MacTutorFellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Chronological List
Below is a list of about 330 Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh who were (among other things) mathematicians.You can find out more about them by clicking the link alongside. For those with a biography in our archive there is also a link to the biography.
There is also a list ordered alphabetically, and you can also read about the history of the RSE.
| Name | Election Year | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick Copland | 1783 | More info | |
| Alexander Cumming | 1783 | More info | |
| Benjamin Franklin | 1783 | More info | View biography |
| Thomas Gordon | 1783 | More info | |
| William Greenfield | 1783 | More info | |
| Robert Hamilton | 1783 | More info | |
| James Hutton | 1783 | More info | View biography |
| William Miller of Glenlee, Lord Glenlee | 1783 | More info | |
| John Playfair | 1783 | More info | View biography |
| Thomas Reid | 1783 | More info | |
| John Robison | 1783 | More info | |
| Robert Small | 1783 | More info | |
| Matthew Stewart | 1783 | More info | View biography |
| Dugald Stewart | 1783 | More info | View biography |
| William Trail | 1783 | More info | View biography |
| Nicholas Vilant | 1783 | More info | View biography |
| James Williamson | 1783 | More info | |
| Alexander Wilson | 1783 | More info | View biography |
| Anders Johan Lexell | 1784 | More info | View biography |
| Nevil Maskelyne | 1784 | More info | View biography |
| Charles Hutton | 1786 | More info | View biography |
| Joseph Louis Lagrange | 1790 | More info | View biography |
| John Kemp | 1792 | More info | |
| Andrew Mackay | 1793 | More info | |
| James Glenie (Glennie) | 1794 | More info | View biography |
| Jesse Ramsden | 1798 | More info | View biography |
| Thomas MacKnight | 1799 | More info | |
| Alexander Christison | 1800 | More info | |
| William Wallace | 1804 | More info | View biography |
| John Leslie | 1807 | More info | View biography |
| William Archibald Cadell Of Banton | 1812 | More info | |
| William Archibald Cadell of Banton | 1812 | More info | |
| James Jardine | 1812 | More info | |
| Pierre Simon Laplace | 1813 | More info | View biography |
| Dominique Francois Jean Arago | 1815 | More info | View biography |
| Jean Baptiste Biot | 1815 | More info | View biography |
| Henry Thomas Colebrooke | 1816 | More info | |
| Nathaniel Bowditch | 1818 | More info | View biography |
| Marshall Hall | 1819 | More info | View biography |
| Charles Babbage | 1820 | More info | View biography |
| Sir John Frederick William Herschel , Bart. | 1820 | More info | |
| Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre | 1820 | More info | View biography |
| Robert Haldane | 1820 | More info | View biography |
| John Frederick William Herschel | 1820 | More info | View biography |
| Gaspard Clair Francois Marie Riche de Prony | 1820 | More info | View biography |
| Karl Friedrich Gauss | 1820 | More info | View biography |
| Adrien Marie Legendre | 1820 | More info | View biography |
| Simeon Denis Poisson | 1820 | More info | View biography |
| Gaspard Clair Francois Marie Riche de Prony | 1820 | More info | |
| Henry Parr Hamilton | 1822 | More info | |
| Heinrich Christian Schumacher | 1822 | More info | |
| Edward Troughton | 1822 | More info | View biography |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel | 1823 | More info | View biography |
| Scipione Breislak | 1823 | More info | |
| Edward Ffrench Bromhead | 1823 | More info | |
| Adam Burg | 1823 | More info | |
| Francois Pierre Charles Dupin | 1823 | More info | View biography |
| Barnaba Oriani | 1823 | More info | |
| John Brinkley | 1824 | More info | View biography |
| George Harvey | 1824 | More info | View biography |
| Davies Gilbert, (until 1817 Giddy) | 1828 | More info | |
| Thomas Stephens Davies | 1831 | More info | View biography |
| Thomas Henderson | 1834 | More info | |
| George Biddell Airy | 1835 | More info | View biography |
| Michael Faraday | 1835 | More info | View biography |
| William Rowan Hamilton | 1835 | More info | View biography |
| James Ivory | 1835 | More info | View biography |
| Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana | 1835 | More info | View biography |
| Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet | 1835 | More info | View biography |
| Edward Sang | 1836 | More info | View biography |
| Archibald Smith Of Jordanhill | 1837 | More info | |
| Archibald Smith of Jordanhill | 1837 | More info | |
| Philip Kelland | 1839 | More info | View biography |
| Charles Hughes Terrot | 1840 | More info | View biography |
| Augustin Louis Cauchy | 1845 | More info | View biography |
| Karl Gustav Jacob Jacobi | 1845 | More info | View biography |
| William Whewell | 1845 | More info | View biography |
| Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier | 1847 | More info | View biography |
| Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier | 1847 | More info | |
| William Thomson, Lord Kelvin | 1847 | More info | View biography |
| William Swan | 1848 | More info | |
| John Couch Adams | 1849 | More info | View biography |
| William John Macquorn Rankine | 1850 | More info | View biography |
| Hugh Blackburn | 1850 | More info | View biography |
| Thomas Miller | 1852 | More info | |
| James Clerk Maxwell of Glenlair | 1856 | More info | View biography |
| William Henry Fox Talbot | 1858 | More info | View biography |
| Peter Guthrie Tait | 1861 | More info | View biography |
| Joseph David Everett | 1863 | More info | View biography |
| Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz | 1864 | More info | View biography |
| Arthur Cayley | 1865 | More info | View biography |
| George Gabriel Stokes | 1865 | More info | View biography |
| Thomas Carlyle | 1866 | More info | View biography |
| Benjamin Peirce | 1867 | More info | View biography |
| Gustav Robert Kirchhoff | 1868 | More info | View biography |
| John Mclaren, (Lord Mclaren) | 1869 | More info | |
| David Munn | 1869 | More info | View biography |
| John Hunter | 1870 | More info | |
| Robert Walker | 1873 | More info | |
| Thomas Bond Sprague | 1874 | More info | View biography |
| James Joseph Sylvester | 1874 | More info | View biography |
| Wilhelm Eduard Weber | 1874 | More info | View biography |
| Ernst Eduard Kummer | 1875 | More info | View biography |
| Joseph Liouville | 1875 | More info | View biography |
| William Jack | 1875 | More info | View biography |
| James Douglas Hamilton Dickson | 1876 | More info | View biography |
| Thomas Romney Robinson | 1876 | More info | View biography |
| Henry John Stephen Smith | 1876 | More info | View biography |
| Peter Redford Scott Lang | 1878 | More info | View biography |
| Peter Redford Scott Lang | 1878 | More info | View biography |
| John Wilson | 1878 | More info | View biography |
| Alexander MacFarlane | 1878 | More info | |
| Johann Benedict Listing | 1879 | More info | View biography |
| George Chrystal | 1880 | More info | View biography |
| Cargill Gilston Knott | 1880 | More info | View biography |
| Simon Newcomb | 1881 | More info | View biography |
| George Salmon | 1881 | More info | View biography |
| Arthur Henry Hallam Anglin | 1881 | More info | |
| John Sturgeon Mackay | 1882 | More info | View biography |
| William Thomson | 1882 | More info | |
| David Henry Marshall | 1882 | More info | |
| Luigi Cremona | 1883 | More info | View biography |
| William Spottiswoode | 1883 | More info | View biography |
| Andrew Gray | 1883 | More info | View biography |
| Charles Hermite | 1884 | More info | View biography |
| John Edward Aloysius Steggall | 1885 | More info | View biography |
| D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson | 1885 | More info | |
| Andrew Jeffrey Gunion Barclay | 1886 | More info | View biography |
| William J Macdonald | 1886 | More info | View biography |
| William Milne | 1886 | More info | |
| Hubert Anson Newton | 1886 | More info | View biography |
| John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh | 1886 | More info | View biography |
| Asutosh Mukhopâdhyay | 1886 | More info | |
| Andrew Thomson | 1887 | More info | |
| William Peddie | 1887 | More info | View biography |
| John W Capstick | 1887 | More info | |
| Robert Edgar Allardice | 1888 | More info | View biography |
| Rudolph Julius Emmanuel Clausius | 1888 | More info | View biography |
| Robert Stawell Ball | 1889 | More info | View biography |
| John Alison | 1889 | More info | View biography |
| George Alexander Gibson | 1889 | More info | View biography |
| John Brown Clark | 1891 | More info | View biography |
| Arthur John Pressland | 1892 | More info | |
| Ludwig Becker | 1893 | More info | |
| George Andreas Berry | 1893 | More info | |
| John Cook | 1894 | More info | |
| James Burgess | 1894 | More info | |
| Ludwig Boltzmann | 1895 | More info | View biography |
| Jules Henri Poincare | 1895 | More info | View biography |
| Robert Robertson | 1896 | More info | |
| John Watt Butters | 1896 | More info | View biography |
| Alexander Morgan | 1896 | More info | View biography |
| George Howard Darwin | 1897 | More info | View biography |
| Charles Tweedie | 1897 | More info | View biography |
| George Duthie | 1899 | More info | |
| James Taylor | 1899 | More info | View biography |
| Andrew Russell Forsyth | 1900 | More info | View biography |
| George Francis FitzGerald | 1900 | More info | View biography |
| James Mitchell | 1900 | More info | View biography |
| Horatio Scott Carslaw | 1901 | More info | View biography |
| Edward Smart | 1901 | More info | |
| James Goodwillie | 1901 | More info | |
| Alexander G Burgess | 1902 | More info | View biography |
| William H Metzler | 1902 | More info | View biography |
| Jean Gaston Darboux | 1902 | More info | View biography |
| Lawrence (Laurence) Crawford | 1903 | More info | View biography |
| Donald Cameron McIntosh | 1903 | More info | View biography |
| Robert Taylor Skinner | 1903 | More info | |
| Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn | 1903 | More info | View biography |
| Ernest George Coker | 1903 | More info | |
| James Wallace Peck | 1904 | More info | |
| Ellice Martin Horsburgh | 1904 | More info | View biography |
| John Angus Macdonald | 1904 | More info | |
| Moritz Cantor | 1905 | More info | View biography |
| Hector Munro Macdonald | 1905 | More info | View biography |
| Archibald Milne | 1905 | More info | View biography |
| Peter Pinkerton | 1905 | More info | View biography |
| George William Jones | 1905 | More info | View biography |
| Alexander Durie Russell | 1905 | More info | View biography |
| Ernest Maclagan Wedderburn | 1907 | More info | |
| Alexander Brown | 1907 | More info | View biography |
| James Archibald | 1907 | More info | View biography |
| John Thomson Pearce | 1907 | More info | |
| George William Hill | 1907 | More info | View biography |
| James Ireland Craig | 1908 | More info | View biography |
| Devendra Nath Mallik | 1908 | More info | |
| James Gordon Gray | 1909 | More info | View biography |
| Alexander David Ross | 1909 | More info | |
| Peter Comrie | 1909 | More info | View biography |
| David Gibb | 1910 | More info | View biography |
| John Miller | 1910 | More info | View biography |
| Joseph Larmor | 1910 | More info | View biography |
| Duncan M'laren Young Sommerville | 1911 | More info | View biography |
| Robert Alexander Houstoun | 1911 | More info | |
| Ralph Allan Sampson | 1911 | More info | View biography |
| Edmund Taylor Whittaker | 1912 | More info | View biography |
| Horace Lamb | 1913 | More info | View biography |
| Vito Volterra | 1913 | More info | View biography |
| Peter Ramsay | 1914 | More info | View biography |
| James Bonnyman Ritchie | 1914 | More info | |
| Raymond Keiller Butchart | 1915 | More info | View biography |
| Robert John Tainsh Bell | 1916 | More info | View biography |
| Hyman Levy | 1916 | More info | View biography |
| James Whitbread Lee Glaisher | 1916 | More info | View biography |
| Frederick Phillips | 1917 | More info | |
| William John Dundas | 1919 | More info | |
| Alexander Ritchie Scott | 1919 | More info | View biography |
| Thomas Bedford Franklin | 1920 | More info | View biography |
| Thomas A Lindsay | 1920 | More info | |
| John Marshall | 1920 | More info | |
| Hendrik Antoon Lorentz | 1920 | More info | View biography |
| Charles Emile Picard | 1920 | More info | View biography |
| Bevan Braithwaite Baker (Bevan-Baker) | 1921 | More info | View biography |
| John Dougall | 1921 | More info | View biography |
| James Alexander George Lamb | 1921 | More info | |
| Neil M'Arthur | 1921 | More info | |
| Dugald Black M'Quistan | 1921 | More info | |
| John M'Whan | 1921 | More info | |
| Thomas Murray MacRobert | 1921 | More info | View biography |
| Neil McArthur | 1921 | More info | View biography |
| Dugald Black McQuistan | 1921 | More info | View biography |
| John McWhan | 1921 | More info | View biography |
| Edward Burns Ross | 1921 | More info | View biography |
| Salvatore Pincherle | 1921 | More info | View biography |
| Herbert Westren Turnbull | 1922 | More info | View biography |
| Walter Brown | 1923 | More info | View biography |
| Adam Mitchell Hunter | 1923 | More info | |
| Edward Lindsay Ince | 1923 | More info | View biography |
| Tullio Levi-Cevita | 1923 | More info | |
| Tullio Levi-Civita | 1923 | More info | View biography |
| Thomas Arnold Brown | 1924 | More info | View biography |
| Edward Thomas Copson | 1924 | More info | View biography |
| Ramaswamy S Vaidyanathaswami | 1924 | More info | |
| Alexander Craig Aitken | 1925 | More info | View biography |
| George Samuel Eastwood | 1925 | More info | View biography |
| William Leonard Ferrar | 1925 | More info | View biography |
| William Saddler | 1925 | More info | |
| James Alexander M'Bride | 1926 | More info | |
| James Alexander McBride | 1926 | More info | View biography |
| Godfrey Hilton Thomson | 1926 | More info | |
| James Hyslop | 1927 | More info | |
| Robert Schlapp | 1927 | More info | View biography |
| Niels Henrik David Bohr | 1927 | More info | View biography |
| Albert Einstein | 1927 | More info | View biography |
| William Vallance Douglas Hodge | 1928 | More info | View biography |
| John MacNaughten Whittaker | 1928 | More info | View biography |
| John Williamson | 1928 | More info | View biography |
| Frederick Bath | 1929 | More info | View biography |
| John Mackie | 1929 | More info | View biography |
| Selwyn Read | 1929 | More info | |
| Richard Alexander Robb | 1929 | More info | View biography |
| Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes | 1930 | More info | View biography |
| Arthur Stanley Eddington | 1930 | More info | View biography |
| Thomas Purves Black | 1931 | More info | View biography |
| Nicholas Morpeth Hutchinson Lightfoot | 1931 | More info | |
| William Hunter McCrea | 1931 | More info | View biography |
| Harold Stanley Ruse | 1931 | More info | View biography |
| John Wishart | 1931 | More info | View biography |
| James Balfour Lockhart | 1932 | More info | View biography |
| Gorakh Prasad | 1932 | More info | View biography |
| William Fleetwood Sheppard | 1932 | More info | View biography |
| Robert Pollock Gillespie | 1933 | More info | View biography |
| William Gilmour Guthrie | 1933 | More info | View biography |
| Louis Melville Milne-Thomson | 1933 | More info | View biography |
| Geoffrey Timms | 1933 | More info | View biography |
| William Leonard Edge | 1934 | More info | View biography |
| Ivor Malcolm Haddon Etherington | 1934 | More info | View biography |
| Daniel Edwin Rutherford | 1934 | More info | View biography |
| Bertram Martin Wilson | 1934 | More info | |
| Karl Pearson | 1934 | More info | View biography |
| Charles Vernon Boys | 1936 | More info | View biography |
| George Alfred Leon Sarton | 1936 | More info | |
| Edward Maitland Wright | 1937 | More info | View biography |
| Sasindra Chandra Dhar | 1937 | More info | |
| John Watson Robertson | 1937 | More info | |
| Andrew White Young | 1937 | More info | View biography |
| Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck | 1937 | More info | View biography |
| Federigo Enriques | 1938 | More info | View biography |
| Geoffrey Ingram Taylor | 1938 | More info | View biography |
| William Michael Herbert Greaves | 1939 | More info | View biography |
| Alexander Fairley Buchan | 1940 | More info | View biography |
| Charles Alfred Coulson | 1941 | More info | View biography |
| Erwin Finlay Freundlich | 1941 | More info | View biography |
| John Gibson Gibson | 1941 | More info | |
| James Cossar | 1942 | More info | |
| Charles Strachan | 1942 | More info | |
| William Wither McClelland | 1943 | More info | |
| George Cunliffe McVittie | 1943 | More info | View biography |
| Henry Frederick Baker | 1943 | More info | View biography |
| George David Birkhoff | 1943 | More info | View biography |
| Oswald Veblen | 1943 | More info | View biography |
| Walter Ledermann | 1944 | More info | View biography |
| Leslie Bennet Craigie Cunningham | 1945 | More info | View biography |
| Arthur Erdelyi (formerly Diamant) | 1945 | More info | View biography |
| Albert Cyril Offord | 1946 | More info | View biography |
| Arthur Geoffrey Walker | 1946 | More info | View biography |
| Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac | 1946 | More info | View biography |
| Jacques Salomon Hadamard | 1946 | More info | View biography |
| Godfrey Harold Hardy | 1946 | More info | View biography |
| Leslie Maurice Brown | 1947 | More info | |
| James Morton Hyslop | 1947 | More info | |
| John Meadows Jackson | 1947 | More info | View biography |
| Archibald James Macintyre | 1947 | More info | View biography |
| Rene Maurice Frechet | 1947 | More info | View biography |
| George Neville Watson | 1949 | More info | View biography |
| Caleb Andrew Stewart | 1950 | More info | |
| Joseph Langley Burchnall | 1953 | More info | View biography |
| Sydney Chapman | 1953 | More info | View biography |
| Harold Jeffreys | 1953 | More info | View biography |
| Edward Foyle Collingwood | 1954 | More info | View biography |
| Nicholas Kemmer | 1954 | More info | |
| Noel Bryan Slater | 1954 | More info | View biography |
| Alexander Murray Macbeath | 1955 | More info | View biography |
| Robert Alexander Rankin | 1955 | More info | View biography |
| Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer | 1955 | More info | View biography |
| George Murray Burnett | 1956 | More info | |
| Alexander Oppenheim | 1956 | More info | View biography |
| Swarupchand Mohanlal Shah | 1957 | More info | |
| Sheila Scott Macintyre, née Scott | 1958 | More info | View biography |
| Robert Osborne | 1958 | More info | |
| Ian Naismith Sneddon | 1958 | More info | View biography |
| Reginald Douglas Lord | 1960 | More info | |
| Benjamin Noble | 1961 | More info | View biography |
| Andrew George Mackie | 1962 | More info | |
| John Brian Helliwell | 1963 | More info | |
| Sergei Lvovich Sobolev | 1963 | More info | View biography |
| Alexander Provan Robertson | 1966 | More info | |
| Kasimierz Kuratowski | 1966 | More info | View biography |
| Mary Lucy Cartwright | 1968 | More info | View biography |
| Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh | 1968 | More info | |
| Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh | 1968 | More info | View biography |
| Sidney Michaelson | 1969 | More info | |
| Crispin St John Alvah Nash-Williams | 1969 | More info | View biography |
| Raymond Smart | 1969 | More info | |
| Robert Allan Smith | 1969 | More info | |
| Henry Jack | 1970 | More info | View biography |
| William George Penney | 1970 | More info | View biography |
| David Stanley Butler | 1972 | More info | |
| Paul Richard Halmos | 1975 | More info | View biography |
| George Eason | 1975 | More info | |
| Ake Pleijel | 1975 | More info | View biography |
| Gaetano Fichera | 1976 | More info | View biography |
| Samuel Newby Curle | 1977 | More info | View biography |
| Witold Nowacki | 1979 | More info | |
| Frank Matthews Leslie | 1980 | More info | |
| John William Scott Cassels | 1981 | More info | View biography |
| Alexander Duncan Davidson Craik | 1983 | More info | View biography |
| Olga Oleinik | 1983 | More info | View biography |
| Ian David Macdonald | 1984 | More info | |
| Michael Francis Atiyah | 1985 | More info | View biography |
| Robert Winston Keith Odoni | 1996 | More info |