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The following list of people buried or commemorated in Westminster Abbey provides links to information about them and their monuments. The list is necessarily selective, but further names and information will gradually be added.  At this stage we have concentrated on the most famous names and those about whom we receive frequent enquiries.

Most pages about individual monuments include a transcript of the inscription and an English translation if the original is in Latin.  You should note that in some contexts Latin uses the letters I and V where we might expect J and U respectively, and that many names are given in their Latinized form.  For example, Iacobvs (or Jacobus) is the Latin for James. The spelling of names in English has often changed over the centuries and they do not always appear on monuments in their modern form.  This does not mean that a mistake was made in cutting the inscription!

Adam, Robert Adam
Addison, Joseph Addison
André, John André
Anstey, Christopher Anstey
Atkyns, Edward and Robert Atkyns
Atterbury, Francis Atterbury
Attlee, Clement Attlee
Austen, Jane Austen
Ayton, Robert Ayton
Baden-Powell, Robert & Olave Baden-Powell
Baker, John Baker
Barnett, Samuel and Henrietta Barnett
Barrell, William Barrell
Barry, Charles and John Barry
Bayne, William Bayne
Beaufort, Margaret Beaufort
Beaufoy, Mary Beaufoy
Behn, Aphra Behn
Belasyse, Sir Henry Belasyse
Bell, Andrew Bell
Bennett, Louis Bennett
Benson, William Benson
Betterton, Thomas Betterton
Bill, William Bill
Bingham, Richard Bingham
Blair, William Blair
Blake, Robert Blake
Blake, William Blake
Blakeney, William Blakeney
Blow, John Blow
Bohun, Eleanor de Bohun
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Bowes, Mary Eleanor Bowes
Bradshaw, John Bradshaw
Brandon, Frances Brandon
Britten, Benjamin Britten
Brocas, Sir Bernard Brocas
Bromley, Sir Thomas Bromley
Broughton, John Broughton
Browning, Robert Browning
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Buckland, William Buckland
Burdett-Coutts, Angela Burdett-Coutts
Burgoyne, John Burgoyne
Burland, Sir John Burland
Burney, Frances Burney
Burns, Robert Burns
Busby, Richard Busby
Buxton, Thomas Fowell Buxton
C, Combined Services Memorial
C, Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour 1939 - 1945
Camden, William Camden
Canning, Geo, Charles & Stratford Canning
Carey, William Carey
Carey, Henry Carey
Carroll, Lewis Carroll
Carteret, Carteret family
Cavendish, William & Margaret Cavendish
Caxton, William Caxton
Chaucer, Geoffrey Chaucer
Chiffinch, Thomas Chiffinch
Churchill, Sir Winston Churchill
Clarkson, Thomas Clarkson
Clementi, Muzio Clementi
Cochrane, Thomas Cochrane
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Comper, Sir Ninian Comper
Coote, Eyre Coote
Cottington, Francis Cottington
Cottrell, Clement Cottrell
Courcy, Almericus de Courcy
Coxe, Sir Richard Coxe
Craggs, James Craggs
Cromwell, Oliver Cromwell
Darwin, Charles Darwin
Daubeney, Giles Daubeney
Dickens, Charles Dickens
Dirac, Paul Dirac
Douglas, Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
Dowding, Hugh Dowding
Dunk, George Montagu Dunk, Earl of Halifax
Duppa, Brian and Thomas Duppa
Eliot, George Eliot
Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot
Elizabeth, Grand Duchess Elizabeth
Fane, Elizabeth Fane
Faraday, Michael Faraday
Fawcett, Henry and Millicent Fawcett
Florey, Howard Florey
Folkes, Martin Folkes
Follett, William Webb Follett
Fowler, William Fowler
Fox, Charles James Fox
Franklin, Sir John Franklin
Freke, Freke sisters
Fullerton, James Fullerton
Garrick, David Garrick
Gay, John Gay
Gethin, Grace Gethin
Gladstone, William and Catherine Gladstone
Goodman, Gabriel Goodman
Gordon, Adam Lindsay Gordon
Graham, George Graham
Greatorex, Thomas Greatorex
Griffith, Piers Griffith
Grote, George Grote
Guest, Joshua Guest
Hakluyt, Richard Hakluyt
Hales, Stephen Hales
Handel, George Frederic Handel
Hardy, Thomas Hardy
Harrison, John Harrison
Harvey, John Harvey
Herschel, William & John Herschel
Hesketh, Sir Thomas Hesketh
Hill, Rowland Hill
Holles, Holles family
Hooke, Robert Hooke
Horrocks, Jeremiah Horrocks
Howe, George Howe
Hunter, John Hunter
Hutt, John Hutt
Ireland, John Ireland
Irving, Sir Henry Irving
J, John of Eltham
James, Henry James
John, Esther John
Johnson, Samuel Johnson
Jonson, Ben Jonson
Joule, James Prescott Joule
Julius, William Julius
Keats, John Keats
Kelvin, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
Killigrew, Thomas and Robert Killigrew
King, Martin Luther King
Kipling, Rudyard Kipling
Knipe, Thomas Knipe
Knollys, Katherine Knollys
Kolbe, Maximilian Kolbe
Livingstone, Thomas Livingstone, Viscount Teviot
Livingstone, David Livingstone
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Loten, John Gideon Loten
Ludlow, Philip Ludlow
Luwum, Janani Luwum
Lyell, Charles Lyell
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay
Macaulay, Zachary Macaulay
Malcolm, Sir John Malcolm
Manners, Lord Robert Manners
Mansfield, William Murray, Lord Mansfield
Masemola, Manche Masemola
Maxwell, James Clerk Maxwell
May, Thomas May
McIlvaine, Charles McIlvaine
Mead, Richard Mead
Methuen, John and Paul Methuen
Milton, John Milton
Monck, George and Nicholas Monck
Moray, Robert Moray
Neve, Richard Le Neve
Newton, Sir Isaac Newton
Nightingale, Lady Elizabeth Nightingale
Norris, Henry, Lord Norris
Ogle, John Ogle
Olivier, Laurence Olivier
Oswald, James Oswald
Outram, Sir James Outram
Owen, Thomas Owen
O’Keeffe, Arthur O’Keeffe
P, Poets of the First World War
Paoli, Pasquale Paoli
Parr, Thomas Parr
Parsons, Sir Charles Parsons
Peabody, George Peabody
Pecksall, Richard Pecksall
Philipps, Richard Philipps
Pitt, William Pitt
Pollock, George Pollock
Pringle, Sir John Pringle
Purcell, Henry Purcell
Raffles, Stamford Raffles
Richardson, Thomas Richardson
Robinson, Sir Lumley Robinson
Romero, Oscar Romero
Rowe, Nicholas Rowe
Rupert, Prince Rupert
Rutherford, Ernest Rutherford
Saunders, Sir Charles Saunders
Scott, George Gilbert Scott
Shakespeare, William Shakespeare
Sharp, Granville Sharp
Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Shield, William Shield
Shovell, Sir Clowdisley Shovell
Siddons, Sarah Siddons
Sidney, Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex
Southey, Robert Southey
Spanheim, Ezekiel Spanheim
Spelman, Henry Spelman
Spenser, Edmund Spenser
Spottiswood, James Spottiswood
Spottiswood, John Spottiswood
Spottiswood, William Spottiswood
Spragge, Edward Spragge
Sprat, Thomas Sprat
Stanley, Arthur & Augusta Stanley
Stephenson, Robert Stephenson
Stokes, George Gabriel Stokes
Stradling, George and Margaret Stradling
Street, George Edmund Street
Stuart, Frances Teresa Stuart
Talbot, Edward Talbot
Tapiedi, Lucian Tapiedi
Tapper, Sir Walter Tapper
Telford, Thomas Telford
Temple, Sir William Temple
Tennyson, Lord Alfred Tennyson
Thomas, Dylan Thomas
Thomson, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
Thorndyke, John Thorndyke
Thorndyke, Herbert Thorndyke
Thynne, Thomas Thynne
Tompion, Thomas Tompion
Trench, Richard Chevenix Trench
Trenchard, Hugh Trenchard
Trevithick, Richard Trevithick
Trigge, Thomas Trigge
Triplet, Thomas Triplet
Tufton, Richard Tufton
Tyrrell, Richard Tyrrell
U, Unknown Warrior
Ussher, James Ussher
Valence, William and Aymer de Valence
Vere, Sir Francis Vere and Horace Vere
Vernon, Edward Vernon
Wade, George Wade
Wager, Charles Wager
Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace
Warren, Sir Peter Warren
Watson, Charles Watson
Watt, James Watt
Webb, Beatrice and Sidney Webb
Wesley, John Wesley, Charles Wesley
Whittle, Frank Whittle
Wilberforce, William Wilberforce
Wilcocks, Joseph Wilcocks
Wilde, Oscar Wilde
Williams, George Williams
Wolfe, James Wolfe
Woodward, John Woodward
Wragg, William Wragg
Wright, James Wright
Young, Thomas Young
Zhiming, Wang Zhiming
Zhiming, Wang Zhiming
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