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This article is about the cemetery in the Bronx. A cemetery of the same name, the burial place of Emperor Norton I is in Colma, California.
Located in The Bronx, the Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City. Opened in 1865, at a time when The Bronx was still considered as being out in "the country." Built on gentle, rolling hills, its tree-lined roads provide a beautiful setting in today's bustling city.
Notable people interred there include:
- Nora Bayes
- Irving Berlin
- Nellie Bly
- Ralph Bunche
- George M. Cohan
- Celia Cruz
- Miles Davis
- Clarence Day
- Duke Ellington
- David Farragut
- Frankie FrischFrank Francis "Frankie" Frisch ( September 9, 1898 March 12, 1973) was an American Major League Baseball player of the early 20th century. Frisch was a switch-hitter batter and threw right-handed. Born in the Bronx, New York City, he began his career afte
- Antoinette Perry FrueauffMary) Antoinette Perry ( June 27, 1888 June 28, 1946) was an actress, a director, and a founder of the American Theatre Wing. The Tony Award is named for her. Antoinette Perry was born in Denver, Colorado and spent her childhood aspiring to reduplicate th - The Tony AwardWhat is popularly called the Tony Award but is formally the Antoinette Perry Award is an annual American award celebrating achievements in theater, including musical theater. Awarded by a panel of approximately 700 judges from various areas of the industr is named after her
- Jay GouldJay Gould ( May 27, 1836 December 2, 1892), American financier, was born in Roxbury, New York. He was brought up on his father's farm, studied at Hobart Academy, and though he left school in his sixteenth year, devoted himself assiduously thereafter to pr
- Archibald Gracie
- Oscar Hammerstein, Sr.
- Lionel HamptonLionel Hampton ( April 20, 1908 August 31, 2002), was a bandleader, jazz percussionist and vibraphone virtuoso. Hampton was born in Louisville, Kentucky. Hamp ranks among the greatest names in jazz history and worked with a who's who of jazz musicians, fr
- W.C. Handy
- Victor HerbertVictor Herbert ( February 1, 1859 May 26, 1924) was a popular composer of light opera. He was born in Dublin and played cello in the orchestra of Johann Strauss in Vienna before emigrating to the USA, where he joined the Metropolitan Opera Company, again
- Barbara Hutton, Woolworth heiress, America's "Poor Little Rich Girl"
- Charles Evans Hughes
- Collis P. Huntington
- Augustus D. Juilliard
- Fiorello LaGuardia
- Frank Belknap Long
- Roland Macy
- Bat Masterson, US Marshall
- George McManus
- Herman Melville
- Marilyn Miller
- Robert Moses
- Thomas Nast
- James Cash Penney
- Otto Preminger, actor and director
- Joseph Pulitzer
- Damon Runyon
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Joseph Stella
- John William Sterling, one of Yale's largest benefactors
- Olive Thomas, actress and wife of Jack Pickford
- C. J. Walker, she was the first African-American millionaire
- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor, socialite
- Harry Payne Whitney , businessman, polo and race horse breeder
- Frank Woolworth, chain store founder
See also:
Cemeteries in New York The Bronx
Cemeteries
