Notable Burials
- Michael Barrett, a Fenian
- Robert Bentley and Charles Tucker, policemen victims of the Battle of Stepney
- George Leslie Drewry VC, British sailor in the Royal Navy Reserve, accidentally killed at Scapa Flow 1918
- Catherine Eddowes and Mary Ann Nichols; victims of Jack the Ripper
- George William Foote, a secularist and journal editor
- Alfred Horsley Hinton, a pictorialist photographer
- Elwyn Jones, a British barrister and Labour politician
- Anna Neagle, a popular English stage and motion picture actress and singer and her husband Herbert Wilcox a British film director and producer.
- James Roll, Lord Mayor of London
- John Joseph Sims VC, British foot Soldier (died 1881)
- Percy Thompson, murder victim, see Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters
People reputed to have been reinterred here.
- Claude Duval (1643–1670), highwayman, although he was originally buried in St Paul's, Covent Garden
- Robert Hooke (1635–1703), scientist, although he was originally buried in St Helen's Bishopsgate
Other last resting places.
- Bobby Moore, footballer, was cremated at Putney Vale Crematorium, but his ashes rest in the Garden of Remembrance.
- Veronica Foley, aka Ronnie, Stage and Television actress & drama teacher, from the Sylvia Young Theatre School.
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