplomat | |
| 1695-1698 | The Earl of Halifax | Poet and statesman | |
| 1698-1703 | The Lord Somers | Jurist and statesman | |
| 1703-1727 | Sir Isaac Newton | Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian | |
| 1727-1741 | Sir Hans Sloane | Physician and collector | |
| 1741-1752 | Martin Folkes | Antiquarian | |
| 1752-1764 | The Earl of Macclesfield | Astronomer | |
| 1764-1768 | The Earl of Morton | Astronomer and representative peer | |
| 1768-1768 | James Burrow | Legal reporter | |
| 1768-1772 | James West | Politician and antiquarian | |
| 1772-1772 | James Burrow | Legal reporter | |
| 1772-1778 | Sir John Pringle | Physician | |
| 1778-1820 | Sir Joseph Banks | Naturalist and botanist | |
| 1820-1820 | William Hyde Wollaston | Chemist | |
| 1820-1827 | Sir Humphry Davy | Chemist and inventor | |
| 1827-1830 | Davies Gilbert | Engineer, author and politician | |
| 1830-1838 | HRH The Duke of Sussex | Sixth son of George III of the United Kingdom | |
| 1838-1848 | The Marquess of Northampton | Nobleman | |
| 1848-1854 | The Earl of Rosse | Astronomer | |
| 1854-1858 | The Lord Wrottesley | Astronomer | |
| 1858-1861 | Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Bt. | Physiologist and surgeon | |
| 1861-1871 | Sir Edward Sabine | Astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist and explorer | |
| 1871-1873 | Sir George Biddell Airy | Mathematician and astronomer | |
| 1873-1878 | Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker | Botanist and explorer | |
| 1878-1883 | William H Spottiswoode | Mathematician and physicist | |
| 1883-1885 | The Rt. Hon. Thomas Henry Huxley, P.C. | Biologist | |
| 1885-1890 | Sir George Stokes | Mathematician and physicist | |
| 1890-1895 | The Lord Kelvin | Mathematical physicist | |
| 1895-1900 | The Lord Lister | Surgeon | |
| 1900-1905 | Sir William Huggins | Astronomer | |
| 1905-1908 | The Lord Rayleigh | Physicist | |
| 1908-1913 | Sir Archibald Geikie | Geologist and writer | |
| 1913-1915 | Sir William Crookes | Chemist and physicist | |
| 1915-1920 | Sir Joseph John Thomson | Physicist | |
| 1920-1925 | Sir Charles Scott Sherrington | Neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist | |
| 1925-1930 | The Lord Rutherford of Nelson | Physicist and chemist | |
| 1930-1935 | Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins | Biophysicist | |
| 1935-1940 | Sir William Henry Bragg | Physicist, chemist and mathematician | |
| 1940-1945 | Sir Henry Hallett Dale | Pharmacologist and physiologist | |
| 1945-1950 | Sir Robert Robinson | Organic chemist | |
| 1950-1955 | The Lord Adrian | Electrophysiologist | |
| 1955-1960 | Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood | Physical chemist | |
| 1960-1965 | The Lord Florey | Pharmacologist and pathologist | |
| 1965-1970 | The Lord Blackett | Physicist | |
| 1970-1975 | Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin | Physiologist and Biophysicist | |
| 1975-1980 | The Lord Todd | Biochemist | |
| 1980-1985 | Sir Andrew Huxley | Physiologist and biophysicist | |
| 1985-1990 | Sir George Porter | Chemist | |
| 1990-1995 | Sir Michael Atiyah | Mathematician | |
| 1995-2000 | Sir Aaron Klug | Chemist and biophysicist | |
| 2000-2005 | The Lord May of Oxford | Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government | |
| 2005-2010 | The Lord Rees of Ludlow | Cosmologist and astrophysicist | |
| 2010-present | Sir Paul Nurse | Geneticist and cell biologist | |
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