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Our donors

Thank you

The Royal Society relies on donations from generous individuals and organisations to maintain its independence and promote high-quality science. The Society would like to thank the following outstanding donors, as well as those who wish to remain anonymous, who have supported its work over the past financial year (2024-25). 

Fellows and Friends of the Royal Society

Sir Adrian Bird CBE FMedSci FRS
Dr Alan Smith CBE FRS
Mr Alexander Laws
Mrs Amy Coad
Professor Andrew Knoll ForMemRS
Professor Angela Vincent FMedSci FRS
Professor Anthony Movshon ForMemRS
Sir Antony Hoare FREng FRS
Professor Butler Lampson ForMemRS
Professor Carl Wunsch ForMemRS
Professor Carla Shatz ForMemRS
Professor David Aldous FRS
Professor Edward Witten ForMemRS
Ms Elizabeth Knox
Professor Elliot Meyerowitz ForMemRS
Professor Ernest Wright FRS
Lady Fiona Wilson
Sir Geoffrey Allen FREng FRS
Professor George Cross FRS
Professor Girish Agarwal FRS
Professor Harold Varmus ForMemRS
Professor Harry Bryden FRS
Professor Harry Gray ForMemRS
Professor Ian Grant FRS
Professor James Naismith FMedSci FRS
Professor Jeffery Dangl ForMemRS
Ms Jennifer Cormack
Sir Jim Smith FMedSci FRS
Mr John Breckon
Mr John Hare
Professor John Kuriyan ForMemRS
Mr John Pateman
Professor John Willis FRS
Professor Joseph Goldstein ForMemRS
Mr Joshua Heames
Professor Kamal Bawa FRS
Professor Karen Vogtmann FRS
Dame Kate Bingham DBE FMedSci HonFREng FRS
Dr Kym O'Brien
Mr Luca Facchino
Mr Matthew Slate
Dr Marcia McNutt ForMemRS
Professor Martin Vessey CBE FMedSci FRS
Sir Martyn Poliakoff CBE FREng FRS
Professor Mary Rees FRS
Dr Matthew C Levy
Professor Michael McIntyre FRS
Professor Stan Whittingham FRS
Miss Morapi Vyas
Professor Nam-Hai Chua FRS
Professor Nigel Grindley FRS
Professor Peter Littlewood FRS
Professor Peter McCullagh FRS
Mr Qiying Fang
Professor Richard Harland FRS
Sir Richard Roberts FRS
Dr Richard Wood FRS
Professor Richard Zare ForMemRS
Professor Robert Fettiplace FRS
Professor Ruth Lehmann ForMemRS
Ms Sharon Bray
Mrs Shirley Zangwill
Professor Simon Tavaré FMedSci FRS
Mr Stefan Young
Professor Stephen Pope FRS
Sir Tom Blundell FMedSci FRS
Mr Tom Peri
Professor Tony Hunter FRS
Mrs Tracey Olsen
Mr Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Professor Veronica van Heyningen CBE FMedSci FRS
Sir Walter Bodmer FMedSci FRS
Professor Warren Ewens FRS
Professor Wendy Freedman FRS

Organisations

AstraZeneca plc
EP Abraham Cephalosporin Fund
Jaguar Land Rover Limited
K.C. Wong Education Foundation
London Mathematical Society
L'Oreal (UK) Limited
M and A Brown Family Foundation
Rolls-Royce Group plc
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Royal Statistical Society
Sino-British Fellowship Trust
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Tata Sons Private Limited
The Leverhulme Trust
The Martin Family Charitable Fund
The R N and G Maini Charitable Trust
The Wolfson Foundation
The Yusuf and Farida Hamied Foundation
Trivedi Family Foundation

Legacies

Mr Abdul Hameed
Dr Anne Silk
Dr Elizabeth Graham
Professor Stephen Halford FRS

Previous donors