Wolvercote Cemetery

Sections

Selected burials

• Sir Roger Bannister, British middle-distance athlete and neurologist who ran the first sub-4-minute mile
• Sir Ernest Bennett, Oxford fellow, politician, explorer and writer
• Sir Isaiah Berlin, philosopher, with his wife Aline
• E. J. Bowen, chemist
• Włodzimierz Brus, economist, with his wife Lieutenant-Colonel Helena Wolińska-Brus, military prosecutor at show trials in Stalinist Poland in the 1950s
• John Burdon-Sanderson, physiologist
• Humphrey Carpenter, biographer and writer
• Sir Thomas Chapman, 7th Baronet and Sarah Junner, parents of T. E. Lawrence
• T. Lawrence Dale, architect and Oxford Diocesan Surveyor
• Elizabeth Edmondson, author
• Bill Ferrar, mathematician
• H. L. A. Hart, legal philosopher and professor of jurisprudence
• Albert Hourani, scholar of Middle Eastern history
• Elizabeth Jennings, poet
• Colonel Adam Koc, politician, soldier and journalist of the Second Polish Republic
• Peter Laslett, historian
• James Legge, Scottish sinologist and first Professor of Chinese at the University of Oxford
• Eleanor Constance Lodge, historian and promoter of women's higher education
• Paul Maas, Classical and Byzantine scholar
• Michael Francis Madelin, British mycologist
• James McCann, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
• James Murray, Scottish lexicographer and philologist, primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary
• Dimitri Obolensky, Russian prince and professor of Russian and Balkan history
• Professor David Patterson, Hebraist
• Franz Baermann Steiner, ethnologist
• John Stokes, Principal of Queen's College, Hong Kong
• J. R. R. Tolkien, author and academic, with his wife Edith and eldest son John Francis Reuel Tolkien
• Dino Toso, automotive engineer
• Brian Tovey, former head of GCHQ
• Francis Fortescue Urquhart, first Roman Catholic fellow of Balliol College in modern times
• Mike Woodin, Green Party politician
• E. M. Wright, mathematician

  War Graves