Given its proximity to
Cornell University, the cemetery includes a number of significant figures from the university's history, including members of the Cornell family, and the graves of faculty members. •
Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954), American horticulturalist and designer •
Ethel Zoe Bailey (1889–1983), American botanist and curator •
Juanita Breckenridge Bates (1860–1946), American suffragist and early woman ordained as a minister •
Sophronia Bucklin (1828–1902), American Civil War nurse •
John "Honest John" Clapp (1851–1904), early American baseball player and manager •
Robert Gilmour Dobie (1878–1948), American football player and record-setting coach •
Estevan Antonio Fuertes (1838–1903), Cornell astronomer and namesake of
Fuertes Observatory •
Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874–1927), American ornithologist, illustrator and artist •
James R. Houck (1940–2015), pioneer of infrared observational astronomy •
William Henry Miller (1848–1922), American architect •
Chester Platt (1857–1934), inventor and publisher •
Carl Sagan (1934–1996), American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer •
Trevor Pinch (1952-2021), British sociologist and an originator of the theory of Social Construction of Technology. ==References==