title: List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1987
text: # 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 (b.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 (b.1923)
  
  ## Other
  
  * Sir Peter Markham Scott (1909–1989) (elected under statute 12)
  * Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Princess Royal (elected a Royal Fellow)
  