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List of interments at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)

The following is a list of notable persons interred in Woodlawn Cemetery.

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Hervey C. CalkinHarry CareyCharles A. CarletonDiahann CarrollVernon and Irene Castle, well-known husband & wife dancing team, movie stars • Carrie Chapman CattAlfred C. ChapinJohn Wilbur Chapman, Evangelist, Author, Hymn Writer • Robert Chesebrough, Chemist, discovered petroleum jellyJoseph Hodges Choate, lawyer, diplomat • Bobby Clark (comedian)Horace F. ClarkHuguette ClarkWilliam A. ClarkHenry ClewsGeorge M. Cohan – bronze statue in center of Times SquareOrnette ColemanBarron CollierSamuel Colman, painter, interior designer, and writer • Ida ConquestAustin CorbinRicardo CortezLotta CrabtreeCharles Nelson CrittentonWilliam Nelson CromwellCelia CruzCountee CullenFrederick Kingsbury Curtis == D ==
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Leopold DamroschJess DandyJohn H. Davis, American writer • Miles DavisClarence DayZachariah DeasCornelius H. DeLamaterGeorge W. De LongRafael Díez de la Cortina y Olaeta, linguist • Sidney DillonE.L. DoctorowCharles Cleveland Dodge, Brigadier General (youngest), American Civil War • William E. DodgeRichard DorsonElsie Driggs, painter of PrecisionismPaul Du ChailluHazel Nell Dukes, civil rights activist • Vernon DukeFinley Peter DunneWilliam C. Durant == E ==
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Gertrude Ederle, record-setting swimmer • Gus Edwards, songwriter and vaudevillian • Duke EllingtonAlbert Ellis == F ==
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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 GouldArchibald GracieArchibald 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 ==
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• The Haffen family of Haffen Brewing Company are buried on 'brewers' row.' • Oscar Hammerstein Sr.Lionel HamptonW. C. HandyEdward Harkness, philanthropist • Lamon V. Harkness, businessman, stockholder in Standard Oil, yachtsman • William L. HarknessCharles K. HarrisWilliam Frederick Havemeyer, businessman, Mayor of New York City • William Haviland, actor • Coleman HawkinsMillicent HearstAugust HeckscherJohn Held Jr.Victor HerbertAdelaide HerrmannAlexander HerrmannChristian Archibald HerterJohn D. Hertz, businessman, thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder • Jim Holdsworth, baseball player • Celeste Holm, actress • Casper Holstein. • Richard HudnutCharles Evans Hughes, 11th Chief Justice of the United StatesFrederick P. HummelHarold Hunter, skateboarder • Arabella Huntingtoncenotaph as she is buried in California • Collis P. HuntingtonBarbara HuttonHenry Baldwin Hyde == I ==
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Fiorello La GuardiaScott La RockDaniel S. LamontWalter W. LawCanada LeeHenry LehmanFrank LeslieJ. C. Leyendecker, illustrator • Harold LockwoodFrank Belknap Long, horror author • Mansfield Lovell, Confederate officer • August Guido Lüchow, restaurateur • George Platt Lynes == M ==
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A. Kingsley Macomber, businessman, Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder • Rowland MacyFrankie Manning, dancer, instructor, and choreographer • Martha MansfieldVito Marcantonio, politician • Dewey MarkhamAlfred Erskine MarlingLouis Marx, toy merchant • Bat Masterson, lawman, writer • Victor MaurelWilliam McAdooJosiah Calvin McCrackenAlice Foote MacDougall, restaurateur • Charles McCarron, vaudeville composer • George A. McGuireJackie McLean, musician • George McManus, cartoonist • Roi Cooper Megrue, playwright • Marie Mattingly MeloneyHerman Melville, author • Dean MemingerMario Merola (1922–1987), lawyer, New York City Councilman, and Bronx County District AttorneyWilliam P. MerrillHarry F. Millarde (1885–1931), silent film actor and director • Cyrus Miller, lacrosse player • Gilbert MillerMarilyn MillerNorma MillerFlorence MillsJohn Purroy Mitchel, Mayor of New York City • John Bassett MooreGeorge L. K. Morris (1905–1975), Cubist artist, writer, and editor • Paul MortonRobert 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 ==
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Thomas Nast, political cartoonist • LeRoy Neiman, artist • Harold NicholasRuth Rowland NicholsHideyo NoguchiJames W. Nye == O ==
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Augustus G. Paine Jr.Felix PappalardiDorothy Parker (ashes reburied at Woodlawn in 2020) • James Cash PenneyAntoinette Perry, actress, director and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing • Alex Pompez, African-American baseball executive • Generoso PopeGeorge B. PostOtto Preminger, film director • Samuel I. PrimeFrederick Freeman Proctor, vaudeville impresario • Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper owner and founder of Pulitzer prize • Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American electrical engineer, physicist and inventor • Hovsep Pushman (1877–1966), American artist of Armenian background == R ==
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Charles RanhoferNorman B. ReamTheodor ReikGaetano ReinaLance ReventlowLeonard Kip RhinelanderGrantland RiceVincent RichardsTex RickardMax RoachDelmar "Barney" RoosMargaret 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 ==
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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 TitanicWilliam Lafayette Strong, Mayor of New York City • William Matheus Sullivan, prominent New York City lawyer and patron of music • Karl Struss == T ==
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Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, artist • Jōkichi TakamineClarice TaylorBen Teal, theater director • Jerry Thomas, bartender • Olive ThomasJames Walter Thompson, businessman, advertiser • Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate General • Dan ToppingHenry E. Tremain, Civil War Medal of Honor recipient, author, lawyer • Ada Bampton Tremaine, philanthropist • Cicely Tyson == U ==
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Abraham Van BurenRobert Anderson Van Wyck, first Mayor of Greater New York City • Virginia Fair Vanderbilt == W ==
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