Notable interments at Nunhead Cemetery
35 notable figures are documented at Nunhead Cemetery in Wikidata's burial records, each with a Wikipedia article and a recorded place of burial. Listed alphabetically.
- Ada Blanche (1862–1953), singer, actor
- Alfred Saker (1814–1880), missionary
- Alfred Vance (1839–1888), singer
- Bobby Abel (1857–1936), cricketer
- Bryan Donkin (1768–1855), civil engineer, inventor, engineer
- Charles Fox (1810–1874), railway engineer, civil engineer, engineer
- Charles Goddard Clarke (1849–1908), politician
- Cuthbert Collingwood (1826–1908), surgeon, zoologist, naturalist
- E. A. Wallis Budge (1857–1934), anthropologist, archaeologist, orientalist
- Edward John Eliot (1782–1863), military personnel
- Edward Newman (1801–1876), entomologist, botanist, writer
- Edwin Roscoe Mullins (1848–1907), sculptor, artist
- Francis Lister (1899–1951), film actor, actor
- Frederick Abel (1827–1902), chemist, inventor
- George John Bennett (1800–1879), actor
- George Livesey (1834–1908), engineer
- George Perren (1827–1909), opera singer
- George Richard Corner (1801–1863), antiquarian
- Harry Jupp (1841–1889), cricketer, cricket umpire
- Horace Tabberer Brown (1848–1925), chemist
- Horatio Bryan Donkin (1845–1927), medical examiner
- Jenny Hill (1848–1896), performing artist
- John Kendrick (1573–1624), businessperson
- Joseph Burtt (1818–1876), archaeologist, archivist
- Joseph Burtt (1818–1876), archaeologist, archivist
- Joseph Lemuel Chester (1821–1882), genealogist, historian, politician
- Joseph Tomlinson (1823–1894), engineer
- Polydore de Keyser (1832–1898), hotel manager, jurist, politician
- Thomas Harriot (1560–1621), linguist, explorer, cartographer
- Tom Hood (1835–1874), novelist, editor, illustrator
- Vincent Figgins (1766–1844), typographer
- William Bengo' Collyer (1782–1854), hymnwriter, Christian minister, writer
- William Brough (1826–1870), playwright, writer
- William Cole (1840–1900), police officer
- William Dugdale (1800–1868), publisher, bookseller, printer