United Kingdom
| Name | Country | Category | Gender | Birth | Death |
| George VI | United Kingdom | Government | Male | 1895 | 1952 |
| Jean | Luxembourg | Government | Male | 1921 | 2019 |
| Beaverbrook | United Kingdom | Government | Male | 1879 | 1964 |
| Alexander, Harold | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1891 | 1969 |
| Amerasekera, Rohan | Ceylon | Military-Air | Male | 1916 | 1974 |
| Attlee, Clement | United Kingdom | Government | Male | 1883 | 1967 |
| Auchinleck, Claude | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1884 | 1981 |
| Backhouse, Roger | United Kingdom | Military-Sea | Male | 1878 | 1939 |
| Bader, Douglas | United Kingdom | Military-Air | Male | 1910 | 1982 |
| Batey, Mavis | United Kingdom | Science-Engineering | Female | 1921 | 2013 |
| Beadell, S. J. | United Kingdom | Photography | Male | ||
| Beattie, Stephen | United Kingdom | Military-Sea | Male | 1908 | 1975 |
| Beekman, Yolande | United Kingdom | Intelligence | Female | 1911 | 1944 |
| Bennett, Donald | Australia | Military-Air | Male | 1910 | 1986 |
| Bevin, Ernest | United Kingdom | Government | Male | 1881 | 1951 |
| Brand, Quintin | South Africa | Military-Air | Male | 1893 | 1968 |
| Brooke, Alan | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1883 | 1963 |
| Browning, Frederick | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1896 | 1965 |
| Burnett, Charles | Australia | Military-Air | Male | 1882 | 1945 |
| Byck, Muriel | United Kingdom | Intelligence | Female | 1918 | 1944 |
| Caldwell, Clive | Australia | Military-Air | Male | 1911 | 1994 |
| Carr, Roderick | New Zealand | Military-Air | Male | 1891 | 1971 |
| Chamberlain, Neville | United Kingdom | Government | Male | 1869 | 1940 |
| Churchill, Winston | United Kingdom | Government | Male | 1874 | 1965 |
| Cochrane, Archibald | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1909 | 1988 |
| Coningham, Arthur | New Zealand | Military-Air | Male | 1895 | 1948 |
| Coote, Reg | United Kingdom | Photography | Male | ||
| Cotton, Sidney | Australia | Military-Air | Male | 1894 | 1969 |
| Crutchley, Victor | United Kingdom | Military-Sea | Male | 1893 | 1986 |
| Cunningham, Andrew | United Kingdom | Military-Sea | Male | 1883 | 1963 |
| Cunningham, John | United Kingdom | Military-Sea | Male | 1885 | 1962 |
| Dempsey, Miles | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1896 | 1969 |
| Dill, John | United Kingdom | Government | Male | 1881 | 1944 |
| Dimoline, Harry | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1903 | 1972 |
| Dimoline, William | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1897 | |
| Douglas, Sholto | United Kingdom | Military-Air | Male | 1893 | 1969 |
| Dowding, Hugh | United Kingdom | Military-Air | Male | 1882 | 1970 |
| Drummond, Peter | Australia | Military-Air | Male | 1894 | 1945 |
| Eden, Anthony | United Kingdom | Government | Male | 1897 | 1977 |
| Frantisek, Josef | Czechoslovakia | Military-Air | Male | 1914 | 1940 |
| Fraser, Bruce | United Kingdom | Military-Sea | Male | 1888 | 1981 |
| Freyberg, Bernard | New Zealand | Military-Ground | Male | 1889 | 1963 |
| Geddes, Andrew | United Kingdom | Military-Air | Male | 1896 | 1988 |
| Giffard, George | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1886 | 1964 |
| Guinness de Cuffe, Alec | United Kingdom | Military-Sea | Male | 1914 | 2000 |
| Hall, Virginia | United States | Intelligence | Female | 1906 | 1982 |
| Harris, Arthur | United Kingdom | Military-Air | Male | 1892 | 1984 |
| Henderson, Nevile | United Kingdom | Government | Male | ||
| Hobart, Percy | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1885 | 1957 |
| Hollis, Stanley | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1912 | 1972 |
| Hore-Belisha, Leslie | United Kingdom | Government | Male | 1893 | 1957 |
| Inayat Khan, Noor | United Kingdom | Intelligence | Female | 1914 | 1944 |
| Ismay, Hastings | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1887 | 1965 |
| Iwanow-Szajnowicz, Jerzy | Poland | Intelligence | Male | 1911 | 1943 |
| Johnson, Amy | United Kingdom | Military-Air | Female | 1903 | 1941 |
| Johnson, James | United Kingdom | Military-Air | Male | 1915 | 2001 |
| Jones, Reginald | United Kingdom | Science-Engineering | Male | 1911 | 1997 |
| Lothian | United Kingdom | Government | Male | 1882 | 1940 |
| Knox, Dilly | United Kingdom | Science-Engineering | Male | 1884 | 1943 |
| Knox, Jean | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Female | 1908 | 1993 |
| Lacey, James | United Kingdom | Military-Air | Male | 1917 | 1989 |
| Laurie, Stan | United Kingdom | Military-Air | Male | 1921 | 2015 |
| Leese, Oliver | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1894 | 1978 |
| Leigh-Mallory, Trafford | United Kingdom | Military-Air | Male | 1892 | 1944 |
| Lonsdale, Rupert | United Kingdom | Military-Sea | Male | 1905 | 1999 |
| Malindine, Edward | United Kingdom | Photography | Male | ||
| Mapham, James | United Kingdom | Photography | Male | ||
| Mason, Herbert | United Kingdom | Photography | Male | ||
| Montgomery, Bernard | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1887 | 1976 |
| Morris, John | United Kingdom | Photography | Male | 1911 | 2008 |
| Morrison, Herbert | United Kingdom | Government | Male | 1886 | 1965 |
| Mosley, Oswald | United Kingdom | Government | Male | 1896 | 1980 |
| Mountbatten, Louis | United Kingdom | Military-Sea | Male | 1900 | 1979 |
| Newman, Maxwell | United Kingdom | Science-Engineering | Male | 1897 | 1984 |
| O'Connor, Richard | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1889 | 1981 |
| Oulds, D. C. | United Kingdom | Photography | Male | ||
| Park, Keith | New Zealand | Military-Air | Male | 1892 | 1975 |
| Parnall, Claude | United Kingdom | Photography | Male | ||
| Percival, Arthur | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1887 | 1966 |
| Phillips, Thomas | United Kingdom | Military-Sea | Male | 1888 | 1941 |
| Portal, Charles | United Kingdom | Military-Air | Male | 1893 | 1971 |
| Pound, Dudley | United Kingdom | Military-Sea | Male | 1877 | 1943 |
| Pownall, Henry | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1887 | 1961 |
| Puttnam, Len | United Kingdom | Photography | Male | ||
| Ramsay, Bertram | United Kingdom | Military-Sea | Male | 1883 | 1945 |
| Rosenberg, Vera | United Kingdom | Intelligence | Female | 1908 | 2000 |
| Rutland, F. J. | United Kingdom | Intelligence | Male | ||
| Saul, Richard | Ireland | Military-Air | Male | 1891 | 1965 |
| Saundby, Robert | United Kingdom | Military-Air | Male | 1896 | 1971 |
| Skarbek, Christine | Poland | Intelligence | Female | 1908 | 1952 |
| Slim, William | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1897 | 1970 |
| Smith, Dennis | United Kingdom | Photography | Male | ||
| Smuts, Jan | South Africa | Government | Male | 1870 | 1950 |
| Somerville, James | United Kingdom | Military-Sea | Male | 1882 | 1949 |
| Sorour, Jackie | South Africa | Military-Air | Female | 1922 | 2004 |
| Stewart, Hugh | United Kingdom | Photography | Male | 1910 | 2011 |
| Szabo, Violette | United Kingdom | Intelligence | Female | 1921 | 1945 |
| Szenes, Hannah | Hungary | Intelligence | Female | 1921 | 1944 |
| Tedder, Arthur | United Kingdom | Military-Air | Male | 1890 | 1967 |
| Tomlin, H. W. | United Kingdom | Photography | Male | ||
| Travers, Susan | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Female | 1909 | 2003 |
| Tuker, Francis | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1894 | 1967 |
| Turing, Alan | United Kingdom | Science-Engineering | Male | 1912 | 1954 |
| Van Lierde, Remy | Belgium | Military-Air | Male | 1915 | 1990 |
| Vereker, John | United Kingdom | Government | Male | 1886 | 1946 |
| Vermehren, Erich | Germany | Resistance | Male | 1919 | 2005 |
| Vian, Philip | United Kingdom | Military-Sea | Male | 1894 | 1968 |
| Wallis, Barnes | United Kingdom | Science-Engineering | Male | 1887 | 1979 |
| Warren, Allan | United Kingdom | Photography | Male | 1948 | |
| Wavell, Archibald | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1883 | 1950 |
| Wingate, Orde | United Kingdom | Military-Ground | Male | 1903 | 1944 |
| Winton, Nicholas | United Kingdom | Other | Male | 1909 | 2015 |
| Halifax | United Kingdom | Government | Male | 1881 | 1959 |
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