List of interments at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York) explained
The following is a list of notable persons interred in Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York).
A
B
C
- Hervey C. Calkin
- Harry Carey
- Charles A. Carleton
- Diahann Carroll
- Vernon and Irene Castle, well-known husband & wife dancing team, movie stars
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- Alfred C. Chapin
- John Wilbur Chapman, Evangelist, Author, Hymn Writer
- Robert Chesebrough, Chemist, discovered petroleum jelly
- Joseph Hodges Choate, lawyer, diplomat
- Bobby Clark (comedian)
- Horace F. Clark
- Huguette Clark
- William A. Clark
- Henry Clews
- George M. Cohan – bronze statue in center of Times Square
- Ornette Coleman[1]
- Barron Collier
- Samuel Colman, painter, interior designer, and writer
- Ida Conquest
- Austin Corbin
- Ricardo Cortez
- Lotta Crabtree
- Charles Nelson Crittenton
- William Nelson Cromwell
- Celia Cruz[2]
- Countee Cullen
- Frederick Kingsbury Curtis
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E
F
G
- 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, stage actor
- Archibald Gracie
- Archibald 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
- The Haffen family of Haffen Brewing Company are buried on 'brewers' row.'[5]
- Oscar Hammerstein Sr.
- Lionel Hampton
- W. C. Handy
- Edward Harkness, philanthropist
- Lamon V. Harkness, businessman, stockholder in Standard Oil, yachtsman
- William L. Harkness
- Charles K. Harris
- William Frederick Havemeyer, businessman, Mayor of New York City
- William Haviland, actor
- Coleman Hawkins
- Millicent Hearst
- August Heckscher
- John Held Jr.
- Victor Herbert
- Adelaide Herrmann
- Alexander Herrmann
- Christian Archibald Herter
- John D. Hertz, businessman, thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder
- Jim Holdsworth, baseball player
- Celeste Holm, actress
- Richard Hudnut
- Charles Evans Hughes, 11th Chief Justice of the United States
- Frederick P. Hummel
- Harold Hunter, skateboarder
- Arabella Huntington – cenotaph as she is buried in California
- Collis P. Huntington
- Barbara Hutton
- Henry Baldwin Hyde
I
J
K
L
M
- A. Kingsley Macomber, businessman, Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder
- Rowland Macy
- Frankie Manning, dancer, instructor, and choreographer
- Martha Mansfield
- Vito Marcantonio, politician
- Dewey Markham
- Alfred Erskine Marling
- Louis Marx, toy merchant
- Bat Masterson, lawman, writer
- Victor Maurel
- William McAdoo
- Josiah Calvin McCracken
- Alice Foote MacDougall, restaurateur
- Charles McCarron, vaudeville composer
- George A. McGuire
- Jackie McLean, musician
- George McManus, cartoonist
- Roi Cooper Megrue, playwright
- Marie Mattingly Meloney
- Herman Melville, author
- Dean Meminger
- Mario Merola (1922–1987), lawyer, New York City Councilman, and Bronx County District Attorney
- William P. Merrill
- Harry F. Millarde (1885–1931), silent film actor and director
- Cyrus Miller, lacrosse player
- Gilbert Miller
- Marilyn Miller
- Norma Miller
- Florence Mills
- John Purroy Mitchel, Mayor of New York City
- John Bassett Moore
- George L. K. Morris (1905–1975), Cubist artist, writer, and editor
- Paul Morton
- Robert 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
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O
P
R
S
- 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
- 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 Titanic
- William Lafayette Strong, Mayor of New York City
- William Matheus Sullivan, prominent New York City lawyer and patron of music
- Karl Struss
T
- Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, artist
- Jōkichi Takamine
- Clarice Taylor
- Ben Teal, theater director[10]
- Jerry Thomas, bartender
- Olive Thomas
- James Walter Thompson, businessman, advertiser
- Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate General
- Dan Topping
- Henry E. Tremain, Civil War Medal of Honor recipient, author, lawyer
- Ada Bampton Tremaine, philanthropist
- Cicely Tyson
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V
W
Notes and References
- https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/jazz-legend-ornette-coleman-remembered-by-fellow-musicians-at-funeral-6612937/
- Brady, Emily (February 25, 2007). "Amid the Gravestones, a Final Love Song" . The New York Times.
- https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/jazz-fans-devoted-to-the-end-cemetery-opens-up-burial-plots-in-jazz-corner-1.1907306
- https://www.npr.org/2015/07/02/418845099/jazz-lives-at-duke-ellingtons-resting-place
- Web site: The Bronx Was Brewing . . June 6, 2021.
- Shapiro . Laurie Gwen . The Improbable Journey of Dorothy Parker's Ashes . 6 September 2020 . The New Yorker . 4 September 2020.
- News: Norman B. Ream's Funeral . The Wall Street Journal . February 12, 1915 . 8 . . August 29, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304213220/https://www.newspapers.com/image/33297822/?terms=%22Norman%2BB.%2BReam%22 . March 4, 2016 . live .
- News: Norman Bruce Ream . Chicago Daily Tribune . February 14, 1915 . 3 . . August 29, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304133829/https://www.newspapers.com/image/28697076/?terms=%22norman%2Bbruce%2Bream%22 . March 4, 2016 . live .
- https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2007/08/20/Jazz-great-Roach-to-be-buried-in-the-Bronx/26351187629522/
- "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795–1949" (February 10, 2018). Benjamin Teal, 20 Apr 1917; citing Death, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,322,407.
