Name
- Poggendorf, Johann Christian, Physician1
- Poole, Paul Falconer, Painter1
- Potter, Cipriani, Musician1
- Powell, Baden, Savilian professor of geometry1
- Procter, Bryan Waller, alias 'Barry Cornwall', poet1
- Pulszky, Ferencz Aurel, Hungarian Writer1
- Pyne, James B-1
- Raffles, Thomas, Congregational minister and hymnographer, 1788-18631
- Ramsay, A-, of Add MS 285101
- Ramsay, James Andrew Brown, Marquis of Dalhousie, Governor-General of India1
- Ramsay, William, Professor of Humanity at Glasgow1
- Ranke, Leopold, historian1
- Raumer, Friedrich Ludwig Georg, Historian1
- Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke, 1st Baronet, Assyriologist and diplomatist, 1810-18951
- Redding, Cyrus, journalist1
- Redgrave, Richard, RA; of Add MS 285121
- Reid, Mayne1
- Rice, Thomas Spring, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, politician, 1790-18661
- Richard, T-, French Engineer1
- Richardson, Charles, LL.D1