Brookwood Cemetery - Notable Graves

Notable Graves

(Arranged in order of date-of-death)

• Dr. Robert Knox (1791–1862), notable anatomist and racial theorist involved with the Burke and Hare murders.
• Charles Bradlaugh (1833–1891), atheist and political activist
• Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke (1811–1892), Statesman
• Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (1840–1899), Anglo-Hungarian orientalist
• Alexander William Williamson (1824–1904), chemical theorist, originator of the Williamson ether synthesis, and head of the chemistry department at University College, London
• Ross Lowis Mangles (1833–1905), the first civilian to be awarded the VC and one of 12 holders of the same award who are buried in the cemetery.
• Dugald Drummond (1840–1912), Scottish locomotive engineer
• Allan Octavian Hume (6 June 1829 - 31 July 1912), civil servant, political reformer and amateur ornithologist and horticulturalist in British India.
• Edith Thompson (1893–1923), executed in Holloway prison in 1923
• John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), American artist
• Sarah Eleanor Smith (née Pennington) (1861–1931) wife of the Captain of the Titanic Edward J. Smith, buried a few feet from Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon
• Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon (1862–1931) baronet, sportsman and RMS Titanic survivor
• Sir Dorabji Tata (1859–1932), Indian philanthropist
• William Robertson – Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO (29 January 1860 – 12 February 1933), Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) from 1916 to 1918 during the First World War.
• Marmaduke Pickthall (1875–1936), Western Islamic Scholar
• Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872–1953), translator of the Quran
• Wing Commander Forest "Tommy" Yeo-Thomas (1902–1964), WWII Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent
• Said Bin Taimur (1910–1972), Sultan of Muscat and Oman 1932–1970
• Rebecca West (1892–1983), novelist, feminist and journalist
• Alfred Bestall (1892–1986), author and illustrator of Rupert Bear
• Naji al-Ali (1937?–1987), Palestinian political cartoonist
• Hamid Mirza (1918–1988), Heir Presumptive of the Qajar Dynasty
• Brigadier J.O.E. Vandeleur (1903–1988), DSO and Bar, ON British Army officer in World War II, served with the
• Margaret, Duchess of Argyll (1912–1993)
• Idries Shah (1924–1996), Sufi Master
• Muhammad al-Badr (1926–1996) was the last King of Yemen.
• Dodi Al-Fayed (1955–1997), film producer, (original burial site, subsequently moved to the Al-Fayed estate in Surrey)
• Ramadan Güney (1932–2006), owner of Brookwood Cemetery since 1985.
• Maqbool Fida Husain (1915–2011), Indian painter.