This is a list of honorary societies to which individuals are elected based on meritorious conduct.
Private academies and societies
- American Philosophical Society
- Phi Alpha Theta
- Phi Beta Kappa Society
- Phi Theta Kappa
National academies
Brazil
- Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Bulgaria
- Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
People's Republic of China
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- Chinese Academy of Engineering
Croatia
- Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
France
- Institut de France, which groups five academies:
- Académie française
- Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
- Académie des sciences
- Académie des beaux-arts
- Académie des sciences morales et politiques
Georgia
- Georgian Academy of Sciences
India
- Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences
Iran
- Academy of Gundishapur
- Academy of Persian Language and Literature
- Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy
- Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences
- Academy of Sciences of Iran
- Iranian Academy of the Arts
- National Iranian Olympic Academy
Russia
- Russian Academy of Science
- Russian Academy of Arts
- Russian Academy of Theatre Arts
- Russian Academy of Music
- Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences
Serbia
- Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Slovenia
- Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Sweden
- Swedish Royal Academies
Taiwan (Republic of China)
- Academia Sinica
Thailand
- The Royal Institute
United States
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- National Academy of Medicine
- National Academy of Sciences
- National Academy of Engineering
- Kohl McCormick Academy of Outstanding Educators
United Kingdom
- Royal Society
- British Academy
- Royal Society of Medicine
- Royal Society of Arts
International academies
- World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS)
See also
- Lists of awards
- Fraternal and service organizations
- Service club