Lists of cemeteries

This is a list of famous cemeteries, mausoleums and other places people are buried, world-wide.

Argentina

La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires - burial site of Eva Perón, Juan Manuel Fangio, and many other Argentine figures
La Chacarita Cemetery (or "National Cementery"), Buenos Aires - burial site of Juan Peron, Carlos Gardel and many other notables.
Flores Cemetery, Buenos Aires

Australia

Rookwood Cemetery, (Sydney) - Proper name 'The Necropolis, Rookwood" at over 2.8 km², reputedly the largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere if not the world, first used in 1867. More than 1,000,000 interments.
Waverley Cemetery, (Sydney) - opened in 1877. Dramatic location on picturesque coastal site, many local historical figures lik writer Henry Lawson. 50,000 allotments.
Karrakatta Cemetery, (Perth) - opened in 1899 north of the Swan River and closest to the Perth city centre. For people buried in Karrakatta Cemetery, see Category Buried in Karrakatta Cemetery.
Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane - Proper name "The Brisbane General Cemetery" the oldest and largest Brisbane cemetery opened in 1875, was originally utilised by the earliest colonists. Resting place of author Steele Rudd.
Island of the dead - Port Arthur, Tasmania - early convict graves, part of the old goal and convict reform settlement.
Fremantle Cemetery, (Perth) - opened 1898 south of the Swan River and city of Perth - see Category:Buried in Fremantle Cemetery
Centennial Park Cemetery, Adelaide - opened in 1936 during South Australia's centenary year.

Austria

Zentralfriedhof, Vienna - Famous Austrian singer Wolfgang Ambros wrote "Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof" for its centennial in 1974.
Kapuzinergruft, Vienna - Final resting place of over 140 members of the House of Habsburg

Brazil

Cemitério do Morumbi, São Paulo - singer Elis Regina, F1 racer Ayrton Senna,actor and comedian Ronald Golias
Cemitério São João Batista, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro. Singer/Actress Carmen Miranda, composer Tom Jobim.

Canada

Province of Nova Scotia

Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax. Burial site for Joseph Howe, Robert Stanfield, Abraham Gesner, amongst others.
Fairview Cemetery, Halifax. Many victims of the RMS Titanic cemetery.
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Halifax

Province of New Brunswick

Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John. Final resting place of several early Canadian statesmen including Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley.

Province of Alberta

Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary. Final resting place of Owen Hart, a Professional wrestler and member of the prestigious Hart wrestling family, Dorothy Joudrie, Archibald Wilder, and Everett Johnson.

Chile

Cementerio General de Chile in Santiago, Chile, is the burial place for all but one of Chile's deceased Presidents including Salvador Allende plus other notables such as singers Víctor Jara and Violeta Parra.
Pet Sematary in Santiago, Chile, is located in the heart of Chile

People's Republic of China

Ancient Tombs at Longtou Mountain
- Mausoleum of Princess Zhenxiao
Cemetery of Zhaojun, Inner Mongolia
Mawangdui at Changsha, Hunan
Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, Xi'an
Mausoleum of Genghis Khan, Inner Mongolia
Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, Beijing
Thirteen Imperial Mausoleums of Ming Dynasty Emperors, Beijing
Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, Nanjing
Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Nanjing
Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng near Wuhan in Hubei province - probably best preserved funeral architecture of the Warring States Period
Tomb at Yinque at Linyi County, Shandong province
Zhao Mausoleum, Jiuzong mountain, Shaanxi province

Hong Kong

Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum - earliest funeral architecture in Hong Kong
Gallant Garden is the cemetery for civil and public servants who died in service
Hong Kong (Happy Valley) Cemetery - The early western cemetery in the early colonial era of Hong Kong
Stanley Military Cemetery - Not only one of the major military cemeteries of Hong Kong, but also one of the last battlefields of Hong Kong Defence, 1941
Sai Wan Military Cemetery - Most of the WWII of Hong Kong and East Asia Stage war deads are buried there

Croatia

Mirogoj Cemetery in Zagreb - the biggest cemetery in Croatia, one of the most beautiful in Europe

Czech Republic

Sedlec ossuary - Kutná Hora
Old Jewish Cemetery - Prague
Olsany Cemetery, Prague - the biggest graveyard in the Czech republic
Vysehrad cemetery, Prague - the Czech Republic's most important cemetery, it is the burial site for Antonín Dvořák, Alfons Mucha and Bedrich Smetana, amongst others.

Denmark

Roskilde Cathedral in the city of Roskilde is the burial place for most Danish kings and queens
Assistens Kirkegård in the Nørrebro section of Copenhagen is the burial site for Danish notables such as Hans Christian Andersen and Niels Bohr as well as for several African-American jazz musicians.

France

Cimetière de Bagneux, Paris - burial place for Jean Vigo, Gribouille, Alfred Jarry and others.
Catacombs of Paris, millions of remains in caves and tunnels under the city of Paris.
Cimetière des Gonards, Versailles, burial place for Edith Wharton, Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte and others.
Grand Jas Cemetery, Cannes - buried here are Lily Pons, Peter Carl Fabergé, Martine Carol and other celebrities
Les Invalides, Paris - war heroes including Napoleon
Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris - resting place of Emile Zola, Edgar Degas, Heinrich Heine, Georges Feydeau, other artists and writers.
Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris - serves the great artistic quarter of Montparnasse, including the graves of Charles Baudelaire, Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Seberg, Serge Gainsbourg and Man Ray. Pierre Laval and Porfirio Diaz are also buried here.
Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery
Cimetière de Pantin in Paris is the burial site of the singer Damia, and the Cancan dancer, known as La Goulue, and other notables.
Cimetière de Passy, Paris - Claude Debussy, Edouard Manet.
The Panthéon, Paris - France's most honored, including Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris - resting place of famous persons such as Colette, Baron Georges Haussmann, Eugène Delacroix, Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Molière, Gertrude Stein, Édith Piaf, Marcel Proust, Gioacchino Rossini and Frédéric Chopin. Many French Holocaust victims are buried there.
Saint Denis Basilica, Paris - burial site for French Royalty.
Cimetière de Saint-Ouen, Paris - where, on 24 May 1430, Joan of Arc was told to recant or face summary execution. Some of those buried here are the painters Suzanne Valadon, Jules Pascin, and tennis star, Suzanne Lenglen.
Cimetière Saint-Vincent, a small cemetery in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris contains the graves of such notables as Arthur Honegger, Marcel Carné, Maurice Utrillo and others.
Saint Remi Basilica, Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France
World War II Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial

Germany

Bavaria (Bayern)

Bayreuth, Bayreuth Friedhof
Munich, Nordfriedhof Burial site of Peter Igelhoff and Paul Troost
Munich, Ostfriedhof. Burial site of Friedrich Hollaender, Rudolf Moshammer and Barbara Valentin.
Munich, Südlichen Friedhof zu München. Burial site of Leo von Klenze and Karl Spitzweg.
Munich, Westfriedhof. Burial site of Alexandra, Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari and Ernst Röhm.
Nuremberg, Johanniskirchhof

Berlin

Berlin - Charlottenburg, Friedhof an der Heerstraße, Burial site of Horst Buchholz, George Grosz, Hilde Hildebrand and Grethe Weiser.
Berlin - Charlottenburg, British War Cemetery, Heerstraße.
Berlin - Kreuzberg, Holy Trinity Cemetery I Burial site of Fanny Hensel Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Rahel Varnhagen, also Holy Trinity Cemetery II Burial site of Martin Gropius, Adolph von Menzel and Theodor Mommsen.
Berlin - Kreuzberg, Jersusalem und Neue Kirche III Burial site of Adelbert von Chamisso and E.T.A. Hoffmann also Jersusalem und Neue Kirche IV Burial site of Rikard Nordraak.
Berlin - Kreuzberg, Luisenstädtischer Friedhof Burial site of Gustav Stresemann.
Berlin - Lichtenberg, Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde. Burial site of Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht.
Berlin - Mitte, Dorotheenstädter Friedhof. Burial site of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Bertolt Brecht, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, John Heartfield and Johannes Rau.
Berlin - Schöneberg, Städtischer Friedhof III. Burial site of Marlene Dietrich and Helmut Newton.
Berlin - Schöneberg, St Matthäus Kirchhof. Burial site of the Brothers Grimm.
Berlin - Weißensee, Weißensee Cemetery. A large Jewish cemetery which mainly survived Nazism and the DDR.
Berlin - Wilmersdorf, Friedhof Schmargendorf. Burial site of Max Pechstein.
Berlin - Zehlendorf, Städtischer Friedhof Berlin-Zehlendorf. Burial site of Heinrich George.
Berlin - Zehlendorf, St Annen Friedhof, Dahlem Dorf. Burial site of Rudi Dutschke.
Berlin - Zehlendorf, Waldfriedhof Dahlem, Huttenweg. Burial site of Gottfried Benn, Karl Hofer, Bernd Rosemeyer and Werner Sombart.
Berlin - Zehlendorf, Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf, Potsdamer Chaussee. Burial site of Willy Brandt, La Jana, Helmut Käutner, Julius Leber, Hildegard Knef, Erich Mühsam, Ernst Reuter and Renée Sintenis.

Brandenburg

(Berlin), Potsdam-Mittelmark, Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf. Burial site of Rudolf Breitscheid, Lovis Corinth, Jean Kurt Forest, Joachim Gottschalk, Engelbert Humperdinck and Gustav Langenscheidt.

Hungary

See also Category:Cemeteries in Hungary

Indonesia

Imogiri the cemetery founded by Sultan Agung

Iran

Astan-e Quds-e Razavi in Mashhad
Bam cemetery in Bam
Behesht-e Zahra in Tehran - largest Iranian cemetery
Gurestan Bastani, Bushehr (the ancient cemetery, Bushehr)
Maghbarat ol-Shoara (the Poets’ cemetery in Tabriz)
Naqsh-e Rustam (Achaemenid Royal Cemetery)
Shah-Abdol-Azim Cemetery, Rayy, Tehran
Shah Cheragh, Shiraz

Iraq

Wadi-us-Salaam in Najaf - largest Islamic cemetery

Italy

Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze, Florence - resting place of Donatello and many members of the Medici family;
Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze, Florence - resting place of Galileo, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Gioacchino Rossini and many other notables;
'English' Cemetery, Florence - burial site for Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Frances Trollope, Theodore Parker and others;
Porte Sante, Florence - resting place of Carlo Collodi and many others;
Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice - resting place of Titian, Claudio Monteverdi and the heart of Antonio Canova;
Campo di Verano cemetery, Rome - Largest cemetery in rome
Cimitero Monumentale in Milan is a very large cemetery that includes the Famedio (Temple of Fame) where Giuseppe Verdi, Vladimir Horowitz, Alessandro Manzoni, Arturo Toscanini, and others are interred;
Camposanto, Pisa
Catacombs of Rome
St. Peter's Basilica, Rome - resting place of Saint Peter, Pope John XXIII, Pope John Paul II, and many other popes;
Mausoleum of Theodoric
Protestant Cemetery, Rome - resting place of Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats;
San Michele, Venice - Venice's main cemetery and resting place of Ezra Pound, Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Diaghilev;
Cimitero Monumentale di Staglieno, Genoa--famous for its sepulchral sculpture and architecture.

Israel

Mount Herzl, the official cemetery for the leaders of Israel, where many Prime Ministers of Israel and President of Israel are buried. Theodor Herzl, Zeev Jabotinsky, Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin are among those who are buried here.
Mount olives, in Jerusalem - in almost continual use from First Temple times until today. Oskar Schindler and Menachem Begin buried here.
Kinnereth Cemetery, a small cemetery on the Sea of Galilee shore. The poets Rachel and Neomi Shemer are buried here.

Malaysia

Bukit China in Malacca is the largest (250,000 m²) Chinese cemetery outside China, with graves that date back to the Ming dynasty.
Taman Selatan
Tanjung Kupang Memorial
Taiping War Cemetery
Labuan War Cemetery

Netherlands

Westgaarde, Amsterdam
Zorgvlied, Amsterdam
Westerkerk, Amsterdam - Resting place of Rembrandt van Rijn
Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam - Resting place of Joost van den Vondel, Michiel de Ruyter
Nieuwe Kerk, Delft - Resting place of William I of Orange, most members of House of Orange
Oude Kerk, Delft - Resting place of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Maarten Tromp, Johannes Vermeer
Holten Canadian War Cemetery
Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery
Bergen op Zoom Canadian War Cemetery

New Zealand

Northern Cemetery (Dunedin) - final resting place of Thomas Bracken, author of New Zealand's national anthem, God Defend New Zealand.

Poland

Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw – among those interred here are film director Krzysztof Kieślowski and Nobel Prize winning author Władysław Reymont
Rakowice Cemetery, Kraków
Skałka, Kraków – the "National Pantheon"
Wawel Cathedral, Kraków – burial place for Polish kings, bishops of Kraków,poets and national heroes
Central Cemetery, Szczecin - one of the largest cemeteries in Europe
Old Jewish Cemetery, Wrocław. The most famous person buried here is Ferdinand Lassalle, the founder of German Socialist Party.

Russia

Novodevichy Cemetery at the New Maidens' Convent, Moscow - many famous Russians and citizens of the former Soviet Union buried here including Nikita Khrushchev, the writers Nikolai Gogol and Anton Chekhov, and composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich.
Vagankovskoye Cemetery, Moscow, Russia is the burial site for Inga Artamonova, Vladimir Vysotsky, Sergei Yesenin, and others.
Donskoe Cemetery in Moscow is an old necropolis next to the Donskoy Monastery.
Rogozhskoye cemetery in Moscow is the center of Old Believer community in Russia and the world.
Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg, Russia. Among those interred here is author Fyodor Dostoevsky, scientist Mikhail Lomonosov, and composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Persian Shiite Cemetery, St. Petersburg
Peter and Paul Fortress, Petersburg - all Russian Tsars since Peter the Great are buried in the cathedral.
Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery, St Petersburg - burial ground for the victims of the Siege of Leningrad and probably the largest cemetery in the world by the number of people interred.
Novodevichy Cemetery (Saint Petersburg) should be distinguished from the eponymous cemetery in Moscow.
Lenin's Mausoleum

Serbia

Novo Groblje in Belgrade - burial ground of many famous Serbs

Spain

Cementerio de la Almudena - Madrid's largest cemetery
El Escorial - burial place for the monarchs of Spain
Cementerio de San Fernando - Sevilla's cemetery

Sweden

Riddarholmskyrkan, Stockholm
Norra begravningsplatsen, established in 1827 in northern Stockholm, is the burial site for a number of Swedish notables including Alfred Nobel, Ingrid Bergman and Ulrich Salchow.
Skogskyrkogården, a relatively new cemetery opened in 1920 in southern Stockholm, has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Amongst others, the cemetery contains the graves of actress Greta Garbo.
Uppsala Cathedral is the burial site for several Swedish kings and queens from the 16th and 17th century, as well as Carolus Linnaeus and Emanuel Swedenborg. The nearby Old Graveyard houses the grave of Dag Hammarskjöld.

Switzerland

Basel
- Friedhof Hörnli
Berne
- Bremgartenfriedhof: Michail Alexandrowitsch Bakunin.
- Schosshaldenfriedhof: Paul Klee.
- Friedhof Bümpliz (with sculptures by Schang Hutter)
- Jüdischer Friedhof Bern: Max Horkheimer.
Geneva
- Cimetière des Rois
Kilchberg, Zurich: burial site for Thomas Mann, Katia Mann, Erika Mann, Golo Mann, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer)
Morcote
- Cemetery Morcote: burial site for Alexander Moissi (1879-1935), Georges Baklanoff (1882-1938), Georg Kaiser (1878-1945), Eugen d'Albert (1864-1932).
Zurich
- Friedhof Fluntern: burial site for Elias Canetti, Kurt Früh, Therese Giehse, Fritz Hug, James Joyce, Karl Moser, Lavoslav Růžička, Paul Scherrer, Emil Oprecht
- Privatfriedhof Hohe Promenade: Grabstädte Arnold Escher von der Linth.
- Friedhof Manegg: Walter Matthias Diggelmann, Alfred Escher, Friedrich Glauser, Kurt Gloor, Othmar Schoeck.
- Friedhof Nordheim: Albin Zollinger.
- Friedhof Rehalp: Heinrich Federer.
- Friedhof Sihlfeld: Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli, Karl Culmann, Gustav Gull, Rudolf Koller, Johanna Spyri, August Bebel, Henri Dunant, Gottfried Keller.

Ukraine

Lychakivskiy Cemetery, Lviv - The burial site for Polish and Ukrainian notables including writer Maria Konopnicka and the poet, Ivan Franko.

United Kingdom

Abney Park, Stoke Newington, London - Opened in 1840, it is one of London's Magnificent Seven cemeteries and was the first wholly non-denominational cemetery in Europe; architecture by William Hosking, arboretum by Loddiges, design concept by George Collison based partly on the 'New World' principles and designs of Mount Auburn Cemetery. Although open to all, it became particularly noted as the main C19th burial place of English nonconformist ministers, scholars and missionaries as Bunhill Fields became full
Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol - established 1837, first burial 1839
Brompton Cemetery- Opened in 1840, it is one of London's Magnificent Seven cemeteries and is the final resting place for a number of prominent persons including Samuel Cunard, Emmeline Pankhurst, Sir Charles Fremantle amongst others.
Brookwood Cemetery - Brookwood, Woking,Surrey - resting place for over 240,000 people.
Bunhill Fields, London, England - note as the main late C17th, C18th and early C19th burial place of nonconformist ministers, scholars, and literary figures including John Bunyan, William Blake, Isaac Watts and Daniel Defoe
Ford Park Cemetery, Plymouth, England
Golders Green Crematorium, Golders Green, London, England
Highgate Cemetery, London, is notable for its Egyptian Avenue and Lebanon Circle. The tomb of Karl Marx, topped with a huge bronze bust, is here. Highgate is also the final resting place of Douglas Adams, Jacob Bronowski, Charles Cruft, George Eliot, Michael Faraday, William Friese-Greene, Sheila Gish, Radclyffe Hall, Leslie Hutchinson, Sidney Nolan, Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, Elizabeth Siddal, Herbert Spencer, Feliks Topolski and Max Wall.
Kensal Green Cemetery, London, oldest English cemetery of its type still in operation, many elaborate Victorian mausoleums, including those of William Makepeace Thackeray and Anthony Trollope.
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery at Kensal Green in London is the final resting place for a number of notables including Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Sax Rohmer and Krystyna Skarbek.
St Botolph Aldersgate, London
St Margarets, London
St Paul's Cathedral, London
Victoria Gate, Hyde Park
Westminster Abbey, London
Glasgow Necropolis, Glasgow, Scotland - Better known for its elaborate mausolea than celebrated cadavers.

United States of America

Alabama

Arkansas

Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock - known as Westminster Abbey of Arkansas;

California

Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles;
Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles;
Chapel of the Pines Crematory, Los Angeles;
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma is the burial site of William Randolph Hearst and other members of the Hearst family plus prominent citizens from the San Francisco area.
Evergreen Cemetery, Oakland - Final resting place of Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton.
Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City);
Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery, Los Angeles - resting place for Liberace, Buster Keaton, Bette Davis; Lucille Ball was originally interred here, but her remains were relocated to Jamestown, New York in 2002.
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale - satirized in Evelyn Waugh's novel, The Loved One.
Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Los Altos - Final resting place of historian Iris Chang.
Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale - Edna Purviance, Chill Wills, Leo G. Carroll.
Hills of Eternity Cemetery, Colma, burial place of Wyatt Earp;
Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Culver City - Al Jolson, Jack Benny and Milton Berle are buried here.
Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, Los Angeles - burial place of Mel Blanc, Rudolph Valentino, Bugsy Siegel, John Huston and the Chandler family of Los Angeles Times fame. Although she is not buried there, Jayne Mansfield has a cenotaph (a marker for someone who is buried somewhere else).
Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma (suburb of San Francisco) - Joe DiMaggio, California Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, Bank of America founder, A.P. Giannini.
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City - Bing Crosby, Lawrence Welk, Sharon Tate, Bela Lugosi are among the Holy Cross residents.
Home of Peace Cemetery, East Los Angeles - two of the Three Stooges were interred here;
Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood;
Los Angeles National Cemetery, West Los Angeles;
Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles;
Mount Tamalpais Cemetery, San Rafael, California is the burial site of Bessie Barriscale, Howard C. Hickman Ernie Nevers, and Diane Marie Antonia Varsi.
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland - burial place of many historic California people
Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Chatsworth, Los Angeles;
Old City Cemetery (also known as Sacramento Historic Cemetery), Sacramento
Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier - the largest cemetery in the world; resting place of Alvin Ailey, Jr., Haing S. Ngor and others.
San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, Los Angeles;
Stanford Mausoleum, Stanford University - Leland Stanford, Jr., and his parents Leland Stanford and Jane Stanford.
Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, North Hollywood, Los Angeles;
Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Westwood, Los Angeles - Marilyn Monroe, Frank Zappa, Billy Wilder, Natalie Wood;
Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica;

Connecticut

District of Columbia

Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Holy Rood Cemetery, (on the grounds of Georgetown University), Washington, D.C.
Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington D.C.

Florida

Limona Cemetery, Brandon
Geneva Cemetery, Geneva is where Lewis Paine, a/k/a Lewis Thornton Powell, co-conspirator in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, is buried.

Georgia

Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, made famous by the Bird Girl sculpture featured on the cover of the book, and in the movie of, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil;
Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, is where Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind, Maynard H. Jackson (first black mayor of Atlanta), Bobby Jones (famed golfer) are buried. It is also known for its Victorian memorials to the Confederate cause and Confederate dead.
Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, is where Allman Brothers Band guitarist Duane Allman and bassist Berry Oakley are buried.
Westview Cemetery, Atlanta- Largest Cemetery in Southeastern United States. Final resting place of Henry W. Grady, Joel Chandler Harris (Author), Asa Candler (businessman) and Rev.Dr. Corneilus L. Henderson (United Methodist Church Minister/Bishop).
Lincoln Cemetery, Atlanta - Final resting place of Theodore "Tiger" Flowers (first African-American middle-weight boxing champion) and Rev. Hosea L. Williams (civil rights leader who worked with Martin Luther King, Jr.)
South-View Cemetery, Atlanta- Final resting place of Alonzo F. Herndon (Atlanta's first black millionaire), Rev.and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Sr. (mother and father of Martin Luther King, Jr.).
Forest Lawn Cemetery, College Park - Final resting place of Whitman Mayo (actor who played Grady Wilson on the 1970s hit sitcom "Sanford and Son").
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change, Atlanta - Final resting place of civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr.
Morehouse College, Atlanta - Final resting place of Dr. John Hope (President of Atlanta University) and wife, Dr. Benjamin E. Mays (President of Morehouse College and mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr.) and wife Sadie.

Hawai‘i

Hawai‘i State Veterans Cemetery, Kāne‘ohe, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, official state veterans cemetery for those who served in the United States Armed Forces
Honolulu Catholic Cemetery, 839A South King Street, Honolulu. Notable persons interred here include the Roman Catholic bishops of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands, as well as other famous persons such as Congressional delegate Robert Wilcox and Tahitian princess Eugénie Ninito Sumner.
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, official United States Armed Forces cemetery comparable to Arlington National Cemetery, final resting place of Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War and Gulf War dead. Also interred are the former Governors of Hawai‘i, influential American statesmen, Challenger disaster victims, among others.
Royal Masoleum at Mauna‘ala, Nu‘uanu, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, official resting place of the Kamehameha and Kalakaua dynasties who reigned over the Kingdom of Hawai‘i
USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i, official resting place of those killed during the attack on Honolulu on 7 December 1941
Valley of the Temples, Kāne‘ohe, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, home of the Byodo-In Temple and final resting place of Walter F. Dillingham. Former Philippines dictator President Ferdinand E. Marcos was also entombed here for a brief period, and his mausoleum was open to public visitation, until his body was returned to the Philippines where it remains until today on permanent display in a shrine specially built for him in the family's home province of Ilocos Norte.

Illinois

Chicago:
- Bachelor's Grove Cemetery - a small, abandoned and reportedly haunted cemetery.
- Graceland Cemetery - resting place of many members of Chicago's architectural, political, and industrial elite. Marshall Field, Cyrus McCormick, Carter Harrison, Potter Palmer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Louis Sullivan, and Daniel Burnham are a few famous people buried here.
- Mount Carmel Cemetery - the final resting place of several Bishops and Archbishops of Chicago, as well as organized crime figures such as Al Capone. The cemetery is located just west of Chicago in Hillsdale, Illinois.
- Rosehill Cemetery - Julius Rosenwald, Oscar Meyer and others.
- Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago - burial site for Enrico Fermi, Cap Anson, Jesse Owens and other notables.
- Westlawn Cemetery - Jack Ruby, Abe Saperstein.

Burr Oak Cemetery and Restvale Cemetery, Alsip (near Chicago) - are the final resting places for many prominent African-American musicians and other personalities including Muddy Waters, Dinah Washington, Candy Jim Taylor, Ezzard Charles.
Chippiannock Cemetery, Rock Island. Listed on the cemetery National Registry in 1994. Memorials created by significant artists, including Alexander Stirling Calder and Paul De Vigne.
Evergreen Cemetery in Bloomington - resting place of former Vice President of the United States Adlai E. Stevenson I, former U.S. Ambassdor to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson II, and former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Davis, among others.
Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield - resting place of former President of the United States Abraham Lincoln, and members of his family, as well as notable state of Illinois politicians.

Forest Park
- German Waldheim Cemetery - Including several anarchists and socialists, including the Haymarket Martyrs, Emma Goldman, and others.
- Jewish Waldheim Cemetery
- Altenheim Cemetery
- Woodlawn Cemetery
  - Showmen's Rest - circus performers
- Concordia Cemetery
- Virden Cemetery

Maplewood Cemetery Rantoul Holy Sepulchre Rantoul

Indiana

Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis - third largest cemetery in the United States (by area) and burial place of John Dillinger, Charles Fairbanks, Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling, President Benjamin Harrison, James Whitcomb Riley, eleven Indiana Governors and fourteen Indiana Mayors.
Flanner and Buchanan, with 5 locations.
Heady Lane Cemetery, Fishers, Indiana-small cemetery which dates back to the early 1800s and has many members of the Heady family in it.
Park Cemetery, Fairmount - burial place of James Dean.
Beech Grove Cemetery Orange County, Indiana. Very Large, originally a Quaker Cemetery
Hunt Cemetery Orange County, Indiana

Iowa

Linwood Cemetery, Dubuque. One of the main cemeteries for people living in the Dubuque area. Originally it was the cemetery for the city's Protestants, but now it serves people of all faiths. A number of prominent Iowans are buried at the cemetery.
Logan Park Cemetery, Sioux City- burial place of cartoonist, Jay Darling and of notable historical figures.
Mount Calvary Cemetery, Dubuque. This cemetery was originally the main burial location for the German Catholics of Dubuque. It is presently one of the two main Catholic cemeteries in Dubuque.
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Dubuque. This cemetery, along with Mount Calvary Cemetery, is one of two main Catholic cemeteries in Dubuque.
St, Joseph Cemetery, Earling.
Oakdale Cemetery, Davenport. Burial place of jazz legend, Bix Beiderbecke.
Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City. This cemetery is home to the Black Angel, a burial monument surrounded by mystery and superstition.
St, Joseph Cemetery, Earling.

Kansas

Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery, Leavenworth. Founded in 1862. Burial place of Civil War and Indian War veterans, including eight Medal of Honor recipients, and the Fort and town's namesake, Brigadier General Henry Leavenworth.
Sunset Cemetery, Manhattan. The first cemetery in Manhattan, founded in 1860. It is the burial place of the fourth Governor of Kansas Nehemiah Green, Earl Woods, scientist Samuel Wendall Williston, anthropologist Solon Toothaker Kimball, and other local notables, including one Medal of Honor recipient.

Kentucky

Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville - burial place of President Zachary Taylor.
Cave Hilll Cemetery and Arboretum, Louisville - burial place of Colonel Sanders.
Moffitt Cemetery, Milton - a part of the film Some Came Running, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine, was shot on location here.
Lexington Cemetery, Lexington - established 1849. Burial place of Henry Clay, John Hunt Morgan, and John Cabell Breckinridge.

Louisiana

Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans - grandest of the city's cemeteries, it is the burial site of notables such as Al Hirt, P.G.T. Beauregard and others. Because of the high water table (parts of the city are below sea level), graves in New Orleans cemeteries are above ground.
St. Louis Cemetery #1,#2,#3, New Orleans - burial place of Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, and many notable pirates and politicians.

Maryland

Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg
Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, Timonium
Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Silver Spring - Mattie Stepanek,
Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore - final resting place of Samuel Arnold, John Wilkes Booth, Allen Dulles, Johns Hopkins, Benjamin Chew Howard, Joseph E. Johnston, Sidney Lanier, and many other important Marylanders
Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Suitland
Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore - final resting place of Charles Joseph Bonaparte, Frederick William Nicholls Crouch, H. L. Mencken, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Mary Pickersgill, and many other important Marylanders.
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick - Barbara Fritchie, Francis Scott Key
Old Saint Paul's Cemetery, Baltimore - Lewis Armistead, George Atzerodt, Samuel Chase, John Eager Howard, and many other important Marylanders.
United States Naval Academy Cemetery, Annapolis
Saint Mary's Cemetery, Rockville - F Scott Fitzgerald
Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, Baltimore - James McHenry, Edgar Allan Poe, and many other important Marylanders.
U.S. National Cemetery

Massachusetts

Assonet Burying Ground, Assonet - burial site of John M. Deane, Civil War era Medal of Honor recipient.
Copp's Hill, Boston
Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, garden cemetery, founded 1848.
Granary Burying Ground, Boston

Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline, Massachusetts, first resting place of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy (later reinterred at Arlington National Cemetery)

King's Chapel, Boston
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, first garden cemetery, picturesque landscaping; bird, plant, and tree sanctuary, featured in The Thomas Crown Affair (1968).
Salem Street Burying Ground, Medford, founded late 1600s.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord - Henry David Thoreau,
Swampscott Cemetery, Swampscott - Burial site of Anthony M. Pizzi and Lydia T. Pizzi

Michigan

All Saints Cemetery, Waterford
Eden Cemetery, Mason, Michigan
Evergreen Cemetery, Muskegon, Michigan
Guardian Angel Cemetery, Oakland Township
Hawley Cemetery, Mason, Michigan
Holy Cross Cemetery, Detroit
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Southfield
Knapp Cemetery, Northville
Lakeside Cemetery, Muskegon, Michigan
Lakeside Cemetery, Port Huron, Michigan
Leek Cemetery, Mason, Michigan
Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Michigan
Maple Ridge Cemetery, Holt, Michigan
Michigan Memorial Cemetery, Flat Rock, Michigan
Mona View Cemetery, Muskegon Heights, Michigan
Mount Carmel Cemetery, Wyandotte
Mount Elliott Cemetery, Detroit
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Detroit
Norton Cemetery, Norton Shores, Michigan
Oakwood Cemetery, Muskegon, Michigan
Pine Tree Cemetery, Corunna
Restlawn Cemetery, Muskegon, Michigan
Resurrection Cemetery, Clinton Township
Rural Hill Cemetery, Northville
St. Hedwig Cemetery, Dearborn Heights
St. John's Catholic Cemetery, Claybanks Township, Oceana County, Michigan
Thayer Cemetery, Northville
Waterford Cemetery, Northville
White Chapel Cemetery, Troy
William Ganong Cemetery, Westland
Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit
Yerkes Cemetery, Northville

Missouri

Bellefontaine and Calvary Cemeteries, St. Louis, are the final resting place for William Burroughs, Sara Teasdale, Tennessee Williams, Kate Chopin, William Clark and others.

New Hampshire

Merrill Cemetery, Manchester - "Commodore" George Washington Morrison Nutt, promoted by P.T. Barnum.
Pine Grove Cemetery, Manchester - Composer Horace Johnson, Governor Person Colby Cheney
Valley Cemetery, Manchester - 20-acre garden cemetery, founded 1841, final resting place for many New Hampshire congressmen, U.S. Senators, governors and Manchester's mayors.

New Jersey

New York

Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands -- President Chester A. Arthur
Bayside Acacia Cemetery, Bayside, Queens
Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, Queens;
Cemetery of the Gate of Heaven, Hawthorne - Babe Ruth, James Cagney, Anna Held, and others;
Cemetery of the Evergreens, Brooklyn
Cold Springs Cemetery, near Carlisle Gardens, New York
Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn
Salem Fields Cemetery, Brooklyn
Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale - Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, Malcolm X, Aaliyah, and others;
Flushing Cemetery, Queens - Louis Armstrong
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo - Millard Fillmore, Rick James
Forest Park Cemetery, Brunswick -- a famous haunted cemetery
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn - Samuel Morse, William March "Boss" Tweed, F.A.O. Schwarz and Jean-Michel Basquiat are among the burials here;
Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla - Ayn Rand, Tommy Dorsey, Lou Gehrig and other personalities are interred here
Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens
Machpelah Cemetery, Queens - Harry Houdini is interred here.
The Moravian Cemetery in New Dorp on Staten Island is the final resting place for several members of the Vanderbilt family.
Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester - Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Lewis Henry Morgan, John Jacob Bausch and Henry Lomb, Frank E. Gannett, Hiram Sibley, Dr. Hartwell Carver, Myron Holley, George B. Selden, and many more.
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Maspeth, Queens
Oakwood Cemetery, Troy - Samuel Wilson aka Uncle Sam
Saint Anthony's Lutheran Cemetery, Sanborn
Saint Charles Cemetery, Farmingdale - Interred here are Peter J. Brennan, Clarence Williams, Vitas Gerulaitis, and others.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving, Elizabeth Arden, Walter Chrysler, William Rockefeller, Samuel Gompers, Andrew Carnegie, are among notables buried here. Cemetery named by Washington Irving.
Trinity Churchyard, New York City - Astor family members; Blair family members
Witmer Road Cemetery, Niagara Falls, New York
Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx - Duke Ellington, Herman Melville, and Joseph Pulitzer are among those buried at this Woodlawn.

North Carolina

Ohio

Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum, Cincinnati, Ohio - largest non-profit private(second largest overall) cemetery in the United States (725+ acres)
Greenlawn Cemetery, Columbus
Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland - burial site for President James A. Garfield, John D. Rockefeller, Elliot Ness and others.
Woodland Cemetery, Dayton - gravesites of Wilbur and Orville Wright, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Erma Bombeck and others.
Mansfield Catholic Cemetery, Mansfield, Ohio. Famous architect F.F. Schnitzer buried here.

Pennsylvania

Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh (Lawrenceville neighborhood) - Stephen Foster, Josh Gibson, and other notable personalities from the Pittsburgh area.
Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia
Fairview Cemetery, Pen Argyl - burial place of Jayne Mansfield.
Gettysburg National Cemetery, at the dedication of which in November, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address
Greenwood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - August Wilson and other African-American notable personalities from the Pittsburgh area.
Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Squirrel Hill
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, garden cemetery founded 1836.
Mikveh Israel Cemetery, Philadelphia, oldest Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia; founded 1738.
Mount Peace Cemetery [1], Philadelphia, also known as Odd Fellows Cemetery - George Lippard
Resurrection Cemetery, Wescosville--Cemetery for the Diocese of Allentown (Lehigh Valley).
Wildwood Cemetery, Williamsport--one of the largest in the Eastern United States

Rhode Island

North Burial Ground, Providence, Rhode Island, oldest cemetery in Providence, many notable Rhode Islanders are buried here.
Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island, established in 1846 on a 60-acre tract of land bordering the Neck Road and extending easterly to the shore of the Seekonk River.

South Dakota

Black Hills National Cemetery, Sturgis
De Smet Cemetery, De Smet- burial place of members of the family of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Fort Meade National Cemetery, Sturgis
Hot Springs National Cemetery, Hot Springs
Mount Moriah Cemetery, Deadwood- burial place of Wild Bill Hickock, Calamity Jane, and Seth Bullock.
Saint John Cemetery, Beresford- burial place of United States Senator, William J. Bulow.

Tennessee

Nashville & area:

Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville has a "Music Row" where a number of country music personalities are interred, including Lefty Frizzell;
Hendersonville Memory Gardens, Hendersonville - burial site for Johnny Cash, Sheb Wooley, and other country music stars;
Spring Hill Cemetery, Nashville - Roy Acuff, Hank Snow and other country music personalities;
Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Nashville - burial site for a number of country music personalities, including Otis Blackwell, Webb Pierce, and Johnny PayCheck;
Mount Olivet Cemetery (Nashville) - burials include a significant number of politicans and country music stars

Memphis & area:

Graceland, Memphis - burial place of Elvis Presley;
Memorial Park Cemetery, Memphis - burials include Shawn Lane, Sam Phillips and Charlie Rich;

Texas

[2]*Hawley Cemetery, located in Matagorda County - beautifully maintained, contains the burial place of [3]Abel Head "SHANGHAI" Pierce, early Cattleman.

Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery, Dallas - cosmetics tycoon Mary Kay Ash, baseball great Mickey Mantle and Academy Award winning actress Greer Garson, among others.
Meadowlawn Memorial Park, San Antonio, Texas - senior citizens and civil rights activist ZerNona Black
Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Texas - burial place of many prominent Texans and their spouses.

Virginia

Arlington National Cemetery, U.S. military cemetery established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Robert E. Lee's plantation at Arlington House across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. in Arlington.
Hollywood Cemetery, located in Richmond - a large, hilly burial place of two US presidents, the only president of the Confederacy, and many soldiers from the American Civil War.
Alexandria National Cemetery (VA), at the foot of the George Washington Masonic Memorial in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, is a dense and sprawling necropolis dating back to the US Civil War.

Washington

Calvary Cemetery, located in the Ravenna/Bryant neighborhood of Seattle.
Lake View Cemetery, one of Seattle's first cemeteries contains many local dignitaries and celebrities.
The Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery is on land adjacent to the Lake View Cemetery and contains the graves of many who served in the U.S Civil War.

Wisconsin

Shah-i-Zinda(شاه زنده in Persian meaning "The Living King") is one of the world-known necropolises of Central Asia, which is situated in the northeastern part of Samarkand. The Shah-i-Zinda Ensemble includes mausoleums and other ritual buildings of 9-14th and 19th centuries.

Vietnam

Mai Dich National Cemetery - cemetery established after French occupation ended in 1954 in Hanoi as a place of worship for heroes of the people. Those buried here include statesmen, writers, poets, and others who have close ties to Vietnam's current government.
Mạc Đỉnh Chi Cemetery - Located in the heart of former Saigon, Mac Dinh Chi was South Vietnam's most prestigious French colonial cemetery reserved for celebrities, politicians and the upper class. Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu were interred here. In the early 1980s, Vietnam's communist government declared the place a corrupt reminder of the past and dissolved the cemetery by 1983. In accordance to communist laws, bodies in Mac Dinh Chi were exhumed, cremated and given to remaining family members whenever possible. A theme park was built on top of the cemetery to erase all traces of the past. Link http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/02/27/opinion/edjones.php

Bibliography

Kerrigan, Michael (1995). Who Lies Where - a guide to famous graves. London: Fourth Estate. ISBN 1-85702-258-0.
Pearson, Lynn F. (1998). Discovering Famous Graves. Princes Risborough: Shire Publications. ISBN 0-7478-0371-4.

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