Wolvercote Cemetery

Notable interments

Many notable people are buried in Wolvercote Cemetery, including many former academics of the University of Oxford.

• Charles Umpherston Aitchison (1832–1896), Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab
• Michael Argyle (1925–2002), social psychologist, and his wife Sonia
• Sir Roger Bannister (1929–2018), middle-distance runner and neurologist who ran the first sub-4-minute mile
• Sir Ernest Bennett (1865–1947), Oxford fellow, politician, explorer and writer
• Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), Latvian-born philosopher, and his wife Aline
• Benjamin Henry Blackwell (1849–1924), bookseller
• E. J. Bowen (1898–1980), chemist
• Włodzimierz Brus (1921–2007), economist, with his wife Lieutenant-Colonel Helena Wolińska-Brus (1919–2008), military prosecutor at show trials in Stalinist Poland in the 1950s
• John Burdon-Sanderson (1828–1905), physiologist
• Edwin Cannan (1861–1935), economist
• Humphrey Carpenter (1946–2005), biographer and writer
• Jaroslav Černý (1898–1970), Czech Egyptologist
• Sir Thomas Chapman, 7th Baronet (1846–1919) and Sarah Junner (1861–1959), with inscriptions to the memory of their sons Frank, Will and T. E. Lawrence
• Robert Bellamy Clifton (1836–1921), physicist
• L. Jonathan Cohen (1923–2006), philosopher
• Frank Cooper (1844–1927) and his wife Sarah Cooper (1848–1932), marmalade manufacturers
• T. Lawrence Dale (1884–1959), architect and Oxford Diocesan Surveyor
• Helena Deneke (1878–1973), Germanist, librarian, and bursar
• Margaret Deneke (1882–1969), pianist, musicologist, choirmaster, and benefactor (sister of Helena)
• John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852–1926), Danish-born astronomer
• Edward Gordon Duff (1861–1924), bibliographer
• Sir Michael Dummett (1925–2011), philosopher
• Elizabeth Edmondson (1948–2016), author
• Bill Ferrar (1893–1990), mathematician
• Grace Eleanor Hadow (1875–1940), promoter of women's higher education
• H. L. A. Hart (1907–1992), legal philosopher and professor of jurisprudence
• Sir Thomas Erskine Holland (1835–1926), professor of international law
• Walter Hooper (1931–2020), secretary to C.S. Lewis and Lewis's literary executor, in which role he wrote Lewis's authorized biography and edited his 3-volume collection of letters, as well as many other posthumously published works by Lewis
• Albert Hourani (1915–1993), scholar of Middle Eastern history
• Elizabeth Jennings (1926–2001), poet
• Sir Francis Knowles, 5th Baronet (1886–1953), anthropologist
• Adam Koc (1891–1969), politician, colonel and journalist of the Second Polish Republic
• Peter Laslett (1915–2001), social historian
• James Legge (1815–1897), Scottish sinologist and first Professor of Chinese at the University of Oxford
• Eleanor Constance Lodge (1869–1936), historian and promoter of women's higher education
• Paul Maas (1880–1964), Classical and Byzantine scholar
• Michael Francis Madelin (1931–2007), mycologist
• James McCann (1897–1983), Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
• Sir Henry Christopher Mance (1840–1926), electrical engineer, developer of the heliograph
• Bruce Mitchell (1920–2010), Australian scholar of Old English
• James Murray (1837–1915), Scottish lexicographer and philologist, primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary
• Dimitri Obolensky (1918–2001), Russian prince and professor of Russian and Balkan history
• Daphne Park (1921–2010), spy
• William Henry Perkin Jr. (1860–1929), organic chemist
• Sir William Schlich (1840–1925), forester
• James Allen Shuffrey(1858–1939), Victorian and Edwardian watercolour artist
• Franz Baermann Steiner (1909–1952), ethnologist
• Sir P. F. Strawson (1919–2006), philosopher
• J. R. R. Tolkien ("Beren", 1892–1973), author and academic, with his wife Edith ("Lúthien", 1889–1971) and eldest son John Francis Reuel Tolkien (1917–2003)
• Dino Toso (1969–2008), automotive engineer
• Brian Tovey (1926–2015), head of GCHQ
• Francis Fortescue Urquhart (1868–1934), first Roman Catholic fellow of Balliol College in modern times
• Mike Woodin (1965–2004), Green Party politician
• E. M. Wright (1906–2005), mathematician

War graves

The cemetery includes the war graves of 44 Commonwealth service personnel: 21 from World War I and 23 from World War II.