List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1940

• William Thomas Astbury • Sir Gavin de Beer • Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman • John Cadman, 1st Baron Cadman • Gilbert Cook • Harold Davenport • Sir Charles F. Goodeve • Frederick Gugenheim Gregory • Sir Alister Hardy • Charles Halliley Kellaway • Sir Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan • Sir Reginald Patrick Linstead • Otto Maass • Sir Harrie Massey • Sir Bryan Matthews • William Harold Pearsall • Juda Hirsch Quastel • Andrew Robertson • Leonard Frank Spath • Willie Sucksmith == Foreign members ==

• Maurice de Broglie • Ross Granville Harrison • Gilbert Newton Lewis • Francis Peyton Rous == References ==