Often known as Plarr's Lives, the biographies of the original 300 fellows are considered an early social history of English medicine.

The "original fellows" or founding Fellows of the Royal Society are taken to be those who were members by June 1663.

He was named in the 1571 foundation charter of Jesus College, Oxford as one of the original eight fellows.

He was one of the original fellows of the University of Bombay.

These are some of the original fellows.

Dad is the original double-duty fellow: working by day, changing babies and installing electronic dog fences by night.

He had a lifelong interest in natural history and was an original fellow of the Linnean Society, elected on 7 November 1779.

Hooke was one of the society's original fellows and he peppered his notes of the meetings with acerbic asides.

In 1546 he became one of the original fellows of Trinity College, and was a reader in Greek there until his death in 1560.

He was one of the original fellows of the Institute of Chemistry (founded in 1877) and ultimately became its president (1912-15).