Burials
- Robert "of the Chamber" Breakspear (d. 1110), priest of the diocese of Bath, then monk at St Albans; father of Nicholas who became the only English Pope, Pope Adrian IV.
- Richard d'Aubeney (1097–1119), Abbot
- Ralph Gubion (d. 7 July 1150), Abbot and historian
- Robert of Gorron (d. ca. 1170), Abbot of St Albans
- Simon Warin (d. 1195), Abbot
- John of Wallingford (d. 1214), Abbot
- William of Trumpington, Abbot (1214–35)
- John of Hertford (d. 1335), Abbot
- Adam Rous (d. 1370), Surgeon to King Henry III
- Thomas de la Mare (d. 1396), Abbot
- John de la Moote, Abbot (1396–1401)
- John Whethamstede (d. 1465), Abbot
- Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1447), the fourth son of King Henry IV
- Casualties of the First Battle of St Albans:
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- Thomas Clifford, 8th Baron de Clifford (1414–55)
- Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (1392/1393–1455)
- Edmund Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (1406-1455)
- Sir Anthony (or Antony) Grey (d. 1480), brother-in-law of Elizabeth Woodville, queen consort of Edward IV
- Thomas Legh Claughton, first Bishop of St Albans 1877-90, buried in the churchyard
- Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe (1816–1905)
- Robert Runcie, Bishop of St Albans 1970-80, Archbishop of Canterbury 1980-91, buried in the churchyard
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