Editing Highgate Cemetery (section)

====Notable West Side interments====
* [[Henry Thomas Alken|Henry Alken]] (1785–1851), painter, engraver and illustrator of sporting and coaching scenes
* [[Jane Arden (director)|Jane Arden]], Welsh-born film director, actress, screenwriter, playwright, songwriter, and poet
* [[John Atcheler]], 'Horse slaughterer to [[Queen Victoria]]'
* [[Edward Hodges Baily]], sculptor
* [[Beryl Bainbridge]], author
* [[Abraham Dee Bartlett]], [[zoologist]], superintendent of the [[London Zoo]] known for selling the popular African elephant [[Jumbo]] to [[P. T. Barnum]]
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* [[Julius Beer]] (and family members), owner of ''[[The Observer]]''<!-- his wife, brother, daughter and son are also buried here, as his daughter died when she was 8, the mausoleum was first dedicated to her -->.
* [[Francis Bedford (photographer)|Francis Bedford]], landscape photographer
* [[William Belt]], barrister and antiquarian, best known for his eccentric behaviour
* [[Mary Matilda Betham]], diarist, poet, woman of letters, and miniature portrait painter
* [[Eugenius Birch]], seaside architect and noted designer of promenade-piers
* [[Edward Blore]], architect known for his work on [[Buckingham Palace]] and [[Westminster Abbey]]
* [[Edwin Brett]], publisher and pioneer of serialised sensational weekly fiction and '[[penny dreadfuls]]'
* [[Jacob Bronowski]] (ashes), scientist, creator of the television series ''[[The Ascent of Man]]''
* [[James Bunstone Bunning]], City Architect to the [[City of London]]
* [[Robert William Buss]], artist and illustrator
* [[Edward Dundas Butler]], translator and senior librarian at the [[British Library|Department of Printed Books, British Museum]]
* [[Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell]], prominent politician in the [[Peelite]] and [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] parties, best remembered for his tenure as [[Secretary of State for War]]
* [[William Benjamin Carpenter]], physician, invertebrate zoologist and physiologist
* [[J. Comyns Carr|Joseph William Comyns Carr]], drama and art critic, gallery director, author, poet, playwright and theatre manager
* [[John James Chalon]], Swiss painter
* [[Robert Caesar Childers]], [[Orientalism|scholar of the Orient]] and writer
* [[Edmund Chipp]], organist and composer
* [[Charles Chubb (businessman)|Charles Chubb]], lock and safe manufacturer
* [[Antoine Claudet]], pioneering early photographer, honoured by [[Queen Victoria]] as "Photographer-in-ordinary"
* [[John Cross (artist)|John Cross]], English artist
* [[Philip Conisbee]], art historian and curator
* [[Abraham Cooper]], animal and battle painter
* [[Thomas Frederick Cooper (watchmaker)|Thomas Frederick Cooper]], watchmaker
* [[John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst|John Singleton Copley]], Lord Chancellor and son of the American painter [[John Singleton Copley]]
* [[Charles Cowper|Sir Charles Cowper]], Premier of [[New South Wales]], Australia
* [[Addison Cresswell]], comedians' agent and producer
* [[George Baden Crawley]], civil engineer and railway builder
* [[Charles Cruft (showman)|Charles Cruft]], founder of [[Crufts]] dog show
* [[Isaac Robert Cruikshank]], caricaturist, illustrator, portrait miniaturist and brother of [[George Cruikshank]]
* [[The Brothers Dalziel|George Dalziel]], engraver who with his siblings ran one of the most prolific Victorian engraving firms
* [[George Darnell]], schoolmaster and author of ''Darnell's Copybooks''
* [[David Devant]], theatrical magician
* [[Alfred Lamert Dickens]], the younger brother of [[Charles Dickens]]
* [[Catherine Dickens]], wife of [[Charles Dickens]]
* [[John Dickens|John]] and [[Elizabeth Dickens]], parents of [[Charles Dickens]]
* [[Fanny Dickens]], elder sister of [[Charles Dickens]]
* [[William Hepworth Dixon]], historian and traveller. Also active in organizing London's [[Great Exhibition]] of 1851
* The Druce family vault, one of whose members was (falsely) alleged to have been the [[William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland|5th Duke of Portland]].
* [[Herbert Benjamin Edwardes]], Administrator and soldier, known as the "Hero of Multan"
* [[Joseph Edwards (sculptor)|Joseph Edwards]], Welsh sculptor
* [[Thomas Edwards (author)|Thomas Edwards]], (Caerfallwch), Welsh author and lexicographer
* [[Ugo Ehiogu]], footballer
* [[James Harington Evans]], Baptist pastor of the John Street Chapel
* [[Benjamin Hawes]], 19th-century British Whig politician, known in UK parliament as "Hawes the Soap-Boiler"
* [[Michael Faraday]], chemist and physicist (with his wife Sarah), in the [[Dissenter]]s section
* [[Charles Fellows|Sir Charles Fellows]], [[archaeologist]] and [[Exploration|explorer]], known for his numerous expeditions in what is present-day [[Turkey]].
* [[Charles Drury Edward Fortnum]], art collector and benefactor of the [[Ashmolean Museum]]
* [[Lucian Freud]], painter, grandson of [[Sigmund Freud]], and elder brother of [[Clement Freud]]
* [[John Galsworthy]], author and [[Nobel Prize]] winner ([[cenotaph]], he was cremated and his ashes scattered)
* [[Stephen Geary]], architect of Highgate Cemetery
* [[John Gibbons (ironmaster and art patron)|John Gibbons]], ironmaster and art patron
* [[Stella Gibbons]], novelist, author of ''[[Cold Comfort Farm]]''
* [[Margaret Gillies]], Scottish painter known for her miniature portraits, including of one of [[Charles Dickens]]
* [[John William Griffith]], architect of [[Kensal Green Cemetery]]
* [[Henry Gray]], anatomist and surgeon,<ref>GRO Register of Deaths: JUN qtr 1861 1a 174 St Geo Han Sq – Henry Gray
*</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqSearch=%28Surname=%27gray%27%29&dsqPos=7 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415172415/http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqSearch=(Surname='gray')&dsqPos=7 |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 April 2013 |title=DServe Archive Persons Show |publisher=.royalsociety.org |access-date=18 March 2013 }}</ref> author of ''[[Gray's Anatomy]]''.
* [[Radclyffe Hall]], author of ''[[The Well of Loneliness]]'' and other novels
* [[William Hall (publisher)|William Hall]], founder with [[Edward Chapman (publisher)|Edward Chapman]] of publishers [[Chapman & Hall]]
* [[William Dobinson Halliburton]], physiologist, noted for being one of the founders of the science of [[biochemistry]]
* [[Philip Harben]], English cook regarded as the first TV [[celebrity chef]]
* [[Charles Augustus Hartley|Sir Charles Augustus Hartley]], eminent British civil engineer, known as 'the father of the [[Danube]].'
* [[George Edwards Hering]], landscape painter
* [[Edwin Hill (engineer)|Edwin Hill]], older brother of [[Rowland Hill]] and inventor of the first [[letter scale]] and a mechanical system to make envelopes
* [[Frank Holl]], Royal portraitist
* [[Ian Holm]], English actor
* [[James Holman]], 19th-century adventurer known as "the Blind Traveller"
* [[Anthony Home|Surgeon-General Sir Anthony Home]], [[Victoria Cross]] recipient from [[Indian Mutiny]]
* [[Theodore Hope]], British colonial administrator and writer
* [[Eastbourne manslaughter|Thomas Hopley]], headmaster who beat one of his pupils to death
* [[William Hosking]], first Professor of Architecture at [[King's College London]] and architect of [[Abney Park Cemetery]]
* [[Bob Hoskins]], actor
* [[Georgiana Houghton]], British artist and spiritualist [[Mediumship|medium]]
* [[David Edward Hughes]], FRS, 19th-century electrical engineer and inventor
* [[William Henry Hunt (painter)|William Henry Hunt]], popular and widely collected painter of watercolours, nicknamed 'Bird's Nest' Hunt
* [[Sir John Hutton]], publisher of ''[[Sporting Life (British newspaper)|Sporting Life]]'' and Chairman of the [[London County Council]]
* [[Georges Jacobi]], composer, conductor and musical director of the [[Alhambra Theatre]]
* [[Lisa Jardine]] (ashes), historian
* [[Victor Kullberg]], one of the greatest marine clockmakers
* [[Thomas Landseer]], younger brother of Sir [[Edwin Landseer]] (there is a cenotaph, Edwin was buried in [[St Paul's Cathedral]])
* [[Peter Laurie|Sir Peter Laurie]], politician and [[Lord Mayor of London]]
* [[Douglas Lapraik]], shipowner and co-founder of [[HSBC]] and the [[Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Group]]
* [[Henry Lee (Surgeon)|Henry Lee]], surgeon, [[pathologist]] and [[syphilologist]]
* [[Oswald Lewis]], [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]] and younger son of [[John Lewis (department store founder)|John Lewis]], founder of the [[John Lewis (department store)|chain of department stores]]
* [[Robert Liston]], surgeon
* [[Alexander Litvinenko]], Russian dissident, murdered by poisoning in London
* [[Edward Lloyd (publisher)|Edward Lloyd]], influential newspaper publisher and founder of the ''[[Daily Chronicle]]''
* [[James Locke (draper)|James Locke]], a London draper credited with giving [[Tweed]] its name
* [[William Lovett]], [[Chartism|Chartist]]
* [[Samuel Lucas]], editor of the ''[[Morning Star (British newspaper)|Morning Star]]'', journalist and abolitionist
* [[Archibald Maclaine (British Army officer)]]
* John Maple, founder of the furniture makers [[Maple & Co.]]
* [[Hugh Matheson (industrialist)|Hugh Mackay Matheson]], industrialist and founder of [[Matheson & Company]] and the [[Rio Tinto Group]]
* [[Frederick Denison Maurice]], English Anglican theologian, prolific author and one of the founders of [[Christian socialism]]
* [[Michael Meacher]], academic and [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politician
* [[George Michael]], singer, songwriter, music producer and philanthropist; buried beside his mother and sister.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/gallery/list-famous-people-buried-highgate-29603071 | title=List of the famous people buried in Highgate Cemetery | date=28 July 2024 }}</ref>
* [[Barbara Mills]], (ashes) first female Director of Public Prosecutions
* [[Frederick Akbar Mahomed]], internationally known British physician
* [[Jude Moraes]], landscape gardener, writer and broadcaster
* [[Nicholas Mosley]], novelist and biographer of his father, [[Oswald Mosley]]
* [[Edward Moxhay]], shoemaker, biscuit maker and property speculator, best known for his involvement in the landmark English land law case ''[[Tulk v Moxhay]]''
* Elizabeth de Munck, mother of celebrated soprano, [[Maria Caterina Rosalbina Caradori-Allan]] in grave with large carving of [[pelican]] in piety
* [[Archibald James Murray|General Sir Archibald James Murray]], Chief of Staff to the [[British Expeditionary Force (World War I)|WW1 British Expeditionary Force]]
* [[Walter Neurath]], Publisher and founder of [[Thames and Hudson]]
* [[Henry Newton (Winsor & Newton founder)|Henry Newton]], painter and co-founder of [[Winsor & Newton]]
* [[Samuel Noble]], English engraver, and minister of the [[The New Church (Swedenborgian)|New Church]]
* [[:pl:Feliks Nowosielski|Feliks Nowosielski]], Polish nobleman
* [[George Osbaldeston]], known as Squire Osbaldeston, sportsman, gambler and [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]
* [[Sherard Osborn]], Royal Navy admiral and Arctic explorer
* [[Frederick William Pavy]], [[physician]] and [[physiologist]]
* [[William Payne (pantomimist)|William Payne]], actor, dancer and [[Pantomime|pantomimist]]
* [[Thomas Ashburton Picken]], [[Watercolor painting|watercolourist]], [[Engraving|engraver]] and [[Lithography|lithographer]]
* [[Frances Polidori|Frances Polidori Rossetti]], mother of [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti|Dante Gabriel]], [[Christina Rossetti|Christina]] and William Michael Rossetti
* [[Samuel Phelps]], [[William Shakespeare|Shakespearian]] actor and manager of [[Sadler's Wells Theatre]]
* [[Owen Roberts (educator)]], pioneer of technical education, great-grandfather of [[Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon]], former husband of [[Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon|Princess Margaret]].
* [[James Robinson (dentist)|James Robinson]], dentist, first person to carry out [[general anaesthesia]] in Britain
* [[Sir John Richard Robinson]], journalist, editor and manager of the [[The Daily News (UK)|''Daily News'']]
* Peter Robinson, founder of the [[Peter Robinson (department store)|Peter Robinson department store]] at Oxford Circus, London
* [[William Charles Ross|Sir William Charles Ross]], portrait and [[portrait miniature]] painter 
* [[Christina Rossetti]], poet
* [[Gabriele Rossetti]], Italian nationalist and scholar. Father of Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
* [[William Michael Rossetti]], co-founder of the [[Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood]]
* [[Tom Sayers]], [[Boxing#History|pugilist]], his tomb is guarded by the stone image of his mastiff, Lion, who was chief mourner at his funeral
* [[Henry Young Darracott Scott]], responsible for the design and construction of the [[Royal Albert Hall]]
* [[Peter Shepheard|Sir Peter Shepheard]], [[architect]] and [[landscape architect]], President of the [[RIBA]], [[Architectural Association]], [[Landscape Institute]] and the [[Royal Fine Art Commission]]
* [[Elizabeth Siddal]], wife and model of artist/poet [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]] and model for the painting ''[[Ophelia (painting)|Ophelia]]'' by [[John Everett Millais]]
* [[Jean Simmons]], actress
* [[William Simpson (Scottish artist)|William Simpson]], war artist and correspondent
* [[John Jackson Smale|Sir John Smale]], Chief Justice of Hong Kong
* [[Alice Mary Smith]], Victorian composer (under married name White)
* [[Tom Smith (confectioner)|Tom Smith]], inventor of the [[Christmas cracker]]
* [[Charles Green Spencer]], pioneer aviator and balloon manufacturer
* [[Alfred Stevens (sculptor)|Alfred Stevens]], sculptor, painter and designer
* [[Walter Fryer Stocks]], prolific landscape painter
* [[Henry Knight Storks|Sir Henry Knight Storks]], soldier, MP, and colonial administrator
* [[Anna Swanwick]], author and [[feminist]] who assisted in the founding of [[Girton College, Cambridge]], and [[Somerville Hall]], Oxford
* [[Alfred Swaine Taylor]], toxicologist, forensic scientist, expert witness
* [[Frederick Tennyson]], poet, older brother of [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]]
* [[Samuel Sanders Teulon]], prolific [[Gothic Revival]] architect
* [[Jeanette Threlfall]], [[hymnwriter]] and poet
* [[Charles Turner (engraver)|Charles Turner]], [[mezzotint]] engraver who collaborated with [[J. M. W. Turner]]
* [[Andrew Ure]], Scottish physician known for his [[galvanism]] experimentation, founder of the [[University of Strathclyde]]
* [[John Vandenhoff]], leading Victorian actor
* [[Henry Vaughan (art collector)|Henry Vaughan]], art collector who gave one of Britain's most popular paintings, [[John Constable]]'s ''[[The Hay Wain]]'' to the [[National Gallery]]
* [[Emilie Ashurst Venturi]], writer, translator and women's rights campaigner
* [[Arthur Waley]], translator and scholar of the Orient
* [[George Wallis]], First Keeper of the Fine Art Collection at the [[Victoria & Albert Museum]]
* [[Mary Warner]], actress and theatre manager
* [[Augusta Webster]], poet, dramatist, essayist, translator and advocate of [[women's suffrage]]
* [[Henry White (photographer)|Henry White]], lawyer and gifted [[landscape photographer]]
* [[Brodie McGhie Willcox]], founder of the [[P&O (company)|P&O Shipping Line]]
* [[Henry Willis]], foremost [[organ builder]] of the Victorian era
* [[Hugh Wilson (RAF officer)|Hugh Wilson]], RAF test pilot
* [[George Wombwell]], menagerie exhibitor
* [[Ellen Wood (author)|Ellen Wood]], author known as Mrs Henry Wood, there is also a plaque for her in [[Worcester Cathedral]]
* [[Adam Worth]], criminal mastermind. Possible inspiration for [[Sherlock Holmes]]'s nemesis, [[Professor Moriarty]]; originally buried in a pauper's grave under the name Henry J. Raymond
* [[William Henry Wyatt|Sir William Henry Wyatt]], long-serving chairman of the [[Friern Hospital|Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum]] at Colney Hatch, Southgate
* [[Patrick Wymark]], actor
* [[Arthur Wynn]] (ashes), British civil servant who ran a spy ring for the [[KGB]]
* [[Joseph Warren Zambra]], scientific instrument maker