The Jewelley Quarter has a number of its most famous citizens actually buried within its Cemeteries and in particular Key Hill.  Whereas the Warstone Lane Cemetery has John Baskerville (best remembered as a printer and typographer) Birimingham's oldest Cemetery " Key Hill " has the following buried within its grounds. :

Joseph Chamberlain 1836 - 1914  Member of Parliament & Mayor of Birmingham ( plot 610.K ) buried with his two wives (Please see photo gallery)  His legacy : He was the driving force behind the foundation of the Birmingham University and was its first Chancellor. The University's clock tower is called the Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower or more commonly 'Old Joe' or 'Big Joe'. He is also commemorated by a memorial in Chamberlain Square in central Birmingham. A large iron clock erected in his honour (1903, during his lifetime) stands in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter His Birmingham home, Highbury Hall, is now a civic conference venue and a venue for civil marriages, and is occasionally open to the public.

• Joseph Chamberlain (senior), father of the politician Joseph Chamberlain (plot 622.K)
• John Henry Chamberlain (plot 701.K)
• Robert William Dale (637.K)
• George Dawson (plot 507.O)
• Joseph Gillott (plot 374-375.E)
• Joseph Hinks
• Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876) (plot 790/I)
• Robert Martineau (d 17 June 1870) (plot 790/I)
• Robert Francis Martineau (d 1909) (plot 790/I)
• Sir Thomas Martineau (1828-1893) (plot 134.K)
• A. Follett Osler (plot 611.K)
• John Skirrow Wright (plot 218.E)
• Edwin Yates
• Alfred Bird (plot 164.H)