28 British accountants

Nicholas John Anstee is the former Lord Mayor of the City of London,he was the 682nd person to serve as mayor and his term was from 2009 to 2010. He serves as Alderman for the Ward of Aldersgate having previously been its representative in the City since his election as a Common Councilman in 1987.

Ethel Ayres Purdie (1874–1923) was a chartered accountant and suffragist. She specialised in counselling women and women's suffragist organisations. She was active in the Women's Tax Resistance League which argued that no vote meant no tax.

Duncan Charles Baker is a British Conservative Party politician, who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Norfolk since the 2019 general election.

Mohammad Saqib Bhatti, is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Meriden since the 2019 general election.

Karan Faridoon Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria, is a British Indian entrepreneur, life peer in the UK House of Lords, and a university chancellor.

Sir Charles Edward Beck Bowman is a British accountant who served as the 690th Lord Mayor of London.

Thérèse Anne Coffey is a British Member of Parliament, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Suffolk Coastal since 2010.

Sir Peter Kenneth Estlin KStJ, BSc, FCA was the 691st Lord Mayor of the City of London. He is an alderman of the City of London Corporation where he represents the ward of Coleman Street. Having served as a Sheriff of the City of London for 2016–17, he was elected as the Lord Mayor of London on 1 October 2018 and took office at the Silent Ceremony on 9 November 2018. His mayoral theme was Shaping Tomorrow's City Today, promoting the sheer scale of innovation taking place in the UK, alongside championing digital skills, particularly to create a more inclusive society.

Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia, is a British businesswoman. She is the Founder and Executive Chair of the fintech Snoop. Jayne-Anne was the CEO of Virgin Money from 2007 to 2018 and is considered one of the financial services industry's most senior and best-known women.

John William Gilbert, Baron Gilbert, was a British Labour politician.

Luke Patrick Graham is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Ochil and South Perthshire from 2017 to 2019. From September 2018, Graham served in the role of Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Cabinet Office. He was later made PPS to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. He held both positions concurrently until the end of the Second May Ministry.

George Charter Harrison was an Anglo-American management consultant and cost account pioneer, known for designing one of the earliest known complete standard cost systems.

John McDonald Henderson was a Scottish chartered accountant, barrister and Liberal Member of Parliament.

Thomas Michael Hoare, known as Mad Mike Hoare, was an Indian born Irish mercenary soldier who operated during the Simba rebellion, and attempted to conduct a coup d'état in the Seychelles.

Dudley W. Hooper MA FCA was a British businessman in the UK National Coal Board (NCB) and an early President of the British Computer Society (BCS). He was an accountant and an early promoter of electronic data processing (EDP).

William Hopkins Holyland (1807-1882) was an English accountant. He is best known for having co-founded, with Samuel Lowell Price and Edwin Waterhouse, the accountancy practice of Price Waterhouse that now forms part of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Sukhbir Singh Kapoor OBE is a writer and educator. He has served as a professor and administrator at universities in several countries. Kapoor is currently vice chancellor of The International School of Sikh Studies and Khalsa College London. He has written 50 books, of which 44 are on various aspects of Sikhism, one is on economic theory, one deals with business administration, one is on accounting practice and three cover Panjabi poetry. His regular articles have appeared in many English and Panjabi magazines, and he has to his credit many hundred such articles. His academic work has brought him numerous awards, including the Punjabi Academy Award from the Government of Delhi. He has organized many symposia for drama and poetry and has directed many plays. Kapoor is the chief editor of the Sikh Courier International. Kapoor was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.

Arthur Rylands Lowe was a British accountant and the first full-time professional accountant in Hong Kong.

Ralph Matthew Palmer, 12th Baron Lucas and 8th Lord Dingwall, addressed formally as Lord Lucas and Dingwall, is one of the hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, sitting as a Conservative. He inherited his titles on the death of his mother in 1991, served as a Tory whip in the Lords 1994-7 for the last three years of the John Major government, and continues to serve as a backbencher. Known generally and professionally as Ralph Lucas, in 2000 he became owner and publisher of The Good Schools Guide.

Sir Ian Thomas Morrow was a British "company doctor," accountant and briefly Liberal Party politician. In a long career, he saved many struggling businesses, the best known being Rolls-Royce.

Sarah Jane Olney is a British Liberal Democrat politician and former accountant who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond Park since 2019, and previously from 2016 to 2017. Olney has served as the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Transport and for Business and Industrial Strategy since January 2020. She has also served as the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Energy and Climate Change under Sir Ed Davey since September 2020.

Cecil Edward Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, was a British Conservative politician and cabinet minister. A chartered accountant by training, he entered Parliament in November 1970, and was appointed a minister in Margaret Thatcher's first government in May 1979. He successfully managed the Conservative Party's 1983 election campaign, and was rewarded with an appointment as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, but was forced to resign after revelations that his former secretary, Sara Keays, was pregnant with his child, whom she later bore and named Flora Keays.

Ben Pridmore is a former world memory champion, memory sport competitor and accountant.

Sir Norman Murray Archibald MacGregor Pringle, 10th Baronet is a Scottish accountant. In 2016, he won a legal case establishing that he was the rightful heir to the Pringle baronetcy, using DNA evidence that proved his cousin, who had been accepted as the 9th Baronet in 1919, was not the biological son of the 8th Baronet.

Sir Michael Derek Vaughan Rake is a British businessman, former chairman of BT Group, former chairman of Worldpay and a director of S&P Global. He served as president of the CBI from 2013 until 2015. He was appointed to the board of Huawei Technologies UK on 14 April 2020, having worked as an advisor for the company since 1 January 2019.

Amanda Mary Victoria Spielman, MA ACA serves as HM Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills since January 2017.

Murray de Vere Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St Albans,, styled Earl of Burford from 1964 until 1988, is an English duke.

Sir George Alexander Touche, 1st Baronet, born George Alexander Touch, was a British accountant and politician. He founded one of the firms which amalgamated to create Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.