The Clifton Burying Ground is an early colonial cemetery located in Newport, Rhode Island, United States.

It is a Quaker cemetery, and has the graves of four Rhode Island colonial governors.

The Clifton Burying Ground is located in Newport, Rhode Island where Golden Hill Street bends and becomes Thomas Street.

The cemetery is named for Thomas Clifton, who gave the land to the Society of Friends for a burial ground in 1675, though some who are presumably buried here died much earlier than that.

The cemetery has 168 known interments, including four colonial Rhode Island governors: Jeremy Clarke, Walter Clarke, William Wanton and Joseph Wanton.