Baldwin, James; playwright, London, March 1987
Ball, Julia; painter, Cambridge, October 2018
Banham, Sir John and Howard Davies; businessmen, CBI directors, London, May 1992
Bannister, Sir Roger; athlete, physician, Oxford, November 2011
Barber, Brendan; trade unionist, London, March 2006
Barber, Peter; architect, London, May 2022
Barlow, Phyllida; sculptor, London, August 2013
Barlow, Phyllida; sculptor, London, December 2017
Barns-Graham, Wilhelmina; painter, St Ives, Cornwall, March 1993
Barrington, Alvaro; painter, London, May 2024
Barry, Sebastian; playwright, novelist, Richmond, Surrey, November 2016
Baselitz, Georg; artist, London, December 1987
Batten, Sir John Charles; physician, London (Kew), October 2000
Bawden, Richard; painter, printmaker, Hadleigh (Suffolk), March 2019
Baylis, Trevor; inventor, London (Twickenham), September 2000
Beattie, Basil; painter, London, August 2019
Beckett, Sir Terence; businessman, London, November 1993
Beetles, Chris; gallerist, London, May 2016
Beggs, Jean; geneticist, Edinburgh, July 2023
Begum, Rana; sculptor, London, March 2020
Begum, Rana; sculptor, London, October 2017
Bell Burnell, Dame Jocelyn; astrophysicist, Oxford, October 2013
Belohlavek, Jiri; conductor, London, March 2007
Benetton, Luciano; businessman, London, October 2019
Benn, Hilary; politician, Singleton (West Sussex), March 2009
Bennett, Franics; publisher, London (Twickenham), April 2001
Bennett, Malcolm; plant biologist, Nottingham, July 2022
Bennett, Richard Rodney; composer, London, November 2006
Benton, Michael; palaeontologist, Bristol, October 2015.
Beral, Dame Valerie; epidemiologist, Oxford, December 2011
Berry, June; painter, London, January 2017
Bessborough, Countess (Madeleine Ponsonby); Roche Court, East Winterslow (Wiltshire) September 2005
Beuys, Joseph; artist, London, October 1985
Bickmore, Wendy; genome biologist, Edingurgh, February 2020
Birch, Dr. John; organist, Chichester (West Sussex), May 2006
Birtwistle, Harrison; composer, London, August 1987
Birtwistle, Harrison; composer, London, March 2012
Birtwistle, Silas; furniture designer, London (Twickenham), March 2010
Black, Sir James; doctor and pharmacologist, London, October 1988
Blackadder, Dame Elizabeth; painter, Edinburgh, September 2011
Blair, Tony; politician, London, October 2005
Blake, Pippa; painter, Chichester (West Sussex), July 2019
Blake, Sir Peter; painter, London (Hammersmith), May 2006
Blakemore, Sir Colin; neurobiologist, London, May 2017
Blanch, Stuart; Lord Blanch; bishop, London, February 1988
Blow, Sandra; painter, London, January 1994
Blumenfeld, Helaine; sculptor, Cambridge, July 2019
Blundell, Sir Tom; biochemist, Cambridge, January 2007
Bodmer, Sir Walter; geneticist, Oxford, May 2007
Bond, Billie; sculptor, Great Waltham, Essex, February 2018
Bonneville, Hugh; actor, East Meon (Hampshire), October 2017
Boonham, Nigel; sculptor, London, June 2007
Boothroyd, Betty; politician, London, December 1994
Borg, Alan; museum director, London, September 1996
Borysiewicz, Sir Leszek; physician, immunologist, London, November 2007
Bottomley, Virginia; politician, London, October 1998
Boulez, Pierre; conductor, London, January 1989.
Boulton, Geoffrey, geologist, Edinburgh, August 2023
Boulton, Janet; painter, Abingdon (Oxfordshire), March 2019
Bowey, Olwyn; painter, Heyshott (West Sussex), October 2013
Bowling, Frank; painter, London, October 2014.
Bowness, Sir Alan; art historian, London, January 1987
Bowyer, Francis; painter, London, January 2019
Boyce, Sonia; artist, London, May 2018
Boyd, Sir Ian; zoologist, St Andrews, April 2022
Boyle Family; artists, London, June 2015.
Bradley, Karen; politician, Birmingham, October 2018
Bragg, Melvyn; author, broadcaster, London, February 1986
Bragg, Mervyn; Lord Bragg, Leeds, June 2000
Branagh, Kenneth; actor, Wakefield Place, W.Sussex, May 2005.
Brand, Andrea; biologist, Cambridge, October 2018
Brandon, Peter; author, geographer, Petworth (West Sussex), October 2006
Branson, Richard; entrepreneur, London, June 1987
Brasher, Chris; athlete, businessman, London (Petersham), September 2000
Brendel, Alfred; pianist, Cambridge, June 2012
Brodsky, Joseph; writer, London, October 1987
Brown, Gordon; politician, Brighton, September 1991
Browne, John; Lord Browne of Madingley, businessman, London, June 2016
Bryan, Denise; artist, London, May 2015.
Bryer, David; director of Oxfam, Oxford, February 1996
Bryson, Bill; author, London, March 2009
Burgess, Anthony; novelist, London, May 1986
Burnett, Clare; sculptor and installation artist, London, December 2011
Busby, Steve; biochemist, Birmingham, April 2024
Butler, James; sculptor, Radway (Warwickshire), July 2012
Butler, Sir Robin; civil servant, London, December 1997
Butlin, Martin; art historian, London, January 1987
Byatt, A.S.; novelist, Twickenham, November 2009