- Source: List of interments at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
The following is a list of notable persons interred in Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York).
A
Charles H. Adams, politician
Anthony Allaire
Vivian Beaumont Allen
Vincent Alo
Anastasia, Princess of Greece and Denmark buried with her parents in the family mausoleum.
John Murray Anderson
Alexander Archipenko
Herman Ossian Armour
Hugh D. Auchincloss
James C. Auchincloss
B
Benjamin Babbitt
Jules Bache
James Anthony Bailey
Jacob Baiz
Joseph C. Baldwin
Billy Bang
Frances Elizabeth Barrow
Diana Barrymore
Nora Bayes
Charles Becker
Digby Bell
Laura Joyce Bell
Alva Belmont
Oliver Belmont
Irving Berlin, songwriter and musician
Maximilian Berlitz
Samuel Betts
Amelia Bingham
Ausburn Birdsall
Elizabeth Bisland
Cornelius Bliss
Nellie Bly
Coralie Blythe
George Boldt
Robert W. Bonynge
Emma Booth, involved with the Salvation Army
Gail Borden
Bostwick family
Anne Lynch Botta
William V. Brady, Mayor of New York City
Josephine Brandell
Boris Brasol
Herbert Brenon
Benjamin Bristow
Addison Brown
Henry Bruckner, Bronx Borough President
Charles Waldron Buckley
Ralph Bunche, United Nations official and diplomat
Richard Busteed
Benjamin Franklin Butler (1795–1858), lawyer
Charles Butler
C
Hervey C. Calkin
Harry Carey
Charles A. Carleton
Diahann Carroll
Vernon and Irene Castle, well-known husband & wife dancing team, movie stars
Carrie Chapman Catt
Alfred C. Chapin
John Wilbur Chapman, Evangelist, Author, Hymn Writer
Robert Chesebrough, Chemist, discovered petroleum jelly
Joseph Hodges Choate, lawyer, diplomat
Bobby Clark (comedian)
Horace F. Clark
Huguette Clark
William A. Clark
Henry Clews
George M. Cohan – bronze statue in center of Times Square
Ornette Coleman
Barron Collier
Samuel Colman, painter, interior designer, and writer
Ida Conquest
Austin Corbin
Ricardo Cortez
Lotta Crabtree
Charles Nelson Crittenton
William Nelson Cromwell
Celia Cruz
Countee Cullen
Frederick Kingsbury Curtis
D
Leopold Damrosch
Jess Dandy
Miles Davis
Clarence Day
Zachariah Deas
Cornelius H. DeLamater
George W. De Long
Rafael Díez de la Cortina y Olaeta, linguist
Sidney Dillon
E.L. Doctorow
Charles Cleveland Dodge, Brigadier General (youngest), American Civil War
William E. Dodge
Richard Dorson
Elsie Driggs, painter of Precisionism
Paul Du Chaillu
Vernon Duke
Finley Peter Dunne
William C. Durant
E
Gertrude Ederle, record-setting swimmer
Gus Edwards, songwriter and vaudevillian
Duke Ellington
Albert Ellis
F
Benjamin L. Fairchild
David Farragut
Edoardo Ferrari-Fontana
Bud Fisher
Clara Fisher
Rudolph Fisher
Clyde Fitch
Geraldine Fitzgerald
James Montgomery Flagg
Joe Foy, baseball player
Frankie Frisch, baseball player
Antoinette Perry Frueauff
G
Tommy Gagliano, Mobster
Lindley Miller Garrison, US Secretary of War
Francis Patrick Garvan, Director of Bureau of Investigations
John Warne Gates, Gilded Age industrialist and gambler
Charles Sidney Gilpin, stage actor
Thomas F. Gilroy, Mayor of New York City
Ambrosio José Gonzales, Cuban general
Jay Gould, stage actor
Archibald Gracie
Archibald Gracie III, Confederate General
Archibald Gracie IV, Titanic survivor
Charles K. Graham, Union General & Civil Engineer
George Bird Grinnell, anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer.
Lawrence Grossmith, English actor
Simon Guggenheim, U.S. Senator, philanthropist
H
The Haffen family of Haffen Brewing Company are buried on 'brewers' row.'
Oscar Hammerstein Sr.
Lionel Hampton
W. C. Handy
Edward Harkness, philanthropist
Lamon V. Harkness, businessman, stockholder in Standard Oil, yachtsman
William L. Harkness
Charles K. Harris
William Frederick Havemeyer, businessman, Mayor of New York City
William Haviland, actor
Coleman Hawkins
Millicent Hearst
August Heckscher
John Held Jr.
Victor Herbert
Adelaide Herrmann
Alexander Herrmann
Christian Archibald Herter
John D. Hertz, businessman, thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder
Jim Holdsworth, baseball player
Celeste Holm, actress
Richard Hudnut
Charles Evans Hughes, 11th Chief Justice of the United States
Frederick P. Hummel
Harold Hunter, skateboarder
Arabella Huntington – cenotaph as she is buried in California
Collis P. Huntington
Barbara Hutton
Henry Baldwin Hyde
I
Samuel Isham
J
Milt Jackson
Illinois Jacquet
Fanny Janauschek
Bumpy Johnson
Hall Johnson
Augustus D. Juilliard
K
Hermann Jakob Knapp
Felix Knight
Pedro Knight
Fritz Kreisler
L
Fiorello La Guardia
Scott La Rock
Daniel S. Lamont
Walter W. Law
Canada Lee
Henry Lehman
Frank Leslie
J. C. Leyendecker, illustrator
Harold Lockwood
Frank Belknap Long, horror author
Mansfield Lovell, Confederate officer
August Guido Lüchow, restaurateur
George Platt Lynes
M
A. Kingsley Macomber, businessman, Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder
Rowland Macy
Frankie Manning, dancer, instructor, and choreographer
Martha Mansfield
Vito Marcantonio, politician
Dewey Markham
Alfred Erskine Marling
Louis Marx, toy merchant
Bat Masterson, lawman, writer
Victor Maurel
William McAdoo
Josiah Calvin McCracken
Alice Foote MacDougall, restaurateur
Charles McCarron, vaudeville composer
George A. McGuire
Jackie McLean, musician
George McManus, cartoonist
Roi Cooper Megrue, playwright
Marie Mattingly Meloney
Herman Melville, author
Dean Meminger
Mario Merola (1922–1987), lawyer, New York City Councilman, and Bronx County District Attorney
William P. Merrill
Harry F. Millarde (1885–1931), silent film actor and director
Cyrus Miller, lacrosse player
Gilbert Miller
Marilyn Miller
Norma Miller
Florence Mills
John Purroy Mitchel, Mayor of New York City
John Bassett Moore
George L. K. Morris (1905–1975), Cubist artist, writer, and editor
Paul Morton
Robert Moses, government official, planner, builder, and Parks Department Commissioner of New York City
Bernarr McFadden Founder of the Physical Culture Hotel in Dansville, NY, McFadden Publications
N
Thomas Nast, political cartoonist
LeRoy Neiman, artist
Harold Nicholas
Ruth Rowland Nichols
Hideyo Noguchi
James W. Nye
O
Blanche Oelrichs
Hermann Oelrichs
William Butler Ogden
Chauncey Olcott
Joe "King" Oliver
Dave Orr
Marcus Otterbourg
P
Augustus G. Paine Jr.
Felix Pappalardi
Dorothy Parker (ashes reburied at Woodlawn in 2020)
James Cash Penney
Antoinette Perry, actress, director and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing
Alex Pompez, African-American baseball executive
Generoso Pope
George B. Post
Otto Preminger, film director
Samuel I. Prime
Frederick Freeman Proctor, vaudeville impresario
Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper owner and founder of Pulitzer prize
Mihajlo Pupin
Hovsep Pushman (1877–1966), American artist of Armenian background
R
Charles Ranhofer
Norman B. Ream
Theodor Reik
Gaetano Reina
Lance Reventlow
Grantland Rice
Vincent Richards
Tex Rickard
Max Roach
Delmar "Barney" Roos
Margaret Rudkin, Pepperidge Farm founder
Dick Rudolph, major league baseball pitcher, one of 17 who was allowed to continue to throw the spitball after baseball made against the rules in 1920
Damon Runyon
S
Alexander P. de Seversky, a Russian-American aviation pioneer and inventor
Louis Sherry, restaurateur, caterer, confectioner and hotelier
A. Ledyard Smith, archaeologist
Ada "Bricktop" Smith, dancer, jazz singer, vaudevillian and saloon-keeper
Ruth Brown Snyder, murderer
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, early women's rights activist
Joseph Stella, artist
Josef Stránský, Czech conductor, composer, and art collector
Ida Straus
Isidor Straus – owner of Macy's Department Store, Democratic member of the 53rd Congress of the United States, victim of the sinking of the RMS Titanic
William Lafayette Strong, Mayor of New York City
William Matheus Sullivan, prominent New York City lawyer and patron of music
Karl Struss
T
Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, artist
Jōkichi Takamine
Clarice Taylor
Ben Teal, theater director
Jerry Thomas, bartender
Olive Thomas
James Walter Thompson, businessman, advertiser
Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate General
Dan Topping
Henry E. Tremain, Civil War Medal of Honor recipient, author, lawyer
Ada Bampton Tremaine, philanthropist
Cicely Tyson
U
Vladimir Ussachevsky
Gladys Unger
Irwin Untermyer
Samuel Untermyer
V
Abraham Van Buren
Robert Anderson Van Wyck, first Mayor of Greater New York City
Virginia Fair Vanderbilt
W
Madam C. J. Walker
Arthur Mellen Wellington
William Collins Whitney
Bert Williams
Lottie Williams
Ann Woodward
Frank Winfield Woolworth
James Hood Wright
Cootie Williams jazz musician
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- List of interments at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
- Index of New York City-related articles
- Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
- New York Marble Cemetery
- Ruth Snyder
- Coroner of New York City
- Marshall Owen Roberts
- Harlem African Burial Ground
- Royal Hurlburt Weller
- African Burial Ground National Monument
