Buried in the cemetery are aristocrats with blood ties to the Johor Sultanate as well as early Bugis and Arab traders and prominent figures of the Malay Muslim community like Ambo Sooloh, one of the founders of the Malay-language newspaper Utusan Melayu.
The cemetery is also a burial ground for the Aljunied family before their remains were exhumed and reinterred at Masjid Omar Kampong Melaka.
The cemetery houses the grave of Hafeezudin Sirajuddin Moonshi, the first man to open a Muslim-owned clinic in Singapore.
Another Sufi mystic buried in the cemetery is an unspecified Sheikh Ali whose grave has a keramat shrine built over it.
The Makam Diraja Johor Telok Blangah is the royal cemetery containing the mausoleum of Temenggong Abdul Rahman and the graves of his relatives and descendants.
Kubur Boyan is a small cemetery located at Bedok South behind the Lucky Heights residential estate.
It is housed under a hut at the top of Fort Canning Hill, and is open at all times for visitors.
Iskandar Shah is also associated with another name, Sri Tri Buana (also known as Sang Nila Utama), who was the first king of Singapore in the Malay Annals.
[13] In the Malay Annals, it is written that he and his companions sailed to Temasek where they saw an unknown animal while walking around the island, looking for food.
Ultimately, his identity and name are commemorated in Singapore through his keramat in Fort Canning Hill.
The Keramat Bukit Kasita had the reputation of having the burials of Sang Nila Utama's alleged descendants.