List of famous cemeteries

Argentina

• La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires - burial site of Eva Perón, F1 race driver, Juan Manuel Fangio

Australia

• Rookwood Cemetery, (Sydney) - at over 280ha, reputedly the largest burial site in the Southern Hemisphere, first used in 1867.
• Waverly Cemetery (Sydney) - picturesque coastal site, many local historical figures.

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
  • 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
• Saqqara
• 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.
• Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris - resting place of Emile Zola, Edgar Degas, Georges Feydeau, other artists and writers.
• Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris - serves the great artistic quarter of Montparnasse, including the graves of Charles Baudelaire, Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Seberg, Serge Gainsbourg and Man Ray. Pierre Laval and Porfirio Diaz are also buried here.
• Cimetière de Passy, Paris - Claude Debussy, Edouard Manet.
• The Panthéon, Paris - France's most honored, including Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
• Cimetière du Père 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.
• Cimetière 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.
• Cimetière Saint-Vincent, a small cemetery in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris contains the graves of such notables as Arthur Honegger, Marcel Carné, 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

Greece

• Kerameikon - ancient cemetery in Athens

Ireland

• Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

Italy

• Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa Dei Frari
• Catacombs of Rome
• 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

• Panteón de Dolores, 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 César Cui.

Slovenia

• Žale, 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
• Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York, burial site for Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, Malcolm X, Aaliyah and other personalities.
• 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
• Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut
• 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, Los Angeles, 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 French 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.

See also:

• List of Memorials

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