Putney Vale Cemetery

Notable burials and cremations

• Julie Alexander, actress and model
• Dev Anand, Indian film actor
• Peter Arne, actor
• Arthur Askey, comedian and actor
• Sir Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and film producer
• Sir Henry George Outram Bax-Ironside, British diplomat, ambassador to Venezuela, Chile, Switzerland and Bulgaria
• Robert Beatty, actor
• Evelyn Beauchamp, one of the first people to enter the tomb of the Tutankhamun
• James Beck, actor noted for his role as Private Walker, the Cockney spiv in the sitcom Dad's Army
• Admiral The 1st Baron Beresford, following state funeral at St Paul's Cathedral.
• John Bindon, actor and well known "face".
• Major-General Charles Guinand Blackader, WWI general
• Lillian Board MBE, silver medal-winning Olympian
• Harry Cunningham Brodie, MP for Reigate and major in Middlesex Yeomanry
• Kate Carney, famed music hall singer and comedian
• Howard Carter, archaeologist and Egyptologist, noted as a primary discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
• Sir. Lt-Col. Henry Dickonson Nightingale, 13th Baronet, Royal Marine Officer during Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1851-52
• Admiral Herbert Charles Campbell da Costa, Royal Navy flag officer in First World War
• Sandy Denny, singer, songwriter and member of Fairport Convention
• Henry Fielding Dickens, barrister and the eighth of 10 children born to author Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine.
• Sir Jacob Epstein, sculptor.
• Golchin Gilani, 20th century Iranian poet.
• Kenelm Lee Guinness, local resident and member of Guinness brewing family, early motor racer and entrepreneur behind the famous Putney Vale-made KLG spark plugs
• George Dickinson Hadley, gastroenterologist.
• Eugen Hersch, artist and portrait painter whose subjects included President Paul von Hindenburg and Joseph Joachim.
• Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet, newspaper proprietor
• James Hunt, Formula One Grand Prix world champion
• John Ingram, 32, a grave digger at Putney Vale who died in a freak accident, hit in the chest from a stray bullet from the rifle range at Wimbledon Common. Buried yards from where he fell, leaving a pregnant wife and infant daughter. Every May 22, local resident John Cooper lays flowers on the man's grave.
• J. Bruce Ismay, chairman of White Star Line and a passenger of its ship RMS Titanic, and wife Julia Florence Ismay
• Hattie Jacques, comedy actress who appeared in many Carry On films.
• Alexander Kerensky, exiled former Russian prime minister and leading figure in the Russian revolution of 1917, until Vladimir Lenin took over
• Sir John Lambert CMG KCVO, soldier and diplomat
• Hazel, Lady Lavery, painter
• Sir John Lavery, painter
• Rosa Lewis, hotelier of the Cavendish, Jermyn Street, known as the "Queen of Cooks" and "Duchess of Duke Street"
• Sir John William Lorden, resident of Ravenswood, Putney Hill and former president of the National Federation of Property Owners and Ratepayers
• Daniel Massey, Canadian-British actor and Golden Globe award recipient
• Hilary Minster, British actor
• Kenneth More, character actor post-Second World War
• The 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, OM, politician, ashes buried here after cremation at Golders Green
• Kenneth Nelson, actor
• Joe O'Gorman, music hall performer and founder of the Variety Artistes' Federation
• Jennifer Paterson, TV chef of Two Fat Ladies fame
• Lance Percival, actor and singer
• Jon Pertwee, noted Doctor Who actor.
• Roy Plomley OBE, creator of the world's longest running radio programme, BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs
• Nyree Dawn Porter OBE, actress
• Sir Edward J. Reed, 19th-century constructor of the Royal Navy, MP, author and railway magnate
• George Reid, former prime minister of Australia
• Alfred Joseph Richards, First World War recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Sir Ronald Ross, discoverer of malaria transmission by mosquitoes
• William Scoresby Routledge, British ethnographer, anthropologist and adventurer
• Charles Rumney Samson, pioneer naval aviator.
• Eugen Sandow, the Prussian known as the father of modern bodybuilding
• Richard Seaman, noted pre-Second World War Grand Prix driver for Mercedes-Benz, who still maintain his grave
• Vladek Sheybal, a Polish character actor
• Joan Sims, comedy actress including the Carry On films
• Edwin Tate, son of Henry Tate of Tate & Lyle sugar refining fame, in a family mausoleum inscribed with the family motto "Thincke and Thancke"
• C. W. Stephens, British architect, best known for Harrods
• Vesta Tilley, born Matilda Alice Powles, a male impersonator, who was a star in both Britain and the US for over 30 years.