Presidents
- 1924-1926 J McD Field, FRAS
- 1926-1928 Rev Hector Macpherson, MA PhD FRSE FRAS
- 1928-1929 Rev A Mitchell Hunter, DLitt FRSE
- 1929-1930 E A Baker, DSc FRSE
- 1930-1932 J Gall Inglis, FRSE FRAS
- 1932-1934 J C Johnston
- 1934-1936 J Baker Wilson
- 1936-1937 J W Sinclair
- 1937-1938 J Polson, MA BSc
- 1938-1940 Rev J Patrick, MA BSc DD
- 1940-1942 J C Johnston
- 1942-1945 J Baker Wilson
- 1945-1946 C F O Smith, FRAS
- 1946-1947 A C Stephen, DSc FRSE
- 1947-1948 J C Johnston
- 1948-1949 R W Wrigley, MA FRSE
- 1949-1951 D MacNaughton, WS FRSE
- 1951-1952 J D Gardner, BSc FRSE MICE
- 1952-1954 Rev Hector Macpherson, MA PhD FRSE FRAS
- 1954-1955 R W Wrigley, MA FRSE
- 1955-1956 J L Waddie
- 1956-1958 A C Stephen, DSc FRSE
- 1958-1959 M A Ellison, ScD FRSE FRAS
- 1959-1961 R W Plenderleith, BSc FRSE
- 1961-1963 Sherriff J A Forsyth, QC MA LLB BSc
- 1963-1965 J R Liddell, FRAS
- 1965-1967 R J Allan, MA BSc
- 1967-1969 J A Hunter, BSc PhD ARIC
- 1969-1971 R G Fenoulhet
- 1971-1973 R M Gall Inglis
- 1973-1975 E G Crisp
- 1975-1977 A J Rostron, BSc PhD
- 1977-1979 I R Cunningham, FRICS
- 1979-1981 D A Pickup, BEng FRAS FBIS
- 1981-1983 T I R Neil
- 1983-1985 D M Gavine, MA BSc PhD FRAS
- 1985-1987 Ronald G Veitch, FRAS
- 1987-1989 James Shepherd, BSc
- 1989-1989 Jack Heeley, BSc
- 1989-1991 Gerry Taylor, BSc
- 1991-1992 Dave M Gavine, MA BSc PhD FRAS
- 1992-1994 John H Reid, MB ChB FRCR
- 1994-1996 Graham N Rule, BA FRAS FRSSA
- 1996-1998 Jim Nisbet, BSc
- 1998-2000 Alan Ellis, BSc FRAS
- 2000-2003 Lorna McCalman
- 2003-2004 Dave King, BSc
- 2005-2007 Des Loughney, MA BSc
- 2007-2009 Iain McEachran, FRAS
- 2009-2010 Horst Meyerdierks, MSc PhD CPhys MInstP
- 2010-2013 David Small, BSc
- 2013-2015 Kenneth Thomas
- 2015-2018 Seán Wixted, BSc
- 2018-2021 Andrew Farrow
- 2021- Mark Phillips BSc
Honorary Presidents
There are usually two Honorary Presidents, one of them the Astronomer Royal for Scotland. Until 1990, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland was also the Director of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh and the Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh.
- 1924–1925 Sir William Peck, FRSE, FRAS, City Astronomer
- 1926–1931 Prof Edmund Taylor Whittaker, FRS
- 1924–1938 Prof R.A. Sampson, FRS, Astronomer Royal for Scotland
- 1938–1951 The Right Hon. Lord Elphinstone, KT, LLD
- 1938–1956 Prof W.M.H. Greaves, FRS, Astronomer Royal for Scotland
- 1951–1956 Prof Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker, FRS, FRSE, LLD, ScD
- 1957–1965 Prof Sir Edward V. Appleton, GBE, KCB, FRS, Nobel Prize in Physics 1947
- 1966–1975 Prof Sir Edmund Hirst, CBE, FRS
- 1957–1976 Prof H.A. Brück, DPhil, PhD, Astronomer Royal for Scotland
- 1976–1981 Prof V.C. Reddish, OBE, Astronomer Royal for Scotland
- 1972–1994 Prof R.H. Stoy, CBE, PhD
- 1981–1995 Prof M.S. Longair, MA, PhD, FRSE, Astronomer Royal for Scotland
- 1995–2019 Prof John Brown, BSc, PhD, DSc, FRSE, FRAS, Astronomer Royal for Scotland
- 1994–present Prof Andrew Lawrence, BSc, PhD, FRSE, FRAS
- 2021–present Prof Catherine Heymans, MPhys, DPhil, FRSE, Astronomer Royal for Scotland
Sorted by end of term then start of term.
(Thanks to Horst Meyerdierks for pulling this together)