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
- 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
- Bricktop
- 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 Chapin
- John Wilbur Chapman, Evangelist, Author, Hymn Writer
- Robert Chesebrough
- 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
- Ida Conquest
- Austin Corbin
- Ricardo Cortez
- Lotta Crabtree
- William Nelson Cromwell
- Celia Cruz[1]
- Countee Cullen
- Frederick Kingsbury Curtis
D[]
- Leopold Damrosch
- Jess Dandy
- Miles Davis[1]
- 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[1]
- 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
- Lindley Miller Garrison
- Francis Patrick Garvan
- John Warne Gates
- Charles Sidney Gilpin
- Thomas F. Gilroy, Mayor of New York City
- Ambrosio José Gonzales
- Jay Gould
- 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
H[]
- The Haffen family of Haffen Brewing Company are buried on 'brewers' row.'[2]
- 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
- Harold Hunter, skateboarder
- Arabella Huntington (This memorial is a cenotaph as she is buried in California)
- Collis P. Huntington
- Barbara Hutton
- Henry Baldwin Hyde
J[]
K[]
- Hermann Jakob Knapp
- Felix Knight
- Pedro Knight[1]
- 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[]
- 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
- 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
P[]
- Augustus G. Paine, Jr.
- Felix Pappalardi
- Dorothy Parker (ashes reburied at Woodlawn in 2020)[3]
- 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[4][5]
- 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[]
- Ada "Bricktop" Smith, dancer, jazz singer, vaudevillian and saloon-keeper
- Ruth Brown Snyder
- 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[6]
- Jerry Thomas, bartender
- Olive Thomas
- Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate General
- Dan Topping
- Henry E. Tremain, Civil War Medal of Honor recipient, author, lawyer
- 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
- Ann Woodward
- Frank Winfield Woolworth
- James Hood Wright
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Brady, Emily (February 25, 2007). "Amid the Gravestones, a Final Love Song" Archived 2017-08-22 at the Wayback Machine. The New York Times.
- ^ "The Bronx Was Brewing". CUNY. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
- ^ Shapiro, Laurie Gwen (4 September 2020). "The Improbable Journey of Dorothy Parker's Ashes". The New Yorker. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
- ^ "Norman B. Ream's Funeral". The Wall Street Journal. February 12, 1915. p. 8. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved August 29, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Norman Bruce Ream". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 14, 1915. p. 3. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved August 29, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949" (February 10, 2018). Benjamin Teal, 20 Apr 1917; citing Death, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,322,407.
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