and
Edith Tolkien Many notable people are buried in Wolvercote Cemetery, including many former academics of the
University of Oxford. •
Charles Umpherston Aitchison (1832–1896), Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab •
Michael Argyle (1925–2002), social psychologist, and his wife, Sonia • Sir
Roger Bannister (1929–2018), middle-distance runner and neurologist who ran the first sub-4-minute mile •
Sir Ernest Bennett (1865–1947), Oxford fellow, politician, explorer, and writer • Sir
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), Latvian-born
philosopher, and his wife Aline •
Benjamin Henry Blackwell (1849–1924), bookseller •
E. J. Bowen (1898–1980), chemist •
Włodzimierz Brus (1921–2007), economist, with his wife, Lieutenant-Colonel
Helena Wolińska-Brus (1919–2008), communist military prosecutor. •
John Burdon-Sanderson (1828–1905), physiologist •
Edwin Cannan (1861–1935), economist •
Humphrey Carpenter (1946–2005), biographer and writer •
Jaroslav Černý (1898–1970), Czech Egyptologist •
Sir Thomas Chapman, 7th Baronet (1846–1919) and Sarah Junner (1861–1959), with inscriptions to the memory of their sons Frank, Will and
T. E. Lawrence •
Robert Bellamy Clifton (1836–1921), physicist •
L. Jonathan Cohen (1923–2006), philosopher •
Frank Cooper (1844–1927) and his wife
Sarah Cooper (1848–1932), marmalade manufacturers •
T. Lawrence Dale (1884–1959), architect and
Oxford Diocesan Surveyor •
Helena Deneke (1878–1973), Germanist, librarian, and bursar •
Margaret Deneke (1882–1969), pianist, musicologist, choirmaster, and benefactor (sister of Helena) •
John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852–1926), Danish-born astronomer •
Edward Gordon Duff (1861–1924), bibliographer • Sir
Michael Dummett (1925–2011), philosopher •
Elizabeth Edmondson (1948–2016), author •
Bill Ferrar (1893–1990), mathematician •
Grace Eleanor Hadow (1875–1940), promoter of women's higher education •
H. L. A. Hart (1907–1992),
legal philosopher and professor of
jurisprudence, with his wife
Jenifer Hart (1914–2005), historian • Sir
Thomas Erskine Holland (1835–1926), professor of international law •
Walter Hooper (1931–2020), secretary to C. S. Lewis and Lewis's literary executor, in which role he wrote Lewis's authorized biography and edited his 3-volume collection of letters as well as many other posthumously published works by Lewis •
Albert Hourani (1915–1993), scholar of
Middle Eastern history •
Elizabeth Jennings (1926–2001), poet •
Sir Francis Knowles, 5th Baronet (1886–1953), anthropologist •
Adam Koc (1891–1969), politician, colonel, and journalist of the
Second Polish Republic •
Peter Laslett (1915–2001), social historian •
James Legge (1815–1897), Scottish
sinologist and first Professor of
Chinese at the University of Oxford •
Eleanor Constance Lodge (1869–1936), historian and promoter of women's higher education •
Paul Maas (1880–1964), Classical and Byzantine scholar •
Michael Francis Madelin (1931–2007),
mycologist •
James McCann (1897–1983),
Archbishop of Armagh and
Primate of All Ireland • Sir
Henry Christopher Mance (1840–1926), electrical engineer, developer of the
heliograph •
Bruce Mitchell (1920–2010), Australian scholar of Old English •
James Murray (1837–1915), Scottish
lexicographer and
philologist, primary editor of the
Oxford English Dictionary •
Dimitri Obolensky (1918–2001), Russian prince and professor of
Russian and
Balkan history •
Daphne Park (1921–2010), spy •
William Henry Perkin Jr. (1860–1929), organic chemist •
Sir William Schlich (1840–1925), forester •
James Allen Shuffrey (1858–1939), Victorian and Edwardian watercolour artist •
Franz Baermann Steiner (1909–1952),
ethnologist •
Sir P. F. Strawson (1919–2006), philosopher •
J. R. R. Tolkien ("Beren", 1892–1973), author and academic, with his wife
Edith ("Lúthien", 1889–1971) and eldest son
John Francis Reuel Tolkien (1917–2003) •
Dino Toso (1969–2008), automotive engineer •
Brian Tovey (1926–2015), head of
GCHQ •
Francis Fortescue Urquhart (1868–1934), first Roman Catholic fellow of
Balliol College in modern times •
Mike Woodin (1965–2004),
Green Party politician •
E. M. Wright (1906–2005), mathematician ==War graves==