title: List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1981
text: # List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1981
  
  This is a list of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1981.
  
  ## Fellows
  
  * Norman Laurence Franklin (1924–1986)
  * John Guest Phillips (1933–1987)
  * Dennis Frederick Evans (1928–1990)
  * John Adair Barker (1925–1995)
  * Michael Rex Horne (1921–2000)
  * Frank Reginald Farmer (1914–2001)
  * Fred Brown (1925–2004)
  * Autar Singh Paintal (1925–2004)
  * David John Wheeler (1927–2004)
  * Sir Ian Alexander McGregor (1922–2007)
  * Sir Robert William Kerr Honeycombe (1921–2007)
  * Sir John McGregor Hill (1921–2008)
  * Britton Chance (1913–2010)
  * John Ashworth Nelder (1924–2010)
  * Walter Plowright (1923–2010)
  * Fraser John Bergersen (1929–2011)
  * Wallace Leslie William Sargent (1935–2012)
  * Ian Butterworth (1930–2013)
  * Malcolm Roy Clarke (1930–2013)
  * Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich (1923–2017)
  * Allan Stuart Hay (1929–2017)
  * Robert Norman Clayton (1930–2017)
  * Eric Albert Barnard (1927–2018)
  * Peter Bradshaw
  * David Maurice Brink
  * Brandon Carter
  * John Horton Conway (1937–2020)
  * Rex Malcolm Chaplin Dawson
  * Christopher Forbes Graham
  * Norman Michael Green
  * Herbert Gutfreund
  * Kenneth Charles Holmes
  * Yuet Wai Kan
  * Robert Phelan Langlands
  * Simon Hugh Piper Maddrell
  * Michael John O'Hara
  * Edward Roy Pike
  * Kenneth Alwyne Pounds
  * Sir David Allan Rees
  * Colin Bernard Reese
  * Edward Reich
  * John Clayton Taylor
  * James Dewey Watson
  * Steven Weinberg
  