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TheDean Cemetery is a historically important Victorian cemetery north of theDean Village, west ofEdinburgh city centre, in Scotland. It lies between Queensferry Road and theWater of Leith, bounded on its east side by Dean Path and on its west by theDean 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, originally known as Edinburgh Western Cemetery,^[1] was laid out byDavid Cousin (an Edinburgh architect who also laid outWarriston Cemetery) in 1846 and was a fashionable burial ground for mainly the middle and upper-classes. The many monuments bear witness toScottish achievement in peace and war, at home and abroad and are a rich source of Edinburgh andVictorian history.

As the cemetery plots were quickly bought up the cemetery was extended on its north side in 1871.^[2] 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.

The separated section north of Ravelston Terrace (previously Edgehill Nursery^[3]) 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 (exceptingJohn Ritchie Findlay (1898) alone for a decade). This section is relatively plain and generally unremarkable, but does include a line of Scottish judges 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 bySir 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,Waller Hugh Paton andStewart McGlashan.

The cemetery stands on the site ofDean House (built 1614), part ofDean Estate which had been purchased in 1609 by SirWilliam Nisbet, who became in 1616Lord Provost of Edinburgh. The Nisbets of Dean held the office of HereditaryPoulterer to the King. The famous herald,Alexander Nisbet, ofNisbet House, nearDuns, Scottish Borders,Berwickshire, is said to have written hisSystems of Heraldry in Dean House. Theestate 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. This lower, hidden section also contains graves.

John Swinton, Lord Swinton died in the house in 1799. SirJohn Stuart Hepburn Forbes was born in Dean House in 1804.^[4]

"N" denotes location in the first northern extension. "LR" denotes location in the Lords Row.

• The 5th Baron Abercromby (1841–1924)
• Lord Adam (1824–1914),Senator of the College of Justice (N)
• Sir James Ormiston Affleck (1840–1922), physician and author (N)
• Sir Stair Agnew (1831–1916)
• Rev David Aitken (1796–1875), church historian
• John Aitken (1793–1833), Scottish journalist and editor (LR)
• Robert Alexander (1840–1923), artist
• Sir Archibald Alison (d. 1867), advocate and historian, plus his son,Sir Archibald Alison (LR)
• Robert Allan (1806–1863), mineralogist
• Sir Robert George Allan (1879–1972), agriculturalist
• Major General William Allan (1832–1918), a general in theCrimean War
• Sir William Allan (1782–1850), artist
• John Anderson (1833–1900), sculpted byDavid Watson Stevenson
• Thomas Anderson (1832–1870), botanist
• Thomas Annandale (1838–1907), medical pioneer and surgeon (N)
• Neil ArnottRoyal Society of London (1788–1874), physician
• Lena Ashwell, Lady Simson (1869–1957), English actress
• ProfWilliam Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–1865), poet
• Henry Bellyse Baildon (1849–1907), poet and author
• DrJohn William Ballantyne (1861–1923), founder of the science of antenatal pathology
• William Francis Beattie (1886–1918), sculptor
• William Hamilton Beattie (1842–1898), architect (including Jenner's and theBalmoral Hotel)
• DrJohn Beddoe (1826–1911), ethnologist
• DrJames Warburton Begbie (1826–1876), physician (N)
• Archibald Bell (1776–1854), author and advocate
• Dr Joseph Bell (1837–1911), lecturer at the medical school of theUniversity of Edinburgh, personal surgeon ofQueen Victoria
• John Bellany (1942–2013), artist
• DrJohn Hughes Bennett (1812–1875), physiologist
• Isabella Bird, married name Bishop (1831–1904), traveller, writer and photographer. First female Fellow of theRoyal Geographical Society (RGS)
• Alexander Black (1797–1858), architect
• Alexander William Black MP (1859–1906)
• Rev. James Black (d. 1948),Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1938 and Chaplain to the King
• Robert Blackburn, Lord Blackburn (1864–1944), Senator of the College of Justice (N)
• John Stuart Blackie (1809–1895)
• John Blackwood (1818–1879), publisher and editor ofBlackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
• Rev DrRobert Blair (1837–1907) (N)
• Thomas Bonnar (father (d. 1873) and son (d. 1896), a back-to-back monument byDavid Watson Stevenson), artists, decorators and designers
• Cunninghame Borthwick, 19thLord Borthwick (1813–1885)
• Sir Thomas Bouch (1822–1880), railway engineer, designer of the originalTay Rail Bridge
• Samuel Bough, artist, (1822–1878) (monument byWilliam Brodie, 1879)
• AdmiralJames Paterson Bower (1806–1889) and his son Major GeneralHamilton St Clair Bower (1858–1940) (N)
• ProfFrancis Darby Boyd (1866–1922), Professor of Clinical Medicine atEdinburgh University
• Mary Syme Boyd (1910–1997), sculptor
• Sir Thomas Jamieson Boyd (1818–1902),Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1877–82^[5] (N)
• Sir Byrom Bramwell (1847–1921), brain surgeon
• Edwin Bramwell (1873–1952), brain surgeon (N)
• Sir John Clerk Brodie (1811–1888), monument byJohn Hutchison (including his sonThomas Dawson Brodie) (LR)
• William Brodie (1815–1881)
• Agnes Henderson Brown (1866–1943), suffragette
• Andrew Betts Brown (1841–1906), engineer and inventor, co-founder of Brown Brothers & Co (N)
• James Buchanan and Jane Buchanan, philanthropists
• John Young Buchanan (1844–1925), oceanographer
• Thomas Stuart Burnett (1853–1888), sculptor
• DrJohn Graham MacDonald Burt (1809–1868), President of theRoyal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
• Samuel Butcher (1850–1910), professor of Greek atEdinburgh University, President of theBritish Academy,Liberal UnionistMP for Cambridge University (N)
• Florence St John Cadell (1877–1966), artist (N)
• Francis Cadell (1883–1937), Scottish colourist, his actress sisterJean Cadell (1884–1967) and great-nephew, comedy actorSimon Cadell (1950–1996), star ofEnemy at the Door andHi-de-Hi!
• ProfFrancis Mitchell Caird (1853–1926), President of theRoyal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1912–14 (N)
• Edward andJames Key Caird,Dundee jute barons and philanthropists
• Major Donald Fraser Callander (1918–1992), soldier
• GeneralSir John Campbell of theEast India Company
• Richard Vary Campbell (1840–1901), legal author (N)
• James Carswell (1832–1897), civil engineer, designer ofQueen Street Station, Glasgow, and the approaches to theForth Rail Bridge (N)
• James CassieRSA (1819–1879), artist (N)
• Sir David Patrick Chalmers (1835–1899), colonial judge (N)
• George Paul Chalmers (1838–1878), artist
• Robert Chambers (1832–1888), publisher of dictionaries and encyclopedia
• ProfJohn Chiene (1843–1923), surgeon
• Henry Martyn Clark (1887–1916), missionary
• Lord Cockburn (1779–1854)
• John Campbell Colquhoun (1803–1870), writer
• George Somervil Carfrae (1854–1934), civil engineer (N)
• DrJohn G. S. Coghill (1834–1899), physician and medical author
• George Combe (1788–1858), lawyer andphrenologist
• Charles Alfred Cooper (1829–1916), editor ofThe Scotsman newspaper
• Sir Joseph Montagu Cotterill (1851–1933), surgeon and cricketer, son ofHenry Cotterill
• Rev George Coventry (1791–1872), (LR)
• Lord Cowan (1798–1878), Senator of the College of Justice (LR)
• Robert Cox (1810–1872), medallion head byWilliam Brodie
• Robert Cox MP (1845–1899)
• Sir James Coxe (1811–1878), psychiatrist,Commissioner in Lunacy for Scotland
• DrKenneth Craik (1914–1945)
• Francis Chalmers Crawford (1851–1908), botanist
• Rev ProfThomas Jackson Crawford (1812–1875), theologian and author
• Robert Croall (1831–1898), coach- and post-master
• ProfJohn Halliday Croom (1847–1923), physician
• Lord Cullen (1859–1931)
• ProfDaniel John Cunningham (1850–1909) with hisDublin-born son,GeneralSir Alan Cunningham (1887–1983)
• Robert James Blair Cunynghame (1841–1903), forensic scientist and physiologist
• Allen Dalzell (1821–1869), pharmacologist
• DrRobert Daun (1785–1871), military surgeon (LR)
• Marcus Dods (1834–1909), theologian
• DrAndrew Halliday Douglas (1819–1908), President of theRoyal 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 DL (1814–1885),Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1859–62
• Sir William Fettes Douglas (1822–1891), PRSA artist
• BishopJohn Dowden (1840–1910),Bishop of Edinburgh
• Thomas Drybrough (1820–1894), brewer
• Finlay Dun (1795–1853), musician and composer
• John Duncan (surgeon) (1839–1899), President of theRoyal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1889–91
• Henry Dunlop of Craigton (1799–1867),Lord Provost of Glasgow 1837 to 1840
• James Dunsmure (1814–1886), President of theRoyal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn (1889–1964), psychiatrist
• Dr James Duncan (1810–1866) and his son,Dr John Duncan (1839–1899)
• James Faed (1821–1911), artist
• RevValentine Faithfull (1820–1894), clergyman and cricketer
• Sir James Falshaw (1810–1889),Lord Provost (N)
• Vice AdmiralCharles Fellowes (1823–1880) (N)
• James Haig Ferguson (1863–1934), President of both theRoyal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and theRoyal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (N)
• Richard Findlay (1943–2017), broadcaster and media magnate
• RevRobert Howie Fisher (1861–1934), minister and author, Chaplain to the King
• Lord Fleming (1877–1944), military hero and judge
• James Simpson Fleming (1828–1899)
• ProfJohn Fleming (1785–1857)
• ProfEdward Forbes (1815–1854), naturalist
• ProfJames David Forbes (1809–1868), inventor of theseismometer
• 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 (1876–1933), x-ray pioneer, victim of his own experiments (N)
• Sir Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser (1848–1919)
• Dr John Fraser (1844–1925), Commissioner of Lunacy in Scotland 1895–1910
• Lord Fraser (1817–1889), jurist
• Patrick Neill Fraser, (d. 1905), botanist (plus a cenotaph to his daughterMargaret Neill Fraser, buried in Serbia during theFirst World War)
• Thomas Richard Fraser (1841–1920), pathologist (N)
• Sir William Fraser (1816–1898)
• Henry Snell Gamley (1865–1928), artist
• George Alexander Gibson (1854–1913), doctor and amateur geologist, Fellow of theRoyal Society of Edinburgh, Chief Physician atEdinburgh Royal Infirmary (N)
• 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 byFrancis John Williamson) plus his wifeMargaret 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 Bt. (1826–1884), educationalist and Principal ofEdinburgh University
• John Peter Grant, MP (1774–1848)
• Sir Ludovic Grant, 11th Baronet of Dalvey (1862–1836)
• Robert Kaye Greville (1794–1866), botanist
• Lord Guthrie (1849–1920), Senator of the College of Justice
• William Guy, (1860–1950), pioneer of modern dentistry
• Daniel Rutherford Haldane (1824–1887)
• James Haliburton (1788–1862), Egyptologist
• James, 9th Baron Belhaven and Stenton (1822–1893), monument including a bronze byPilkington Jackson
• Lord Handyside (1798–1858)
• Joseph James Hargrave (1841–1894) of theHudson's Bay Company (HBC)
• John Harrison (1847–1922), master tailor and author, son ofSir George Harrison, MP
• Sir Lewis John Erroll Hay, 9th Baronet of Park (1866–1923) (N)
• Andrew Fergus Hewat, (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 theRoyal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1914–1917
• Franklin Hudson (1864–1918), American-born osteopath (N)
• Robert Gemmell Hutchison (1855–1936), artist (pair of sculpted heads byJohn Stevenson Rhind)
• Sir Thomas Hutchison (1866–1925),Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1921–1923
• Elsie Inglis (1864–1917), pioneer female doctor and war hero (N)
• Alexander Taylor Innes (1833–1912), lawyer and historian
• John Irving (1822–1848 or 49), lieutenant aboardHMS Terror, part of theFranklin Expedition searching for theNorthwest Passage; his body was found onKing William Island (in modern-dayNunavut,Canada) 30 years later and re-interred at Dean Cemetery, 7 November 1881 (monument is carved byStewart McGlashan)
• Sir William Allan Jamieson (1839–1916), surgeon and medical author, President of theRoyal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 1908–1910
• Francis, Lord Jeffrey (1773–1850) (LR)
• Charles Jenner (1810–1893), founder ofJenners Department Store onPrinces Street
• Lord Johnston (1844–1931),Senator of the College of Justice (N)
• Sir William Campbell Johnston (1860–1938), advocate and cricketer (N)
• Artur Jurand (1914–2000), Polish born geneticist (N)
• Frederick Charles Kennedy (1849–1916), Director of theIrrawaddy Flotilla Company and involved in theThird Anglo-Burmese War (N)
• Helen Kerr (1859–1940), social reformer
• The Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig (1926–2015)
• The 1st Baron Kinnear (1833–1917)
• Charles Kinnear, architect (1830–1894) of the firmPeddie & Kinnear, creators ofCockburn Street, Edinburgh, etc. (N)
• All fourBarons Kinross, spanning almost two centuries (LR)
• John Watson Laidlay (1808–1885), coin collector and orientalist
• William Law (1799–1878),Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1869 to 1872
• Right HonLord Lee (1830–1890), Senator of the College of Justice (N)
• RevCameron Lees (1835–1913)
• James Leslie (1801–1889), engineer, and his son,Alexander Leslie
• John Lessels (1808–1883), City architect (N)
• David Lind (1797–1856), builder of theScott Monument^[6]
• DrWilliam Lauder Lindsay (1829–1880), physician and botanist
• ProfSir 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.
• John Gordon Lorimer (1870–1916),cenotaph
• George MacRitchie Low,FFA (1849–1922), President of theFaculty of Actuaries (N)
• Flora Macaulay (1859–1958), newspaper editor (N)
• Charles McBride (1851–1903), sculptor (bronze head byHenry Snell Gamley) (N)
• John MacGregor McCandlish (1821–1901), first President of theFaculty of Actuaries
• DrJohn McCosh (1801–1881), early photographer (cenotaph) (N)
• Major-GeneralSir Hector MacDonald (d. 1903), "The Fighting Mac" (bronze byWilliam Birnie Rhind) (N)
• Rev ProfPatrick Campbell MacDougall (1806–1867), Professor of Moral Philosophy
• John McEwan (1832–1875), part of the brewing family
• Rev.Alexander Robertson MacEwen (1851–1916)
• Lord Macfadyen (1945–2008), Senator of the College of Justice
• DrJohn Lisle Hall MacFarlane (1851–1874), physician and Scotland rugby international (medallion bySir John Steell)
• David MacGibbon (1831–1902), architect and architectural historian, partner inMacGibbon and Ross (N)
• Archibald Donald Mackenzie (1914–1944), 'Captain Mack', officer of theCameron Highlanders and later of the Brigata Stella Rossa, commemorated annually onLiberation Day in Italy
• Thomas Mackenzie, Lord Mackenzie (1807–1869),Senator of the College of Justice
• RevDugald Mackichan (1851–1932)
• Andrew Douglas Maclagan (1817–1900), physician and toxicologist, and his sonRobert Craig Maclagan
• David Maclagan (1785–1865) military surgeon, surgeon toQueen Victoria in Scotland
• Rev Norman MacleodDD (1838–1911)Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1900 (N)
• Donald Mackenzie (1818–1875), Scottish judge, styled Lord Mackenzie
• RevHugh MacMillan (1833–1903) (N)
• SirDaniel Macnee (1806–1882) artist and President of theRoyal Scottish Academy (N)
• Rev DrJames Calder Macphail (1821–1908) Free Church minister and pioneer photographer (N)
• Robert McVitie (1854–1910) biscuit maker, creator of thedigestive biscuit (N) (cenotaph)
• James Maidment (1793–1879) antiquarian (N)
• David Duncan Main (1856–1934) medical missionary
• Edward Maitland, Lord Barcaple (1803–1870)
• DrRobert Bowes Malcolm (1807–1894) British obstetrician
• Henry Marshall (1775–1851) physician and medical statistician
• RevTheodore Marshall (1846–1939),Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1908 (N)
• Robert Matheson (architect) (1808–1877)
• John Miller (1805–1883) half of the partnership Grainger & Miller, railway and dock engineers
• RevJohn Harry Miller (1869–1940) (N)
• Janet Milne Rae (1844–1933), novelist
• Rev James Mitchell (1830–1911)Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1901
• RevJohn Murray Mitchell (1815–1904) missionary and orientalist (N)
• RevReginald Mitchell-Innes (1848–1930)
• Sir Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baronet (1816–1918)Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1897–1900
• James Moncreiff, 1st Baron Moncreiff (1811-1895) Scottish judge and politician
• Alexander Monro (tertius) (1773–1859) physician of the Monro dynasty (LR)
• James Francis Montgomery (1818–1897) first Dean ofSt Marys Episcopal Cathedral
• Dr Charles Morehead (1807–1882)
• William Ambrose Morehead (1805–1863) governor of Madras
• Thomas Corsan Morton (1859–1928) artist
• Rev Dr William Muir (1787–1869) Scottish divine and theological author.Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1838 (bronze head bySir John Steell)
• James Muirhead (1830–1889) Professor of Civil Law atEdinburgh University
• David Mure, Lord Mure (1810–1891) judge
• SirJohn Murray (oceanographer) (d. 1914) leader of theChallenger Expedition (N)
• Robert Milne Murray (1855–1904) gynaecologist
• James Nasmyth (1808–1890), inventor of thesteam hammer, monument byJohn Rhind (N)
• Robert Nasmyth (1792–1870) dentist toQueen Victoria
• DrThomas Goodall Nasmyth (1855–1937) Medical Officer of Health to Fife, medical author (N)
• Patrick Newbigging (1813–1864)
• Rev Dr Robert Nisbet (1814–1874)
• Wilfrid Normand, Baron Normand (1884–1962) (N)
• Brownlow North (evangelist) (1810–1875)
• RevJames Nicoll Ogilvie (1860–1928)Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1918.
• Emily Murray Paterson (1855–1934), artist
• James Paterson (1854–1932) artist
• SirJames Balfour Paul (1846–1931) (N)
• Charles Pearson, Lord Pearson (1843–1910) judge
• John More Dick Peddie (1853–1921) architect (N)
• Samuel Peploe (1871–1935) artist
• Arthur Perigal (1784–1847) artist
• Alexander Mactier Pirrie (1882–1907) anthropologist (N)
• William Henry Playfair (1790–1857), architect
• Olive Rae (1878–1933), operatic soprano
• RevRobert Rainy (1820–1906) and his sonAdam Rolland Rainy MP
• ProfSir John Rankine (1846–1922) professor of Scots Law and legal author (N)
• Robert Reid (architect) (1774–1856) architect of much of theNew Town
• Robert Carstairs Reid (1845–1894) civil engineer
• John Riddell (genealogist) (1785–1862)
• Rev Dr George Ritchie (1808–1888)Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1870
• John Ritchie (1778–1870) andJohn Ritchie Findlay (1824–1898) newspaper tycoons
• DrRobert Peel Ritchie (1835–1902) medical historian
• Joseph Robertson (1810–1866), antiquarian
• Alexander Ignatius Roche (1861–1921) artist
• ProfHenry Darwin Rogers (1808–1866) US-born geologist
• A red graniteobelisk toAlexander Russel, editor ofThe Scotsman (1814–1870) (N)
• Alexander James Russell (1814–1887) lawyer
• SirJames Russell (1846–1918)Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1891–94
• RevJames Curdie RussellDD (1830–1925)Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1902 (N)
• ProfWilliam Russell (physician) (1852–1940) discoverer ofRussell bodies
• Andrew Rutherfurd, Lord Rutherfurd (1791–1852), designed by the adjacent Playfair
• ProfWilliam Rutherford Sanders (1828–1881) pathologist
• Rev Dr Arcibald Scott (1837–1909) Moderator of the Church of Scotland in 1896
• David Scott (painter) (1807–1849)
• Andrew Edward Scougal (1846–1916) chief inspector of schools
• William Seller (1798–1869) physician and botanist
• Patrick Shaw (legal writer) (1796–1872)
• Charles Shore, 2nd Baron Teignmouth (1796–1885) politician
• Brigadier General Offley Shore (1863–1922)
• SirHenry John Forbes Simson (1872–1932) the obstetrician who delivered QueenElizabeth II andPrincess Margaret (N)
• John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland (1860–1925)
• Basil Skinner (1923–1995) historian and campaigner for architectural conservation
• Robert T. Skinner (1867–1946) historian and teacher
• ProfGeorge Gregory Smith (1865–1932)
• Dr John Smith (1800–1879) President of theRoyal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
• Robert MacKay Smith (1802–1888) meteorologist and philanthropist
• DrJohn W. L. Spence (1870–1930) x-ray pioneer and martyr to radiology
• Sir James Steel (1830–1904)Lord Provost of Edinburgh (bust byJohn Stevenson Rhind) (N)
• David Stevenson (1815–1886), his sonCharles Alexander Stevenson (1855–1950) (N) and grandsonD. Alan Stevenson (1891–1971) (N), lighthouse engineers
• Flora Stevenson (1839–1905) social reformer
• Louisa Stevenson (1835–1908) women's university education, women's suffrage
• James Stevenson (merchant) (1786–1866)Paisley cotton manufacturer
• John James Stevenson (1831–1908) architect, son of above
• RevRobert Horne Stevenson (1812–1816)
• John Stewart of Nateby Hall (1813–1867) naturalist
• Prof SirThomas Grainger Stewart (1837–1900) and his daughterAgnes Grainger Stewart
• William Stewart, Lord Allanbridge (1925–2012)
• James Stirling (1800–1876) railway engineer and his wife, the author Susan Stirling
• William James Stuart (1873–1958) President of theRoyal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1937 to 1939 (N)
• Gabriel Surenne FSA (1777–1858) historian
• Lt GenThomas Robert Swinburne British army officer and artist
• George Swinton (botanist) (1780–1854) Chief Secretary of the Government in India
• Major General SirJohn Munro Sym (1839–1919)
• Francis Darby Syme (1818–1871) trader in China involved in the coolie riots of 1852
• John Tait (1787–1856) architect
• Rev C W G Taylor (d. 1950)Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1942
• Robert Tennent (1813–1890), pioneer photographer and his younger brotherHugh Lyon Tennent (1817–1874) (N)
• D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1947) biologist
• ProfAllen Thomson (1809–1884)
• Rev Dr Andrew Thomson (1814–1901) minister and religious author (N)
• Lt ColFrank Wyville Thomson (1860–1918) public health expert in India
• Sir Frederick Thomson, 1st Baronet MP (1875–1935) andSir 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
• Thomas Thomson (advocate) (1768–1852)
• Prof William Thomson (1802–1852), medical author, professor of medicine at theUniversity of Glasgow
• SirWilliam Turner (anatomist) (1852–1916) and his sonArthur Logan Turner (1865–1939) (N)
• DrCharles Edward Underhill (1856–1917) surgeon
• William Veitch (1794–1885) classical scholar
• Major GeneralJames Conway Victor (1792–1864) military engineer
• 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
• SirPatrick Heron Watson (1831–1907) Crimean War surgeon, Surgeon to the King (Scotland), first President of the Edinburgh Dental Hospital^[7]

• William Watson, Baron Watson (1827–1899) law lord
• Joseph Laing Waugh (1868–1928) author (medallion byWilliam Birnie Rhind)
• Rev DrAlexander Whyte (1836–1921) (N)
• Sir David Wilkie (1882–1938) surgeon and philanthropist
• Sir Henry Wellwood-Moncreiff, 10th Baronet (1809–1883)
• Aeneas Francon Williams (1886–1971) Church of Scotland Minister, Missionary, Chaplain, Writer and Poet, and his wifeClara Anne Rendall, missionary, teacher and artist.
• Rev Andrew Wallace Williamson (1856–1926)
• John Wilson (1800–1849) Scottish vocalist
• ProfJohn Wilson (1785–1854) author under the name of "Christopher North" and his brotherJames Wilson (1795–1856) a zoologist
• DrJenny Wormald (1942–2015) historian
• David Reginald Younger VC (memorial only)

• Alexander Hugh Freeland Barbour (1856–1927) pioneer of gynaecology
• SirGeorge Andreas Berry MP (1853–1940) eye surgeon
• Benjamin Hall Blyth (1849–1917) civil engineer
• Alexander Crum Brown (1838–1922) chemist
• Memorial toGeorge Brown (Canadian politician) (1819–1880) plus the grave of Anne Nelson, his wife (1823–1906)
• Thomas Graham Brown (1882–1965) mountaineer and physiologist
• Duncan Cameron, (1825–1901), owner ofThe Oban Times newspaper and inventor of The "Waverley"nib pen and his daughter,Mary Cameron (painter) (1865–1921)
• Robert Carfrae FSAScot (1820–1900) antiquarian
• Thomas Clouston (1840–1915) psychiatrist
• Francis Brodie Imlach (1819–1891) pioneer of dentistry and anaesthesia
• Rev DrRobert Reid Kalley (1809–1888) missionary
• Dr Peter McBride (1854–1946) physician
• William Mackintosh, Lord Kyllachy (1842–1918) Senator of the College of Justice
• RevAngus Makellar (d. 1859) Moderator of the Church of Scotland for 1840
• SirWilliam Muir (1819–1905) Scottish Orientalist
• Samuel Alexander Pagan (1793–1867) President of theRoyal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 1846 to 1848
• Joseph Noel Paton (1821–1901) artist
• Victor Noel-Paton, Baron Ferrier (1900–1992)
• Sir John Skelton (1831–1897) and his wifeDame Jane Adair Skelton (1847–1925)
• Sir David Wallace (1862–1952) urologist
• Dr Alexander Wood (1817–1884) inventor of the hypodermic syringe

• Andrew Anderson, Lord Anderson (1862–1936) Senator of the College of Justice
• John George Bartholomew map-maker (cenotaph)
• Walter Lorrain Brodie (1884–1918),Victoria Cross recipient (cenotaph)
• 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 John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet (1866–1930) newspaper magnate
• SirAlexander MacPherson Fletcher (1929–1989) MP 1973 to 1987
• John Alexander Ford (1864–1925) artist
• RevJames 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 theFirst World War memorialised on grave of Patrick Neill Fraser (buried inSerbia where she died)
• John George Govan (1861–1927) founder of the Faith Mission
• Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1866–1960)
• RevAndrew Harper (1844–1936)
• John Robertson Henderson (1863–1925) zoologist
• Lady Caroline and Lord Walter James Hore,Baron Ruthven of Gowrie (1838–1921)
• George Hutchison (Unionist MP) (1873–1928)
• John Alexander Inglis (1873–1941) historian and author
• Ernest Auldjo Jamieson (1880–1937) architect
• George Auldjo Jamieson (1827–1900) accountant and company director
• David Smiles Jerdan (1871–1951) businessman and horticulturalist
• Christopher Nicholson Johnston,Lord Sands (1857–1934) judge and politician
• Stewart Kaye (1886–1952) architect
• Joseph Fairweather Lamb (1928–2015) physiologist
• Sir George Macdonald (1862–1940) archaeologist
• SirAlexander MacPherson Fletcher MP (1929–1989)
• Father JohnMaitland Moir (1924–2013) priest
• Alexander Munro MacRobert (1873–1930) MP and Lord Advocate
• SirWalter Mercer (1890–1971) surgeon
• George F. Merson (1866–1959) pharmacist
• Thomas Brash Morison (1868–1945) Senator of the College of Justice
• Sir Robert Muir (1864–1959) pathologist, and his sister,Anne Davidson Muir (1875–1951) artist
• Joseph Shield Nicholson (1850–1927) economist
• Ella Pirrie (1857–1929) friend and colleague ofFlorence Nightingale, first head nurse ofBelfast City Hospital and first superintendent of the Deaconess Hospital in Edinburgh
• Edward Theodore Salvesen, Lord Salvesen (1857–1942) (bronze byHenry Snell Gamley) including the grave of his father-in-law,John Trayner, Lord Trayner
• Sir David William Scott-Barrett (1922–2003)
• Alistair Smart (1922–1992) art historian
• Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915–1975) poet and artist
• Lewis Spence (1874–1955) journalist, author and poet
• Douglas Strachan HRSA (1875–1950) stained glass window designer
• Sir Henry Wade (1876–1955) surgeon
• SirThomas Barnby Whitson (1869–1948)Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1929 to 1932

• Monument toJohn George Bartholomew, map-maker (buried in Portugal) on the north wall of the twentieth-century cemetery extension (sculpted byPilkington Jackson)
• Monument toRobert Dunsmure and his brothers, all of whom died abroad
• Monument to ColLauderdale Maule and the 79thCameron Highlanders marking their role in theCrimean War atAlma andSevastopol. The rear of the monument commemorates their part in the Indian Mutiny atLucknow
• Monument to the Edinburgh-born ConfederateColonel Robert A. Smith who died in 1862 atMunfordsville, Kentucky in theAmerican Civil War
• Monument to historianJohn Hill Burton, who is buried atDalmeny. Monument in Dean is byWilliam Brodie
• Monument toJohn Wilson (1800–1849), vocalist (buried in Quebec), also subject of a memorial at the foot ofCalton Hill
• The Cemetery contains the war graves of 39 Commonwealth service personnel, 29 fromWorld War I and 10 fromWorld War II, registered and maintained by theCommonwealth War Graves Commission.^[1] The oldest soldier buried is Major-General Sir John Munro Sym (1839–1919) aged 80 (this is a normal grave not a CWGC grave).^[8] Most of the war graves lie in the independently accessed twentieth-century section to the north of the main cemetery.
• Robert Digby-JonesVC is memorialised on his parents' grave in the north extension.
• Monument to the orphans dying at the immediately adjacentDean Orphanage

• The Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh edited by A. S. Cowper and Euan S. McIver, Edinburgh, 1992.ISBN 0901061549.

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