Editing Dean Cemetery (section)

===Original cemetery===
"N" denotes location in the first northern extension. "LR" denotes location in the Lords Row.
[[File:-11WillThomson.png|thumb|Will Thomson, Dean Cemetery extension]]
* [[John Abercromby, 5th Baron Abercromby|The 5th Baron Abercromby]] (1841–1924)
* [[James Adam, Lord Adam|Lord Adam]] (1824–1914), [[Senator of the College of Justice]] (N)
* [[James Ormiston Affleck|Sir James Ormiston Affleck]] [[FRSE]] LLD (1840–1922), physician and author (N)
* [[Stair Agnew|Sir Stair Agnew]] (1831–1916)
* [[David Aitken (minister)|Rev David Aitken]] [[FRSE]] (1796–1875), church historian
* [[John Aitken (editor)|John Aitken]] (1793–1833), Scottish journalist and editor (LR)
* [[Robert Alexander (artist)|Robert Alexander RSA]] (1840–1923), artist
* [[Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet|Sir Archibald Alison]] (d. 1867), advocate and historian, plus his son, [[Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet|Sir Archibald Alison]] (LR)
* [[Robert Allan (mineralogist)|Robert Allan]] [[FRSE]] (1806–1863), mineralogist
* [[Robert George Allan|Sir Robert George Allan]] [[FRSE]] (1879–1972),  agriculturalist
* [[William Allan (British Army officer)|Major General William Allan]] (1832–1918), a general in the [[Crimean War]]
* [[William Allan (painter)|Sir William Allan RSA]] (1782–1850), artist
* [[John Anderson (zoologist)|John Anderson]] (1833–1900), sculpted by [[David Watson Stevenson]]
* [[Thomas Anderson (botanist)|Thomas Anderson]] FLS (1832–1870), botanist
* [[Thomas Annandale]] (1838–1907), medical pioneer and surgeon (N)
* [[Neil Arnott]] [[Royal Society of London|FRS]] (1788–1874), physician
* [[Lena Ashwell]], Lady Simson (1869–1957), English actress
* Prof [[William Edmondstoune Aytoun]] (1813–1865), poet
* [[Henry Bellyse Baildon]] (1849–1907), poet and author
* Dr [[John William Ballantyne]] [[FRSE]] (1861–1923), founder of the science of antenatal pathology
* [[William Francis Beattie]] MC (1886–1918), sculptor
* [[William Hamilton Beattie]] (1842–1898), architect (including Jenner's and the [[Balmoral Hotel]])
* Dr [[John Beddoe]] (1826–1911), ethnologist
* Dr [[James Warburton Begbie]] (1826–1876), physician (N)
* [[Archibald Bell (writer)|Archibald Bell]] (1776–1854), author and advocate
* [[Dr Joseph Bell]] (1837–1911), lecturer at the medical school of the [[University of Edinburgh]], personal surgeon of [[Queen Victoria]]
* [[John Bellany]] (1942–2013), artist
* Dr [[John Hughes Bennett]] (1812–1875), physiologist
* [[Isabella Bird]], married name Bishop (1831–1904), traveller, writer and photographer. First female Fellow of the [[Royal Geographical Society]] (RGS)
* [[Alexander Black (architect)|Alexander Black]] (1797–1858), architect
* [[Alexander William Black]] MP (1859–1906)
* [[James Black (Moderator)|Very Rev. James Black]] DD (d. 1948), [[Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland]] in 1938 and Chaplain to the King
* [[Robert Blackburn, Lord Blackburn|Lord Blackburn]] LLD (1864–1944), Senator of the College of Justice (N)
* [[John Stuart Blackie]] (1809–1895)
* [[John Blackwood (publisher)|John Blackwood]] (1818–1879), publisher and editor of ''[[Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]]''
* Rev Dr [[Robert Blair (minister)|Robert Blair]] (1837–1907) (N)
* [[Thomas Bonnar]] (father (d. 1873) and son (d. 1896), a back-to-back monument by [[David Watson Stevenson]]), artists, decorators and designers
* Cunninghame Borthwick, 19th [[Lord Borthwick]] (1813–1885)
* [[Thomas Bouch|Sir Thomas Bouch]] (1822–1880), railway engineer, designer of the original [[Tay Rail Bridge]]
* [[Samuel Bough]] RSA, artist, (1822–1878) (monument by [[William Brodie (sculptor)|William Brodie]], 1879)
* Admiral [[James Paterson Bower]] (1806–1889) and his son Major General [[Hamilton Bower|Hamilton St Clair Bower]] (1858–1940) (N)
* Prof [[Francis Darby Boyd]] (1866–1922), Professor of Clinical Medicine at [[Edinburgh University]]
* [[Mary Syme Boyd]] (1910–1997), sculptor
* [[Thomas Jamieson Boyd|Sir Thomas Jamieson Boyd]] (1818–1902), [[Lord Provost of Edinburgh]] 1877–82<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf |title=Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |website=Royalsoc.ed.org.uk |access-date=2016-01-07 |archive-date=16 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116140212/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> (N)
* [[Byrom Bramwell|Sir Byrom Bramwell]] (1847–1921), brain surgeon
* [[Edwin Bramwell]] [[FRSE]] (1873–1952), brain surgeon (N)
* Sir John Clerk Brodie (1811–1888),  monument by [[John Hutchison (sculptor)|John Hutchison]] (including his son [[Brodie baronets|Thomas Dawson Brodie]]) (LR)
* [[William Brodie (sculptor)|William Brodie]] (1815–1881)
* [[Agnes Brown (suffragist)|Agnes Henderson Brown]] (1866–1943),  suffragette
* [[Andrew Betts Brown]] (1841–1906), engineer and inventor, co-founder of Brown Brothers & Co (N)
* [[James Buchanan (1785–1857)|James Buchanan]] and Jane Buchanan, philanthropists
* [[John Young Buchanan]] FRS FRSE (1844–1925), oceanographer
* [[Thomas Stuart Burnett]] (1853–1888), sculptor
* Dr [[John Graham MacDonald Burt]] [[FRSE]] (1809–1868), President of the [[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh]]
* [[Samuel Butcher (classicist)|Samuel Butcher]] (1850–1910), professor of Greek at [[Edinburgh University]], President of the [[British Academy]], [[Liberal Unionist]] [[MP for Cambridge University]] (N)
* [[Florence St John Cadell]] (1877–1966), artist (N)
* [[Francis Cadell (artist)]] (1883–1937), Scottish colourist, his actress sister [[Jean Cadell]] (1884–1967) and great nephew, comedy actor [[Simon Cadell]] (1950–1996), star of ''[[Enemy at the Door]]'' and ''[[Hi-de-Hi!]]''
* Prof [[Francis Mitchell Caird]] (1853–1926), President of the [[Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh]] 1912–14 (N)
* Edward and [[James Key Caird]], [[Dundee]] jute barons and philanthropists
* [[Donald Callander|Major Donald Fraser Callander]] (1918–1992), soldier
* [[General (United Kingdom)|General]] [[John Campbell (1802–1878)|Sir John Campbell]] of the [[East India Company]]
* [[Richard Vary Campbell]] (1840–1901), legal author (N)
* [[James Carswell]] (1832–1897),  civil engineer, designer of [[Queen Street Station, Glasgow]], and the approaches to the [[Forth Rail Bridge]] (N)
* [[James Cassie]] [[Royal Scottish Academy|RSA]] (1819–1879), artist (N)
* [[David Patrick Chalmers|Sir David Patrick Chalmers]] (1835–1899),  colonial judge (N)
* [[George Paul Chalmers]] (1838–1878), artist
* [[Robert Chambers (publisher born 1832)|Robert Chambers]] (1832–1888), publisher of dictionaries and encyclopedia
* Prof [[John Chiene]] (1843–1923), surgeon
* [[Henry Martyn Clark]] (1887–1916), missionary
* [[Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn|Lord Cockburn]] (1779–1854)
* [[John Campbell Colquhoun]] (1803–1870), writer
* [[George Somervil Carfrae]] (1854–1934), civil engineer (N)
* Dr [[John G. S. Coghill]] (1834–1899), physician and medical author
* [[George Combe]] (1788–1858), lawyer and [[phrenologist]]
* [[Charles Alfred Cooper]] [[FRSE]] (1829–1916), editor of ''[[The Scotsman]]'' newspaper
* [[Joseph Cotterill (cricketer)|Sir Joseph Montagu Cotterill]] (1851–1933), surgeon and cricketer, son of [[Henry Cotterill]]
* [[George Coventry (minister)|Rev George Coventry]] FRSE (1791–1872), (LR)
* [[John Cowan, Lord Cowan|Lord Cowan]] (1798–1878), Senator of the College of Justice (LR)
* [[Robert Cox (anti-Sabbatarian)|Robert Cox]] WS (1810–1872), medallion head by [[William Brodie (sculptor)|William Brodie]]
* [[Robert Cox (Scottish politician)|Robert Cox MP]] (1845–1899)
* [[James Coxe|Sir James Coxe]] (1811–1878), psychiatrist, [[Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland|Commissioner in Lunacy for Scotland]]
* Dr [[Kenneth Craik]] (1914–1945)
* [[Francis Chalmers Crawford]] [[FRSE]] (1851–1908), botanist
* Rev Prof [[Thomas Jackson Crawford]] [[FRSE]] (1812–1875), theologian and author
* [[John Croall & Sons Edinburgh|Robert Croall]] (1831–1898), coach- and post-master
* Prof [[John Halliday Croom]] (1847–1923), physician
* [[William James Cullen, Lord Cullen|Lord Cullen]] (1859–1931)
* Prof [[Daniel John Cunningham]] (1850–1909) with his [[Dublin]]-born son, [[General (United Kingdom)|General]] [[Alan Cunningham|Sir Alan Cunningham]] (1887–1983)
* [[Robert James Blair Cunynghame]] [[FRSE]] (1841–1903), forensic scientist and physiologist
* [[Allen Dalzell]] [[FRSE]] (1821–1869), pharmacologist
* Dr [[Robert Daun]] [[FRSE]] [[Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians|FRCP]] (1785–1871), military surgeon (LR)
* [[Marcus Dods (theologian born 1834)|Marcus Dods]] DD (1834–1909), theologian
* Dr [[Andrew Halliday Douglas]] (1819–1908), President of the [[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh]], and his namesake son, Rev. Prof. A.H. Douglas (d. 1902), author and Professor of Apologetic at Know College, [[Toronto]]
* [[Francis Brown Douglas]] [[FRSE]] DL (1814–1885), [[Lord Provost of Edinburgh]] 1859–62
* [[William Fettes Douglas|Sir William Fettes Douglas]] (1822–1891), PRSA artist
* Bishop [[John Dowden]] (1840–1910), [[Bishop of Edinburgh]]
* [[Drybrough & Co|Thomas Drybrough]] (1820–1894), brewer
* [[Finlay Dun]] (1795–1853), musician and composer
* [[John Duncan (surgeon)]] [[FRSE]] (1839–1899), President of the [[Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh]] 1889–91
* [[Henry Dunlop of Craigton]] (1799–1867), [[Lord Provost of Glasgow]] 1837 to 1840
* [[James Dunsmure]] [[FRSE]] (1814–1886), President of the [[Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh]]
* [[William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn]] [[FRSE]] (1889–1964), psychiatrist
* [[James Duncan (surgeon)|Dr James Duncan]] (1810–1866) and his son, [[John Duncan (surgeon)|Dr John Duncan]] (1839–1899)
* [[James Faed]] (1821–1911), artist
* Rev [[Valentine Faithfull]] (1820–1894), clergyman and cricketer
* [[James Falshaw|Sir James Falshaw]] (1810–1889), [[Lord Provost]] (N)
* Vice Admiral [[Charles Fellowes]] (1823–1880) (N)
* [[James Haig Ferguson]] [[FRSE]] (1863–1934), President of both the [[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh]] and the [[Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh]] (N)
* [[Richard Findlay (broadcaster)|Richard Findlay]] (1943–2017), broadcaster and media magnate
* Rev [[Robert Howie Fisher]] DD (1861–1934), minister and author, Chaplain to the King
* [[David Fleming, Lord Fleming|Lord Fleming]] (1877–1944), military hero and judge
* [[James Simpson Fleming]] [[FRSE]] (1828–1899)
* Prof [[John Fleming (naturalist)|John Fleming]] (1785–1857)
* Prof [[Edward Forbes]] (1815–1854), naturalist
* Prof [[James David Forbes]] (1809–1868), inventor of the [[seismometer]]
* [[Patrick Johnston Ford|Sir Patrick Johnston Ford]], [[Baronet]], MP (1880–1945)
* [[James Forlong|Major-General James George Roche Forlong]] (1824–1904), soldier and engineer
* [[Forrest baronets|Sir John Forrest, Baronet]] (1817–1883), with Sir William Forrest (1823–1894) and Sir James Forrest (1853–1899)
* [[William Hope Fowler]] CVO, MB, ChB, FRCSE, MRCPE, FRSE (1876–1933), x-ray pioneer, victim of his own experiments (N)
* [[Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser|Sir Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser]] (1848–1919)
* [[John Fraser (physician)|Dr John Fraser]] [[FRSE]] (1844–1925),  Commissioner of Lunacy in Scotland 1895–1910
* [[Patrick Fraser, Lord Fraser|Lord Fraser]] (1817–1889), jurist
* [[Patrick Neill Fraser]], [[FRSE]] (d. 1905), botanist (plus a cenotaph to his daughter [[Margaret Neill Fraser]], buried in Serbia during the [[First World War]])
* [[Thomas Richard Fraser]] (1841–1920), pathologist (N)
* [[William Fraser (historian)|Sir William Fraser]] (1816–1898)
* [[Henry Snell Gamley]] (1865–1928), artist
* [[George Alexander Gibson]] (1854–1913), doctor and amateur geologist, Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]], Chief Physician at [[Edinburgh Royal Infirmary]] (N)
* [[Sir James Gibson, 1st Baronet]] (1849–1912), Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1906–1909, MP for Edinburgh 1909–1912
* [[James Young Gibson]] (1826–1886), author/translator (bronze by [[Francis John Williamson]]) plus his wife [[Agnes and Margaret Smith|Margaret Dunlop Smith]] (1843–1920), also an author
* [[John Goodsir]] (1814–1867), anatomist
* [[Robert Anstruther Goodsir]] (1823–1899), doctor and Arctic explorer
* [[Edward Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn|The Baron Gordon of Drumearn]] (1814–1879)
* [[Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet|Sir Alexander Grant]], 10th Bt. (1826–1884), educationalist and Principal of [[Edinburgh University]]
* [[John Peter Grant (MP)|John Peter Grant]], MP (1774–1848)
* [[Grant baronets|Sir Ludovic Grant]], 11th Baronet of Dalvey (1862–1836)
* [[Robert Kaye Greville]] (1794–1866), botanist
* [[Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie|Lord Guthrie]] (1849–1920), Senator of the College of Justice
* [[William Guy (dentist)|William Guy]], FRSE (1860–1950), pioneer of modern dentistry
* [[Daniel Rutherford Haldane]] [[FRSE]] PRCPE (1824–1887)
* [[James Burton (Egyptologist)|James Haliburton]] (1788–1862), Egyptologist
* [[Lord Belhaven and Stenton|James, 9th Baron Belhaven and Stenton]] (1822–1893), monument including a bronze by [[Pilkington Jackson]]
* [[Robert Handyside, Lord Handyside|Lord Handyside]] (1798–1858)
* [[Joseph James Hargrave]] (1841–1894) of the [[Hudson's Bay Company]] (HBC)
* [[John Harrison (historian)|John Harrison]] [[FRSE]] CBE LLD (1847–1922), master tailor and author, son of [[George Harrison (Lord Provost)|Sir George Harrison]], MP
* [[Hay baronets|Sir Lewis John Erroll Hay]], 9th Baronet of Park (1866–1923) (N)
* [[Andrew Fergus Hewat]] [[FRSE]], (1884–1957)
* [[David Octavius Hill]] (1802–1870), artist and photography pioneer, [[Hill & Adamson]]. The monument is by his second wife, [[Amelia Robertson Hill]] (née Paton) (1820–1904) who is buried with him
* [[James Hodsdon|Sir James Hodsdon]] (1858–1928), surgeon, President of the [[Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh]] 1914–1917
* [[Franklin Hudson]] (1864–1918),  American-born osteopath (N)
* [[Robert Gemmell Hutchison]] (1855–1936), artist (pair of sculpted heads by [[John Stevenson Rhind]])
* [[Hutchison baronets|Sir Thomas Hutchison]] (1866–1925), [[Lord Provost of Edinburgh]] 1921–1923
* [[Elsie Inglis]] (1864–1917), pioneer female doctor and war hero (N)
* [[Alexander Taylor Innes]] [[FRSE]] LLD (1833–1912), lawyer and historian
* [[John Irving (Royal Navy officer)|John Irving]] (1822–1848 or 49), lieutenant aboard {{HMS|Terror|1813|6}}, part of the [[Franklin's lost expedition|Franklin Expedition]] searching for the [[Northwest Passage]]; his body was found on [[King William Island]] (in modern-day [[Nunavut]], [[Canada]]) 30 years later and re-interred at Dean Cemetery, 7 November 1881 (monument is carved by [[Stewart McGlashan]])
* [[William Allan Jamieson|Sir William Allan Jamieson]] (1839–1916), surgeon and medical author, President of the [[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh]] 1908–1910
* [[Lord Francis Jeffrey|Francis, Lord Jeffrey]] (1773–1850) (LR)
* [[Jenners|Charles Jenner]] [[FRSE]] (1810–1893), founder of [[Jenners]] Department Store on [[Princes Street]]
* [[Henry Johnston, Lord Johnston|Lord Johnston]] (1844–1931), [[Senator of the College of Justice]] (N)
* [[William Campbell Johnston|Sir William Campbell Johnston]] [[FRSE]] LLD (1860–1938), advocate and cricketer (N)
* [[Artur Jurand]] (1914–2000), Polish born geneticist (N)
* [[Frederick Charles Kennedy]] CIE (1849–1916), Director of the [[Irrawaddy Flotilla Company]] and involved in the [[Third Anglo-Burmese War]] (N)
* [[Helen Kerr]] LLD (1859–1940), social reformer
* [[Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig|The Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig]] (1926–2015)
* [[Alexander Kinnear, 1st Baron Kinnear|The 1st Baron Kinnear]] (1833–1917)
* [[Charles Kinnear]], architect (1830–1894) of the firm [[John Dick Peddie|Peddie]] & Kinnear, creators of [[Cockburn Street, Edinburgh]], etc. (N)
* All four [[Baron Kinross|Barons Kinross]], spanning almost two centuries (LR)
* [[John Watson Laidlay]] [[FRSE]] (1808–1885), coin collector and orientalist
* [[William Law (Lord Provost)|William Law]] (1799–1878), [[Lord Provost of Edinburgh]] from 1869 to 1872
* Right Hon [[Robert Lee, Lord Lee|Lord Lee]] [[FRSE]] (1830–1890), Senator of the College of Justice (N)
* Rev [[Cameron Lees]] (1835–1913)
* [[James Leslie (engineer)|James Leslie]] [[FRSE]] (1801–1889), engineer, and his son, [[Alexander Leslie (engineer)|Alexander Leslie]]
* [[John Lessels]] (1808–1883), City architect (N)
* David Lind (1797–1856), builder of the [[Scott Monument]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://orapweb.rcahms.gov.uk/wp/00/WP000440.pdf |title=The Scott Monument |website=Orapweb.rcahms.gov.uk |access-date=2016-01-07}}</ref>
* Dr [[William Lauder Lindsay]] [[FRSE]] FLS (1829–1880), physician and botanist
* Prof [[Henry Duncan Littlejohn|Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn]] (1826–1914), public health promoter, forensic science pioneer, plus his son, [[Henry Littlejohn (surgeon born 1826)#Henry Harvey Littlejohn|Henry Harvey Littlejohn]] (1862–1927), forensic scientist, Edinburgh's first Police Surgeon.
* [[John Gordon Lorimer (civil servant)|John Gordon Lorimer]] (1870–1916), [[cenotaph]]
* [[George MacRitchie Low]] [[FRSE]], [[Faculty of Actuaries|FFA]] (1849–1922), President of the [[Faculty of Actuaries]] (N)
* [[Flora Macaulay]] (1859–1958), newspaper editor (N)
* [[Charles McBride]] (1851–1903), sculptor (bronze head by [[Henry Snell Gamley]]) (N)
* [[John MacGregor McCandlish]] WS [[FRSE]] (1821–1901), first President of the [[Faculty of Actuaries]]
* Dr [[John McCosh]] (1801–1881), early photographer (cenotaph) (N)
* [[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major-General]] [[Hector MacDonald|Sir Hector MacDonald]] (d. 1903), "The Fighting Mac" (bronze by [[William Birnie Rhind]]) (N)
* Rev Prof [[Patrick Campbell MacDougall]] (1806–1867), Professor of Moral Philosophy
* [[McEwan's|John McEwan]] (1832–1875), part of the brewing family
* Very Rev. [[Alexander Robertson MacEwen]] (1851–1916)
* [[Donald Macfadyen, Lord Macfadyen|Lord Macfadyen]] (1945–2008), Senator of the College of Justice
* Dr [[John Lisle Hall MacFarlane]] (1851–1874), physician and Scotland rugby international (medallion by [[John Steell|Sir John Steell]])
* [[MacGibbon and Ross|David MacGibbon]] (1831–1902), architect and architectural historian, partner in [[MacGibbon and Ross]] (N)
* [[Archibald Donald Mackenzie]] (1914–1944), 'Captain Mack', officer of the [[Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders|Cameron Highlanders]] and later of the Brigata Stella Rossa, commemorated annually on [[Liberation Day (Italy)|Liberation Day]] in Italy
* [[Thomas Mackenzie, Lord Mackenzie|Lord Mackenzie]] (1807–1869), [[Senator of the College of Justice]]
* Very Rev [[Dugald Mackichan]] (1851–1932)
* [[Andrew Douglas Maclagan]] [[FRSE]] (1817–1900), physician and toxicologist, and his son [[Robert Craig Maclagan]]
* [[David Maclagan]] [[FRSE]] (1785–1865) military surgeon, surgeon to [[Queen Victoria]] in Scotland
* [[Norman Macleod (moderator)|Very Rev Norman Macleod]] [[Doctor of Divinity|DD]] (1838–1911) [[Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland]] in 1900 (N)
* [[Donald Mackenzie (advocate)|Donald Mackenzie]] (1818–1875), Scottish judge, styled Lord Mackenzie
* Rev [[Hugh MacMillan]] [[FRSE]] (1833–1903) (N)
* Sir [[Daniel Macnee]] RSA (1806–1882) artist and President of the [[Royal Scottish Academy]] (N)
* Rev Dr [[James Calder Macphail]] DD (1821–1908) Free Church minister and pioneer photographer (N)
* [[McVitie's|Robert McVitie]] (1854–1910) biscuit maker, creator of the [[digestive biscuit]] (N) (cenotaph)
* [[James Maidment]] (1793–1879) antiquarian (N)
* [[David Duncan Main]] (1856–1934) medical missionary
* [[Edward Maitland, Lord Barcaple]] (1803–1870)
* Dr [[Robert Bowes Malcolm]] [[FRSE]] (1807–1894) British obstetrician
* [[Henry Marshall (physician)|Henry Marshall]] [[FRSE]] (1775–1851) physician and medical statistician
* Very Rev [[Theodore Marshall]] DD (1846–1939), [[Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland]] 1908 (N)
* [[Robert Matheson (architect)]] (1808–1877)
* [[John Miller (engineer)|John Miller]] (1805–1883) half of the partnership Grainger & Miller, railway and dock engineers
* Very Rev [[John Harry Miller]] (1869–1940) (N)
* [[Janet Milne Rae]] (1844–1933), novelist
* [[James Mitchell (Scottish minister)|Very Rev James Mitchell]] DD (1830–1911) [[Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland]] in 1901
* Rev [[John Murray Mitchell (missionary)|John Murray Mitchell]] (1815–1904) missionary and orientalist (N)
* Very Rev [[Reginald Mitchell-Innes]] (1848–1930)
* [[Sir Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baronet]] (1816–1918) [[Lord Provost]] of Edinburgh 1897–1900
* [[James Moncireiff, 1st Baron Moncreiff]] (1811-1895) Scottish judge and politician
* [[Alexander Monro (tertius)]] (1773–1859) physician of the Monro dynasty (LR)
* [[James Montgomery (priest)|James Francis Montgomery]] (1818–1897) first Dean of [[St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal)|St Marys Episcopal Cathedral]]
* [[Charles Morehead (physician)|Dr Charles Morehead]] (1807–1882)
* [[William Ambrose Morehead]] (1805–1863) governor of Madras
* [[Thomas Corsan Morton]] (1859–1928) artist
* [[William Muir (divine)|Rev Dr William Muir]] (1787–1869) Scottish divine and theological author. [[Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland]] in 1838 (bronze head by [[Sir John Steell]])
* [[James Muirhead (scholar)|James Muirhead]] (1830–1889) Professor of Civil Law at [[Edinburgh University]]
* [[David Mure, Lord Mure]] (1810–1891) judge
* Sir [[John Murray (oceanographer)]] KCB (d. 1914) leader of the [[Challenger Expedition]] (N)
* [[Robert Milne Murray]] (1855–1904) gynaecologist
* [[James Nasmyth]] (1808–1890), inventor of the [[steam hammer]], monument by [[John Rhind (sculptor)|John Rhind]] (N)
* [[Robert Nasmyth]] [[FRSE]] (1792–1870) dentist to [[Queen Victoria]]
* Dr [[Thomas Goodall Nasmyth]] [[FRSE]] (1855–1937) Medical Officer of Health to Fife, medical author (N)
* [[Patrick Newbigging]] [[FRSE]] PRSSA (1813–1864)
* [[Robert Nisbet (minister)|Rev Dr Robert Nisbet]] (1814–1874)
* [[Wilfrid Normand, Baron Normand]] (1884–1962) (N)
* [[Brownlow North (evangelist)]] (1810–1875)
* Very Rev [[James Nicoll Ogilvie]] DD (1860–1928) [[Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland]] in 1918.
* [[Emily Murray Paterson]] RSW (1855–1934), artist
* [[James Paterson (painter)|James Paterson RSA]] (1854–1932) artist
* Sir [[James Balfour Paul]] (1846–1931) (N)
* [[Charles Pearson, Lord Pearson]] (1843–1910) judge
* [[John More Dick Peddie]] (1853–1921) architect (N)
* [[Samuel Peploe]] (1871–1935) artist
* [[Arthur Perigal]] RSA (1784–1847) artist
* [[Alexander Mactier Pirrie]] (1882–1907) anthropologist (N)
* [[William Henry Playfair]] (1790–1857), architect
* [[Olive Rae]] (1878–1933), operatic soprano
* Rev [[Robert Rainy]] (1820–1906) and his son [[Adam Rolland Rainy]] MP
* Prof [[Sir John Rankine]] (1846–1922) professor of Scots Law and legal author (N)
* [[Robert Reid (architect)]] (1774–1856) architect of much of the [[New Town, Edinburgh|New Town]]
* [[Robert Carstairs Reid]] (1845–1894) civil engineer
* [[John Riddell (genealogist)]] (1785–1862)
* [[George Ritchie (moderator)|Very Rev Dr George Ritchie]] (1808–1888) [[Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland]] in 1870
* [[John Ritchie (newspaper owner)|John Ritchie]] (1778–1870) and [[John Ritchie Findlay]] (1824–1898) newspaper tycoons
* Dr [[Robert Peel Ritchie]] [[FRSE]] (1835–1902) medical historian
* [[Joseph Robertson (historian)|Joseph Robertson]] (1810–1866), antiquarian
* [[Alexander Ignatius Roche]] (1861–1921) artist
* Prof [[Henry Darwin Rogers]] (1808–1866) US-born geologist
* A huge red granite [[obelisk]] to [[Alexander Russel]], editor of [[The Scotsman]] (1814–1870) (N)
* [[Alexander James Russell]] [[FRSE]] CS (1814–1887) lawyer
* Sir [[James Russell (Scottish politician)|James Russell]] (1846–1918) [[Lord Provost]] of Edinburgh 1891–94
* Very Rev [[James Curdie Russell]] [[Doctor of Divinity|DD]] VD (1830–1925) [[Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland]] 1902 (N)
* Prof [[William Russell (physician)]] (1852–1940) discoverer of [[Russell bodies]]
* [[Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd]] (1791–1852), designed by the adjacent Playfair
* Prof [[William Rutherford Sanders]] [[FRSE]] (1828–1881) pathologist
* [[Archibald Scott (moderator)|Very Rev Dr Arcibald Scott]] DD (1837–1909) Moderator of the Church of Scotland in 1896
* [[David Scott (painter)]] (1807–1849)
* [[Andrew Edward Scougal]] [[FRSE]] LLD (1846–1916) chief inspector of schools
* [[William Seller]] [[FRSE]] (1798–1869) physician and botanist
* [[Patrick Shaw (legal writer)]] (1796–1872)
* [[Charles Shore, 2nd Baron Teignmouth]] (1796–1885) politician
* [[Brigadier General]] Offley Shore (1863–1922)
* Sir [[Henry Simson|Henry John Forbes Simson]] (1872–1932) the obstetrician who delivered Queen [[Elizabeth II]] and [[Princess Margaret]] (N)
* [[John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland]] (1860–1925)
* [[Basil Skinner]] (1923–1995) historian and campaigner for architectural conservation
* [[Robert T. Skinner]] [[FRSE]] (1867–1946) historian and teacher
* Prof [[George Gregory Smith]] (1865–1932)
* [[John Smith (physician)|Dr John Smith]] (1800–1879) President of the [[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh]]
* [[Robert MacKay Smith]] [[FRSE]] (1802–1888) meteorologist and philanthropist
* Dr [[John W. L. Spence]] (1870–1930) x-ray pioneer and martyr to radiology
* [[Sir James Steel]] (1830–1904) [[Lord Provost of Edinburgh]] (bust by [[John Stevenson Rhind]]) (N)
* [[David Stevenson (engineer)|David Stevenson]] (1815–1886), his son [[Charles Alexander Stevenson]] (1855–1950) (N) and grandson [[D. Alan Stevenson]] (1891–1971) (N), lighthouse engineers
* [[Flora Stevenson]] (1839–1905) social reformer
* [[Louisa Stevenson]] (1835–1908) women's university education, women's suffrage
* [[James Stevenson (merchant)]] [[FRSE]] (1786–1866) [[Paisley, Renfrewshire|Paisley]] cotton manufacturer
* [[John James Stevenson]] (1831–1908) architect, son of above
* Rev [[Robert Horne Stevenson]] DD (1812–1816)
* [[John Stewart of Nateby Hall]] [[FRSE]] (1813–1867) naturalist
* Prof Sir [[Thomas Grainger Stewart]] (1837–1900) and his daughter [[Agnes Grainger Stewart]]
* [[William Stewart, Lord Allanbridge]] (1925–2012)
* [[James Stirling (1800–1876)]] railway engineer and his wife, the author Susan Stirling
* [[William James Stuart]] (1873–1958) President of the [[Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh]] 1937 to 1939 (N)
* [[Gabriel Surenne]] FSA (1777–1858) historian
* Lt Gen [[Thomas Robert Swinburne]] British army officer and artist
* [[George Swinton (botanist)]] [[FRSE]] (1780–1854) Chief Secretary of the Government in India
* Major General Sir [[John Munro Sym]] (1839–1919)
* [[Francis Darby Syme]] (1818–1871) trader in China involved in the coolie riots of 1852
* [[John Tait (architect)|John Tait]] (1787–1856) architect
* The [[Charles William Gray Taylor|Very Rev C W G Taylor]] CBE DD (d. 1950) [[Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland]] 1942
* [[Robert Tennent (photographer)|Robert Tennent]] [[FRSE]] (1813–1890), pioneer photographer and his younger brother [[Hugh Lyon Tennent]] (1817–1874) (N)
* [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]] (1860–1947) biologist
* Prof [[Allen Thomson]] FRS [[FRSE]] (1809–1884)
* [[Andrew Thomson (minister)|Rev Dr Andrew Thomson]] DD (1814–1901) minister and religious author (N)
* Lt Col [[Frank Wyville Thomson]] [[FRSE]] (1860–1918) public health expert in India
* [[Sir Frederick Thomson, 1st Baronet]] MP (1875–1935) and [[Sir Douglas Thomson, 2nd Baronet]] MP (1905–1972) politician father and son
* [[Henry Alexis Thomson]] (1863–1924) Professor of Surgery
* [[Robert William Thomson]] (1822–1873) engineer and inventor of the pneumatic tyre
* [[Thomas Thomson (advocate)]] (1768–1852)
* [[William Thomson (physician)|Prof William Thomson]] (1802–1852), medical author, professor of medicine at the [[University of Glasgow]]
* Sir [[William Turner (anatomist)]] (1852–1916) and his son [[Arthur Logan Turner]] (1865–1939) (N)
* Dr [[Charles Edward Underhill]] [[FRSE]] (1856–1917) surgeon
* [[William Veitch]] LLD (1794–1885) classical scholar
* Major General [[James Conway Victor]] (1792–1864) military engineer
* [[John Waddell (engineer)|John Waddell]] (1828–1888) railway engineer
* [[Norman Walker (dermatologist)|Sir Norman Walker]] (1862–1942), dermatologist
* [[Edward Arthur Walton]] (1860–1922) artist
* [[Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1892–1895|Thomas Drummond Wanliss]] (1830–1923) Australian politician
* Sir [[Patrick Heron Watson]] (1831–1907) Crimean War surgeon, Surgeon to the King (Scotland), first President of the Edinburgh Dental Hospital<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://historyofdentistry.co.uk/index_htm_files/2004Apr2.pdf
 |title=A pioneering history: dentistry and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
 |author=Helen Dingwall
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 |access-date=2016-01-07
 |url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201191323/http://historyofdentistry.co.uk/index_htm_files/2004Apr2.pdf
 |archive-date=1 February 2013
}}
</ref>
[[File:Aeneas Francon Williams and Clara Anne Rendall, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh.jpg|thumb|[[Aeneas Francon Williams]] and [[Aeneas Francon Williams|Clara Anne Rendall]], Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh]]
* [[William Watson, Baron Watson]] (1827–1899) law lord
* [[Joseph Laing Waugh]] (1868–1928) author (medallion by [[William Birnie Rhind]])
* Rev Dr [[Alexander Whyte]] (1836–1921) (N)
* [[David Wilkie (surgeon)|Sir David Wilkie]] (1882–1938) surgeon and philanthropist
* [[Sir Henry Wellwood-Moncreiff, 10th Baronet]] (1809–1883)
* [[Aeneas Francon Williams]] (1886–1971) Church of Scotland Minister, Missionary, Chaplain, Writer and Poet, and his wife [[Aeneas Francon Williams|Clara Anne Rendall]], missionary, teacher and artist.
* [[Wallace Williamson|Rev Andrew Wallace Williamson]] (1856–1926)
* [[John Wilson (singer)|John Wilson]] (1800–1849) Scottish vocalist
* Prof [[John Wilson (Scottish writer)|John Wilson]] (1785–1854) author under the name of "[[Christopher North (writer)|Christopher North]]" and his brother [[James Wilson (zoologist)|James Wilson]] (1795–1856) a zoologist
* Dr [[Jenny Wormald]] (1942–2015) historian
* [[David Reginald Younger]] VC (memorial only)