Notable Memorials – Golders Green Crematorium

Notable Memorials

Over its long existence, Golders Green Crematorium has been chosen by many famous and notable people, as a place for their ashes to be scattered or kept and for memorials to be placed and visited. These include politicians, members of the aristocracy, artists, musicians, writers and actors. We’re very proud that to this day, many visitors enjoy coming to see the myriad of memorials that we have here.

For full list of notable memorials at Golders Green, click here »

Larry Adler (1914 - 2001)
- American harmonica player and film composer

Sir Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995)
- English Novelist, Poet, Critic, Teacher

Marc Bolan (1947 - 1977)
- English singer, songwriter, musician, frontman of T.Rex

Bernard Bresslaw (1934 - 1993)
- British actor and comedian

Lord George Alfred Brown (1914 - 1985)
- British Labour Party politician

HH Raj Rajendra The Maharajah of Cooch-Bahar (1882 - 1913)
- Maharaja of Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India

Bud Flanagan (1896 - 1968)
- British music hall, vaudeville entertainer, comedian, television and film actor

Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
- Austrian neurologist, now known as the father of psychoanalysis

Joyce Grenfell (1910 - 1979)
- English diseuse, singer, actress and writer

Sir William Huggins (1824 - 1910)
- English Astronomer, best know for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy

Sid James (1913 - 1976)
- South African–British actor and comedian

Keith Moon (1946 - 1978)
- Drummer with English rock band The Who

Ivor Novello (1893 - 1951)
- Welsh actor, dramatist, singer and composer

Anna Pavlova (1881 - 1931)
- Russian Prima Ballerina

Ronnie Scott (1927 - 1996)
- British jazz tenor saxophonist and co founder Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, Soho, London

Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980)
- Actor and Comedian

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Playwright and political activist

Bram Stoker (1847 - 1912)
- Irish author best known for writing the gothic novel, Dracula.

John Swinburne-Hanham ( - 1905)
- Secretary of the Cremation Society in 1888