# List of burials at Melbourne General Cemetery

This is a list of notable individuals buried at Melbourne General Cemetery.

## List of burials
### A

* Douglas Alexandra (1922–2000), architect
* Sir Harry Brookes Allen (1854–1926), pathologist

### B

* Mendel Balberyszski (1894–1966), Jewish community leader, historian of the destruction of the Vilna Ghetto in Lithuania.
* Sir Redmond Barry (1813–1880), Acting Chief Justice who sentenced Ned Kelly to hang; instrumental in the foundation of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, the University of Melbourne, and the State Library of Victoria
* Auguste de Bavay (1856–1944), Belgian-born brewer and industrial chemist
* James Beaney (1828–1891), surgeon
* Rivett Bland (1811–1894), colonial administrator and gold miner
* Hugh Brophy (1829–1919), Fenian
* Sir Anthony Brownless (1817–1897), physician, Chancellor of Melbourne University
* Robert O'Hara Burke (1821–1861) explorer (see Burke and Wills expedition)
* William Burnley (1813-1860), politician, early Melbourne pioneer for whom Burnley was named

### C

* Hughie Cairns (1888-1929), jockey, first jockey to win the W.S. Cox Plate and the Melbourne Cup in the same year
* Arthur Calwell (1896–1973), Politician, Leader of the Federal Opposition
* Comte Lionel de Moreton de Chabrillan (1818–1858), first French Consul
* William Champ (1808–1892), Premier of Tasmania
* Janet Clarke (1851–1909), benefactor
* Marcus Clarke (1846–1881), novelist & poet, author of For the Term of His Natural Life
* Sir William Clarke (1831–1897), landowner and philanthropist
* James Coates (1901–1947), confidence trickster, racketeer, underworld figure
* Kelvin Coe (1946–1992), ballet dancer
* Mario Condello (1952–2006), solicitor, underworld figure
* Tom Corrigan (1851–1894), champion Irish jockey, died in a fall at Caulfield
* George Coulthard (1856–1883), sportsman, pioneer of cricket and Australian football

### D

* Derrimut (c1810-1864), Boonwurrung leader in early days of Melbourne
* Louise Dyer (1884–1962), music publisher

### E

* William Henry Ellerker (1837–1891), architect
* George Elmslie (1861–1918), first Labor Premier of Victoria

### F

* John Pascoe Fawkner (1792–1869), one of the founders of Melbourne
* Frederick Federici (1850–1888), opera singer, who created the title role in The Mikado in New York in 1885
* Edmund Finn (1819–1898), journalist, wrote under the nom-de-plume "Garryowen"
* Kathleen Fitzpatrick (1905–1990), historian
* 'Tracker' Forbes (1865-1922), Australian footballer
* James Goodall Francis (1819–1884), Premier of Victoria
* John Freeman, (1822–1900), attempted assassin of Queen Victoria in 1840 under his former name Edward Oxford
* Malcolm Fraser (1930–2015), 22nd Prime Minister of Australia

### G

* Jack Galbally (1910–1990), solicitor, politician
* James Galloway (1828–1860), trade unionist, leader of the Eight Hours' Movement
* S.T. Gill (1818–1880), artist
* Duncan Gillies (1834–1903), Premier of Victoria
* Samuel Gillott (1838–1913), politician, Mayor of Melbourne
* Sir John Gorton (1911–2002), 19th Prime Minister of Australia
* Thomas Grady VC DSM (To más Ó Grádaigh) (1835–1891), Irish Victoria Cross recipient in the Crimean War
* Edward Grayndler (1867–1943), AWU General-Secretary, politician
* Augustus Greeves (1806–1874), politician, Mayor of Melbourne
* Thomas Griffiths (1865–1947), General & Colonial Administrator
* Henry Gritten (1818-1873), English-Australian landscape artist
* Mrs Aeneas Gunn (Jeannie Gunn) (1870–1961), writer, author of We of the Never Never

### H

* Eliza Hall (1847–1916), benefactor, founder of Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
* Greg Ham (1953–2012), musician
* William Hammersley (1826–1886), cricketer, writer, codifier of Australian Rules Football
* Patrick Hannan (1840–1925), discoverer of gold at Kalgoorlie
* Frank Hare (1830–1892), police officer in charge of the Kelly Gang hunt
* Richard Heales (1822–1864), Premier of Victoria
* John Hennings (1835–1898), artist and theatre impresario
* Hermann Herlitz (1834–1920), Lutheran pastor and pioneer
* Robert Hoddle (1794–1881), surveyor, designer of Melbourne
* Henry Hopwood (1813–1869), convict, pioneer, founder of Echuca (Tomb only; body actually buried in Echuca)
* Tom Horan (1854–1916), Test cricketer, wrote on cricket under the nom-de-plume "Felix"
* Anthony Hordern (1788–1869), founder of the department store dynasty
* Sir Charles Hotham (1806–1855), Governor of Victoria

### I

* Sir Isaac Isaacs (1855–1948), the first Australian-born Governor General
* John Iliffe (1846–1914), Dentistry pioneer

### K

* Araluen Kendall (1869–1870), infant daughter of Henry Kendall, commemorated in the poem "Araluen"
* Sir James Kennedy (1882–1954), sportsman and politician
* John King (1838–1872), explorer, sole survivor of Burke and Wills expedition
* Lowe Kong Meng (1830/31-1888), Chinese Australian businessman

### L

* Peter Lalor (1827–1889), leader of the Eureka Stockade
* Walter Lindrum (1898–1960), billiards champion, has a distinctive tombstone in the shape of a billiard table

### M

* John Macadam (1827–1865), scientist and politician, for whom the Macadamia nut was named
* Sir John Henry MacFarland (1851–1935), educator, Chancellor of the University
* Sir John Madden (1844–1918), Chief Justice
* Emily Lydia Mather (1865–1891), victim of Frederick Bailey Deeming
* John Reid McGowan ("Gentleman Jack") (1872–1912), boxing champion
* Evander McIver (1834–1902), architect
* Dame Pattie Menzies (1899–1995), Spouse of Sir Robert Menzies
* Sir Robert Menzies (1894–1978), 12th Prime Minister of Australia
* Billy Midwinter (1851–1890), Test cricketer for both England and Australia
* Sir Norman Mighell (1894–1955), Anzac and Diplomat
* Robert Clark Morgan (1798 – 1864), Captain of the ship that brought the first settlers to South Australia.
* Sam Morris (1855–1931), Test cricketer

### N

* William Nicholson (1816–1865), Premier of Victoria, Mayor, advocate of secret ballot
* Robert Nickle (1786–1855), Army commander

### O

* Mietta O'Donnell (1950–2001), restaurateur, chef and food writer
* Cornelius O'Mahony (1840–1879), Gaelic scholar and Fenian
* Sir John O'Shanassy (1818–1883), Premier of Victoria

### P

* Roy Park (1892–1947), Test cricketer, footballer (Melbourne), soldier, doctor
* John Parnell, (1860–1931), soldier & administrator
* Sir James Patterson (1833–1895), Premier of Victoria
* John Giles Price (1808–1857), Magistrate, murdered by convicts at Williamstown

### R

* William Ramsay (1868–1914), developer and founder of Kiwi Boot Polish
* Richard Read (the Younger) (c.1796-1862), colonial artist
* Moses Rintel (1823–1880), pioneering Rabbi
* Robert Russell (1808–1900), architect, pioneer

### S

* Carty Salmon (1860–1917), politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives
* William Sams (1792–1871), colonial administrator, key figure in the founding of Melbourne
* Jack Saunders (1876–1927), Test cricketer
* James Scullin, ninth Prime Minister of Australia
* Sarah Scullin, Spouse of the Prime Minister of Australia
* Clara Seekamp (1819–1908), actress, teacher, writer, first female editor of an Australian newspaper
* James Service (1823–1899), Premier of Victoria
* Hattie Shepparde (1846 – 1874), actress and opera singer - buried with her mother and infant daughter
* John Singleton (1808–1891), physician, philanthropist, evangelical Christian, social reformer; founder of the Royal Children's Hospital and Melbourne City Mission
* John Thomas Smith (1816–1879), publican, Victorian colonial politician, seven times Lord Mayor of Melbourne, for whom Smith St. was named
* Brettena Smyth (1840–1898), feminist, suffragette, freethinker, family planning advocate
* Sir Arthur Snowden (1829–1918), politician, lawyer, mayor
* Captain Frederick Standish (1824-1883), Police Commissioner, diarist
* Thomas Welton Stanford (1832–1918), businessman, brother of Stanford University founder Leland Stanford
* Peter Steele (1939–2012), poet
* James Stephens (1821–1889), stonemason, Chartist and Eight Hours' campaigner
* Joseph Sternberg, (1852–1898), politician
* Alfred Stirling (1902–1981), diplomat
* Davie Strath (1849–1879), golfer
* Selina Sutherland (1839–1909), health and child welfare worker

### T

* Julian Thomas (1843–1896), journalist, wrote under the nom-de-plume "The Vagabond"
* Sir John Thurston (1836–1897), Fijian colonial administrator
* Thomas Topping (1828–1895), stonemason, Eight Hours' campaign pioneer
* Elizabeth Tripp (1809–1899), educational pioneer
* Gerard Tucker (1885–1974), founder of the Brotherhood of St Laurence

### V

* Julie Vieusseux (1820–1878), educator and artist

### W

* Sir Henry Weedon (1859–1921), Lord Mayor and parliamentarian
* Clarence Whistler (1856–1885), wrestler
* William John Wills (1834–1861), explorer (see Burke and Wills expedition)
* Edward Wilson (1813–1878), journalist
* Ray Wilson (1910–1938), jockey
* John Wroe (1782-1863), religious visionary, founder of the Christian Israelites
* Samuel Wynn (1891–1982), restaurateur, wine merchant

### Y

* Florence Young (1870–1920), actress & singer

### Z

* Traugott Zwar (1876–1947), soldier, writer, surgeon