•
James Rowland Angell (1869–1949),
President of Yale University •
Kanichi Asakawa (1873–1948), historian •
Jehudi Ashmun (1794–1828), religious leader, and social reformer, agent of the African Colonization Society •
Hezekiah Augur (1791–1858), wood carver, sculptor and inventor •
Henry Austin (1804–1891), architect, designed the gate of the cemetery, Yale's College Library (which became Dwight Hall), and several mansions on Hillhouse Avenue •
Alice Mabel Bacon (1858–1918), women educator (niece of Delia Bacon) •
Delia Bacon (1811–1859), originator of the proposition that Francis Bacon wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare •
Leonard Bacon (1802–1881), clergyman and abolitionist (father of Alice Mabel Bacon and brother of Delia Bacon) •
Charles Montague Bakewell (1867–1957), politician •
Roger Sherman Baldwin (1793–1863),
Governor of Connecticut •
Simeon Baldwin (1761–1851), Mayor of New Haven •
Simeon E. Baldwin (1840–1927),
Governor of Connecticut •
Ida Barney (1886–1982) noted female American astronomer •
Ebenezer Bassett (1833–1908), African-American educator and diplomat; US Ambassador to Haiti •
John Bassett (1652–1714), captain of the
trainband; deputy to the General Court (legislature) of Connecticut Colony •
Lyman Beecher (1775–1863), abolitionist, father of
Harriet Beecher Stowe and
Henry Ward Beecher •
Nathan Beers (1763–1861), paymaster to Connecticut troops in the American Revolution •
Hiram Bingham I (1789–1869), Hawaiian
missionary and clergyman •
James Bishop (d. 1691), Secretary, Lieutenant Governor and Deputy Governor of New Haven Jurisdiction •
Eli Whitney Blake (1795–1886), manufacturer and inventor of the stone crusher. His brother, Philos, invented the corkscrew •
William Whiting Boardman (1794–1871), politician •
Edward Gaylord Bourne (1860–1908), historian and educator. Leader in the American Historical Association. •
Phineas Bradley (1745–1797), soldier. Captain, commander of the artillery defending New Haven, July 5, 1779 •
William H. Brewer (1828–1910), scientist. Helped found the
Yale Forestry School; co-founder, with Samuel William Johnson, also buried here, of the first U.S. Agricultural Experiment Station •
James Brewster (1788–1866), founder of
Brewster & Co.; industrialist and railroad promoter •
Kingman Brewster Jr. (1919–1988), President of Yale University •
William Bristol (1779–1836), Mayor of
New Haven, Connecticut •
Walter Camp (1859–1925), football coach known as the "Father of American Football" •
Leverett Candee (1795–1863), Industrialist. First practical use of Goodyear's vulcanization of rubber •
Arthur E. Case (1894–1946), professor and author •
Jedediah Chapman (d. 1863),
Civil War Union Army Officer killed at the
Battle of Gettysburg •
Thomas Clap (1703–1767), Rector & President of Yale College – buried in the City Burial Ground on the Green, stone later moved here •
Harry Croswell (1778–1848), Crusading political journalist and Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in New Haven •
David Daggett (1764–1851), United States Senator, mayor of New Haven, Connecticut •
Naphtali Daggett (1727–1780), clergyman, President
pro tempore of Yale College •
George Edward Day (1814–1905), Bible revisor •
Jeremiah Day (1773–1867), President of Yale University •
Amos Doolittle (1754–1832), silversmith, engraver of Revolutionary scenes. "The Revere of Connecticut" •
Timothy Dwight IV (1752–1817), President of Yale University •
Timothy Dwight V (1829–1916), President of Yale University •
Amos Beebe Eaton (1806–1877), Civil War Union Army Brigadier General •
Theophilus Eaton (1590–1657), a founder of New Haven, first Governor of New Haven •
Henry W. Edwards (1779–1847), U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Connecticut •
Pierpont Edwards (1750–1826), Delegate to the
Continental Congress •
Jeremiah Evarts (1781–1831), scholar, writer and missionary executive. Editor of the ‘’Panoplist’’ and the ‘’Missionary Herald’’ •
Henry Farnham (1836–1917), prominent New Haven merchant and philanthropist •
George Park Fisher (1827–1902), historian and theologian •
Andrew Hull Foote (1806–1863), naval officer who ended the rum ration in the
United States Navy •
Ann Gerry (1763–1849), wife of
Elbridge Gerry,
Second lady of the United States •
A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938–1989), baseball commissioner, President of
Yale University •
Josiah Willard Gibbs Sr. (1790–1861), professor at Yale Divinity School who first spoke with the mutineers of the
Amistad •
Josiah Willard Gibbs Jr. (1839–1903), scientist, "Father of Thermodynamics" , who formed the 418th Army Air Forces Band at Yale that did concerts, parades and radio broadcasts. This unit was called the [Captain before summer 1944, then Major] Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra from 20 March 1943 to 15 January 1946. •
Chauncey Goodrich (1790–1860), Yale professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Charge •
Elizur Goodrich (1761–1849), mayor of
New Haven, Connecticut •
Charles Goodyear (1800–1860), inventor of
vulcanized rubber •
Alfred Whitney Griswold (1906–1963), President of Yale University •
Arthur Twining Hadley (1856–1930), Dean of Yale Graduate School when women were first admitted. President of Yale University •
Henry Baldwin Harrison (1821–1901),
Governor of Connecticut •
James Hillhouse (1754–1832), real estate developer, politician, and treasurer of
Yale. Namesake of
Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven •
James Mason Hoppin (1820–1906), professor of religion and art •
Leverett Hubbard (1725–1795), soldier, physician and apothecary •
David Humphreys (1752–1818), Aide de Camp to General
George Washington •
Charles Roberts Ingersoll (1821–1903),
Governor of Connecticut •
Colin Macrae Ingersoll (1819–1903), United States Representative from Connecticut •
Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll (1789–1872), United States Minister to Russia, mayor of
New Haven, Connecticut •
Eli Ives (1779–1861), professor of Medicine •
Chauncey Jerome (1793–1868), mayor of New Haven, clockmaker •
Nathaniel Jocelyn (1796–1881), portrait painter and engraver •
Samuel William Johnson (1830–1909), Yale professor, co-founder of the Agricultural Experiment Station Movement with William H. Brewer (also buried here) monument •
Henry Coit Kingsley (1815–1886), treasurer of Yale •
James Kingsley (1778–1852), professor of Hebrew, Greek and Ecclesiastical History at Yale •
John Gamble Kirkwood (1907–1959), chemist •
Charlton Miner Lewis (1866–1923), Yale professor and author •
Elias Loomis (1811–1889), mathematician and astronomer • Daniel Lyman (1718–1788), Surveyor, Deputy to the General Court, Court Referee, Justice of the Peace and caretaker of the State's public records •
Samuel Mansfield (1717–1775), first sheriff of New Haven •
Othniel Charles Marsh (1831–1899), paleontologist • Henry Czar Merwin (1839–1863), Civil War Union Army Officer killed at the
Battle of Gettysburg •
Glenn Miller (Alton G. Miller), one of several fan-placed, private
cenotaphs – (1904–1944),
jazz bandleader,
trombonist • Dr. Timothy Mix (1711–1779), Colonial soldier who died on a British prison ship. •
John Michael Montias (1928–2005), economist and
art historian •
Jedidiah Morse (1761–1826), clergy,"Father of American Geography". Father of
Samuel F. B. Morse •
Theodore T. Munger (1830–1910), clergyman monument •
Hubert Anson Newton (1830–1896), meteorologist and mathematician • George Henry Nettleton (1874–1959), author •
Denison Olmsted (1791–1859), Professor of Medicine and Natural Philosophy at Yale. One of the first to see
Halley's Comet in 1835 •
Lars Onsager (1903–1976), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, a legendary theoretical chemist, distinguished professor of chemistry at Yale •
Norman Holmes Pearson (1909–1975), Yale American Studies professor and World War II spy •
Samuel Peck (1813–1879), 19th-century photographer, artist, businessperson, photo case manufacturer, and gallery owner •
Jaroslav Pelikan (1923–2006), Scholar in the history of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history •
Timothy Pitkin (1766–1847), politician, United States Representative from Connecticut •
Noah Porter (1811–1892), clergyman, President of Yale College •
Joel Root (1770–1847), traveller, author •
Charles Seymour (1885–1963), President of Yale University •
George Dudley Seymour (1859–1945), Attorney, antiquarian, historian, author, and city planner •
Joseph Earl Sheffield (1793–1882), merchant, founder of
Sheffield Scientific School •
Roger Sherman (1721–1793), important founding father, the only person to have signed all four basic documents of American sovereignty, the
Continental Association, the
Declaration of Independence, the
Articles of Confederation, and the
United States Constitution. Today his grave is the center of this colonial city's
Independence Day festivities. •
Benjamin Silliman (1779–1864), pioneer in scientific education •
Benjamin Silliman Jr. (1816–1885), Yale chemist and geologist. First suggested some practical uses for petroleum. • Aaron Skinner (1800–1858), civic figure and supervisor of improvements to Grove Street Cemetery •
Nathan Smith (1770–1835), United States Senator from Connecticut •
Ezra Stiles (1727–1795), President of
Yale University •
Henry Randolph Storrs (1787–1837), jurist • Titus Street (1786–1842), businessman and civic figure •
Alfred Howe Terry (1827–1890), Civil War Union Army Major General •
Beatrice Tinsley (1941–1981), British-born New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist. First female professor of astronomy at Yale University •
Ithiel Town (1784–1844), architect and civil engineer. Inventor of the lattice truss bridge • Martha Townsend (1753–1797), first interment in Grove Street Cemetery •
William Kneeland Townsend (1849–1907), jurist • Henry H. Townshend (1874–1953), proprietor and historian of Grove Street Cemetery • Timothy Trowbridge (1631–1734), merchant, soldier and politician •
Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill (1799–1879), children's book author •
Alexander C. Twining (1801–1884), inventor of first practical artificial ice system •
Decius Wadsworth (1768–1821), Army Engineer, Chief of Ordnance (US Army) •
Noah Webster (1758–1843), lexicographer, dictionary publisher •
Nathan Whiting, soldier, Colonel in the
Seven Years' War •
Eli Whitney (1765–1825), inventor of the
cotton gin •
Theodore Winthrop (1828–1861), Major, United States Army. First New Haven victim of the Civil War •
Melancthon Taylor Woolsey (1717–1758), colonel in the Colonial Army •
Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1812–1889), abolitionist, President of Yale •
David Wooster (1711–1777), Buried in
Danbury, Connecticut but memorialized at Grove Street Cemetery. Major General, 7th in rank below Washington •
Mary Clabaugh Wright (1917–1970), educator and historian, first woman to become a full professor at Yale ==See also==