Several former students of the BSA (for the period 1886-1919) were elected Fellows of the British Academy (FBA). These include:
- Bevan, Edwyn Robert (1870-1943) (1942)
- Calder, William Moir (Sir) (1881-1960)
- Dawkins, Richard McGillivray (1871-1955) (1933)
- Fotheringham, John Knight (1874-1936) (1933)
- Gomme, Arnold Wycombe (1886-1959)
- Hogarth, David George (1862-1927) (1905)
- James, Montague Rhodes (1862-1936)
- Jones, Henry Stuart (Sir) (1867-1939) (1915)
- Marshall, John Hubert (1876-1958)
- Myres, John Linton (Sir) (1869-1954)
- Oppé, Adolph Paul (1878-1957) (1952)
- Robinson, Edward Stanley Gotch (Sir) (1887-1976)
- Tillyard, Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall (1889-1962) (1952)
- Tod, Marcus Niebuhr (1878-1974) (1929)
- Toynbee, Arnold Joseph (1889-1975) (1937)
- Wace, Alan John Bayard (1879-1957) (1947)