List of United States cemeteries - Definition and Overview

Arkansas

• Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock - known as Westminster Abbey of Arkansas;

California

• Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles;
• Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles;
• Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma is the burial site of William Randolph Hearst and other members of the Hearst family plus prominent citizens from the San Francisco area.
• Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery, Los Angeles - resting place for Liberace, Buster Keaton, Bette Davis; Lucille Ball was originally interred here, but her remains were relocated to Jamestown, New York in 2002.
• Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale - satirized in Evelyn Waugh's novel, The Loved One;
• Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Culver City - Al Jolson, Jack Benny and Milton Berle are buried here.
• Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, Los Angeles - burial place of Mel Blanc, Rudolph Valentino, Bugsy Siegel, John Huston and the Chandler family of Los Angeles Times fame. Although she is not buried there, Jayne Mansfield has a cenotaph (a marker for someone who is buried somewhere else).
• Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City - Bing Crosby, Lawrence Welk, Sharon Tate, Bela Lugosi are among the Holy Cross residents.
• Home of Peace Cemetery, East Los Angeles - two of the Three Stooges were interred here;
• Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood;
• Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles;
• Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Chatsworth, Los Angeles;
• San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, Los Angeles;
• Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, North Hollywood, Los Angeles;
• Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Westwood, Los Angeles - Marilyn Monroe, Frank Zappa, Billy Wilder, Natalie Wood;
• Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica;

Connecticut

• Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven;

District of Columbia

• Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington D.C.

Georgia

• Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, made famous by the Bird Girl sculpture featured on the cover of the book, and in the movie of, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil;
• Oakland Cemetary, Atlanta, Georgia, is where Margeret_Mitchell, author of Gone With The Wind is buried. It is known for its Victorian memorials to the Confederate cause and Confederate dead.

Hawai'i

• Hawai'i State Veterans Cemetery, Kāne'ohe, Honolulu, Hawai'i, official state veterans cemetery for those who served in the United States Armed Forces
• National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl, Honolulu, Hawai'i, official United States Armed Forces cemetery comparable to Arlington National Cemetery, final resting place of Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War and Gulf War dead. Also interred are the former Governors of Hawai'i, influential American statesmen, Challenger disaster victims, among others.
• Royal Masoleum, Nuuanu, Honolulu, Hawai'i, official resting place of the Kamehameha and Kalakaua dynasties who reigned over the Kingdom of Hawai'i
• USS Arizona Memorial, Salt Lake, Honolulu, Hawai'i, official resting place of those killed during the attack on Honolulu on 7 December 1941
• Valley of the Temples, Kāne'ohe, Honolulu, Hawai'i, home of the Byodo-In Temple and final resting place of Walter F. Dillingham and former Philippines dictator President Ferdinand E. Marcos

Illinois

• Graceland Cemetery, Chicago - resting place of many members of Chicago's architectural, political, and industrial elite. Marshall Field, Cyrus McCormick, Carter Harrison, Potter Palmer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Louis Sullivan, and Daniel Burnham are a few famous people buried here.
• Roseland Cemetery, Chicago - Julius Rosenwald, Oscar Meyer and others.
• Burr Oak Cemetery and Restvale Cemetery, Alsip (near Chicago) - are the final resting places for many prominent African-American musicians and other personalities including Muddy Waters, Dinah Washington, Candy Jim Taylor, Ezzard Charles.

Iowa

• Linwood Cemetery, Dubuque. One of the main cemeteries for people living in the Dubuque area. Originally it was the cemetery for the city's Protestants, but now it serves people of all faiths. A number of prominent Iowans are buried at the cemetery.
• Mount Calvary Cemetery, Dubuque. This cemetery was originally the main burial location for the German Catholics of Dubuque. It is presently one of the two main Catholic cemeteries in Dubuque.

Indiana

• Park Cemetery, Fairmount - burial place of James Dean;

Louisiana

• Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans - grandest of the city's cemeteries, it is the burial site of notables such as Al Hirt, P.G.T. Beauregard and others. Because of the high water table (parts of the city are below sea level), graves in New Orleans cemeteries are above ground.
• St. Louis Cemetery #1,#2,#3, New Orleans - burial place of Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, and many notable pirates and politicians.

Maryland

• Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg
• Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Silver Spring, Maryland - Mattie Stepanek,
• Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore - final resting place of Samuel Arnold, John Wilkes Booth, Allen Dulles, Johns Hopkins, Benjamin Chew Howard, Joseph E. Johnston, Sidney Lanier, and many other importan Marylanders
• Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Suitland
• Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore - final resting place of Charles Joseph Bonaparte, Frederick William Nicholls Crouch, H. L. Mencken, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Mary Pickersgill, and many other important Marylanders.
• Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick - Francis Scott Key
• Old Saint Paul's Cemetery, Baltimore - Lewis Armistead, George Atzerodt, Samuel Chase, John Eager Howard, and many other important Marylanders.
• United States Naval Academy Cemetery, Annapolis
• Saint Mary's Cemetery, Rockville - F Scott Fitzgerald
• Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, Baltimore - James McHenry, Edgar Allen Poe, and many other important Marylanders.

Massachusetts

• Assonet Burying Ground, Assonet
• Copp's Hill, Boston
• King's Chapel, Boston
• Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge - bird, plant, and tree sanctuary, featured in the first version of the movie The Thomas Crown Affair;
• Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord;

Missouri

• Bellefontaine and Calvary Cemeteries, St. Louis, are the final resting place for Sara Teasdale, Tennessee Williams, Kate Chopin, William Clark and others.

New Jersey

• Fairmount Cemetery, Newark, many beautiful monuments and famous graves, founded 1855.
• Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, Seth Boyden, John Fairfield Dryden, locally famous Newarkers. Has attractive Victorian Gothic gates.

New York

• Calvary Cemetery, Queens;
• Cemetery of the Gate of Heaven, Hawthorne - Babe Ruth, James Cagney, Anna Held, and others;
• Cemetery of the Evergreens, Brooklyn
• Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
• Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale - Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, Malcolm X, Aaliyah, and others;
• Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn - Samuel Morse, William March "Boss" Tweed, F.A.O. Schwarz and Jean-Michel Basquiat are among the burials here;
• Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla - Ayn Rand, Tommy Dorsey, Lou Gehrig and other personalities are interred here
• The Moravian Cemetery in New Dorp on Staten Island is the final resting place for several members of the Vanderbilt family.
• Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York - Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Lewis Henry Morgan, John Jacob Bausch and Henry Lomb, Frank E. Gannett, Hiram Sibley, Dr. Hartwell Carver, Myron Holley, George B. Selden, and many more.
• Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York - scene of Washington Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane;
• Trinity Churchyard, New York City - Astor family members;
• Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx - Duke Ellington, Herman Melville, and Joseph Pulitzer are among those buried at this Woodlawn.

North Carolina

• Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Ohio

• Greenlawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio
• Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio
• Marion Cemetery, Marion, Ohio
• Oakwood Cemetery, Bucyrus, Ohio
• Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati

Pennsylvania

• Allegheny Cemetery, Lawrenceville - Stephen Foster, Josh Gibson, and other notable personalities from the Pittsburgh area.
• Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
• Fairview Cemetery, Pen Argyl - burial place of Jayne Mansfield.
• Gettysburg National Cemetery, at the dedication of which in November, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address.

Tennessee

• Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Goodlettsville has a "Music Row" where a number of country music personalities are interred, including Lefty Frizzell;
• Graceland, Memphis - burial place of Elvis Presley;
• Hendersonville Memory Gardens, Hendersonville – burial site for Johnny Cash and other country music stars;
• Spring Hill Cemetery, Nashville - Roy Acuff, Hank Snow and other country music personalities;
• Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Nashville - burial site for a number of country music personalities, including Otis Blackwell, Webb Pierce, and Johnny PayCheck;

Texas

• Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery, Dallas - cosmetics tycoon Mary Kay Ash, baseball great Mickey Mantle and Academy Award winning actress Greer Garson, among others.

Virginia

• Arlington National Cemetery, military cemetery established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Robert E. Lee's plantation across the river from Washington, D.C..

See also

• List of famous cemeteries
• U.S. National Cemetery