Partial Lists of Famous "Commoners" With Extraordinary Accomplishments Buried in Westminster Abbey
The following are buried in the Nave (Scientist's corner, #3 in map below):
- Alphonso, Earl of Chester (heart buried in Blackfriars, London)
- Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
- John André
- Francis Atterbury
- Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee
- Sir Charles Barry
- Ernest Bevin
- Andrew Bonar Law
- Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts
- Neville Chamberlain
- Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
- Charles Cornewall
- Charles Darwin
- Joost de Blank
- Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon
- George Graham
- Sir John Herschel
- Ben Jonson (buried upright)
- David Livingstone (heart buried in Zambia)
- Charles Lyell
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer
- Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford
- Sir George Gilbert Scott
- Robert Stephenson
- Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox
- George Edmund Street
- J. J. Thomson
- William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
- Thomas Tompion
- The Unknown Warrior
- Beatrice Webb
- Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield
The following are buried in the South Transept which is known as
Poets' Corner (#9 in map below):
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