37 English accountants

Alice L'Estrange or Alice Le Strange born Alice Stubbe was an English keeper of household and estate accounts at Hunstanton Hall in Old Hunstanton.

Harmood Banner (1782–1865) was a British accountant and auditor. He played a major role in the development of accounting and finance in Liverpool, establishing the foundation for the Liverpool Society of Chartered Accountants 1870; which, in turn, played a part in the formation of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1880. He could be said to be the father of professional accounting in England.

David Alan Bernstein CBE is a British business executive who is the chairman of the British Red Cross, member of the advisory board at Cogress Ltd and was the former chairman of French Connection.

Frederick Howard Brooman CB was a British accountant and civil servant.

Allen Carr was a British author of books about stopping smoking and other psychological dependencies including alcohol addiction.

John Michael Cryan is a British businessman. From July 2015 to April 2018 he was chief executive of Deutsche Bank AG in Frankfurt am Main.

William Welch Deloitte was a British accountant and the founder of the professional services firm that subsequently became Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in the US and Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte in the UK. He was born in London, England. He was one of the fathers of the accountancy profession.

Sir William Dunn, 1st Baronet,, was a London banker, merchant and philanthropist, Liberal Member of Parliament for Paisley (1891–1906), and from before 1896 until the outbreak of the Second Boer War in 1899 consul general for the Orange Free State in the United Kingdom.

Robert Colin Elstone is a British businessman.

Sarah Fell (1642–1714) was an English Quaker accountant and writer at Swarthmore Hall. She was the daughter of Margaret Fell and Thomas Fell, and the eventual stepdaughter of George Fox.

Sir Roy Alan Gardner is a British businessman and former director of Manchester United and most recently Plymouth Argyle. Gardner is notable for his involvement in the sale of Manchester United to American businessman Malcolm Glazer and his controversial spell as chairman of Plymouth Argyle, which resulted in the club entering administration with debts of over £17 million and accusations of financial mismanagement.

Lewis Lawrence Golden OBE was a British accountant, war veteran, and a founder of Everest Home Improvement. He was present at the Battle of Arnhem in 1944.

Geoffrey Richard Gollop, OBE is a British Conservative politician, the deputy mayor of Bristol, the former lord mayor of Bristol, and the former deputy lord mayor of Bristol. He was the Conservative candidate for the first directly elected mayor of Bristol in 2012.

Justine Greening is a British former Conservative politician who served as Secretary of State for Education from 2016 to 2018 and as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Putney from 2005 to 2019. She served in the Cameron Government as Economic Secretary to the Treasury and Secretary of State for Transport, prior to being appointed Secretary of State for International Development in September 2012. From 14 July 2016 to 8 January 2018, she served as Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities in the May Government. She resigned as Education Secretary in the January 2018 Cabinet reshuffle.

Lieutenant Colonel Reginald Leonard Haine was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Mark James Harper is a British politician who has served as chair of the COVID Recovery Group. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Forest of Dean since 2005.

Barry Maurice William Hearn is an English sporting events promoter and the founder and President of promotions company Matchroom Sport.

John Michael Howell is a British Conservative politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley, having won the seat in the 2008 Henley by-election.

Sir Harold Gibson Howitt, was an English accountant who had a distinguished military career during the First World War and who undertook a long series of important public service commissions. Notable among these was his report on the reorganisation of the British pig industry.

Ernest Alfred James was an accountant, newspaper proprietor and politician in the Territory of Papua New Guinea. He served as a member of the Legislative Council between 1951 and 1959.

Derek Klein is a British stamp dealer, collector and accountant, who spent 16 months in jail in 2007-08 for stealing £70,000 from two church parishes in Norfolk. In an unusual court ruling, the judge at his trial allowed him to repay the money he had stolen through the sale of the stamps he had bought with the proceeds of his fraud.

Howard Darryl Leigh, Baron Leigh of Hurley is a British businessman, Conservative Party politician, and since September 2013 a member of the House of Lords. He is the Co-founder and Senior Partner of Cavendish Corporate Finance.

Sir Samuel Hardman Lever, 1st Baronet, KCB, generally known as Sir Hardman Lever, and as "Sammie" to his friends, was an English accountant and civil servant.

Edward Daniel McKeever MBE is a British kayak athlete. He is a former European, World and Olympic champion.

William David McKenzie, Baron McKenzie of Luton was a British Labour politician. Until the 2010 general election, he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department for Communities and Local Government. He was also a partner at accounting firm Price Waterhouse which became PricewaterhouseCoopers following a 1998 merger.

Flight Lieutenant Walter McDonald Morison was a Royal Air Force pilot who became a prisoner of war and was sent to Colditz for attempting to steal an enemy aircraft during the Second World War.

George Joseph Horatio Nelson, 8th Earl Nelson, was a British peer. He inherited the title in 1972 on the death of his older brother Henry Nelson, 7th Earl Nelson.

John Frederick Nelson was formerly the Chairman of Lloyd's of London.

Monroe Edward Palmer, Baron Palmer of Child's Hill, OBE, FCA is a British Liberal Democrat politician and life peer in the House of Lords.

Samuel Lowell Price (1821–1887) was an English accountant. He is best known for having co-founded, with William Hopkins Holyland and Edwin Waterhouse, the accountancy practice of Price Waterhouse that now forms part of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Nicholas Jonathan Read is a British businessman, and the CEO of Vodafone Group.

Sir Lawrence William Robson, FCA, was a British accountant and Liberal Party activist.

Sir Basil Smallpeice, was an English accountant and businessman, who served as a director of several companies, including the state owned airline British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), the shipping company Cunard and the mining based conglomerate Lonrho.

David Leslie Taylor was a British Labour Co-operative politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Leicestershire from 1997 until his death in 2009.

Anne-Marie Belinda Trevelyan is a British politician serving as Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade since 2021. She served as Secretary of State for International Development in 2020. A member of the Conservative Party, she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Berwick-upon-Tweed since 2015.

Paul S. Walsh

Paul Steven Walsh is an English businessman who is the executive chairman of the McLaren Group. He was the chief executive of Diageo, the world's largest whisky company, for twelve years between 2000 and 2013.

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