More than 30,000 people are buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery, including many notable people such as: •
Robert Downing Ames (1889–1931), actor •
Fern Andra (1893–1974), actress •
John Moran Bailey (1904–1975), Connecticut politician •
Henry Barnard (1811–1900), Connecticut educator •
James Goodwin Batterson, Connecticut businessman •
Charles E. Billings (1834–1920), engineer, inventor and businessman •
Thomas Church Brownell, founder of
Trinity College •
John R. Buck, U.S. Congressman •
Francis M. Bunce, U.S. Navy rear admiral •
Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley, Connecticut businessman •
Morgan Gardner Bulkeley, Governor of Connecticut and member of the
Baseball Hall of Fame •
Ernest Cady (1842–1908), 45th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut •
George Capewell, Connecticut businessman •
Charles Chapman (1799–1869), U.S. Congressman •
William Closson, artist •
Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909), suffragist, activist, writer •
Elizabeth Jarvis Colt, Connecticut business woman •
Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt revolver •
Helen Curry (1896–1931), stage actress •
Katharine Seymour Day (1870–1964) •
Charles Bancroft Dillingham, Broadway producer •
James Dixon (1814–1873), U.S. Congressman and Senator •
Virginia Dox, frontier educator and popular lecturer •
Johnny Duke or Giulio Gallucci (1924–2006), professional boxer and coach •
Edward Miner Gallaudet, teacher •
Sophia Fowler Gallaudet, teacher •
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, educator of the deaf •
William James Glackens (1870–1938), artist •
Annie Warburton Goodrich, nurse, first dean of
Yale University School of Nursing •
Charles Keeney Hamilton, aviator •
Joseph Roswell Hawley, Governor of Connecticut •
Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003), actress •
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1878–1951), women's rights legal activist •
Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822–1907), women's rights legal activist •
Richard D. Hubbard (1818–1884), U.S. Congressman and 48th Governor of Connecticut •
Richard Jarvis (1829–1903), president of Colt Firearms •
Marshall Jewell (1825–1883), Connecticut businessman. •
Mary Goodrich Jenson, aircraft pilot •
John James McCook (1843–1927), professor and theologian •
Anne Morgan (1873–1952), philanthropist •
Edwin Denison Morgan (1811–1883), United States Senator •
Junius Spencer Morgan, financier •
John Pierpont Morgan Sr., financier •
Jane Norton Grew Morgan (1868–1925), socialite and wife of
J.P. Morgan, Jr. •
Benjamin Wistar Morris (1870–1944), architect •
Frederick E. Olmsted (1872–1925), forester •
Peter Davis Oakley (1861–1920), U.S. Representative •
Francis Ashbury Pratt, inventor •
Henry Roberts (1853–1929), Governor of Connecticut from 1905 to 1907 •
Thomas Henry Seymour, Governor of Connecticut •
Nathaniel Shipman (1828–1906), U.S. Circuit Judge •
Virginia Thrall Smith, children's rights legal advocate •
Griffin Alexander Stedman, United States Civil War general of the
Battle of Fort Stedman. The General Stedman monument was sculpted by John M. Moffit. •
Robert Ogden Tyler, Civil War general •
Edward Sims Van Zile (1863–1931), author •
Loren P. Waldo (1802–1881), U.S. Congressman •
Charles Dudley Warner, writer •
Jacob Weidenmann (1829–1893), Switzerland-born landscape architect •
Gideon Welles (1802–1878), Secretary of the Navy under
Abraham Lincoln •
Horace Wells, discoverer of
anesthesia •
Amos Whitney, inventor •
Yung Wing (1828–1912), first Chinese graduate of
Yale University ==Image gallery: Monuments==