Name
- Raikes, Henry Victor Alpin MacKinnon, KBE, MP1
- Rankin, Robert, Baronet 1937, MP1
- Rathbone, H J, FLAS, of W H Cooke and Arkwright surveyors and valuers1
- Rawlinson, Alfred Edward John, scholar and Bishop of Derby, 1884-19601
- Rayner, Ralph, Brigadier MP1
- Reitz, Leila, née Wright widow of Colonel D Reitz High Commissioner for the Union of South Africa in London1
- Richards, Augustus, vicar of Dronfield1
- Rickards, George William, MP, silk manufacturer1
- Robberds, Mary, of the Foreign Office1
- Robins, Thomas Ellis, Baron Robins1
- Robinson, Albert Edward Phineas, Knight 1962, High Commissioner for the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland1
- Robinson, John F and Eileen, of Breadsall1
- Robinson, Mary J, President of Church Gresley Women's Conservative Association1
- Robson, Michael1
- Rogers, C W, sec of the Staffordshire County Cadet Committee1
- Ropner, Leonard, 1st Baronet, of Thorp Perrow, politician, 1895-19771
- Rose, J H, of Midway Derb1
- Rumbold, Horace Anthony Claude, 10th Baronet, KCMG 1962, diplomatist1
- Russell, Alexander West, MP, Knight 19371
- Rutherford, —1