• Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841–1924), dominated the English chess scene in late 19th century
• Commander Archibald Walter Buckle (1889–1927), commanded Anson Battalion of the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division in World War I
• Horatio Henry Couldery (1832–1918), one of the best-known Victorian painters of animals
• Jane Clouson (1854–1871), murdered girl with a monument paid for by public donations
• Ernest Dowson (1867–1900), poet and decadent movement artist
• Sir William Eames (1821–1897), marine engineer
• Sir John Gilbert (1817–1897), illustrator, drawing for the Illustrated London News and designed a cover for Punch
• Sir George Grove (1820–1900), first director of the Royal College of Music, 1882, and author of 'Dictionary of Music and Musicians'
• Sir William Hardy (1807–1887), Deputy Keeper of Public Records, 1878–1886
• Lionel de Jersey Harvard, commemoration to "the only Harvard to attend Harvard", died in World War I, buried in France
• George Lacy Hillier (1856–1941), an English racing cyclist and pioneer of British cycling
• David Jones (1895–1974), war poet and artist
• Fernando Tarrida del Mármol (1861–1915), Cuban anarchist writer
• Margaret McMillan (1860–1931), educational reformer
• Sir Alexander Nisbet (1812–1892), Inspector General of the Royal Navy and honorary physician to the Queen
• William Stephens (1817–1871), Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of England
• E. H. Windred (1875–1953), painter of racing pigeons
• Edward Lewis (1864–1922), Actor and Comedian.
• Joe Bowker (1881–1955) English boxer who was Bantamweight champion of the world in 1904 and 1905
• Samuel Tinsley (1847–1903), English chess player
• Mary Ann Bevan (1874–1933), "the ugliest woman in the world"
• Mrs Amelia Winters (1827–1889), poisoner
• Beatrice Offor (1864–1920), British painter

Both cemeteries contain war graves of Commonwealth service personnel registered and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC).

Brockley Cemetery contains 195 war graves, 175 from World War I and 19 from World War II. The majority of the graves lie in a War Plot. On the cemetery's west side, a Screen Wall memorial lists those whose graves could not be marked by headstones.^[1]

Ladywell Cemetery contains 226 war graves from World War I and 18 from World War II. A War Graves plot contains 100 graves, the names of those buried there being listed on a Screen War Memorial in Plot D, as well as those buried elsewhere in the cemetery whose graves could not be marked by headstones. The CWGC also maintain a Commemorative Plot, in Plot B, on which 46 headstones have been erected.^[2]

The Ladywell entrance to the cemetery is Grade II listed.^[3] This notes that the gates were built in 1857 to the designs of William Morphrew, for the Lewisham Burial Board. The gates are made of wrought iron, the piers of stone; square, with set back, sloping tops culminating in saddleback gables. The gates are of florid Gothic design, the monogram of the Lewisham Burial Board in the three lower hubs to each gate, with trefoil and barley sugar decoration above. The name LADYWELL CEMETERY may have been inserted, or is more likely a reworking of the original name LEWISHAM CEMETERY; the style of the lettering, however, is clearly of 1857.

• Brockley Conservation Area. Character Appraisal. Conservation & Urban Design Team. Submitted to the Mayor & Cabinet Meeting on 14 December 2005
• A Guide To The Flora, Fauna and Local History to be found in Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries: Lewisham Council

• Lewisham Cemeteries and crematoriums
• Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries
• North West Kent Family History Society: Ladywell & Brockley Cemetery
• Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries in Lewisham, Greater London at Find a Grave
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Brockley: Cemetery Details
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Ladywell Cemetery Details