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Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
George Eliot
English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819–1880)
Douglas Adams
British science fiction writer and humorist (1952–2001)
Herbert Spencer
English philosopher and political theorist (1820–1903)
George Michael
George Michael was an English singer-songwriter and record producer. Regarded as a pop culture icon, he is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. Michael was known as a creative force in songwriting, vocal performance, and visual presentation. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023. The Radio Academy named him the most played artist on British radio during the period 1984–2004.
Bob Hoskins
English actor (1942–2014)
Eric Hobsbawm
British academic historian and Marxist historiographer (1917–2012)
Alexander Litvinenko
ex-KGB agent and FSB lieutenant-colonel (1962-2006)
Christina Rossetti
English poet (1830–1894)
Jean Simmons
British-American actress (1929–2010)
Ian Holm
British actor (1931–2020)
Lucian Freud
British painter and engraver (1922-2011)
William Kingdon Clifford
English mathematician and philosopher
Ralph Richardson
British actor (1902–1983)
Mary Douglas
British anthropologist (1921–2007)
Vladimir Bukovsky
Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union
Stuart Hall
Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist
Henry Gray
British anatomist (1827–1861)
Alan Sillitoe
British writer
Eleanor Marx
English-born activist and daughter of Karl Marx (1855–1898)
Edward Blyth
English zoologist and pharmacist (1810–1873)
Peter Shaffer
English playwright and screenwriter (1926-2016)
Jacob Bronowski
Polish-born British mathematician (1908–1974)
Storm Thorgerson
English graphic designer (1944-2013)
Charles Spearman
English psychologist (1863-1945)
Highgate Cemetery
place of burial in north London, England, UK
Beryl Bainbridge
English writer (1932–2010)
Radclyffe Hall
British poet and author (1880–1943)
Malcolm McLaren
English artist, performer and fashion designer (1946–2010)
David Edward Hughes
Welsh-American scientist and musician (1831–1900)
Ernestine Rose
American feminist activist (1810–1892)
William Smith
English lexicographer (1813–1893)
David Storey
British writer (1933–2017)
Sidney Nolan
Australian artist (1917–1992)
Elizabeth Siddal
Pre-Raphaelite model, artist, and poet (1829-1862)
George Henry Lewes
British philosopher (1817-1878)
Stella Gibbons
British writer (1902–1989)
William Thomas Blanford
British geologist and naturalist (1832–1905)
Roger Lloyd-Pack
British actor (1944-2014)
Rowland Hill
English educational, social and postal reformer (1795-1879)
Tim Pigott-Smith
English film and television actor and author (1946–2017)
Anna Mahler
Austrian sculptor (1904-1988)
Arthur Waley
British orientalist and sinologist (1889–1966)
Corin Redgrave
British actor (1939–2010)
John Hughlings Jackson
British neurologist (1835–1911)
Bert Jansch
Scottish folk musician (1943–2011)
George Holyoake
British secularist, co-operator, and newspaper editor (1817-1906)
Claudia Jones
Trinidad & Tobago-born black communist and political activist
Robert Edmond Grant
anatomist/zoologist (1793-1874)
Leslie Stephen
English writer and mountaineer (1832–1904)
R. H. Tawney
English philosopher (1880–1962)
Ugo Ehiogu
English association football player (1972-2017)
Francis Legatt Chantrey
English artist (1781-1841)
Andrea Levy
Jamaican-English author
Ralph Miliband
Marxist theorist (1924–1994)
Jonathan Miller
British theatre director (1934-2019)
William Michael Rossetti
Pre-Raphaelite writer and critic (1829-1919)
Robert Liston
Scottish surgeon (1794-1847)
Shura Cherkassky
American classical pianist (1909–1995)