Name
- Ponsonby, Frederick Edward Grey, Lieutenant-Colonel 1st Baron Sysonby, private sec to Edward VII1
- Ponting, Herbert George, Antarctic photographer1
- Poole, Stanley Edward, orientalist and historian, 1854-19311
- Postgate, John Percival, classical scholar1
- Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, army officer, founder of the Scout movement, 1857-19411
- Rackham, Arthur, painter and illustrator, 1867-19391
- Raleigh, Lucie Gertrude, née Jackson wife of Sir W A Raleigh1
- Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Professor of English Literature Oxford1
- Ramée, Marie Louise, alias 'Ouida', novelist, 1839-19081
- Raverat, Gwendolen Mary, née Darwin wood-engraver, 1885-19571
- Reich, Emil, historian1
- Reid, Thomas Wemyss, journalist1
- Reynolds, Stephen, author1
- Richard Bentley, afterwards Richard Bentley and Son; and Bentley and Macmillan and Co1
- Ritchie, Anne Isabella, née Thackeray novelist, wife of Sir R T W Ritchie1
- Roberts, Aileen Mary, Countess Roberts1
- Roberts, Frederick Sleigh, 1st Earl Roberts, army officer, 1832-19141
- Rodd, James Rennell, 1st Baron Rennell1
- Rolleston, Humphrey Davy, Baronet1
- Ropes, James Hardy, theologian1