Notable interments at Wolvercote Cemetery

48 notable figures are documented at Wolvercote Cemetery in Wikidata's burial records, each with a Wikipedia article and a recorded place of burial. Listed alphabetically.

• Albert Hourani (1915–1993), historian, civil servant, university teacher
• Alfred Lodge (1854–1937), mathematician
• Ann Dummett (1930–2012), writer
• Augustus Edward Hough Love (1863–1940), mathematician
• Bill Ferrar (1893–1990), mathematician
• Brooke Benjamin (1929–1995), physicist, mathematician
• Charles Harding Firth (1857–1936), historian, university teacher, historian of Modern Age
• Charles U. Aitchison (1832–1896), administrator of the government, colonial administrator
• Clare Kirchberger (1850–1960), medievalist
• E. J. Bowen (1898–1980), chemist, geologist
• Edith Tolkien (1889–1971), pianist, music educator
• Edward Arthur Milne (1896–1950), astronomer, physicist, mathematician
• Edward Maitland Wright (1906–2005), mathematician
• Eleanor Constance Lodge (1869–1936), historian, head teacher
• Ernest Dunlop Swinton (1868–1951), writer, military personnel, engineer
• Falconer Madan (1851–1935), librarian
• Florence Buchanan (1867–1931), zoologist
• Francis Fortescue Urquhart (1868–1934), historian
• Frederick York Powell (1850–1904), historian, university teacher, medievalist
• Grace Eleanor Hadow (1875–1940), teacher, college head
• Hamo Thornycroft (1850–1925), sculptor
• Helena Deneke (1878–1973), librarian, lecturer, university teacher
• Helena Wolińska-Brus (1919–2008), military personnel, prosecutor, officer of the Milicja Obywatelska
• Henry Maurice Platnauer (1857–1939), geologist
• Henry William Carless Davis (1874–1928), librarian, historian, editing staff
• Humphrey Carpenter (1946–2005), writer, historian, biographer
• Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), diplomat, historian, political scientist
• J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), writer, teacher, poet
• James John Walker (1851–1939), editor, chief engineer, entomologist
• James McCann (1897–1983), Anglican priest
• James Murray (1837–1915), writer, philologist, lexicographer
• John Burdon-Sanderson (1828–1905), physician, university teacher, physiologist
• John Herivel (1918–2011), mathematician, historian, biographer
• Leonard James Rogers (1862–1933), mathematician, university teacher
• Leonid Pasternak (1862–1945), painter, visual artist, printmaker
• Louise Imogen Guiney (1861–1920), writer, poet, postmaster
• Margaret Deneke (1882–1969), writer, conductor, pianist
• Mike Woodin (1965–2004), politician
• Nina Carroll (1932–1990), artist, painter
• P. F. Strawson (1919–2006), engineer, university teacher, philosopher
• Peter Laslett (1915–2001), historian, political scientist, university teacher
• Philip Merivale (1886–1946), screenwriter, actor, playwright
• Roger Bannister (1929–2018), physician, neurologist, athlete
• Rosamund Brunel Gotch (1864–1949), illustrator, costume designer
• Sir Thomas Chapman, 7th Baronet (1846–1919), writer
• Stephen Meredyth Edwardes (1873–1927), historian, civil servant
• Thomas Erskine Holland (1835–1926), jurist, barrister
• Walter Hooper (1931–2020), writer, biographer, parson