The British Academy consists of world-leading scholars and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. Each year, it elects fellows to its membership. The following were elected in the 1940s.

• Dr Z. N. Brooke
• Rev. M. P. Charlesworth
• Professor V. Gordon Childe
• Sir Cyril Fox
• C. J. Gadd
• Dr E. Prestage
• Professor D. S. Robertson
• Dr W. A. Shaw
• Lord Wright

• J. Allan
• Dr A. B. Cook
• Dr A. C. Ewing
• Professor E. Fraenkel
• T. D. Kendrick
• F. J. E. Raby
• K. Sisam
• Sidney Smith
• Professor H. T. Wade-Gery
• Dr R. E. Mortimer Wheeler

• Dr E. R. Bevan
• Professor E. R. Dodds
• Dr J. L. le B. Hammond
• Professor J. R. Hicks
• Professor L. C. Robbins
• E. S. G. Robinson
• Professor R. L. Turner

• Christopher Dawson
• J. Goronwy Edwards
• A. S. F. Gow
• Professor Battiscombe Gunn
• Professor H. H. Price
• Professor F. P. Wilson

• Dr C. K. Allen
• Professor H. W. Bailey
• G. Caton Thompson
• Professor H. A. R. Gibb
• Professor F. A. von Hayek
• Dr F. E. Hutchinson
• Dr W. H. S. Jones
• Professor R. A. B. Mynors
• Professor L. B. Namier
• Dr F. Saxl
• Ronald Syme
• Harold Williams

• Professor B. H. Sumner
• Helen Cam
• Professor T. W. Manson
• A. D. Waley
• Sir R. O. Winstedt
• E. F. Carritt
• Professor G. C. Cheshire
• Professor A. J. B. Wace

• Sir A. Carr-Saunders
• Rev. C. H. Dodd
• Professor S. R. K. Glanville
• Professor R. Hackforth
• Professor E. F. Jacob
• H. Mattingly
• Professor H. J. Paton
• Professor T. F. T. Plucknett
• Professor W. L. Renwick
• Professor E. Ll. Woodward

• Sir E. Barker
• O. G. S. Crawford
• Professor K. A. C. Creswell
• H. Darbishire
• Sir C. Flower
• Professor A. W. Gomme
• R. F. Harrod
• Professor A. H. M. Jones
• Professor M. D. Knowles
• I. A Richmond
• C. H. Roberts
• Professor H. H. Rowley
• Rev. J. M. Thompson
• Professor B. Willey

• Professor Sir Reginald Coupland
• Professor G. C. Field
• Professor C. F. C. Hawkes
• Professor Sir Hubert Henderson
• Dr P. E. Kahle
• Rev. Dr W. L. Knox
• Professor H. Lauterpacht
• W. A. Pantin
• Professor R. Pares
• Rev. Professor C. E. Raven
• Professor Leon Roth
• Dr J. V. Scholderer
• F. Wormald

• Professor A. J. Arberry
• Dr R. W. Chapman
• Sir Kenneth Clark
• Professor David Douglas
• Professor R. W. Firth
• Rev. Dr W. F. Howard
• Professor J. E. Neale
• Dr Rudolf Pfeiffer
• A. E. Popham

• Fellows of the British Academy

The above names are taken from the British Academy Annual Reports, found in the Proceedings of the British Academy for the years 1940 to 1949.