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
  • Hazel Nell Dukes, civil rights activist
  • 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

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