Name
- Rainilaiarivony, Prime Minister of Madagascar1
- Rathbone, William, philanthropist1
- Reed, Edward Tennyson, caricaturist1
- Richard, Henry, MP; of Add MS 439091
- Romer, Robert, barrister; Knight 18901
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, poet and painter, 1828-18821
- Rothschild, Alphonse, Baron1
- Rothschild, Nathan Mayer, 1st Baron Rothschild1
- Russell, George William Erskine, PC, MP1
- Russell, Odo William Leopold, 1st Baron Ampthill, 1829-18841
- Rye, William Brenchley, Keeper of Printed Books, British Museum1
- Samuel, Saul, 1st Baronet, Agent-General for New South Wales1
- Sanderson, Thomas Henry, 1st Baron Sanderson, civil servant, 1841-19231
- Saussier, Félix Gustave, French general1
- Scharf, George, KCB, Director National Portrait Gallery1
- Schreiner, Olive Emilie Albertina, South African author1
- Seymour, E.1
- Seymour, Horace Alfred Damer, sec to W E Gladstone, Deputy Master of the Mint1
- Shaw-Lefevre, George John, Baron Eversley1
- Smalley, George Washburn, American journalist1