Notable interments at Yanaka Cemetery

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

• Akira Ariyoshi (1876–1937), diplomat
• Aoyama Tanemichi (1859–1917), internist
• Arisaka Nariakira (1852–1915), military personnel, engineer
• Azusa Ono (1852–1886), intellectual, legal counselor, political scientist
• Bin Ueda (1874–1916), writer, poet, translator
• Chiyomatsu Ishikawa (1860–1935), zoologist, ornithologist, ichthyologist
• Date Munenari (1818–1892), politician
• Edward Howard House (1836–1901), writer, music critic, journalist
• Fukuchi Genichiro (1841–1906), screenwriter, writer, politician
• Fumiko Enchi (1905–1986), writer, playwright, novelist
• Fumiko Enchi (1905–1986), writer, playwright, novelist
• Hiroshi Inagaki (1905–1980), actor, screenwriter, director
• Hitachiyama Taniemon (1874–1922), rikishi
• Ichijō Mikako (1835–1894), kuge
• Ichirō Hatoyama (1883–1959), lawyer, politician
• Ichiyō Higuchi (1872–1896), writer, novelist, waka poet
• Itō Keisuke (1803–1901), physician, botanist
• Kawakami Otojirō (1864–1911), actor
• Kazuo Hasegawa (1908–1984), actor, director, kabuki actor
• Kazuo Hirotsu (1891–1968), screenwriter, writer, translator
• Kikuchi Dairoku (1855–1917), politician, mathematician, university teacher
• Kikuchi Yōsai (1788–1878), painter, artist
• Kinoshita Rigen (1886–1925), writer, poet, waka poet
• Kinzō Shin (1910–1988), actor
• Kiyokata Kaburaki (1878–1972), artist, painter, essayist
• Kojima Masajirō (1894–1994), writer, children's writer, novelist
• Michio Miyagi (1894–1956), composer, essayist
• Momoko Kōchi (1932–1998), actor, seiyū, stage actor
• Murata Tsuneyoshi (1838–1921), military personnel, politician
• Nagayo Motoori (1885–1945), composer
• Namihei Odaira (1874–1951), entrepreneur, inventor
• Nicholas of Japan (1836–1912), writer, translator, missionary
• Ryōkichi Yatabe (1851–1899), poet, university teacher, botanical collector
• Sasaki Nobutsuna (1872–1963), writer, poet, waka poet
• Sergius (1871–1945), missionary, Eastern Orthodox priest
• Shibusawa Eiichi (1840–1931), businessperson, politician, entrepreneur
• Shimada Ichirō (1848–1878), samurai
• Shishi Bunroku (1893–1969), writer, playwright, theatre manager
• Takehiro Irokawa (1929–1989), writer, novelist, essayist
• Tanaka Yoshio (1838–1916), politician, zoologist, botanist
• Tanomogi Keikichi (1867–1940), politician, journalist
• Tatsui Baba (1850–1888), politician, critic, activist
• Theodosius Nagashima (1935–1999), Eastern Orthodox priest
• Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837–1913), photographer, politician, shogun
• Tomitaro Makino (1862–1957), professor, botanical collector, botanist
• Tsuda Mamichi (1829–1903), judge, politician, beamter
• Ukai Gyokusen (1807–1887), photographer
• Washizu Kidō (1825–1882), academic
• Yokoyama Taikan (1869–1958), artist, painter, Nihonga painter
• Yokoyama Taikan (1869–1958), artist, painter, Nihonga painter
• Yokoyama Taikan (1869–1958), artist, painter, Nihonga painter
• Yorinaga Matsudaira (1874–1944), teacher, politician