List of famous 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 Peron, F1 race
     driver, Juan Manuel Fangio

Austria

   * Zentralfriedhof, Vienna - Famous Austrian singer Wolfgang Ambros wrote
     "Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof" for its centennial in 1974.

Canada

   * Fairview Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia - the RMS Titanic cemetery.
   * Mount Royal and Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemeteries on Mount Royal,
     Montreal, Quebec
   * Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario.

China

   * Ancient Tombs at Longtou Mountain
        o Mausoleum of Princess Zhenxiao
   * Bukit China in Malacca is the largest (25 ha) Chinese cemetery outside
     Mainland China, with graves that date back to the Ming dynasty.
   * Cemetery of Zhaojun, Inner Mongolia
   * Mawangdui at Changsha, Hunan
   * Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, Xi'an
   * Mausoleum of Genghis Khan, Inner Mongolia
   * Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum in Hong Kong - earliest funeral
     architecture in Hong Kong
   * Shisanling at Beijing - the thirteen imperial mausoleums of Ming
     Dynasty
   * Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Nanjing, resting place for Sun Yat-sen
   * Tomb of Marquis Yi near Wuhan in Hubei province - probably best
     preserved funeral architecture of the Warring States Period
   * Tomb at Yinque at Linyi County, Shandong province

Czech Republic

   * Jewish Cemetery, Prague
   * Sedlec ossuary

Denmark

   * Roskilde cathedral, the burial place for most Danish kings and queens

Egypt

   * Great Pyramid of Giza
   * Valley of the Kings

France

   * Catacombs of Paris, millions of remains in caves and tunnels under the
     city of Paris.
   * Les Invalides, Paris - war heroes including Napoleon.
   * Cimeti¸re de Montmartre, Paris - resting place of Emile Zola, Edgar
     Degas, Georges Feydeau, other artists and writers.
   * Cimetiere de Montparnasse, Paris - serves the great artistic quarter of
     Montparnasse, including the graves of Charles Baudelaire, Eug¸ne
     Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean Paul Sartre, Jean Seberg, Serge
     Gainsbourg and Man Ray.Pierre Laval and Porfirio Diaz are also buried
     here.
   * Cimeti¸re de Passy, Paris - Claude Debussy, Edouard Manet.
   * The Panthˇon, Paris - France's most honored, including Voltaire,
     Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
   * Cimeti¸re du P¸re Lachaise, Paris - resting place of artists, writers
     (including Oscar Wilde), and Jim Morrison. Many French Holocaust
     victims are buried there.
   * Saint Denis Basilica, Paris - burial site for French Royalty.
   * Cimeti¸re de Saint-Ouen, Paris - where Joan of Arc was led for the
     public renunciation of her sins. Some of those buried here are the
     painters Suzanne Valadon, Jules Pascin, and tennis star, Suzanne
     Lenglen.
   * Cimeti¸re Saint-Vincent, a small cemetery in the Montmartre Quarter of
     Paris contains the graves of such notables as Arthur Honegger, Marcel
     Carnˇ, Maurice Utrillo and others.
   * Saint Remi Basilica, Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France
   * World War II Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Collville-sur-Mer
     - honors American soldiers who died during operations in Europe during
     World War II

Ireland

   * Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

Italy

   * Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa Dei Frari
   * English Cemetery of Florence
   * Mausoleum of Theodoric
   * Protestant Cemetery, Rome resting place for Percy Bysshe Shelley, John
     Keats
   * San Michele, Venice, resting place for Ezra Pound.

Israel

   * Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem - in almost continual use from First
     Temple times until today. Oskar Schindler is buried here.

Mexico

   * Panteon de D--lores, Mexico City

Poland

   * Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw - Among those interred here are film director
     Krzysztof Kieslowski and Nobel Prize winning author Wladyslaw Reymont.

Romania

   * Cimitirul Bellu, Bucharest

Russia

   * Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow - many famous Russians and citizens of the
     former Soviet Union buried here including Nikita Khrushchev, the writer
     Anton Chekhov, and composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich.
   * Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg,
     Russia. Among those interred here is author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and
     composers Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Cˇsar Cui.

Slovenia

   * ?ale, Ljubljana

Sweden

   * Riddarholmskyrkan, Stockholm

Ukraine

   * Lychakivskiy Cemetery, Lviv - Among those interred here are poet Ivan
     Franko.

United Kingdom

   * Bunhill Fields, London, England - nonconformist resting place of
     William Blake, Daniel Defoe.
   * Ford Park Cemetery, Plymouth, England
   * Golders Green Crematorium, Golders Green, London, England
   * Highgate Cemetery, London - the tomb of Karl Marx, topped with a huge
     bronze bust, is here; Highgate is notable for its "Egyptian catacombs",
     where John Galsworthy, George Eliot, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti were
     buried.
   * 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 Botolph Aldersgate, London
   * St Margarets, London
   * St Paul's Cathedral, London
   * Victoria Gate, Hyde Park
   * Westminster Abbey, London

United States of America

   * Arlington National Cemetery - military cemetery established during the
     American Civil War on the grounds of Robert E. Lee's home, near
     Washington, D.C..
   * Bonaventure Cemetery of Savannah, Georgia, made famous by the Bird Girl
     scultpture featured on the cover of the book, and in the movie of
     Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
   * Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles, California
   * Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
   * Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery, Los Angeles, California -
     resting place for Liberace, Lucille Ball, and Buster Keaton
   * Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California - satirized in
     Evelyn Waugh's novel, The Loved One.
   * Gettysburg National Cemetery, in Pennsylvania, at the dedication of
     which in November, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous
     Gettysburg Address.
   * Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York - Samuel Morse, William March
     "Boss" Tweed, F.A.O. Schwarz and Jean-Michel Basquiat are among the
     burials here
   * Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Culver City, California - Al Jolson,
     Jack Benny and Milton Berle are buried here
   * Hollywood Forever Memorial Park Cemetery, Hollywood, California -
     burial place of Mel Blanc, Rudolph Valentino, Bugsy Siegel, John
     Huston, Jayne Mansfield, and the Chandler family of Los Angeles Times
     fame.
   * Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California - Bing Crosby, Lawrence
     Welk,Sharon Tate, Bela Lugosi are among the Holy Cross residents
   * Home of Peace Cemetery, East Los Angeles, California- two of the Three
     Stooges were interred here
   * Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California
   * Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York
   * Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts - bird, plant, and tree
     sanctuary, featured in the first version of the film, The Thomas Crown
     Affair.
   * Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Arkansas - known as 'Westminster
     Abbey of Arkansas'
   * Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery, Hollywood Hills, California
   * Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Chatsworth, California
   * Park Cemetery, Fairmount, Indiana - burial place of James Dean
   * Punchbowl, Honolulu - military cemetery of the Pacific, in the
     Punchbowl Crater of an extinct volcano known as Puowaina, Hawaiian for
     "Hill of Sacrifice."
   * San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, California
   * St. Louis Cemetery #1,#2,#3, New Orleans - burial place of Marie
     Laveau, Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, and many notable pirates and
     politicians. Because the city is below sea level, graves in New Orleans
     cemeteries are above ground.
   * Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown, New York - scene of Washington
     Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane.
   * Spring Hill Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee
   * Trinity Churchyard, New York, New York
   * Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, North Hollywood, California
   * Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Westwood, California - Marilyn
     Monroe, Frank Zappa, and Billy Wilder are buried here
   * Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, New York - Duke Ellington, Herman
     Melville, and Joseph Pulitzer are among those buried at this Woodlawn
   * Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica, California
   * Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee

Vietnam

   * Maidich National Cemetery - cemetery established after France's
     occupation ended in 1954 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.