Notable Graves
Notable burials here include:
- Thomas Bayes (1702–1761), mathematician, clergyman, and friend of Richard Price
- John Bellers, (1654–1725), political and educational theorist and writer.
- William Blackburn (1750–1790), architect and surveyor
- William Blake (1757–1827), painter, engraver, poet, and mystic
- John Bradford (1750–1805) English dissenting minister
- John Bunyan (1628–1688), author of Pilgrim's Progress
- Thomas Fowell Buxton (1758–1795), anti-slavery philanthropist
- Eleanor Coade, Pioneer of the artificial stone known as 'Coade' stone
- Dr John Conder, President of Homerton College
- Cromwells, two tombs bear the family name – "R Cromwell" and "H Cromwell"
- Daniel Defoe (1661–1731), author of Robinson Crusoe
- Lt. Gen. Charles Fleetwood (? – 1692), married eldest daughter of Oliver Cromwell and fought in The Civil War
- James Foster (1697–1753), Baptist minister and author of Essay on Fundamentals, one of the first non-conformist texts.
- George Fox (1624–1691), a founder of the Quaker movement
- John Gill (1697–1771), author of the Exposition of the Bible and the Body of Divinity
- Thomas Hardy (1752–1832), political reformer and founder of the London Corresponding Society
- Joseph Hart (1712–1768), hymn writer and Calvinist minister in London
- Jabez Carter Hornblower (1744–1814), Steam engine pioneer.
- John Hyatt (1767–1826), One of the founding preachers of Calvinist Methodism at Whitefield's Tabernacle, Tottenham Court Road 1806–1828.
- Theophilus Lindsey (1723–1808), a founder of Unitarianism
- Paul Henry Maty (1744–1787) British Museum librarian.
- David Nasmith (1799–1839) founder of the City Mission Movement
- Thomas Newcomen (1663–1729) Steam Engine Pioneer (exact site of burial unknown)
- Joseph Nightingale (1775–1824), writer and preacher
- John Owen (1616–1683), Puritan divine and statesman
- Dame Mary Page (1672–1728), wife of Sir Gregory Page, 1st Baronet
- Apsley Pellatt (1763–1826), glass manufacturer.
- Richard Price (1733–1791), founder of life insurance principles
- Thomas Pringle (1789–1834), Scottish poet and author, and Secretary to the Anti-Slavery Society:(re-interred 1970, Eildon Church, Baviaans valley, South Africa)
- John Rippon (1750–1836), Baptist clergyman, composer of many well known hymns
- Thomas Rosewell (1630–1692), nonconformist minister of Rotherhithe
- Richard 'Conversation' Sharp (1759–1835) Prominent among the Dissenters' 'Deputies', critic, merchant and MP.
- John Benjamin Tolkien, grandfather of writer J. R. R. Tolkien
- Isaac Watts (1674–1742), Hymn Writer, Educationalist and Poet
- Susanna Wesley (1669–1742), mother of John Wesley, founder of Methodism
- George Whitehead (1636–1723), Quaker leader and author of The Christian Progress of George Whitehead
- Daniel Williams (1643–1716), founder of Dr Williams's Library
- Joshua Bayes (1671–1746), English Divine
- Henry Hunter (1741–1802), Scottish minister
- William Shrubsole
- Herschel Barnabus (1765-181?) Infamous London Playwright
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