St. Michael's Churchyard, Mickleham

Notable burials

There are 867 recorded burials, but more are accounted for since 1891, not including those from 950 to 1891. The graveyard is the final resting place of

• Philippa Walton (1674/5–1749), businesswoman and gunpowder factory owner
• Thomas Grissell (1801–1874), public works contractor
• Anne Manning (1807–1879), novelist
• Maria Kinnaird (1810–1891), widow of Thomas Drummond.
• Trevor Lawrence (1831–1913), had famous orchid houses at Burford Lodge in the parish. He was the grandfather of Cyril Hare's wife.
• Richard Bedford Bennett (1870–1947), Prime Minister of Canada and a member of the House of Lords. Bennett's grave is located steps from the front of the church doors and has a marker from the Government of Canada signifying the important figure buried there.
• John Norton-Griffiths (1871–1930), "Empire Jack", the driving force behind the Tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers in WW1, was buried here on 18 October 1930.
• James Jeans (1877–1946), physicist, astronomer, mathematician
• Graham Gilmour (1885–1912), pioneer aviator. Killed in a plane crash in Richmond Park.
• Cyril Hare (1900–1958), detective story writer, who was born in Mickleham Hall in 1900 and died at Westhumble in the parish in 1958.
• Janet Gladys Aitken (1908–1988), socialite
• John Junor (1919–1997), controversial editor of the Sunday Express and The Mail on Sunday.