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{{short description|Place of burial in North London, England}}
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{{Infobox cemetery
| name = Highgate Cemetery
| image = Highgate Cemetery East.JPG
| caption = Highgate Cemetery (East) ({{circa}} 2010)
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| established = {{Start date and age|1839}}
| location = [[Swain's Lane]], London, [[N postcode area|N6 6PJ]]
| country = England
| coordinates = {{coord|51.567|-0.147|format=dms|region:GB|display=inline,title}}
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| owner = Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust
| size = {{convert|15|ha|acre}}
| graves = 53,000+
| interments = 170,000
| website = {{URL|https://www.highgatecemetery.org}}
| findagrave1 = 638894
| findagrave1_label = East
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'''Highgate Cemetery''' is a place of burial in [[North London]], England, designed by architect [[Stephen Geary]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-09/now-more-than-ever-london-needs-a-death-pyramid |title=Now More Than Ever, London Needs a 'Death Pyramid' |date=9 March 2015 |work=Bloomberg News |access-date=13 June 2023 |quote=Why the city should revive a 19th-century plan for an uptown necropolis, population 5 million.}}</ref> There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East sides.<ref>{{cite web|title=Frequently Asked Questions|url=http://www.highgate-cemetery.org/index.php/faqs|website=Highgate Cemetery|access-date=21 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130216041052/http://www.highgate-cemetery.org/index.php/faqs|archive-date=16 February 2013}}</ref> Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people buried there either in [[coffin]]s or [[urn]]s<ref>https://highgatecemetery.org/faqs/category/burials</ref> as well as for its ''de facto'' status as a [[nature reserve]]. The Cemetery is designated Grade I on the [[Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England|Register of Historic Parks and Gardens]].<ref name=NHLEGarden>{{NHLE|num=1000810|desc=Highgate Cemetery|access-date=21 June 2017}}</ref>

==Location==
The [[cemetery]] is in [[Highgate]] N6, next to [[Waterlow Park]], in the [[London Borough of Camden]]. It comprises two sides, on either side of [[Swain's Lane]]. The main gate is on Swain's Lane, just north of Oakshott Avenue. There is another, disused, gate on Chester Road. The nearest public transport ([[Transport for London]]) is the C11 bus, Brookfield Park stop, and [[Archway tube station]].

==History and setting==
[[File:Highgate tombs.jpg|thumb|Tombs near the Circle of Lebanon crypts at Highgate Cemetery West, London.]]The cemetery in its original form{{snd}}the northwestern wooded area{{snd}}opened in 1839, as part of a plan to provide seven [[rural cemetery|large, modern cemeteries]], now known as the "[[Magnificent Seven cemeteries|Magnificent Seven]]", around the outside of central London. The inner-city cemeteries, mostly the graveyards attached to individual churches, had long been unable to cope with the number of burials and were seen as a hazard to health and an undignified way to treat the dead. The initial design was by architect and entrepreneur [[Stephen Geary]].

On 20 May 1839, Highgate (West) Cemetery was dedicated to [[James, son of Alphaeus|St James]]<ref>{{cite web|title=History|url=http://highgatecemetery.org/about/history|website=Highgate Cemetery|access-date=21 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170124082617/http://highgatecemetery.org/about/history|archive-date=24 January 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> by the Right Reverend [[Charles James Blomfield]], Lord [[Bishop of London]]. {{cvt|15|acres}} were consecrated for the use of the [[Church of England]], and two acres were set aside for [[English Dissenters|dissenters]]. Rights of burial were sold either for a limited period or in perpetuity. The first burial was Elizabeth Jackson of Little Windmill Street, [[Soho]], on 26 May.

Highgate, like the others of the Magnificent Seven, soon became a fashionable place for burials and was much admired and visited. The [[Victorian era|Victorian]] attitude to death and its presentation{{clarify|date=September 2022}} led to the creation of a wealth of [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] tombs and buildings. It occupies a spectacular south-facing hillside site slightly downhill from the top of Highgate hill, next to Waterlow Park. In 1854 a further 19 acres (8 ha) to the south east of the original area, across Swain's Lane, were bought to form the eastern extension; this opened in 1860. Both sides of the cemetery are still used today for burials.

The cemetery's grounds are full of trees, shrubbery and wildflowers, most of which have been planted and grown without human influence.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}{{clarify|date=September 2022}} The grounds are a haven for birds and small mammals, such as foxes. The cemetery is now owned and maintained by a charitable trust, the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, which was set up in 1975 and acquired the freehold of both East and West sides by 1981. In 1984 it published ''Highgate Cemetery: Victorian Valhalla'' by [[John Gay (photographer)|John Gay]].<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.highgate-cemetery.org/ | title = A Brief History of Highgate Cemetery|website=www.highgate-cemetery.org}}</ref>

==Graves==
===West Side===
[[File:Egyptian Avenue Highgate Cemetery.jpg|thumb|250px|Entrance to the Egyptian Avenue, Highgate Cemetery West]]
[[File:High-cemetery-circle.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Circle of Lebanon, Highgate Cemetery West]]
The Egyptian Avenue and the Circle of Lebanon (previously surmounted by a huge, 280-year-old [[Lebanon Cedar|Cedar of Lebanon]], which had to be cut down and replaced in August 2019) are both Grade I [[listed buildings]]. The west side of the Cemetery is characterised by elaborate feature tombs, vaults and winding paths dug into hillsides. At the highest point, the Terrace [[Catacombs]] and the Tomb of [[Julius Beer]] are both Grade II* listed. In 1967 the Dissenter's Catacombs were declared unsafe and demolished. Three houses were subsequently built on the site. [[The Grey House, Highgate|The Grey House]], built in 2008, is visible from the West Side of the cemetery on Faraday Path.<ref name=Highgate22>{{cite news|last=Dungavell|first=Ian|url=https://highgatecemetery.org/uploads/2022_Dec_newsletter_final_web.pdf|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240715000327/https://highgatecemetery.org/uploads/2022_Dec_newsletter_final_web.pdf|title=Highgate Cemetery Newsletter|date=December 2022|work=Highgate Cemetery Newsletter|accessdate=31 October 2025|archivedate=15 July 2024}}</ref> 

====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

===East Side===
[[File:Grave of Karl Marx Highgate Cemetery in London 2016 (10).jpg|thumb|250px|[[Tomb of Karl Marx]], East Cemetery]]
[[File:Highgate Cemetery East 2.JPG|thumb|Highgate Cemetery East (2010)]]
[[File:Highgate grave.jpg|thumb|The grave of Caroline Tucker, Highgate Cemetery East]]
[[File:Highgate East.jpg|thumb|Highgate Cemetery East (2023)]]
Many famous or prominent people are buried on this side of Highgate cemetery; the most famous of which is perhaps that of [[Karl Marx]], whose tomb was the site of attempted bombings on 2 September 1965<ref>{{citation | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XnIsAAAAIBAJ&pg=6238%2C1047342 | title = News}}</ref> and in 1970.<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/111705/cn111705_11.htm | title = Camden New Journal | place = UK | contribution = Tomb raiders' failed attack on Marx grave | access-date = 30 April 2008 | archive-date = 11 June 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190611005203/http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/111705/cn111705_11.htm | url-status = dead }}</ref> The [[tomb of Karl Marx]] is also a Grade I [[listed building]] for reasons of historical importance. Fireman's corner is a monument erected in the East side by widows and orphans of members of the [[London Fire Brigade]] in 1934. There are 97 firemen buried here. The monument is cared for by the Brigade's Welfare 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]]
* [[Alexander Michie]], Scottish author, journalist, traveler, and businessman in China
* [[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.

===War graves===
The cemetery contains the graves of 318 Commonwealth service personnel maintained and registered by the [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]], in both the East and West sides, 259 from the [[First World War]] and 59 from the [[Second World War|Second]]. Those whose graves could not be marked by headstones are listed on a Screen Wall memorial erected near the [[Cross of Sacrifice]] in the west side.<ref name=cwgc>{{cite web|title=Cemetery Details: Highgate Cemetery|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/41905/HIGHGATE%20CEMETERY|website=Commonwealth War Graves Commission|access-date=21 August 2014}}</ref>

==In popular culture==
Highgate Cemetery was featured in the popular media from the 1960s to the late 1980s for its so-called [[occult]] past, particularly as being the alleged site of the "[[Highgate Vampire]]".

* Several of [[John Galsworthy]]'s ''[[The Forsyte Saga|Forsyte Saga]]'' novels refer to Highgate Cemetery as the last resting place of the Forsytes; for example, Chapter XI, "The Last of the Forsytes", in ''To Let'' (1921).
* Footage of Highgate appears in numerous British horror films, including ''[[Taste the Blood of Dracula]]'' (1970), ''[[Tales from the Crypt (film)|Tales from the Crypt]]'' (1972) and ''[[From Beyond the Grave]]'' (1974).
* In ''[[That's Your Funeral]]'' (1972), the route taken in the Hearse Drivers' Grand Prix is mentioned as going "from [[Golders Green Crematorium|Golders Green]] to [[Woking Crematorium|Woking]] via [[Karl Marx]]'s grave in Highgate".
* In [[Len Deighton]]'s alternative history novel ''[[SS-GB]]'' and its [[SS-GB (TV series)|TV adaptation]], a bomb is detonated in the tomb of [[Karl Marx]] when his remains are exhumed by [[Nazi Germany|German occupation forces]] to be presented to the [[Soviet Union]].
* [[Audrey Niffenegger]]'s book ''[[Her Fearful Symmetry]]'' (2009) is set around Highgate Cemetery; she acted as a tour guide there while researching the book.<ref name="Highgate Cemetery">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/03/audrey-niffenegger-highgate-cemetery-novel|title=Audrey Niffenegger on Highgate Cemetery|last=Niffenegger|first=Audrey|date=3 October 2009|work=The Guardian|access-date=3 October 2009}}</ref>
* In the novel ''[[Double or Die]]'' (2007), a part of the ''[[Young Bond]]'' series, Ludwig and Wolfgang Smith plan to kill Bond in the cemetery.
* [[Tracy Chevalier]]'s book ''Falling Angels'' (2002) was set in and around Highgate Cemetery.
* The film [[Hampstead (film)|''Hampstead'']] (2017) features some scenes in the cemetery.
* [[J. K. Rowling|Robert Galbraith]]'s sixth [[Cormoran Strike]] novel ''[[The Ink Black Heart]]'' (2022) revolves around a fictional cartoon set in Highgate Cemetery.

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File:Carl Rosa.png|[[Carl Rosa]] grave
File:Sepulcro con ángel.jpg|alt=On the top of the grave lies a sleeping angel on a bed of clouds. 'In Ever Loving Memory of Mary, the darling wife of Arthur Nichols and fondly loved mother of their only son Harold who fell asleep 7 May 1909. Also of Dennis Arthur Charles son of Harold and Winifred who died 28 April 1916 aged 15 months.'|Mary Nichols and The Sleeping Angel, Highgate Cemetery
File:Highgate Cemetery - East - Bruce Reynolds 02.jpg|The grave of [[Bruce Reynolds]]
File:SayersTomb HighgateCemetery.JPG|The tomb of [[Tom Sayers]]
File:Patrick Caulfield Grave Highgate East Cemetery London 2016.jpg|The grave of [[Patrick Caulfield|Patrick Caulfield, RA]]
File:Mansoor Hekmat Grave in Highgate East Cemetery in London 2016 04.jpg|The grave of [[Mansoor Hekmat]]
File:Grave of Anna Mahler Austrian sculpture, in Highgate East Cemetery in London 2016.jpg|The grave of [[Anna Mahler]]
File:Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo Grave in Highgate East Cemetery in London 2016 09.jpg|The grave of [[Yusuf Dadoo]]
File:Eric Hobsbawm Grave in Highgate East Cemetery in London 2016 06.jpg|The grave of [[Eric Hobsbawm]]
File:Jeremy Beadle grave.jpg|The grave of [[Jeremy Beadle]]
File:WFGgrave.jpg|Grave of [[William Friese-Greene]] by [[Edwin Lutyens|Lutyens]], East Cemetery
File:Erected in 1864 Feliks Nowosielski's obelisk at the White Eagle Hill in London Kingdom of England.jpg|Feliks Nowosielski member of titled family of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, one of Poland's independence founding fathers, was a political activist known for organising the European and Polish Uprisings in the early 19th.
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==References==
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==External links==
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* {{Official website|http://highgatecemetery.org}}
* [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/world/europe/london-highgate-cemetery-dispatch.amp.html Highgate Cemetery] at the ''[[The New York Times|NY Times]]''

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