In 2022, the Hyde Park Historical Society created an interactive directory application for monuments at the cemetery. •
Donald N. Aldrich (1917–1947), naval aviator and ace •
Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901–1963) physician, medical researcher who identified
cystic fibrosis •
Cap Anson (1852–1922), Major League Baseball Hall of Fame •
Frank Bacon (1864–1922), actor and playwright •
Ferdinand Lee Barnett (1852–1936), lawyer and civil rights activist. Spouse of Ida B. Wells. •
Adolphus C. Bartlett (1844–1922), businessman, philanthropist •
Gary Becker (1930–2014), economist, Nobel Prize winner •
Arthur M. Brazier (1921–2010), activist, pastor •
Woodnut S. Burr (1861–1952), ardent worker for women's suffrage in the United States •
Frank Butler (1872–1899), pitcher and outfielder in pre-Negro leagues baseball •
Otis Clay (1942–2016),
blues and
soul singer •
Clarence H. Cobbs (1908–1979), founder of the
First Church of Deliverance •
James "Big Jim" Colosimo (1878–1920), boss of the
Chicago Outfit •
Henry Chandler Cowles (1869–1939), professor of
botany at University of Chicago, pioneer American
ecologist,
conservationist •
William Craig (1855–1902), first
Secret Service agent to die on duty •
Charles S. Deneen (1863–1940), 23rd Governor of Illinois •
Thomas A. Dorsey (1899–1993), composer, the "father of
Gospel music" •
Walter Eckersall (1886–1930), all-American quarterback and sportswriter •
Mircea Eliade (1907–1986), Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago •
Enrico Fermi (1901–1954), physicist, Nobel Prize winner, creator of the first
nuclear reactor •
Henry Blake Fuller (1857–1929), writer, author of early work in
gay literature, ''
Bertram Cope's Year'' •
Norman Golb (1928–2020), historian •
Nancy Green (1834–1923), storyteller, cook, activist, and the first woman to portray
Aunt Jemima •
Jake Guzik (1886–1956), gangster and bookkeeper for
Al Capone; aka "Greasy Thumb" •
John Marshall Hamilton (1847–1905), 18th
Governor of Illinois •
William Draper Harkins (1873–1951), nuclear chemist •
Monroe Heath (1827–1894),
mayor of Chicago •
Jesse Jackson (1941–2026), minister, activist and politician •
John Christen Johansen (1876–1964), portraitist and landscape painter •
Charles Johnson (1909–2006), pitcher and outfielder for the
Chicago American Giants of the
Negro leagues •
Eunice W. Johnson (1916–2010), business magnate and spouse of John H. Johnson •
John H. Johnson (1918–2005), founder and publisher of
Ebony and
Jet magazines, spouse of Eunice W. Johnson •
Kenesaw Mountain Landis (1866–1944), Hall of Fame, First Commissioner of Baseball •
Richard Loeb (1905–1936), crime figure – cremated here, ashes returned to family •
James Robert Mann (1856–1922), Republican U.S. Representative from Illinois who first proposed a resolution to approve the 19th Amendment (Women’s Suffrage). •
Alexander Alexandrowitsch Maximow (1874–1928), Russian-American physician-scientist, pathologist, histologist •
Little Brother Montgomery (1906–1985),
blues piano player and singer •
S. Grace Nicholes (1870–1922), social reformer •
Jesse Owens (1913–1980), Olympic track and field champion •
Fred Rice Jr. (1926–2011), first African-American
Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department •
Eugene Sawyer (1934–2008), second African-American
Mayor of Chicago (1987–1989) •
J. Young Scammon (1812–1890), attorney, banker, newspaper publisher •
Maud Slye (1879–1954),
University of Chicago pathologist •
Albreta Moore Smith (c. 1875–1957) American writer,
clubwoman •
Roebuck "Pops" Staples (1915–2000), Gospel singer •
Willie Stokes (1937–1986), Chicago mobster •
William Hale Thompson (1869–1944),
mayor of Chicago •
June Travis (1914–2008), film actress •
Herbert J. Tweedie (1864–1906), golf course architect •
Bill Veeck (1914–1986), Major League Baseball owner – cremated here, ashes returned to family • Victims of the
Iroquois Theatre Fire (1903) • Victims of the
Eastland Disaster (1915) •
Albertina Walker (1929–2010), singer, songwriter, "Queen of Gospel" •
Harold Washington (1922–1987), lawyer, politician, first African American
Mayor of Chicago •
Ida B. Wells (1862–1931), social reformer, civil rights activist. Spouse of Ferdinand Lee Barnett. •
Junior Wells (1934–1998),
blues musician •
Ben Wilson (1967–1984), Chicago Simeon H.S., 1984–85 #1 ranked high school basketball player in America •
James Hutchinson Woodworth (1804–1869),
Mayor of Chicago •
Otto Young (1844–1907), "Merchant Millionaire" of Chicago and
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