Wolvercote Cemetery

The cemetery has a number of sections for individual religions or ethnicities, including Baháʼí, Muslim, Jewish (first section dedicated 1894; extension 2000), Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox, Polish Roman Catholic and other Roman Catholic (the section in which the Tolkiens are buried) and Quakers.

There is an area for the burial of cremated remains, one for green burials and another for the burial of stillborns and infants.

Grave of J. R. R. 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), military prosecutor at show trials in Stalinist Poland in the 1950s
• John Burdon-Sanderson (1828–1905), physiologist
• 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
• John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852–1926), Danish-born astronomer
• Edward Gordon Duff (1861–1924), bibliographer
• 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
• Sir Thomas Erskine Holland (1835–1926), professor of international law
• 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
• Professor David Patterson (1922–2005), Hebraist
• William Henry Perkin Jr. (1860–1929), organic chemist
• Sir William Schlich (1840–1925), forester
• Franz Baermann Steiner (1909–1952), ethnologist
• John Stokes (1915–1990), Principal of Queen's College, Hong Kong
• 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

The cemetery includes the graves of 44 Commonwealth service personnel: 21 from World War I and 23 from World War II.[2]

• Holywell Cemetery
• Osney Cemetery
• St Sepulchre's Cemetery

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