Editing Highgate Cemetery (section)

====Notable East side interments====
* [[David Abbott (advertising)|David Abbott]], [[advertising]] executive and founder of [[Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO]] who was widely regarded as one of the finest [[copywriter]]s of his generation.
* [[Douglas Adams]] (ashes), author of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' and other novels
* [[Mehmet Aksoy (filmmaker)|Mehmet Aksoy]], press officer for the Kurdish [[People's Protection Units|YPG]], killed by ISIS in 2017<ref>{{Cite news|date=11 November 2017|title=Farewell to YPG's Mehmet Aksoy in London|work=ANF|url=https://anfenglish.com/women/farewell-to-ypg-s-mehmet-aksoy-in-london-23148}}</ref>
* [[Wilkie Bard]], popular [[vaudeville]] and [[music hall]] entertainer and recording artist
* [[Farzad Bazoft]], journalist, executed by [[Saddam Hussein]]'s regime
* [[Jeremy Beadle]] (ashes), writer, television presenter and curator of oddities
* Adolf Beck, the [[Adolph Beck case]] was a celebrated case of mistaken identity
* [[Hercules Bellville]], American film producer
* [[Master Betty|William Betty]], popular child actor of the early nineteenth century
* [[Emily Blatchley]], pioneering [[Protestant]] [[Christianity|Christian]] [[missionary]] to [[China]]
* [[Kate Booth]], English Salvationist and evangelist. Oldest daughter of [[William Booth|William]] and [[Catherine Booth]]. She was also known as ''la Maréchale''
* [[William Bradbury (printer)|William Bradbury]], printer and publisher and co-founder of [[Bradbury and Evans]]
* [[Frederick Broome]], colonial administrator of several British colonies. The Western Australian towns of [[Broome, Western Australia|Broome]] and [[Broomehill, Western Australia|Broomehill]] are named after him
* [[Neave Brown]], American-British architect
* [[George Barclay Bruce]], world renown railway engineer and president of the [[Institution of Civil Engineers]]
* [[Lauder Brunton|Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st Baronet]], Scottish physician who is most closely associated with the treatment of [[angina pectoris]]
* [[James Caird (politician)|James Caird]], Scottish agricultural writer and politician
* [[Patrick Caulfield]], painter and printmaker known for his [[pop art]] canvasses
* [[Douglas Cleverdon]], radio producer and bookseller
* [[William Kingdon Clifford]] (with his wife [[Lucy Clifford|Lucy]]), mathematician and philosopher
* [[Lucy Clifford|Lucy Lane Clifford]], novelist and journalist, wife of [[William Kingdon Clifford]]
* [[Yusuf Dadoo]], South African anti-apartheid activist
* [[Lewis Foreman Day]], influential artist in the [[Arts and Crafts movement]]
* [[Davison Dalziel, 1st Baron Dalziel of Wooler|Sir Davison Dalziel, Bt]], British newspaper owner and [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] politician. Massive mausoleum near the entrance.
* [[Elyse Dodgson]], theatre producer
* [[Fritz Dupre]], [[iron]] and [[manganese]] ore merchant, known as the "Manganese Ore King"
* [[Francis Elgar]], naval architect
* [[George Eliot]] (Mary Ann Evans – the name on the grave is Mary Ann Cross), novelist, common-law wife of [[George Henry Lewes]] and buried next to him
* [[Edwin Wilkins Field]], lawyer who devoted much of his life to law reform
* [[Paul Foot (journalist)|Paul Foot]], campaigning journalist and nephew of former [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] leader [[Michael Foot]]
* [[Lydia Folger Fowler]], pioneering American physician and first American-born woman to earn a medical degree
* [[William Foyle]], co-founder of [[Foyles]]
* [[Philip French]], Observer film critic
* [[William Friese-Greene]], cinema pioneer and his son [[Claude Friese-Greene]]
* [[Lou Gish]], actress, daughter of Sheila Gish
* [[Sheila Gish]], actress
* [[Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood|Philip Gould]] (ashes), British [[political consultant]], and former advertising [[corporate executive|executive]], closely linked to the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]]
* [[Robert Grant (VC)|Robert Grant VC]], soldier and police constable
* [[Robert Edmond Grant]], Professor of [[Comparative Anatomy]] at [[University College London]] who gave his name to the [[Grant Museum of Zoology]]
* [[Charles Green (balloonist)|Charles Green]], the United Kingdom's most famous balloonist of the 19th century
* [[Leon Griffiths]], creator of [[Minder (TV series)|Minder]]
* [[Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)|Stuart Hall]], [[Jamaica]]n-born British [[Marxist]] [[sociologist]], [[culture theory|cultural theorist]], and [[political activist]]
* [[Harrison Hayter]], railway, harbour and dock engineer
* [[Mansoor Hekmat]], Communist leader and founder of the [[Worker-Communist Party of Iran]] and [[Worker-Communist Party of Iraq]]
* [[Eric Hobsbawm]] (ashes), historian
* [[Austin Holyoake]], printer, publisher, freethinker and brother of the more widely known [[George Holyoake]]
* [[George Holyoake]], Birmingham-born social reformer and founder of the [[British co-operative movement|Cooperative Movement]]
* [[George Honey]], popular Victorian actor and comedian
* [[Alan Howard (actor)|Alan Howard]], actor
* [[Leslie Hutchinson]], [[Cabaret]] star of the 1920s and 1930s
* [[Jabez Inwards]], popular Victorian [[Temperance movement|temperance]] lecturer and [[phrenologist]]
* [[Georges Jacobi]], composer and conductor
* [[Bert Jansch]], Scottish folk musician
* [[Claudia Jones]], Trinidadian born [[Communist]] and fighter for civil rights, founder of ''[[The West Indian Gazette]]'' and the [[Notting Hill Carnival]]<ref>{{cite web|first=Angela|last=Davis|title=Angela Davis praises CPUSA for its history "of militant struggle"|website=PeoplesWorld.org|url=https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/angela-davis-praises-cpusa-for-its-history-of-militant-struggle/|date=June 20, 2019|access-date=June 20, 2019}}</ref>
* [[George Goodwin Kilburne]], [[genre works|genre]] painter
* [[David Kirkaldy]], Scottish engineer and pioneer in materials testing
* [[Anatoly Kuznetsov]], Soviet writer and author best known for ''[[Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel]]''
* [[Arthur Leared]], Irish physician
* [[Liza Lehmann]], operatic soprano and composer, daughter of [[Rudolf Lehmann (artist)|Rudolf Lehmann]]
* [[Rudolf Lehmann (artist)|Rudolf Lehmann]], portrait artist and father of [[Liza Lehmann]]
* [[Andrea Levy]] (ashes), novelist best known for the novels ''[[Small Island (novel)|Small Island]]'' and ''[[The Long Song]]''
* [[George Henry Lewes]], English philosopher and critic, common law husband of [[George Eliot]] and buried next to her.
* [[Roger Lloyd-Pack]], British actor known for ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'' and ''[[The Vicar of Dibley]]''
* [[John Lobb]], Society bootmaker
* [[Charles Lucy]], British artist, whose most notable painting was ''The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers''
* [[Haldane MacFall]], art critic, art historian, book illustrator and novelist
* [[Anna Mahler]], sculptor and daughter of [[Gustav Mahler]] and [[Alma Mahler|Alma Schindler]]
* [[Chris Martin (civil servant)|Chris Martin]], [[Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister]]
* [[James Martineau]], [[Christian philosophy|religious philosopher]] influential in the [[history of Unitarianism]]
* [[Tomb of Karl Marx|Karl Marx]], philosopher, historian, sociologist and economist (memorial after his reburial, with other family members)
* [[Frank Matcham]], theatre architect
* [[Carl Mayer]], Austro-German screenwriter of ''[[The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari]]'' and ''[[Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans]]''
* [[Thomas McKinnon Wood]], Liberal politician and [[Secretary of State for Scotland]]
* [[Malcolm McLaren]], [[Punk subculture|punk]] impresario and original manager of the [[Sex Pistols]]
* [[Ralph Miliband]], [[left wing]] [[political theorist]], father of [[David Miliband]] and [[Ed Miliband]]
* [[Alan Milward]], influential historian
* [[William Henry Monk]], composer (of the music to ''[[Abide with Me]]'')
* [[Charles Morton (impresario)|Charles Morton]], [[music hall]] and [[theatre]] manager who became known as the ''Father of the Halls''
* [[Sidney Nolan]], Australian artist
* [[George Josiah Palmer]], founder and editor of ''[[Church Times]]''
* [[Charles J. Phipps]], theatre architect
* [[Tim Pigott-Smith]], actor
* [[Dachine Rainer]], poet and anarchist
* [[Corin Redgrave]], actor and political activist
* [[Bruce Reynolds]], criminal, mastermind of the [[Great Train Robbery (1963)]]
* [[Ralph Richardson]], actor
* [[George Richmond (painter)|George Richmond]], painter and portraitist
* [[José Carlos Rodrigues]], Brazilian journalist, financial expert, and philanthropist
* [[Ernestine Rose]], suffragist, abolitionist and freethinker
* [[James Samuel Risien Russell]], Guyanese-British physician, neurologist, professor of medicine, and professor of medical jurisprudence
* [[Raphael Samuel]], [[Marxist]] historian
* [[Anthony Shaffer (writer)|Anthony Shaffer]], playwright, screenwriter and novelist
* [[Peter Shaffer]], playwright and screenwriter
* [[Eyre Massey Shaw|Sir Eyre Massey Shaw]], first Chief Officer of the [[Metropolitan Fire Brigade (London)|Metropolitan Fire Brigade]] 
* [[Alan Sillitoe]], English postmodern novelist, poet, and playwright
* [[James Smetham]], [[Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood]] painter, engraver and follower of [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]]
* [[Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal|Sir Donald Alexander Smith]], Canadian railway financier and diplomat
* [[Herbert Spencer]], [[evolutionary biologist]], sociologist, and [[laissez-faire]] economic philosopher
* [[Leslie Stephen|Sir Leslie Stephen]], critic, first editor of the ''[[Dictionary of National Biography]]'', father of [[Virginia Woolf]] and [[Vanessa Bell]], members of the [[Bloomsbury Group]]
* [[Julia Stephen|Julia Prinsep Stephen]], [[Pre-Raphaelite]] [[model (art)|model]] and mother of [[Virginia Woolf]] and [[Vanessa Bell]], members of the [[Bloomsbury Group]].
* [[William Heath Strange]], physician and founder of the ''Hampstead General Hospital'', now the [[Royal Free Hospital]]
* [[Lucien Stryk]], American poet, teacher and translator of Zen poetry
* [[Thomas Tate (mathematician)|Thomas Tate]], mathematician and scientific educator and writer
* Sir [[George Thalben-Ball]], English organist, choirmaster and composer
* [[Bob Thoms]], the greatest Victorian cricket umpire
* [[James Thomson (poet, born 1834)|James Thomson]], Victorian poet, best known for ''[[The City of Dreadful Night]]''
* [[Storm Thorgerson]], graphic designer
* [[Malcolm Tierney]], actor
* [[Feliks Topolski]], Polish-born British expressionist painter
* [[Edward Truelove]], radical publisher and freethinker
* [[Peter Ucko]], influential English [[archaeology|archaeologist]]
* [[Max Wall]], comedian and entertainer
* [[Simon Ward]], actor
* [[Peter Cathcart Wason]], pioneering psychologist
* [[Lawrence Weaver|Sir Lawrence Weaver]], architectural writer, editor of Country Life and organiser of the [[British Empire Exhibition]]
* [[Opal Whiteley]], American writer
* [[Colin St John Wilson]], architect (most notably of the new [[British Library]] in London), lecturer and author
* [[Joseph Wolf]], natural history illustrator and pioneer in wildlife art
* [[Edward Richard Woodham]], survivor of the [[Charge of the Light Brigade]]
* [[Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington]], politician, social activist and consumer champion.