The cemetery includes interments of many notable people: • Brigadier General
Clare Hibbs Armstrong, commanded Anti-Aircraft defense of
Antwerp during
World War II • Major General
Robert Anderson, Union Army officer in command of
Fort Sumter at start of the
Civil War •
Earl "Red" Blaik,
Army football head coach (1941–1958), member of the
College Football Hall of Fame •
Frank Borman, American Astronaut, Commander of
Apollo 8 •
John Milton Brannan,
Union army general •
Paul Bucha, US Army Captain • Major General
John Buford, Union cavalry commander who set the stage for the
Battle of Gettysburg • Major General
Daniel Butterfield, composer of
Taps •
Eugene Asa Carr,
Medal of Honor recipient • General
Lucius D. Clay, "Father of the
Berlin Airlift" •
Margaret Corbin, Revolutionary War heroine. • Brevet Lieutenant Colonel
Alonzo Cushing, Union artillery officer, killed during
Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg; posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 2014 • Brevet Major General
George Armstrong Custer, Union cavalry commander during the Civil War and the Indian Wars, killed at the
Battle of the Little Bighorn •
Glenn Davis,
Heisman Trophy winner for 1946 •
Maggie Dixon, women's basketball coach at West Point, 2005–2006 • Major General
Halstead Dorey, Commanded
4th Infantry Regiment during
World War I; recipient of
Distinguished Service Cross • Major General
John M. Devine, commanded
8th Armored Division during
World War II; • Captain
Philip Egner, the longtime director of the
West Point Band and composer of the
West Point fight song "On, Brave Old Army Team." • Brigadier General
John Eisenhower, historian, author, son of Dwight Eisenhower. • Lieutenant General
James Maurice Gavin, commander of the
82nd Airborne Division during
World War II • Major General
George Washington Goethals, "Builder of the Panama Canal" • Major General
Frederick Dent Grant, son of President
Ulysses S. Grant • Lieutenant General
Howard Dwayne Graves, Superintendent, United States Military Academy • Major General
William H. Hay, commander of the
28th Infantry Division in
World War I • Major General
Ethan Allen Hitchcock,
Mexican–American War veteran, special advisor to the president during the Civil War • Brigadier General
Ranald S. Mackenzie, Civil War veteran, commander of
Buffalo Soldiers during the Indian Wars • Master Sergeant
Martin "Marty" Maher, Jr., athletic trainer and central character in the film
The Long Gray Line • Colonel
David "Mickey" Marcus, Israel's first general, only American buried here who died fighting under a foreign flag • Brigadier General
Tully McCrea. Civil War veteran, artillery officer. at the entrance to the cemetery • Major General
Wesley Merritt, Civil War veteran, Military Governor of the Philippines • Major General
Bryant Edward Moore, Korea IX corps, World War II 8th Infantry Division "Timberwolves" and Pacific Theatre. • General
Alexander M. Patch, commander of
U.S. Seventh Army • 2nd Lieutenant
Emily J. T. Perez, Iraq – 2006, NCAA Award of Valor – 2008. • Colonel
Russell Potter "Red" Reeder, Jr., World War II veteran and author. • Major General
Thomas H. Ruger, Civil War veteran, United States Military Academy Superintendent • Major General
Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf Sr., the first superintendent of the New Jersey State Police. • Major General
George Van Horn Moseley, Nazi sympathizer who was chosen as a potential military dictator for a planned coup by
George E. Deatherage • General
H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., commander of coalition forces in the
Gulf War. • Lieutenant General
Winfield Scott, longest serving American general (1813–1861), commanded the U.S. Army from 1841 to 1861. • Major General
George Sykes, Civil War general and corps commander. • Brigadier General
Sylvanus Thayer, known as "The Father of the U.S. Military Academy" for the strict regimens implemented at his direction • Brigadier General
John T. Thompson, inventor of the
Thompson submachine gun • Brevet Major General
John Caldwell Tidball, Civil War veteran, commandant of the
U.S. Army Artillery School. • Brigadier General
George H. Torney, Surgeon General of the United States Army • Major General
John A. Wickham Jr., U.S. Army General • Ensign Dominick Trant, a native of
Cork, Ireland and a soldier in the
Ninth Massachusetts Regiment in the
Continental Army, died at West Point in 1782. His grave is the oldest in the cemetery. • Colonel
Theodore S. Westhusing, highest-ranking officer to die in Iraq War – 2005, "Multi-national Security Transition Command – Iraq". • General
William Westmoreland, Army Chief of Staff, Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy, Commander of
Military Assistance Command, Vietnam from 1964 to 1968. • Lieutenant Colonel
Ed White, first American to make a
spacewalk, killed in the
Apollo 1 fire on 27 January 1967. • Brevet Lieutenant Colonel
Eleazer D. Wood, first West Point Graduate to die in battle. Actually a
cenotaph; arguable whether he is actually buried there. ==See also==