The following is a list of notable persons interred in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City.
A Charles H. Adams, politician Anthony Allaire Vivian Beaumont Allen Vincent Alo Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark buried with her parents in the family mausoleum. John Murray Anderson Alexander Archipenko Herman Ossian Armour 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 Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield 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 George Frederick Bristow 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 and wife dancing team, movie stars Fermine Baird Catchings, genealogist 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 CruzBrady, Emily (February 25, 2007). "Amid the Gravestones, a Final Love Song" . The New York Times. Countee Cullen Frederick Kingsbury Curtis
D Leopold Damrosch Jess Dandy John H. Davis, American writer 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 Ace Frehley, Kiss guitarist 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, Gilded Age American railroad magnate and financier Jay Gould II, an American real tennis player and a grandson of 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, 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 Sue Harvard, opera singer 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 Casper Holstein. 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
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Samuel Isham
J Milt Jackson Illinois Jacquet Fanny Janauschek Buddy Johnson Bumpy Johnson Ella 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 Big Pun 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 Leonard Kip Rhinelander Grantland Rice Vincent Richards Tex Rickard Max Roach Charles Francis Roe Katherine Bissell Roe 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 (cenotaph only; her body was not recovered after the Titanic sinking) 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"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. 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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