There are many well known and significant Australians buried at Rookwood Necropolis. Some include:
- James Calvert, a member of explorer Ludvig Leichhardt’s first expedition into the interior
- John Thomas Lang, poremier of NSW during the 20s and 30s
- John Gowing, co-founder of Gowings store
- Kenneth Slessor, poet
- James Toohey, brewer
- Jimmy Governor, outlaw
- Peter Dodds McCormick, songwriter
- Louisa Lawson, suffragette, newspaper proprietor and mother of poet Henry Lawson
- Lilian Fowler, Australia’s first female mayor
- Bea Miles, well-known Sydney eccentric
- Jack Lang, former Premier of New South Wales
- Joseph Cahill, former Premier of New South Wales
- David Jones, founder of David Jones stores
- John Fairfax, newspaper proprietor
- Abe Saffron, well-known Sydney “underworld figure”