# List of honorary fellows of the British Academy

The Fellowship of the British Academy consists of world-leading scholars and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. A varying number of fellows are elected each year in July at the Academy's annual general meeting. Honorary fellows are "expected to have 'contributed signally to the promotion of the purposes for which the Academy was founded', either as persons of academic distinction in other fields whose work has a bearing on the humanities or social sciences; or as leading figures or philanthropists who have themselves done distinguished work in the Academy's fields of interest or promoted or advanced the causes for which the Academy was founded." Up to four may be elected each year.

## List

Names, titles and additional information are formatted as they appear in the cited source(s).
| Year elected | Name and additional information |
| 1916 | Rt Hon. the Earl of Cromer, GCB, OM |
| 1916 | Rt Hon. Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, GCMG |
| 1921 | Rt Rev. Bishop G. Forrest Browne |
| 1922 | Dr Charles Montagu Doughty |
| 1922 | Rt Hon. Lord Phillimore |
| 1923 | Dr Francis Herbert Bradley, OM |
| 1929 | Rev. Professor A. H. Sayce |
| 1938 | The Viscount Wakefield |
| 1949 | The Earl Russell |
| 1950 | Sir Frederic Kenyon |
| 1952 | Rt Hon. Sir Winston Churchill, KG, OM |
| 1953 | The King of Sweden |
| 1954 | Senator Luigi Einaudi, President of the Italian Republic |
| 1962 | Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, President of the Republic of India |
| 1979 | The Lord Denning |
| 1980 | Dr M. Aylwin Cotton |
| 1980 | Sir William Deakin |
| 1980 | Sir Geoffrey Keynes |
| 1981 | Harold Macmillan |
| 1981 | Sir Peter Medawar |
| 1982 | A. W. Lawrence |
| 1982 | W. P. Thesiger |
| 1983 | Hon. The Lord Cameron |
| 1983 | The Lord Ramsey of Canterbury |
| 1984 | Professor E. T. Hall |
| 1984 | Professor D. B. Quinn |
| 1985 | Professor K. Glamann |
| 1986 | Dr H. E. Richardson |
| 1986 | The Lord Wolfson |
| 1986 | Professor J. Z. Young |
| 1987 | Dr D. B. Harden |
| 1988 | J. S. Morrison |
| 1988 | O. C. Tanner |
| 1990 | Sir Rex Richards |
| 1994 | Paul Mellon |
| 1995 | The Lord Young of Dartington |
| 1997 | Sir David Cox |
| 1997 | Sir Kenneth Durham |
| 1998 | Lee Seng Tee |
| 1998 | The Lord Rothschild |
| 2000 | Dr N. MacGregor |
| 2000 | The Baroness Warnock |
| 2000 | The Lord Woolf |
| 2002 | Professor R. A. Hinde |
| 2002 | Professor D. W. Rhind |
| 2002 | Sir Michael Rutter |
| 2003 | The Lord Bingham of Cornhill |
| 2004 | Sir Nicholas Goodison |
| 2004 | The Baroness Hale of Richmond |
| 2005 | The Lord Windlesham |
| 2006 | Dr David Packard |
| 2006 | Dr Lisbet Rausing |
| 2008 | Professor Sir Michael Marmot FRCP, FFPHM, FMedSci, Director, International Institute for Society and Health; MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London |
| 2010 | Lord Bragg of Wigton, FRS, FRSL, FRTS. Chancellor, University of Leeds; independent writer and broadcaster. |
| 2011 | Sir Tim Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, Director, World Wide Web Consortium; 3Com Founders Professor, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. |
| 2011 | Professor Sir Richard Brook, OBE, ScD, FREng, Emeritus Professor, Department of Materials, University of Oxford; Formerly Director of The Leverhulme Trust. |
| 2012 | The Lord Rees of Ludlow, OM, FRS, Master, Trinity College, Cambridge; Former President, Royal Society. |
| 2012 | Dame Fiona Reynolds, DBE. Master, Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Former Chief Executive, The National Trust. |
| 2013 | The Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws, QC, FRSA, Barrister and human rights campaigner |
| 2013 | Robert B. Silvers |
| 2014 | Dame Liz Forgan, DBE |
| 2014 | The Lord O'Donnell, GCB |
| 2015 | Dame Lynne Brindley DBE, FRSA. Master of Pembroke College, Oxford |
| 2015 | Dame Carol Ann Duffy DBE, FRSL. Professor of Contemporary Poetry and Creative Director of the Manchester Writing School, Manchester Metropolitan University; Poet Laureate |
| 2015 | Sir John Eliot Gardiner CBE. Founder and artistic director of the Monteverdi Choir, the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique |
| 2016 | Sir Paul Nurse |
| 2016 | Justice Kate O'Regan |
| 2016 | Lord Sainsbury of Turville |
| 2016 | The Honorable Janet L. Yellen |
| 2017 | Dame Antonia Byatt DBE, CBE, FRSL, novelist |
| 2017 | Graça Machel Hon DBE, Chancellor of the University of Cape Town; President of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London; Founder and Chair, The Graça Machel Trust |
| 2017 | George Soros, Chairman, Soros Fund Management; Founder and Chairman, Open Society Foundations |
| 2017 | Sir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE, FRSL, Playwright and screenwriter; Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre, St Catherine's College, Oxford. |