Persons who are not Chinese citizens but are distinguished in their scientific or engineering work are recognized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) through election as a foreign member.
Recently elected foreign members of the CAS include:
| scope = col | Country | scope = col | Name | scope = col | Organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | scope = row data-sort-value = "Rahman, Atta-ur" | Atta-ur-Rahman | University of Karachi | ||
 | scope = row data-sort-value = "Zewail, Ahmed Hassan" | Ahmed Hassan Zewail | California Institute of Technology | ||
 | scope = row data-sort-value = "Ciechanover, Aaron" | Aaron Ciechanover | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | ||
 /  | scope = row data-sort-value = "Geim, Andre Konstantinovich" | University of Manchester | |||
 | scope = row data-sort-value = "Lindquist, Anders" | Anders Lindquist | University of California, Los Angeles | ||
| scope = row data-sort-value = "Chen, Deliang"[1] | Deliang Chen | University of Gothenburg | ||
| scope = row data-sort-value = "Nurse, Paul" | Paul Nurse | Francis Crick Institute | ||
| scope = row data-sort-value = "White, Simon" | Simon White[2] | Max Planck Institute | ||
 | scope = row data-sort-value = "Cho, Alfred Y." | Alfred Y. Cho | Bell Labs | ||
| scope = row data-sort-value = "Gross, David" | David Gross | University of California, Santa Barbara | ||
| scope = row data-sort-value = "Grubbs, Robert H." | Robert H. Grubbs ForMemRS | California Institute of Technology | ||
| scope = row data-sort-value = "Heeger, Alan J." | Alan J. Heeger | University of Pennsylvania / University of California, Santa Barbara | ||
| scope = row data-sort-value = "Hopcroft, John" | John Hopcroft | Cornell University | ||
| scope = row data-sort-value = "Huang, Yonggang" | Yonggang Huang[3] | Northwestern University | ||
| scope = row data-sort-value = "Lieber, Charles M." | Charles M. Lieber | Harvard University | ||
| scope = row data-sort-value = "Liou, Kuo-Nan" | Kuo-Nan Liou[4] | University of California, Los Angeles | ||
| scope = row data-sort-value = "Mirkin, Chad" | Chad Mirkin | Northwestern University | ||
| scope = row data-sort-value = "Poor, Vincent" | Vincent Poor | Princeton University | ||
| scope = row data-sort-value = "Stoddart, James Fraser" | Northwestern University | |||
| scope = row data-sort-value = "Suresh, Subra" | Subra Suresh | Carnegie Mellon University | ||
 | scope = row data-sort-value = "Marwala, Tshilidzi" | Tshilidzi Marwala | University of Johannesburg | ||
| scope = row data-sort-value = "Ye, Jun" | Jun Ye | National Institute of Standards and Technology / University of Colorado Boulder | ||