and
Lady Wilde, parents of
Oscar Wilde Notable people buried here include: •
Robert Adams (1791–1875), physician and professor of surgery •
Maeve Binchy (1940–2012), author (cremated) •
Fritz Brase (1875–1940), German military musician and composer •
Edward Bunting (1773–1843), musician, music-collector •
Frederick William Burton (1816–1900), painter and director of the
National Gallery •
Peter Caffrey (1949–2008), actor (cremated) •
Sir Charles Cameron (1830–1921), headed, for 50 years, the Public Health Department of Dublin Corporation (and two of his sons) •
James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy (1851–1931), lawyer, politician and Lord Chancellor of Ireland •
William Carleton (1794–1869), writer •
Thomas Caulfield Irwin (1823–1892), poet, writer, scholar •
Michael Colivet (1882–1955), Irish politician, Commandant of the Irish Volunteers for Limerick City, a founding member of the
Irish Republic and, in later years, Chairman of the National Housing Board •
Abraham Colles (1773–1843), surgeon, professor of medicine •
Meg Connery (1881–1958), suffragist organiser and activist. •
John Augustus Conolly VC (1829–1888), soldier •
Paddy Daly (1888–1957), member of the
IRA during the
War of Independence and later Major-General in the
Irish Army •
Achilles Daunt (1832–1878), preacher and homilist •
Derek Davis (1948–2015), broadcaster •
Thomas Davis, (1814–1845), journalist, politician, founder of
The Nation newspaper •
Thomas Drummond (1797–1840), surveyor,
Under-Secretary for Ireland • Professor
George Francis FitzGerald (1851–1901), physicist •
Ethel Kathleen French ( Moore, 1871–1891), artist and illustrator, first wife of
Percy French •
Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne (1837–1913), lawyer and
Lord Chancellor of Ireland •
Robert Graves (1796–1853), professor of medicine and writer •
Robert Perceval Graves (1810–1893), biographer of
William R. Hamilton •
Sir Richard John Griffith (1784–1878), geologist, mining engineer, chairman of the Board of Works, author of
Griffith's Valuation •
Thomas Grubb (1800–1878), optician, telescope-maker •
Benjamin Guinness (1798–1868), brewer, philanthropist, and other members of the
Guinness family •
George Halpin (1779–1854), civil engineer and lighthouse builder •
William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865), mathematician and astronomer •
James Haughton (1795–1873), social reformer •
John Kells Ingram (1823–1907), politician, scholar, mathematician and poet ("The Memory of the Dead") •
John Hewitt Jellett (1817–1888), mathematician and Provost of Trinity College •
John Edward Jones (1806–1862), civil engineer and sculptor •
David Kelly (1929–2012), actor (cremated) •
John Mitchell Kemble (1807–1857), scholar •
Joseph Robinson Kirk (1821–1894), sculptor, who also executed the figure over the memorial of his father,
Thomas •
Thomas Kirk (1781–1845), sculptor, who also designed the Butler mausoleum in this cemetery •
Thomas Hawkesworth Ledwich (1823–1858), surgeon and anatomist •
Thomas Langlois Lefroy (1776–1869), politician and judge •
Percy Ludgate (1883–1922), accountant mathematician and inventor; designer of the second analytical engine •
Jan Lukasiewicz (1878–1956), Polish philosopher, logician and mathematician •
David Marcus (1924–2009), Irish Jewish writer/editor •
Sir Henry Marsh (1770–1860), physician •
William Ramsay McNab (1844–1889), Scottish physician and botanist •
William Fetherstone Montgomery (1797–1859), obstetrician •
Arthur Thomas Moore VC (1830–1912), soldier •
Hans Garrett Moore VC (1830–1889), soldier •
Sir Richard Morrison (1767–1849), architect (
Pro-Cathedral,
Trinity College) •
Máirtín Ó Direáin, (1910–1988), Irish-language poet •
Walter Osborne (1859–1903), artist •
William McFadden Orr (1866–1934), mathematician •
George Papworth (1781–1855), architect •
Basil Payne (1923–2012) poet •
Jacob Owen (1778–1870), architect and engineer to the Board of Works •
Edward Arthur Henry Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford (1902–1961) was an Irish peer, politician, and littérateur •
George Petrie (1790–1886), artist archaeologist, musician •
William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket (1828–1897), Archbishop of Dublin •
Sarah Purser (1848–1943), artist •
George Russell (1867–1935), writer and artist •
Cecil Sheridan (1910–1980), comedian and actor •
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873), writer and editor (along with his wife, Susanna Bennett, her father and two brothers, in the same vault) •
Robert William Smith (1807–1873), pathologist •
Ellen Smyly (1815–1901), founder of the Smyly Homes •
Bindon Blood Stoney (1828–1909), engineer •
John Millington Synge (1871–1909), playwright •
Isaac Weld (1774–1856), topographical writer, explorer and artist •
Edward Perceval Wright (1834–1910), ophthalmic surgeon, botanist and zoologist •
Jack Butler Yeats (1871–1957), artist There is a large plot dedicated to deceased members of the
Royal Irish Constabulary and the
Dublin Metropolitan Police. The remains of French
Huguenots from St. Peter's Churchyard, Peter's Row (now the location of the Dublin YMCA), which was demolished in the 1980s, and from St. Brigid's and St. Thomas's churchyards are interred in the cemetery. Over 200 children of unmarried mothers who died in the Protestant run
Bethany Home were buried in unmarked graves in the cemetery. There is a plot where unnamed children from
Kirwan House the Protestant run Female Orphan Home are buried. Recent burials include the notorious
Martin Cahill (1949–1994) (known as "The General"). His gravestone has been vandalised on numerous occasions and is currently broken in two with the top half missing. His body has since been removed to an unmarked grave in the cemetery. ==Flora==