Famous People & the Abbey
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 and NOT COMPLETE at present, but further names and information will gradually be added. Contact the Abbey Library if you have a query about a burial or monument not covered by this list - see Contacts
Photography is not permitted within the Abbey Church. Photos can be purchased from the Abbey Library, (not the shop). Library E-mail address on Contacts section of the website.
Most pages about individual monuments include a transcript of the inscription and an English translation if the original is in Latin. The spelling of names and words in English has often changed over the centuries and this is reflected in the inscriptions.
- Abbott, Eric Symes Abbott
- Adam, Robert Adam
- Adams, John Couch Adams
- Addison, Joseph Addison
- Agar, Charles Agar, Earl of Normanton
- Agard, Arthur Agard
- Allenby, Edmund Allenby
- André, John André
- Annandale, Sophia Fairholm, Marchioness of Annandale
- Anstey, Christopher Anstey
- Anstruther, Sir Robert Anstruther
- Apsley, Apsley family
- Arnold, Samuel Arnold
- Arnold, Thomas and Matthew Arnold
- Asquith, Herbert Asquith, Earl of Oxford and Asquith
- Atkyns, Edward and Robert Atkyns
- Atterbury, Francis Atterbury
- Attlee, Clement Attlee
- Auden, Wystan Hugh Auden
- Austen, Jane Austen
- Ayrton, Edmund Ayrton
- Ayton, Robert Ayton
- Baden-Powell, Robert & Olave Baden-Powell
- Baillie, Matthew Baillie
- Baker, John Baker
- Baker, Sir Benjamin Baker
- Baker, Sir Herbert Baker
- Balchen, Sir John Balchen
- Baldwin, Stanley Baldwin
- Balfe, Michael William Balfe
- Banks, Thomas Banks
- Barnard, William Barnard
- Barnard, Sir Henry Barnard
- Barnett, Samuel and Henrietta Barnett
- Barrell, William Barrell
- Barrow, Isaac Barrow
- Barry, Sir Charles and Sir John Wolfe Barry
- Bartleman, James Bartleman
- Bayne, William Bayne
- Beauclerk, Beauclerk family
- Beaufort, Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond
- Beaufoy, Mary Beaufoy
- Beaumont, Francis and John Beaumont
- Bedell, William Bedell
- Behn, Aphra Behn
- Belasyse, Sir Henry Belasyse
- Bell, Andrew Bell
- Bennett, William Sterndale Bennett
- Bennett, Louis Bennett & Royal Flying Corps
- Benson, William Benson
- Betjeman, Sir John Betjeman
- Betterton, Thomas Betterton
- Bevin, Ernest Bevin
- Bill, William Bill
- Bilson, Thomas Bilson
- Bingham, Richard Bingham
- Blair, William Blair
- Blake, William Blake
- Blake, Robert Blake
- Blakeney, William Blakeney
- Blount, Charles Blount, Earl of Devonshire
- Blow, John Blow
- Bohun, Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester
- Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Booth, William Booth
- Booth, Barton Booth
- Boulter, Hugh Boulter
- Bourchier, Sir Humphrey Bourchier
- Bowes, Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
- Bradford, Samuel and William Bradford
- Bradshaw, John Bradshaw
- Brandon, Frances Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk
- Bridge, Sir John Frederick Bridge
- Britten, Benjamin Britten
- Brocas, Sir Bernard Brocas
- Bromley, Sir Thomas Bromley
- Bronte, Bronte, Charlotte, Emily and Anne
- Broughton, Sir Edward Broughton
- Broughton, John Broughton
- Browning, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Brunel, Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- Buckland, William Buckland
- Buller, Charles Buller
- Bunyan, John Bunyan
- Burdett-Coutts, Angela Burdett-Coutts
- Burgoyne, John Burgoyne
- Burland, Sir John Burland
- Burney, Frances and Charles Burney
- Burns, Robert Burns
- Busby, Richard Busby
- Butler, Samuel Butler
- Buxton, Thomas Fowell Buxton
- Byron, Lord Byron
- C, Combined Services Memorial
- C, Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour 1939 - 1945
- Camden, William Camden
- Campbell, Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde
- Campbell, Thomas Campbell
- Campbell, John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll
- Campbell, Sir Archibald and Sir James Campbell
- Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman
- Canning, George, Charles & Stratford Canning
- Captain, HMS Captain
- Carew, Nicholas Carew
- Carey, Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon
- Carey, William Carey
- Carleton, Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester
- Carroll, Lewis Carroll
- Carteret, Carteret family
- Cary, Henry Francis Cary
- Casaubon, Isaac Casaubon
- Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
- Cavendish, William & Margaret Cavendish
- Caxton, William Caxton
- Cecil, Elizabeth Cecil
- Cecil, Thomas Cecil, Earl of Exeter
- Chamberlain, Joseph and Neville Chamberlain
- Chamberlen, Hugh Chamberlen
- Chambers, Sir William Chambers
- Chardin, Sir John Chardin
- Chaucer, Geoffrey Chaucer
- Chester, Joseph Lemuel Chester
- Chiffinch, Thomas Chiffinch
- Cholmondeley, Cholmondeley family
- Churchill, George Churchill
- Churchill, Sir Winston Churchill
- Clanricarde, Anne, Countess of Clanricarde
- Clare, John Clare
- Clarkson, Thomas Clarkson
- Claypole, Elizabeth Claypole
- Clementi, Muzio Clementi
- Clifford, Jane, Lady Clifford
- Clive, Robert Clive
- Cobden, Richard Cobden
- Cochrane, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Comper, Sir Ninian Comper
- Conduitt, John Conduitt
- Congreve, William Congreve
- Constable, Robert Constable, Viscount Dunbar
- Cooke, Edward Cooke
- Cooke, Benjamin and Robert Cooke
- Coote, Algernon Coote, Earl of Mountrath
- Coote, Eyre Coote
- Cornewall, Henry and James Cornewall
- Cottington, Francis Cottington
- Cottrell, Clement Cottrell
- Courcy, Almericus de Courcy, Baron Kingsale
- Courtenay, Richard Courtenay
- Coward, Noel Coward
- Cowley, Abraham Cowley
- Cowper, William Cowper
- Coxe, Sir Richard Coxe
- Craggs, James Craggs
- Cranfield, Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex
- Creed, Richard Creed
- Crewe, Crewe family
- Croft, William Croft
- Cromwell, Oliver Cromwell and family
- Cumberland, Richard Cumberland
- Czechoslovak Forces, Czechoslovak Forces
- Darwin, Charles Darwin
- Daubeney, Giles Daubeney
- Davenant, Sir William Davenant
- Davy, Sir Humphrey Davy
- De Vic, Sir Henry De Vic
- Deane, Richard Deane
- Dearmer, Percy Dearmer
- Denham, Sir James Stewart Denham
- Devereux, Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex
- Dickens, Charles Dickens
- Dickinson, William Dickinson
- Dirac, Paul Dirac
- Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli
- Dodington, Bartholomew Dodington
- Douglas, Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
- Dowding, Hugh Dowding
- Drake, Sir Francis Drake
- Drayton, Michael Drayton
- Dryden, John Dryden
- Dunk, George Montagu Dunk, Earl of Halifax
- Duppa, Brian and Thomas Duppa
- Edmund, Edmund, Earl of Lancaster
- Edwardes, Sir Herbert Edwardes
- Elgar, Sir Edward Elgar
- Eliot, George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
- Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Elizabeth, Grand Duchess Elizabeth
- Elliot, Gilbert and Hugh Elliot
- Fairborne, Sir Palmes Fairborne
- Fane, Elizabeth Fane
- Faraday, Michael Faraday
- Fascet, George Fascet
- Fawcett, Henry and Millicent Fawcett
- Ferne, Henry Ferne
- Fleming, James and John Fleming
- Florey, Howard Florey
- Folkes, Martin Folkes
- Follett, William Webb Follett
- Fowler, William Fowler
- Fox, Charles James Fox
- Franklin, Sir John Franklin
- Fraser, Ian Fraser, Lord Fraser of Lonsdale
- Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales
- Freke, Freke sisters
- Fullerton, James Fullerton
- Garrick, David Garrick
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Gaskell
- Gay, John Gay
- Gayfere, Thomas Gayfere
- Gethin, Grace Gethin
- Gibbons, Orlando and Christopher Gibbons
- Gladstone, William and Catherine Gladstone
- Godfrey, Edward and Sir Edmund Godfrey
- Godolphin, Godolphin family
- Goldsmith, Oliver Goldsmith
- Goodman, Gabriel Goodman
- Gordon, Charles George Gordon
- Gordon, George Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen
- Gordon, Adam Lindsay Gordon
- Gouland, Richard Gouland
- Grabe, John Ernest Grabe
- Graham, George Graham
- Grattan, Henry Grattan
- Gray, Thomas Gray
- Greatorex, Thomas Greatorex
- Green, George Green
- Griffith, Piers Griffith
- Grote, George Grote
- Guest, Joshua Guest
- Hailey, William Malcolm Hailey
- Hakluyt, Richard Hakluyt
- Hales, Stephen Hales
- Halley, Edmond Halley
- Handel, George Frederic Handel
- Hanway, Jonas Hanway
- Harbord, Sir Charles Harbord
- Hardy, Thomas Hardy
- Hardy, Sir Thomas Hardy
- Hargrave, William Hargrave
- Harpedon, Sir John Harpedon
- Harrison, John Harrison
- Harvey, John Harvey
- Hastings, Warren Hastings
- Hatton, Hatton family
- Hauley, Robert Hauley
- Heather, William Heather
- Henderson, John Henderson
- Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales
- Herbert, George Herbert
- Herrick, Robert Herrick
- Herries, Charles Herries
- Herschel, William & John Herschel
- Hesketh, Sir Thomas Hesketh
- Heylyn, Peter Heylyn
- Hill, Octavia Hill
- Hill, Rowland Hill
- Holles, Holles family
- Holmes, Charles Holmes
- Hooke, Robert Hooke
- Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Hope, Sir George Hope
- Hope, Henry Hope
- Hope, Adrian Hope
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Horneck, Anthony & William Horneck
- Horner, Francis Horner
- Horrocks, Jeremiah Horrocks
- Housman, A.E.Housman
- Howard, John Howard, Earl of Stafford
- Howe, George Howe
- Howells, Herbert Howells
- Hughes, Ted Hughes
- Hunter, John Hunter
- Hutt, John Hutt
- Hyde, Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
- Ingram, Sir Thomas Ingram
- Intelligence Services, Intelligence services MI5,GCHQ,SIS
- Ireland, John Ireland
- Irving, Sir Henry Irving
- Islip, John Islip
- James, Henry James
- Jebb, Jebb family
- John, Esther John
- John, John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall
- Johnson, Samuel Johnson
- Johnston, James Johnston
- Jonson, Ben Jonson
- Joule, James Prescott Joule
- Julius, William Julius
- Kane, Richard Kane
- Keats, John Keats
- Keble, John Keble
- Kelvin, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
- Kemble, John Philip Kemble
- Kendall, James and Mary Kendall
- Kerry, Francis Fitzmaurice, Earl of Kerry
- Killigrew, Thomas and Robert Killigrew
- King, Martin Luther King Jr
- Kingsley, Charles Kingsley
- Kipling, Rudyard Kipling
- Kirk, Percy Kirk
- Kneller, Sir Godfrey Kneller
- Knipe, Thomas Knipe
- Knollys, Katherine Knollys
- Kolbe, Maximilian Kolbe
- Langham, Simon Langham
- Lawes, Henry and John Lawes
- Lawrence, David Herbert Lawrence
- Lawrence, John Laird Mair Lawrence
- Lawrence, Stringer Lawrence
- Lear, Edward Lear
- Leith, Sir James Leith
- Levinz, William Levinz
- Ligonier, John and Francis Ligonier
- Lind, Jenny Lind
- Lister, Joseph Lister
- Livingstone, Thomas Livingstone, Viscount Teviot
- Livingstone, David Livingstone
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Lort, Sir Gilbert Lort
- Loten, John Gideon Loten
- Lovell, Sir Thomas Lovell
- Lowell, James Russell Lowell
- Lucas, Richard Lucas
- Ludlow, Philip Ludlow
- Luwum, Janani Luwum
- Lyell, Charles Lyell
- Lyte, Henry Francis Lyte
- Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton
- Macaulay, Zachary Macaulay
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay
- MacDonald, Ramsay MacDonald
- Mackenzie, James Stewart Mackenzie
- Macpherson, James Macpherson
- Maine, Sir Henry Sumner Maine
- Malcolm, Sir John Malcolm
- Manners, Lord Robert Manners
- Mansfield, William Murray, Lord Mansfield
- Markham, Markham family
- Marlowe, Christopher Marlowe
- Masefield, John Masefield
- Masemola, Manche Masemola
- Mason, William Mason
- Maurice, Frederick Denison Maurice
- Maxwell, James Clerk Maxwell
- May, Thomas May
- McClintock, Sir Leopold McClintock
- McIlvaine, Charles McIlvaine
- Mead, Richard Mead
- Methuen, John and Paul Methuen
- Mexborough, Elizabeth, Countess of Mexborough
- Micklethwaite, John Thomas Micklethwaite
- Milton, John Milton
- Mohun, Philippa Mohun, Duchess of York
- Monck, George and Nicholas Monck
- Monk, James Henry Monk
- Montagu, Edward Montagu, Earl of Sandwich
- Montagu, James Montagu
- Montpensier, Antoine Philippe, Duc de Montpensier
- Moray, Sir Robert Moray
- Morland, Carola and Ann Morland
- Morris, Staats Long Morris
- Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma
- Mowbray, Anne Mowbray, Duchess of York
- Murray, Gilbert Murray
- Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson
- Neve, Richard and John Le Neve
- Newton, Sir Isaac Newton
- Nicholson, Sir Sydney Nicholson
- Nightingale, Lady Elizabeth Nightingale
- Norris, Henry, Lord Norris
- Northumberland, Elizabeth, Duchess of Northumberland
- Ogle, John Ogle
- Old Contemptibles, Old Contemptibles, British Expeditionary Force
- Oldfield, Ann Oldfield
- Olivier, Laurence Olivier
- Oswald, James Oswald
- Oughton, Sir James Oughton
- Outram, Sir James Outram
- Owen, Thomas Owen
- O’Keeffe, Arthur O’Keeffe
- Page, Walter Hines Page
- Palaeologus, Theodore Palaeologus
- Palmerston, Henry Temple, Viscount Palmerston
- Panton, Thomas Panton
- Paoli, Pasquale Paoli
- Parr, Thomas Parr
- Parry, Sir Thomas (Vaughan) Parry
- Parsons, Sir Charles Parsons
- Peabody, George Peabody
- Pearce, Zachary and William Pearce
- Pearson, John Loughborough Pearson
- Pecksall, Richard Pecksall
- Peel, Sir Robert Peel
- Perceval, Spencer Perceval
- Philipps, Richard Philipps
- Philips, John Philips
- Pitt, William Pitt and family
- Plenderleath, John Plenderleath
- Pocock, Sir George Pocock
- Poets, Poets of the First World War
- Pollock, George Pollock
- Pope, Alexander Pope
- Popham, Edward Popham
- Prideaux, Sir Edmund Prideaux
- Priestman, Henry Priestman
- Pringle, Sir John Pringle
- Prior, Matthew Prior
- Pritchard, Hannah Pritchard
- Puckering, Sir John Puckering
- Pulteney, Daniel Pulteney
- Pulteney, William Pulteney, Earl of Bath
- Purcell, Henry Purcell
- Pym, John Pym
- Queen's Westminster Volunteers, Queen's Westminster Volunteers
- Raffles, Stamford Raffles
- Ramsay, Sir William Ramsay
- Rayleigh, John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh
- Rennell, James Rennell
- Richardson, Thomas Richardson
- Roberts, John Roberts
- Robessart, Sir Lewis Robessart, Lord Bourgchier
- Robinson, Sir Lumley Robinson
- Robinson, Sir Thomas Robinson
- Romero, Oscar Romero
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Rowe, Nicholas Rowe
- Royal Army Medical Corps, Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC)
- Royal Ballet, Royal Ballet founders
- Royce, Sir Henry Royce
- Rupert, Prince Rupert of the Rhine
- Ruskin, John Ruskin
- Russell, John and Elizabeth Russell
- Russell, John, Earl Russell
- Ruthall, Thomas Ruthall
- Rutherford, Ernest Rutherford
- Ryle, Herbert Edward Ryle
- Salisbury, Robert (Cecil), Marquess of Salisbury
- Sanderson, Sir William Sanderson
- Saunders, Sir Charles Saunders
- Sausmarez, Philip de Sausmarez
- Savile, George Savile, Marquess of Halifax
- Scott, Sir George Gilbert Scott
- Scott, Sir Walter Scott
- Shadwell, Thomas Shadwell
- Shakespeare, William Shakespeare
- Sharp, Granville Sharp
- Sheffield, John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Shield, William Shield
- Shovell, Sir Clowdisley Shovell
- Siddons, Sarah Siddons
- Sidney, Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex
- Simpson, Sir James Young Simpson
- Simpson, Barbara Simpson
- Smeaton, John Smeaton
- Smith, Samuel Smith
- Smith, John Smith
- SOE, Special Operations Executive, SOE
- Somerset, Sarah, Duchess of Somerset
- Somerset, Anne (Stanhope), Duchess of Somerset
- Southey, Robert Southey
- Spanheim, Ezekiel Spanheim
- Spelman, Henry Spelman
- Spenser, Edmund Spenser
- Spottiswood, William Spottiswood
- Spottiswood, John Spottiswood
- Spottiswood, James Spottiswood
- Spragge, Edward Spragge
- Sprat, Thomas Sprat
- St Evremond, Charles de St.Denis, Sieur de St. Evremond
- St John, Catherine, Lady St John of Bletso
- Stanford, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
- Stanhope, James Stanhope & Stanhope family
- Stanley, Arthur & Augusta Stanley
- Stanley, Sir Humphrey Stanley
- Staunton, Sir George Leonard Staunton
- Stephenson, Robert Stephenson
- Stepney, George Stepney
- Stewart, John Stewart
- Stokes, George Gabriel Stokes
- Stone, Stone family
- Storr, John Storr
- Stoteville, Jane Stoteville
- Stradling, George and Margaret Stradling
- Strathcona, Donald Smith, Lord Strathcona
- Street, George Edmund Street
- Strode, William Strode
- Strong, William Strong
- Stuart, Sir Charles Stuart
- Stuart, Ludovic and Esme Stuart
- Stuart, Frances Teresa Stuart, Duchess of Richmond
- Talbot, Edward Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury
- Tapiedi, Lucian Tapiedi
- Tapper, Sir Walter Tapper
- Taylor, Sir Robert Taylor
- Tedder, Arthur, Baron Tedder
- Telford, Thomas Telford
- Temple, Sir William Temple
- Tennyson, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Thackeray, William Makepeace Thackeray
- Thomas, John Thomas
- Thomas, Dylan Thomas
- Thomas of Woodstock, Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester
- Thomson, James Thomson
- Thomson, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
- Thomson, Sir Joseph John Thomson
- Thornburgh, Gilbert Thornburgh
- Thorndike, Dame Sybil Thorndike
- Thorndyke, John Thorndyke
- Thorndyke, Herbert Thorndyke
- Thynne, Thomas Thynne
- Thynne, William Thynne
- Tompion, Thomas Tompion
- Totty, Thomas Totty
- Townshend, Roger Townshend
- Tredenham, Sir Joseph Tredenham
- Trench, Richard Chenevix Trench
- Trenchard, Hugh Trenchard
- Trevithick, Richard Trevithick
- Trigge, Thomas Trigge
- Triplet, Thomas Triplet
- Trollope, Anthony Trollope
- Tufnell, John and Edward Tufnell
- Tufton, Richard Tufton
- Twisse, William Twisse
- Tyndale, William Tyndale
- Tyrrell, Richard Tyrrell
- U, Unknown Warrior
- Ussher, James Ussher
- Valence, William and Aymer de Valence
- Vaughan, Sir Thomas Vaughan
- Vaughan Williams, Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Vere, Sir Francis Vere and Horace Vere
- Vernon, Edward Vernon
- Vertue, George Vertue
- Villettes, William Anne Villettes
- Villiers, Villiers family
- Vincent, William Vincent
- Wade, George Wade
- Wager, Charles Wager
- Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace
- Walpole, Catherine, Lady Walpole
- Walton, Sir William Walton
- Ward, Joshua Ward
- Ware, Richard de Ware
- Warren, Sir Peter Warren
- Warren, John and Elizabeth Warren
- Watson, Charles Watson
- Watt, James Watt
- Watts, Isaac Watts
- Webb, Beatrice and Sidney Webb
- Webb, Richmond Webb
- Wesley, John Wesley, Charles Wesley
- Westminster, Westminster citizens war memorial
- Wetenhall, Edward Wetenhall
- Wharton, Henry Wharton
- Whittle, Frank Whittle
- Wilberforce, William Wilberforce
- Wilcocks, Joseph Wilcocks
- Wilde, Oscar Wilde
- Willes, Willes family
- Williams, Sir George Williams
- Willis, Thomas Willis
- Wilson, Sir Robert Thomas Wilson
- Winchester, Winifred, Marchioness of Winchester
- Wintringham, Sir Clifton Wintringham
- Withers, Henry Withers
- Wolfe, James Wolfe
- Woodward, John Woodward
- Woollett, William Woollett
- Wordsworth, William Wordsworth
- Worsley, Charles Worsley
- Wragg, William Wragg
- Wright, Sir James Wright
- Wright, Thomas Wright
- Wyatt, James Wyatt
- Young, Thomas Young
- Zhiming, Wang Zhiming