The Dean Cemetery is a historically important Victorian cemetery north of the Dean Village, west of Edinburgh city centre, in Scotland. It lies between Queensferry Road and the Water of Leith, bounded on its east side by Dean Path and on its west by the Dean Gallery. A 20th-century extension lies detached from the main cemetery to the north of Ravelston Terrace. The main cemetery is accessible through the main gate on its east side, through a "grace and favour" access door from the grounds of Dean Gallery and from Ravelston Terrace. The modern extension is only accessible at the junction of Dean Path and Queensferry Road.
Dean Cemetery, also known as Edinburgh Western Cemetery, was laid out by David Cousin (an Edinburgh architect who also laid out Warriston Cemetery) in 1846 and became a fashionable burial ground, its monuments becoming a rich source of Edinburgh and Victorian history, for mainly the middle and upper-classes. The many monuments bear witness to Scottish achievement in peace and war, at home and abroad.
As the cemetery plots were quickly bought up the cemetery was extended on its north side in 1871. A second set of entrance gates were built on Dean Path, matching the original entrance. Although this section was originally only accessed through this gate the extension was quickly linked to the original section by creating gaps in the mutual wall where no graves existed. This extension is laid out in a more rectilinear pattern than the original curvelinear layout.
The separated section north of Ravelston Terrace (previously Edgehill Nursery) was purchased in 1877 in anticipation of a sales rate matching that of the original cemetery, but this was not to be, and the area only began to be used in 1909 (excepting John Ritchie Findlay (1898) alone for a decade). This section is relatively plain and generally unremarkable, but does include a line of Scottish Law Lords against the north wall, perhaps trying to echo the "Lord's Row" against the west wall of the original cemetery. Whilst numerically greater in its number of lords it is far less eye-catching.
The entire cemetery is privately owned by the Dean Cemetery Trust Limited, making it one of the few cemeteries still run as it was intended to be run. The resultant layout, with its mature designed landscape, can be seen as an excellent example of a cemetery actually being visible in the form it was conceived to be seen.
The southern access from Belford Road is now blocked and the entrance road here is now grassed and used for the interment of ashes.
The cemetery contains sculpture by Sir John Steell, William Brodie, John Hutchison, Francis John Williamson, Pilkington Jackson, Amelia Robertson Hill, William Birnie Rhind, John Rhind, John Stevenson Rhind, William Grant Stevenson, Henry Snell Gamley, Charles McBride, George Frampton, Walter Hubert Paton and Stewart McGlashan.
The cemetery stands on the site of Dean House (built 1614), part of Dean Estate which had been purchased in 1609 by Sir William Nisbet, who became in 1616 Lord Provost of Edinburgh. The Nisbets of Dean held the office of Hereditary Poulterer to the King. The famous herald, Alexander Nisbet, of Nisbet House, near Duns, Berwickshire, is said to have written his Systems of Heraldry in Dean House. The estate house was demolished in 1845, and sculptured stones from it are incorporated into the south retaining wall supporting at the south side of the cemetery. It is not always realised that this lower, hidden section also contains graves.
Sir John Stuart Hepburn Forbes was born in Dean House in 1804.
John Abercromby, 5th Baron Abercromby (1841-1924)
Sir Stair Agnew (1831-1916)
James Aikman (1780-1860) author of The History of Scotland
Robert Alexander RSA (1840-1927) artist
Sir Archibald Alison (d.1867), advocate and historian, plus his son, Sir Archibald Alison
Robert Allan FRSE (1806-1863), mineralogist
Sir Robert George Allan FRSE (1879-1972) agriculturalist
Sir William Allan RSA (1782-1850) artist
John Anderson (zoologist) (1833-1900) sculpted by David Watson Stevenson
Thomas Annandale (1838-1907) medical pioneer and surgeon
Thomas Arnold (architect) (1838-1912)
Neil Arnott FRS (1788-1874) physician
Prof William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865) poet
Henry Bellyse Baildon (1849-1907) poet and author
Dr John William Ballantyne FRSE (1861-1923) founder of the science of antenatal pathology
William Francis Beattie MC (1886-1918) sculptor
William Hamilton Beattie (1842-1898) architect (including Jenner's and the Balmoral Hotel)
Dr John Beddoe (1826-1911) ethnologist
Dr James Warburton Begbie (1826-1876) physician
Andrew William Belfrage (1842-1915) civil engineer and builder
Archibald Bell (1776-1854), author and advocate
Joseph Bell (1837–1911), famous lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh, personal surgeon of Queen Victoria
John Bellany (1942-2013) artist
Dr John Hughes Bennett (1812-1875) physiologist
Graham Binny RSW (1870-1929) artist
Isabella Bird married name Bishop (1831–1904), celebrated traveller, writer and photographer. First female Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
Alexander Black (1797–1858), architect
Alexander William Black MP (1859-1906)
Robert Blackburn, Lord Blackburn LLD (1864-1944) Senator of the Court of Justice
John Stuart Blackie (1809-1895)
John Blackwood (1818-1879) creator and editor of Blackwood's Magazine
Rev Dr Robert Blair (1837-1907)
Thomas Bonnar (father (d.1873) and son (d.1896), a curious back-to-back monument by David Watson Stevenson) artists, decorators and designers
Cunninghame Borthwick, 19th Lord Borthwick (1813-1885)
Sir Thomas Bouch (1822-1880), railway engineer, designer of the original Tay Rail Bridge
Samuel Bough RSA, artist, (1822–1878). (monument by William Brodie 1879)
Admiral James Paterson Bowers (1806-1889) and his son Major General Hamilton St Clair Bower (1858-1940)
Mary Syme Boyd (1910-1997) sculptor
Sir Thomas Jamieson Boyd (1818-1902), Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1877-1882
Augustus Beattie Bradbury (1841-1875) engineer and canal-builder in India
Sir Byrom Bramwell (1847-1921), brain surgeon
Edwin Bramwell FRSE (1873-1952), brain surgeon
Sir John Clerk Brodie (1811-1888) monument by John Hutchison
William Brodie (sculptor) (1815-1881)
Andrew Betts Brown (1841-1906) engineer and inventor of the hydraulic steam crane, travelling crane, steam tiller etc, co-founder of Brown Brothers & Co
John Young Buchanan FRS FRSE (1844-1925) oceanographer
Thomas Stuart Burnett (1853-1888) sculptor
Dr John Graham MacDonald Burt FRSE (1809-1868) President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Isabella Burton (née Lauder), with children, wife and family of John Hill Burton, historian (monument by William Brodie 1881)
Samuel Butcher (1850-1910), professor of Greek at Edinburgh University, President of the British Academy, Liberal Unionist MP for Cambridge University
Florence St John Cadell (1877-1966) artist
Edward and James Key Caird Dundee jute barons and philanthropists
Major Donald Fraser Callander (1918-1992), soldier
Richard Vary Campbell (1840-1901) legal author
George Somervil Carfrae (1854-1934), architect/engineer
James Carswell (1832-1897) civil engineer, designer of Queen Street Station, Glasgow and the approaches to the Forth Rail Bridge
James Cassie RSA (1819-1879) artist
Sir David Patrick Chalmers (1835-1899)
George Paul Chalmers (1838-1878) artist
Robert Chambers (1832-1888) publisher of dictionaries and encyclopedia
Prof John Chiene (1843-1923), surgeon
Henry Martyn Clark (1887-1916) missionary
Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn (1779–1854)
John Campbell Colquhoun (1803-1870) writer
George Combe (1788-1858), lawyer and phrenologist
Charles Alfred Cooper FRSE (1829-1916) editor of The Scotsman newspaper
Sir Joseph Montagu Cotterill (1851-1933) surgeon and cricketer, son of Henry Cotterill
David Cousin (1809-1878) architect (buried in Baton Rouge in USA but is remembered on his family stone in the cemetery)
Robert Cox WS (1810-1872) fine medallion head by William Brodie
Robert Cox MP (1845-1899)
Sir James Coxe (1811-1878) psychiatrist, Commissioner in Lunacy for Scotland
John Crabbie (1806-1891), founder of Crabbie's Green Ginger Wine
Dr Kenneth Craik (1914-1945)
Francis Chalmers Crawford FRSE (1851-1908), botanist
Rev Prof Thomas Jackson Crawford FRSE (1812-1875), theologian and author
Robert Croall (1831-1898) coach- and post-master
William James Cullen, Lord Cullen (1859-1931)
Prof Daniel John Cunningham (1850-1909) with his son General Sir Alan Cunningham (1887-1983)
Robert James Blair Cunynghame FRSE (1841-1903) forensic scientist and physiologist
Allen Dalzell FRSE (1821-1869), pharmacologist
Dr Robert Daun FRSE FRCP (1785-1871) military surgeon
Marcus Dods DD (1834-1909) theologian
Dr Andrew Halliday Douglas (1819-1908) President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and his namesake son Rev Prof A H Douglas (d.1902) author and Professor of Apologetic at Know College, Toronto
Francis Brown Douglas FRSE DL (1814-1885) Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1859-1862
Sir William Fettes Douglas (1822-1891) PRSA artist
Bishop John Dowden (1840-1910) Bishop of Edinburgh
Thomas Drybrough (1820-1894) brewer
John Duncan (surgeon) FRSE (1839-1899) President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1889-91
James Dunsmure FRSE (1814-1886) President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Johannes Ruprecht Durrner, composer
William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn FRSE (1889-1964) pyschiatrist
Dr James Duncan (1810-1866) and his son Dr John Duncan (1839-1899)
Rev Valentine Faithfull (1820-1894), clergyman and cricketer
Sir James Falshaw (1810-1889) Lord Provost
Vice Admiral Charles Fellowes (1823-1880)
James Haig Ferguson FRSE (1863-1934) President of both the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Rev Robert Howie Fisher DD (1861-1934) minister and author, Chaplain to the King
David Fleming, Lord Fleming (1877-1944) military hero and law lord
James Simpson Fleming FRSE (1828-1899)
Prof John Fleming (naturalist) (1785-1857)
Prof Edward Forbes (1815-1854) naturalist
Prof James David Forbes (1809-1868) inventor of the seismometer
Sir Patrick Johnston Ford Baronet, MP (1880-1945)
Major-General James George Roche Forlong (1824-1904), soldier and engineer
Sir John Forrest, Baronet (1817-1883) with Sir William Forrest (1823-1894) and Sir James Forrest (1853-1899)
William Hope Fowler CVO, MB, ChB, FRCSE, MRCPE, FRSE (1876-1933) x-ray pioneer, victim of his own experiments
Sir Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser (1848-1919)
Dr John Fraser FRSE (1844-1925) Commissioner of Lunacy in Scotland 1895-1910
Patrick Fraser, Lord Fraser (1817-1889) jurist
Patrick Neill Fraser, FRSE (d.1905), botanist (plus a memorial to his daughter Margaret Neill Fraser, buried in Serbia during the First World War)
Thomas Richard Fraser (1841-1920), pathologist
Sir William Fraser (historian) (1816-1898)
Major General William John Gairdner, CB, (1789–1861) a very fine sculpture of his hat under a canopy, with his sword at the base
Henry Snell Gamley (1865-1928) artist
George Alexander Gibson (1854-1913), doctor and amateur geologist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Chief Physician at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
Sir James Gibson, 1st Baronet, (1849-1912) Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1906-1909, MP for Edinburgh 1909-1912
James Young Gibson (1826-1886) author/translator (bronze by Francis John Williamson) plus his wife Margaret Dunlop Smith (1843-1920) also an author
John Goodsir (1814-1867) anatomist
Robert Anstruther Goodsir (1823-1899) doctor and Arctic explorer
Edward Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn (1814-1879)
Sir Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet (1826-1884) educationalist and Principal of Edinburgh University
John Peter Grant (MP) (1774-1848)
Sir Ludovic Grant 11th Baronet of Dalvey (1862-1836)
Robert Kaye Greville (1794-1866) botanist
Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie (1849-1920), Senator of the College of Justice
William Guy FRSE (1860-1950), pioneer of modern dentistry
Daniel Rutherford Haldane FRSE PRCPE (1824-1887)
James Haliburton (1788-1862) Egyptologist
James Hamilton, 9th Baron Belhaven and Stenton (1822-1893) huge monument including a bronze by Pilkington Jackson
Robert Handyside, Lord Handyside (1798-1858)
John Harrison FRSE CBE LLD (1847-1922) master tailor and author, son of Sir George Harrison MP
Andrew Fergus Hewat FRSE (1884-1957)
David Octavius Hill (1802–1870), artist and photography pioneer, Hill & Adamson. The monument is by his second wife, Amelia Robertson Hill (née Paton) (1820–1904) who is buried with him
Sir James Hodsdon (1858-1928), surgeon, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1914-1917
James Brown Howard (1841-1895) of the Royal Lyceum Theatre excellent high-relief portrait head by McGlashan
Robert Gemmell Hutchison (1855-1936) artist (pair of sculpted heads by John Stevenson Rhind)
Sir Thomas Hutchison (1866-1925) Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1921-3
Andrew Inglis (d. 1875), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and Professor of Midwifery at Aberdeen University
Elsie Inglis (1864-1917) pioneer female doctor and war hero
Alexander Taylor Innes FRSE LLD (1833-1912) lawyer and historian
Lt John Irving of HMS Terror (1822–1848 or 49) who died in King William Island as part of the Franklin Expedition searching for the Northwest Passage and whose body was found some 30 years later and brought back to Edinburgh for burial (re-interred 7 November 1881) (monument is carved by Stewart McGlashan)
Sir William Allan Jamieson (1839-1916) surgeon and medical author, President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 1908-1910
Lord Francis Jeffrey (1773–1850)
Sir William Campbell Johnston FRSE LLD (1860-1938) advocate and cricketer
Sir Ian Johnston-Gilbert LLD (1891-1974) Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1957-1960
Henry Wright Kerr RSA RSW (1857-1936) artist
Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig (1926-2015)
Baron Kinnear (1833-1917)
Charles Kinnear, architect (1830-1894) of the prolific firm Peddie & Kinnear creators of Cockburn Street, Edinburgh etc.
All four Baron Kinross spanning almost two centuries.
Robert Lee, Lord Lee FRSE (1830-1890), Senator of the College of Justice
Rev Cameron Lees (1835-1913)
James Leslie (engineer) FRSE (1801-1889)
John Lessels (1808-1883) City architect
David Lind (1797-1856), builder of the Scott Monument
Dr William Lauder Lindsay FRSE FLS (1829-1880) physician and botanist
Prof Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn (1826-1914) public health promoter, forensic science pioneer, plus his son, Henry Harvey Littlejohn (1862-1927) forensic scientist, Edinburgh's first Police Surgeon.
George MacRitchie Low FRSE FFA (1849-1922), President of the Faculty of Actuaries
Charles McBride (1851-1903) sculptor (bronze head by Henry Snell Gamley)
James Marshall McLaren (1875-1910) a marvellous bronze figure by Sir George Frampton on north wall of north extension
Ellen MacDonald (d.1890) bronze bas-relief by Charles McBride on north wall of north extension
James MacDonald FRSE (1852-1913) agricultatalist and author
Sir Hector MacDonald, (d.1903), Major General, "The Fighting Mac" (bronze by William Birnie Rhind)
John McEwan (1832-1875) part of the famous brewing family
Very Rev Alexander Robertson MacEwen (1851-1916)
George Lewis MacFarlane, Lord Ormidale (1854-1941) law lord
Dr John Lisle Hall MacFarlane (1851–1874), physician and Scotland rugby international (medallion by Sir John Steell)
David MacGibbon (1831-1902) architect and architectural historian, partner in MacGibbon and Ross
Alexander Morrice MacKay, Lord MacKay (1875-1955) law lord
Andrew Douglas Maclagan FRSE (1817-1900), physician and toxicologist
David Maclagan FRSE (1785-1865) military surgeon, surgeon to Queen Victoria in Scotland
Very Rev Norman MacLeod DD (1838-1911) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1900
Donald Mackenzie (1818–1875), Scottish judge, styled Lord Mackenzie
Sir Daniel Macnee RSA (1806-1882) artist and President of the Royal Scottish Academy
Edward Maitland, Lord Barcaple (1803-1870)
Very Rev Theodore Marshall DD (1846-1939), Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1908
Robert Matheson (architect) (1808-1877)
John Miller (1805-1883) half of the partnership Grainger & Miller, railway and dock engineers
Very Rev James Mitchell DD (1830-1911) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1901
Sir Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baronet (1816-1918) Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1897-1900
Sir James Wellwood Moncrieff, 9th Baronet, Lord Moncrieff (1776-1851)
Alexander Monro (tertius) (1773-1859) physician of the Monro dynasty
James Francis Montgomery (1818-1897) first Dean of St Marys Episcopal Cathedral
William Ambrose Morehead (1805-1863) governor of Madras (gravestone badly damaged, but a huge separate memorial exists)
Thomas Corsan Morton (1859-1928) artist
David Mure, Lord Mure (1810-1891) law lord
Sir John Murray (oceanographer) KCB (d.1914) leader of the Challenger Expedition to discover creatures of the deepest abysses of the sea (the inspiration for Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea")
Walter George Robertson Murray FRSE (1871-1949) chemist
James Nasmyth (1808–1890), inventor of the steam hammer, an impressive monument by John Rhind
Robert Nasmyth FRSE (1792-1870) dentist to Queen Victoria
Patrick Newbigging FRSE PRSSA (1813-1864)
Wilfrid Normand, Baron Normand (1884-1962)
Very Rev James Nicoll Ogilvie DD (1860-1928) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1918.
Walter Oliphant (1867-1933) publisher
Emily Murray Paterson RSW (1855-1934), artist
James Paterson RSA (1854-1932) artist
Sir James Balfour Paul (1846-1931)
Charles Pearson, Lord Pearson (1843-1910) law lord
John More Dick Peddie (1853-1921) architect
Samuel Peploe (1871-1935) artist
Arthur Perigal RSA (1784-1847) artist
Alexander MacTier Pirrie (d.1902) anthropologist
William Henry Playfair (1790–1857), architect
Rev Robert Rainy (1820-1906) and his son Adam Rolland Rainy MP
Charles Rampini (1840-1907) lawyer and historian
Prof Sir John Rankine (advocate) (1846-1922) professor of Scots Law
John Riddell (genealogist) (1785-1862)
John Ritchie (1778-1870) and John Ritchie Findlay (1824-1898) newspaper tycoons
Dr Robert Peel Ritchie FRSE (1835-1902) medical historian
Joseph Robertson (1810-1866), antiquarian
Alexander Ignatius Roche (1861-1921) artist
Prof Henry Darwin Rogers (1808-1866) US-born geologist
A huge red granite obelisk to Alexander Russel, editor of The Scotsman (1814–1870)
Sir James Russell (1846-1918) Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1891-4
Very Rev James Curdie Russell DD VD (1830-1925) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1902
Prof William Russell (physician) (1852-1940) discoverer of Russell bodies
Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd (1791-1852) a huge red granite pyramid on "Lord's Row", designed by the adjacent Playfair
Prof William Rutherford Sanders (1828-1881) pathologist
William Seller FRSE (1798-1869) physician and botanist
Arthur Henry Havens Sinclair FRSE (1868-1962) President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, President of the British Ophthamological Society, Optician to King George V
John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland (1860-1925)
Prof George Gregory Smith (1865-1932)
Robert MacKay Smith FRSE (1802-1888) meteorologist and philanthropist
Dr John W. L. Spence (1870-1930) x-ray pioneer and martyr to radiology
Sir James Steel (1830-1904) Lord Provost of Edinburgh (bust by John Stevenson Rhind)
John Stevens (1798-1868) RSA artist
John James Stevenson (1831-1908) architect
Rev Robert Horne Stevenson DD (1812-1816)
Prof Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart (1837-1900)
Gabriel Surenne FSA (1777-1858) historian
Robert Hepburn Swinton of that Ilk (d.1852)
Francis Darby Syme (1818-1871) trader in China involved in the coolie riots of 1852
John Tait (1787-1856) architect
The Very Rev C W G Taylor CBE DD (d.1950) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1942
Robert Tennent FRSE (1813-1890), pioneer photographer
Prof Allen Thomson FRS FRSE (1809-1884)
Sir Frederick Thomson, 1st Baronet MP (1875-1935) and Sir Douglas Thomson, 2nd Baronet MP (1905-1972) politician father and son
Henry Alexis Thomson (1863-1924) Professor of Surgery
Robert William Thomson (1822-1873) engineer and inventor of the pneumatic tyre
William Thomson, advocate (1865-1909) low relief bronze by Henry Snell Gamley
Thomas Thomson (advocate) (1768-1852)
Sir William Turner (anatomist) (1852-1916)
Dr Charles Edward Underhill FRSE (1856-1917) surgeon (a fine granite Celtic cross by McGlashen)
John Waddell (1828-1888) railway engineer
Sir Norman Walker (1862-1942), dermatologist
Edward Arthur Walton (1860-1922) artist
Thomas Drummond Wanliss (1830-1923) Australian politician
John Watherston (1798-1869) builder in the New Town
Sir Patrick Heron Watson (1831-1907) Crimean War surgeon, Surgeon to the King (Scotland), first President of the Edinburgh Dental Hospital
Sir Renny Watson (1838-1900) engineer
William Watson, Baron Watson (1827-1899) law lord
Joseph Laing Waugh (1868-1928) author (medallion by William Birnie Rhind)
Sir David Wilkie (1882-1938) surgeon and philanthropist
Sir Henry Wellwood-Moncreiff, 10th Baronet (1809-1883)
Rev Andrew Wallace Williamson (1856-1926)
John Wilson (1800-1849) Scottish vocalist (buried in Quebec but has a huge monument on a proment corner as a memorial)
Prof John Wilson (1785-1854) author under the name of "Christopher North"
Admiral Thomas Wilson (1811-1894)
Robert Younger (1820-1901) brewer, creator of Younger's Tartan Special
Alexander Hugh Freeland Balfour (1856-1927) pioneer of gynaecology
Sir George Andreas Berry MP (1853-1940) world leading eye surgeon
Benjamin Hall Blyth (1849-1917) civil engineer
Alexander Crum Brown (1838-1922) chemist
Memorial to George Brown (Canadian politician) (1819-1880) plus the grave of Anne Nelson, his wife (1823-1906)
Duncan Cameron, (1825–1901), owner of The Oban Times newspaper and inventor of The "Waverley" nib pen and his daughter, Mary Cameron (painter) (1865-1921)
Robert Carfrae (1820-1900) antiquarian
Thomas Clouston (1840-1915) psychiatrist
Sir Philip James Hamilton-Grierson LLD (1851-1927), author
Francis Brodie Imlach (1819-1891) pioneer of dentistry and anaesthesia
William MacKenzie, Lord Kyllachy (1842-1918)
Rev Angus Makellar (d.1859) Moderator of the Church of Scotland for 1840
Sir William Muir (1819-1905) Scottish Orientalist
Joseph Noel Paton (1821-1901) artist
Victor Noel-Paton, Baron Ferrier (1900-1992)
Sir John Skelton (1831-1897) and his wife Dame Jane Adair Skelton (1847-1925)
Dr Alexander Wood (1817-1884) inventor of the hypodermic syringe
Andrew Anderson, Lord Anderson (18621–936) Senator of the College of Justice
Sir William MacDonald Baird FRSE (1881–1946), Lord Dean of Guild
Tablet to Elizabeth Dunlop Barclay by Henry Snell Gamley (1923)
Herrick Bunney CVO (1915–1997) organist
Memorial to brothers, John and George Campbell, both killed on the first day of the Battle of Arras, 9 April 1917
Memorial to Prof Colin Clipson (1934-2000) (died in Michigan)
Andrew Constable, Lord Constable (1865-1928)
William Skeoch Cumming (1864-1929) artist
Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar (1860-1917)
Charles Scott Dickson, Lord Dickson (1850-1922)
Sir James Raffan Fiddes CBE (1919-1997)
Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet (1866-1930) newspaper magnate
Sir Alexander MacPherson Fletcher (1929-1989) MP 1973 to 1987
Very Rev James Rae Forgan (1876-1966) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1940
Margaret Neill Fraser (1880-1915) lady golfer and heroine of the First World War memorialised on grave of Patrick Neill Fraser FRSE (buried in Serbia where she died)
Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866-1960)
Rev Andrew Harper DD (1844-1936)
Lady Caroline and Lord Walter James Hore, Baron Ruthven of Gowrie (1838-1921)
Ernest Auldjo Jamieson (1880-1937) architect
George Auldjo Jamieson (1827-1900) accountant and company director
David Smiles Jerdan FRSE (1871-1951) businessman and horticulturalist
Sir Alexander McPherson Johnston, Lord Dunpark (1915-1991)
Christopher Nicholson Johnston, Lord Sands (1857-1934) law lord and politician
Stewart Kaye (1886-1952) architect
Sir George Macdonald (1862-1940) archaeologist
Malcolm McIntosh (1922-2000) architect
Sir Alexander MacPherson Fletcher MP (1929-1989)
Alexander Munro MacRobert (1873-1930) MP and Lord Advocate
Sir Colin George MacRae (1844-1925)
Oswald Milligan MC DD (1879-1940) author of church histories
Thomas Brash Morison (1868-1945) Senator of the College of Justice
Sir Robert Muir FRS (1864-1959) pathlogist, and his sister, Anne Davidson Muir RSW (1875-1951) artist
Joseph Shield Nicholson (1850-1927) economist
Ella Pirrie (d.1929) friend and colleague of Florence Nightingale, first head nurse of Belfast City Hospital and first superintendent of the Deaconess Hospital in Edinburgh
Edward Theodore Salvesen, Lord Salvesen (1857-1942) (bronze by Henry Snell Gamley)
Sir David William Scott-Barrett (1922-2003)
Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915-1975) poet and artist
Lewis Spence (1874-1955) journalist, author and poet
Meta Frances Stevenson (1897-2000) at 102 years of age, one the cemetery's oldest occupants
Douglas Strachan HRSA (1875-1950) stained glass window designer
Sir James Howard Warrack (d.1926)
Monument to John George Bartholomew, map-maker (buried in Portugal) on the north wall of the 20th century cemetery extension (sculpted by Pilkington Jackson)
Monument to Robert Dunsmure and his brothers, all of whom died abroad
Monument to the 79th Cameron Highlanders marking their role in the Crimean War at Alma and Sevastapol. The rear of the monument commemorates their part in the Indian Mutiny at Lucknow
Monument to the Edinburgh-born Confederate Colonel Robert A. Smith who died in 1862 at Munfordsville, Kentucky in the American Civil War
Monument to historian John Hill Burton, who is buried at Dalmeny. Monument in Dean is by William Brodie
Monument to John Wilson (1800–1849), vocalist (buried in Quebec), also subject of a memorial at the foot of Calton Hill
The Cemetery contains the war graves of 39 Commonwealth service personnel, 29 from World War I and 10 from World War II, registered and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The oldest soldier buried is Major-General Sir John Munro Sym KCB (1839- 3 October 1919) aged 80 (this is a normal grave not a CWGC grave). Most of the war graves lie in the independently accessed 20th century section to the north of the main cemetery.
Robert Digby-Jones VC is memorialised on his parent's grave in the north extension.
