| Name | Date | Association | Location | County |
| Abbott, Francis | 1799-1883 | | Manchester | Lancashire; Derbyshire |
| Abney, Sir William Wiveleslie | 1843-1920 | | London | County of London |
| Acfield, Frank J. | 1905-1975 | Acfield’s Observatory | Newcastle upon Tyne | Northumberland |
| Adames, Henry Bridger | 1882-1922 | | London | County of London |
| Adams, John Couch | 1819-1892 | The University Observatory [UOC] | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire |
| Airy, George Biddell | 1801-1892 | The University Observatory [UOC]; Royal Observatory, Greenwich [ROGL] | Cambridge; Greenwich; Alnwick | Cambridgeshire; County of London; Northumberland |
| Abineri, Keith Wesley | 1920-2007 | | Wimbourne | Dorset |
| Almond, Robert White | 1786-1853 | | Nottingham | Nottinghamshire |
| Anderson, Alexander | 1858-1934 | | Coleraine; Cambridge | Derry/Londonderry; Cambridgeshire |
| Anderson, Thomas David | 1853-1932 | | Edinburgh; Edrom | Midlothian |
| Andrews, Henry | 1743-1820 | | Frieston; Cambridge; Royston | Lincolnshire; Cambridgeshire |
| Andrews, Henry. B. | -1806 | | Grantham; Bingham | Lincolnshire; Nottinghamshire |
| Archenhold, Gunter | 1904-1999 | | Cambridge, | Cambridgeshire |
| Armitage, Angus | 1902-1976 | | London | Derbyshire |
| Ashley, Mary | 1843-1903 | | Shirehampton; Bath | Somerset |
| Atkinson, Henry | 1781-1829 | | Newcastle upon Tyne; West Harle | Northumberland |
| Atkinson, John Jepson | NK | | Stony Stratford | Buckinghamshire |
| Atkinson, Robert D’escourt | 1898-1982 | | Rhaeadr | Radnorshire |
| Attkins, Ernest Anthony Lonsdale | fl.1907-1924 | | London | County of London |
| Aubert, Alexander | bap. 1730-1805 | Aubert’s Observatory [AODL]; Aubert’s Observatory [AOHL] | Depford; Highbury | County of London |
| Babbage, Charles | 1791–1871 | | London | County of London |
| Backhouse, Thomas William | 1842-1920 | Backhouse’s Observatory [BaO] | Sunderland | Durham |
| Bacon, Gertrude | 1874-1949 | see Foggitt | | |
| Bacon, John Mackenzie [Rev.] | 1846-1904 | Trinity College, Cambridge | Cambridge; Cold Ash | Cambridgeshire; Berkshire |
| Bacon Frederic (see Rev. Bacon) | 1880-1943 | | Cambridge; Cold Ash | Cambridgeshire; Berkshire |
| Baikie, James | 1866-1931 | | Lasswade | Midlothian |
| Baily, Francis | 1774-1844 | | London; Newbury | County of London; Berkshire |
| Bainbridge, John | 1582-1643 | | Oxford | Oxfordshire |
| Baldrey, Andrew Doughty | 1785-1843 | | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire |
| Ball, Leslie | 1911-1992 | | Northenden | Cheshire |
| Ball, Robert Stawell | 1840-1913 | Dunsink Observatory [DO] | Cambridge; Dublin | Cambridgeshire; Dublin |
| Banks, Joseph | 1743-1820 | | Revesby Abbey | Lincolnshire |
| Banks, William | 1850-1933 | | Bolton | Lancashire |
| Barbour, William Donald | 1832-1902 | | Leeds; Glasgow | Yorkshire: West Riding; Lanarkshire |
| Barclay, Arthur Kett | 1806-1871 | Barclay’s Bury Hill Observatory [BBHO] | Dorking | Surrey |
| Barclay, Joseph Gurney | 1816-1898 | Barclay’s Leyton Observatory [BOLE] | Leyton | Essex |
| Barkas, Thomas Pallister | 1819-1891 | | Newcastle upon Tyne | Northumberland |
| Barker, Robert | 1873-1966 | | Cheshunt | Hertfordshire |
| Barker, Thomas | 1722-1809 | | Lyndon Hall | Rutland |
| Barlow, Edward William | 1886-fl.1935 | | Bournemouth | Hampshire |
| Barnes, J.B. | NK | | Felixstowe | Suffolk |
| Barnett, W. H. | NK | | Chesterfield | Derbyshire |
| Bartrum, Clement Osborn | 1867-1939 | | Bradford | Yorkshire: West Riding |
| Bass, George | 1771-1812? | | Aswarby | Lincolnshire |
| Baum, Richard Myer | 1930-2017 | | Chester | Cheshire |
| Baxandall, Frank E. | 1868-1929 | | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire |
| Baxendell, Joseph | 1815-1887 | Fernley Observatory [FeO] | Birkdale; Manchester | Lancashire |
| Bayly, William | 1737-1810 | Naval Academy Observatory [NAOP] | Portsmouth; Greenwich; Bishops Cannings | Hampshire; County of London; Wiltshire |
| Bazley, Thomas S. | 1829-1919 | Manchester Physics Institute Observatory [MPIO] | Fairford | Gloucestershire |
| Beadsmoore, Ernest | 1874/95- | | | Derbyshire |
| Beaufoy, Mark | 1764–1827 | Beaufoy’s Hackney Wick Observatory [BHCO]; Beaufoy’s Bushey Observatory [BeOBH] | Hackney Wick; Bushey Heath | County of London; Hertfordshire; |
| Bell, Julia | 1879-1979 | | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire |
| Bellamy, H. J. | NK | | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire |
| Bell-Burnell, Jocelyn | 1943- | | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire |
| Ben Burrell | 1903-1983 | | Doncaster | Yorkshire: West Riding |
| Bennett, Arthur Frederick | 1871–1937 | Bennett’s Observatory [BeO] | Leiston | Suffolk |
| Bernard, Edward | 1638-1697 | | Paulerspury; Oxford | Northamptonshire; Oxfordshire |
| Berry, A.G. | 1823-1877 | | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire |
| Berthon, Edward Lyon | 1813-1899 | Berthon’s Romsey Observatory [BRO] | Lymington; Fareham; Cambridge | Hampshire; Hampshire; Cambridgeshire |
| Besley, Walter Ernest | 1877-1908 | | London | County of London |
| Bevis, John | 1695-1771 | | Salisbury | Wiltshire |
| Biddell, George Arthur | 1824-1901 | | Orwell | Suffolk |
| Billups, Percy Christopher Charles | 1859-1938 | | Barry | Glamorgan |
| Bird, Frederick | 18187-1876 | | Birmingham | Warwickshire |
| Bird, John | 1709–1776 | | Bishop Auckland; London | Durham; County of London |
| Bird, John Turnbull | 1862-1930 | | Knighton | Wiltshire |
| Birmingham, John | 1814-884 | | Milltown | Galway |
| Birt, William Radcliff | 1804-1881 | | Walthamstow | Essex |
| Bishop, George | 1785-1861 | Bishop’s Observatory [BORP] | London; Leicester | County of London; Leicestershire; |
| Blackall, Samuel | 1816–1899 | | | Suffolk |
| Blacklock, Arthur Woolsey | 1840-1934 | | Brighton | Sussex |
| Blackwell, Donald E. | 1921-2010 | | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire |
| Blagg, Mary Adele | 1858-1944 | | Cheadle | Staffordshire |
| Blagrave, John | c.1561-1611 | | Reading | Berkshire |
| Blair, Archibald | 1752–1815 | | Bayford | Hertfordshire |
| Blair, Robert | 1748–1828 | | Garwald | Midlothian |
| Bliss, Nathaniel | 1700-1764 | City Wall Observatory [CWO]; Royal Observatory, Greenwich [ROGL] | Greenwich; Bisley | County of London; Gloucestershire |
| Blunt, Henry | -1853 | | Shrewsbury | Shropshire |
| Boles, Tom | 1944- | Boles’s Observatory [BolO] | | Northamptonshire |
| Bolton, Thomas Simeon Scriven | 1883-1929 | Scriven Bolton Observatory [SBO] | Leeds | Yorkshire: West Riding |
| Bonnycastle, John | c.1760-1821 | | Woolwich; Whitchurch | County of London; Buckinghamshire |
| Booth, James | 1806-1878 | | Stone | Buckinghamshire |
| Booth, David | 1860-1937 | | Leeds | Yorkshire: West Riding |
| Boreham, William Wakeling | 1804-1886 | Boreham’s Observatory [BorO] | Haverhill; Saffron Walden | Essex; Suffolk |
| Bowd, S.E. | NK | | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire |
| Bowden, Arthur H. L | 1839-1923 | | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire |
| Bowen, Edward George | 1911-1991 | | Swansea | Glamorgan |
| Bower, George Noel | 1885-1951 | | Eye | Suffolk |
| Boys, Charles Vernon | 1855-1944 | | Wing | Rutland |
| Bradley, James | 1693 -1762 | Ashmolean Museum Observatory [AMO]; Mathematical Tower Observatory [MTOO]; Royal Observatory, Greenwich [ROGL]; Pound’s Observatory [PO]; Bradley’s Observatory [BrO] | Greenwich; Oxford; Kew; Wanstead; Sherborne | County of London; Oxfordshire; Surrey; Essex; Essex; Gloucestershire; |
| Bransby, John | 1760-1835 | | Ipswich | Suffolk |
| Bray, Robert John | 1929- | | Richmond | Surrey |
| Breen, James | 1826-1866 | | Greenwich; Cambridge | County of London; Cambridgeshire; |
| Bretnor, Thomas | 1570/1-1618 | | Bakewell | Derbyshire |
| Brewster, David | 1781-1868 | | Jedburgh | Roxburghshire |
| Bridger, J.H. | fl.1900-1907 | | Farnborough | Hampshire |
| Brinkley, John | 1767-1835 | | Harlestone | Northamptonshire |
| Brisbane, Sir Thomas Makdougall | 1773–1860 | Brisbane’s Largs Observatory [BOBH]; Brisbane’s Makerstoun Observatory [BOMH] | Largs | Ayrshire |
| Brodie, Frederick | 1823-1896 | Brodie’s Fernhill Observatory [BFO]; Brodie’s Wadbury Observatory [BWO]; Brodie’s Eastbourne Observatory [BOE]; Brodie’s Uckfield Observatory [BUO] | Woollen Bridge; Wadbury; Uckfield Eastbourne | Isle of Wight; Somerset; Sussex; Sussex |
| Brook, Charles Lewis | 1855-1939 | Harewood Lodge Observatory [HLO] | Meltham | Yorkshire: West Riding |
| Brook (nee Brook), Ruth Mary | 1856-1932 | Brook, Charles Lewis | Meltham; Weybridge | Yorkshire: West Riding; Surrey |
| Brothers, Alfred | 1826-1912 | | Manchester | Lancashire |
| Brown, Arthur Neville | 1864-1935 | | Brackenhurst | Berkshire |
| Brown, Basil John Wait | 1888-1977 | | Bucklesham | Suffolk |
| Brown, Elizabeth | 1830-1899 | | Cirencester | Gloucestershire |
| Brown, Ernest William | 1866-1938 | | Hull | Yorkshire: East Riding |
| Bruce, W. Conybeare | 1844-1919 | | | Glamorgan |
| Bruck, Hermann Alexander | 1905-2000 | The University Observatory [UOC]; Dunsink Observatory [DO] | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire |
| Brück, Mary T. [nee Conway] | 1925-2008 | | Ballivor | Midlothian |
| Brühl, John Maurice | 1736-1809 | Count de Brühl’s Observatory [CdBO] | Harefield | Middlesex |
| Bryan, George Hartley | 1865-1928 | | Bangor | Caernarvonshire |
| Buckton, Harold | 1864-1944/8 | | Bury St Edmunds | Suffolk |
| Bullock, John | fl.1902-1908 | | London | County of London |
| Burbidge, Margaret | 1919- | University College London Observatory [UCLO] | Davenport | Cheshire |
| Burgess, Eric | 1920-2005 | | Stockport | Lancashire |
| Burney, William | c,1762-1832 | Naval Academy Observatory | Gosport | Hampshire |
| Bush, Thomas W. | 1839-1928 | Forester’s Observatory [FOW]; Bush’s Mapperley Observatory [BMON]; | Nottingham | Nottinghamshire |
| Butler, Charles Pritchard | 1871-1952 | Solar Physics Observatory, Cambridge [SPOC]; Solar Physics Observatory, South Kensington [SPOSK] | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire |
| Butler, Hugh Ernest | 1916-1978 | | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire |
