Baldwin, James; playwright  3-1987

Banham, Sir John; businessman 5-1992

Bannister, Sir Roger;  athlete and physician  9-2011

Barber, Brendan; trade unionist  3-2006

Barns-Graham, Wilhelmina; painter  3-1993

Baselitz, Georg; artist  12-1987

Batten, Sir John Charles; physician 10-2000

Baylis, Trevor; inventor 9-2000

Beckett, Sir Terence; businessman 11-1993

Belohlavek, Jiri; conductor 3-2007

Benn, Hilary; politician 3-2009

Bennett, Richard Rodney; composer  11-2006

Beral, Dame Valerie; epidemiologist 12-2011

Beresford, Meg; campaigner  5-1985

Bessborough, Countess (Madeleine Ponsonby); 9-2005

Bett, Sir Michael; Civil Service Commissioner 6-2000

Beuys, Joseph; artist  10-1985

Birch, John; organist  5-2006

Birtwistle, Harrison; composer  8-1987 / 3-2012

Birtwistle, Silas; artist  3-2010

Black, Cilla; singer, presenter 10-1985

Black, Sir James; doctor, pharmacologist, 10-1988

Blackadder, Dame Elizabeth; painter  9-2011

Blackburn, Elizabeth; biologist  6-2011

Blackstone, Baroness Tessa; politician 10-1998

Blair, Tony; politician 1999

Blake, Sir Peter; painter  5-2006

Blake, Suzie; actress 5-2001

Blanch, Baron Stuart; bishop  2-1988

Blow, Sandra; painter  1-1994

Blundell, Sir Tom; biochemist 1-2007

Bowness, Sir Alan; director, Tate Gallery 1-1987

Butler, Sir Robin; civil servant  12-1997

Bodmer, Sir Walter; geneticist 5-2007

Bonington, Sir Chris;  mountaineer 5-2010

Boonham, Nigel; sculptor  6-2007

Boothroyd, Baroness Betty; politician  12-1994

Borg, Alan; museum director  9-1996

Borysiewicz, Sir Leszek; physician, immunologist 11-2007

Bottomley, Virginia; politician 10-1998

Boulez, Pierre; conductor  1-1989

Bragg, Melvyn; author, broadcaster  2-1986

Branagh, Sir Kenneth; actor 5-2005

Brandt, Willy; politician 3-1986

Branson, Richard; entrepreneur 6-1987

Brasher; Chris; athlete, businessman  9-2000

Brendel, Alfred; pianist  6-2012

Brodsky, Joseph; writer 10-1987

Brown, Cedric; businessman 10-1995

Brown, Gordon; politician, 9-1991

Bowness, Allan; Tate Gallery director, 1-1987

Bryer, David; charity director  2-1996

Burgess, Anthony; writer 5-1985

Bush, George Sr.; politician  10-1987

Butler, James;  sculptor 7-2012

Butler, Sir Robin; civil servant 12-1997

Byatt, A.S. (Dame Antonia Susan Duffy); writer, poet 11-2009