Esta é a lista de presidentes da Sociedade Real de Edimburgo (Escócia).
Século XIX NºInícioFimNome117831812Henry Scott, 3.º duque de Buccleuch, 5.º duque de Queensberry218121820Sir James Hall, FRS318201832Sir Walter Scott418321860Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane518601864Duque de Argyll, FRS618641868Reitor Sir David Brewster, FRS718691873Sir Robert Christison818731878Sir William Thomson (depois Lord Kelvin), PRS918781879Reverendo Philip Kelland, FRS1018791884Lord Moncreiff de Tullibole1118841885Thomas Stevenson1218861890Sir William Thomson (depois Lord Kelvin), PRS1318901895Sir Douglas Maclagan
Século XX NºInícioFimNome1418951907Lord Kelvin, PRS1519081913Reitor Sir William Turner Thiselton Dyer, FRS1619131915Professor James Geikie1719151919John Horne1819191924Professor Frederick Orpen Bower, FRS1919241929Sir James Alfred Ewing2019291934Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer2119341939Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson2219391944Professor Sir E. T. Whittaker2319441949Professor Sir William Wright Smith2419491954Professor James Kendall, FRS2519541958Professor James Ritchie2619581959Professor J. Norman Davidson, FRS2719591964Professor Sir Edmund Hirst, FRS2819641967Professor J. Norman Davidson, FRS2919671970Professor Norman Feather, FRS30l9701973Sir Maurice Yonge, CBE, FRS3119731976Lorde Cameron3219761979Professor R. A. Smith, CBE , FRS3319791982Sir Kenneth Blaxter, FRS3419821985Sir John Atwell, CBE3519851988Sir Alwyn Williams, FRS3619881991Professor Charles Kemball, CBE, FRS3719911993Professor Sir Alastair Currie3819931996Dr Thomas L. Johnston3919961999Professor Malcolm Jeeves, CBE
Século XXI NºInícioFimNome4019992002Sir William Stewart, FRS4120022005Stewart Ross Sutherland (Barão Sutherland de Houndwood)422005—Sir Michael Atiyah, OM, FRS
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