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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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
- 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[edit]
- 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[1]
- 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[2]
- Countee Cullen
- Frederick Kingsbury Curtis
D[edit]
- Leopold Damrosch
- Jess Dandy
- Miles Davis[2][3]
- 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[edit]
- Gertrude Ederle, record-setting swimmer
- Gus Edwards, songwriter and vaudevillian
- Duke Ellington[2][4]
- Albert Ellis
F[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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 gamble
- 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[edit]
- The Haffen family of Haffen Brewing Company are buried on 'brewers' row.'[5]
- 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[edit]
J[edit]
K[edit]
L[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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
- 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[edit]
- Thomas Nast, political cartoonist
- LeRoy Neiman, artist
- Harold Nicholas
- Ruth Rowland Nichols
- Hideyo Noguchi
- James W. Nye
O[edit]
- Blanche Oelrichs
- Hermann Oelrichs
- William Butler Ogden
- Chauncey Olcott
- Joe "King" Oliver
- Dave Orr
- Marcus Otterbourg
P[edit]
- Augustus G. Paine Jr.
- Felix Pappalardi
- Dorothy Parker (ashes reburied at Woodlawn in 2020)[6]
- 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[edit]
- Charles Ranhofer
- Norman B. Ream[7][8]
- Theodor Reik
- Gaetano Reina
- Lance Reventlow
- Grantland Rice
- Vincent Richards
- Tex Rickard
- Max Roach[9]
- 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[edit]
- Alexander P. de Seversky, a Russian-American aviation pioneer and inventor
- Louis Sherry, restaurateur, caterer, confectioner and hotelier
- 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[edit]
- Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, artist
- Jōkichi Takamine
- Clarice Taylor
- Ben Teal, theater director[10]
- 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[edit]
V[edit]
- Abraham Van Buren
- Robert Anderson Van Wyck, first Mayor of Greater New York City
- Virginia Fair Vanderbilt
W[edit]
- Madam C. J. Walker
- Arthur Mellen Wellington
- William Collins Whitney
- Bert Williams
- Lottie Williams
- Ann Woodward
- Frank Winfield Woolworth
- James Hood Wright
- Cootie Williams
References[edit]
- ^ https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/jazz-legend-ornette-coleman-remembered-by-fellow-musicians-at-funeral-6612937/
- ^ 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.
- ^ https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/jazz-fans-devoted-to-the-end-cemetery-opens-up-burial-plots-in-jazz-corner-1.1907306
- ^ https://www.npr.org/2015/07/02/418845099/jazz-lives-at-duke-ellingtons-resting-place
- ^ "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.
- ^ https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2007/08/20/Jazz-great-Roach-to-be-buried-in-the-Bronx/26351187629522/
- ^ "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.
