# 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, Serbian-American electrical engineer, physicist and inventor
* 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