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

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

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