Students at the BSA often combined part of the year at the British School at Rome.
Cambridge students:
- Alan John Bayard Wace (BSR 1903/04)
- Mary Hamilton (BSR 1905)
- Henry Julius Wetenhall Tillyard (BSR 1905)
- Gisela Marie Augusta Richter (BSR 1906)
- John Percival Droop (BSR 1907)
- Arthur Charles Sheepshanks (BSR 1907)
- Wynfrid Laurence Henry Duckworth (BSA 1909)
- Sidney Wilson Grose (BSR 1910)
- Agnes Ethel Conway (BSR 1912)
- Mary N.L. Taylor (BSR 1913, 1914; Gilchrist Studentship 1914); married to Harold C. Bradshaw, Rome Scholar
- Guy Dickins (BSR 1905)
- William Moir Calder (BSR 1907)
- Thomas Eric Peet (BSR 1909, Pelham Student)
- Norman Whatley (BSR 1910)
- Arnold Jospeh Toynbee (BSR 1911)
- William Alexander Kirkwood (BSR 1904)
- Duncan Mackenzie
- Frank George Orr (BSR 1904)
- W. Harvey (BSR 1908)
- Lionel Bailey Budden (1909)
- Harry Herbert Jewell (BSR 1910)
- George Esslemont Gordon Leith (BSR 1911, Herbert Baker Studentship)
Several former students of the BSA also held positions at the BSR:
- Henry Stuart-Jones was the second director Director of the BSR (1903-05)
- Alan John Bayard Wace was librarian of the BSR (1905/06).
- Augustus Moore Daniel (associate student of the BSA), was Assistant Director of the BSR (1906/07); he was married to Margery Katharine Welsh a former student of the BSA
- Eugenie Sellers-Strong was Assistant Director of the BSR (1909-25)
- William Loring was honorary secretary of the BSR (as well as the BSA)
- John Ff. Baker Penoyre, secretary to the BSR (1904-12) (as well as the BSA)