About Santa Barbara Cemetery
Santa Barbara Cemetery is a cemetery near Montecito, Santa Barbara County, California. It lies about 1.8 mi northeast of Montecito. The grounds sit at about 62 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 145 notable people buried here, including Ronald Colman, Ivan Reitman and Alan Thicke. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 249036. The nearest other listed cemetery is Santa Bárbara mission cemetary, about 3.6 mi to the northwest. The nearest funeral home we know of is Welch-Ryce-Haider Funeral Chapels in Santa Barbara, about 3.0 mi away. It is one of 17 cemeteries we list in Santa Barbara County, and 5 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Montecito. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Santa Barbara Cemetery
Among them: 19 actors, 18 writers, 9 business leaders, 8 artists, 6 scientists, 5 World War I veterans, 4 journalists, 4 World War II veterans.
- Ronald Colman1891-1958British actor
- Ivan Reitman1946-2022Slovak, Canadian filmmaker
- Alan Thicke1947-2016Canadian actor, songwriter, and television host
- Jeanne Crain1925-2003American actress
- Laurence Harvey1928-1973Lithuanian-born British actor
- John Ireland1914-1992Canadian actor
- Vera Ralston1920-2003Czech-born figure skater and actor
- Heather Angel1909-1986British actress
- Sabin Carr1904-1983American pole vaulter
- Byron Haskin1899-1984American film and television director
- Katherine MacDonald1891-1956American actor and film producer
- Haji1946-2013Canadian actress
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- Peggy Rea1921-2011American actress
- Domino Harvey1969-2005British bounty hunter
- Charlotte Burton1881-1942American actress
- Edward Dahlberg1900-1977Novelist, essayist
- Lawrence H. Aller1913-2003Astronomer
- Robert Maynard Hutchins1899-1977American philosopher and university president
- Eddie Mathews1931-2001American baseball player and coach
- Eric Christmas1916-2000British actor
- Thomas O. Paine1921-1992American scientist
- Larry Morey1905-1971American lyricist and screenwriter
- Thomas M. Storke1876-1971American politician
- C. G. Maxwell1902-1987American actor
- Ernest Thayer1863-1940American author and poet
- Henry Smith Pritchett1857-1939American astronomer
- John P. Fulton1902-1966Special effects designer
- Adele Palmer1915-2008American costume designer
- Donald C. Peattie1898-1964Naturalist, author
- Murray Kinnell1889-1954British actor
- Phillip Pipersburg1955-2018Belizean sprinter
- Robert B. Sinclair1905-1970American film director
- Caspar Whitney1864-1929American sports journalist
- Curtis H. Castle1848-1928American politician
- Hermann Hagedorn1882-1964American writer and academic
- George Rowe1894-1975American actor
- George Washington Smith1876-1930American architect and painter
- John Sanford1904-2003American screenwriter and author
- Marguerite Roberts1905-1989Screenwriter
- Charles H. Graves1839-1928American politician from Minnesota
- Herman B. Duryea1863-1916(1863-1916) American racehorse owner
- Lawrence Clark Powell1906-2001American librarian
- Marli Ehrman1904-1982German-American textile designer
- Abby Fisher Leavitt1836-1897American social reformer, newspaper publisher
- Charles A. Ott Jr.1920-2006United States Army general
- Clarence K. Hinkle1880-1960American painter
- George Owen Knapp1855-1945American businessman
- Hobart Chatfield-Taylor1865-1945American writer
- Jheri Redding1907-1998American hairdresser
- Marie Burroughs1866-1926American actress
- Rose Farwell Chatfield-Taylor1870-1918American sportswoman, bookbinder, suffragist, and socialite
- Samuel Kurtz Hoffman1902-1995American engineer
- Stanley Clark Meston1910-1992Architect
- Al Gionfriddo1922-2003Major League Baseball player
- Allan Gilbert Cram1886-1947American artist
- Arthur H. Parmelee1883-1961American physician, football player, and coach
- Carmen Phillips1937-2002American actress
- Charles A. Storke1847-1936American lawyer
- Erik Forfota1903-1966
- Francis Townsend Underhill1863-1929US politician, architect
- Frederick Forrest Peabody1859-1927American businessman
- Nathaniel Seymour Thomas1867-1937Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Wyoming
- Pierpont Morgan Hamilton1898-1982United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Rudolph Goehr1906-1981German-American composer and pianist
- Stanley Sheinbaum1920-2016Human rights activist
- Thomas C. H. Smith1819-1897Union general
- William Welles Hollister1818-1886American businessman and rancher
- Angelica Schuyler Brown1890-1980American socialite
- Anna Louise Murphy Vhay1881-1964American architect
- Carita Spencer1882-1969American author and humanitarian activist
- Charles Anderson1850-1913American physician
- Charles Fernald1830-1892American jurist
- Charles Hedges McKinstry1866-1961United States Army general
- Edward Owen Orpet1863-1956Botanist
- Eliezer Leopold Ehrmann1903-1988American writer
- Federico Claveria Maldonado1908-1994American military personnel
- Frank W. Lehan1923-1997American electrical engineer
- Grace Vollmer1884-1977American painter
- Ivor Powell1910-1998Welsh evangelist
- Joel Adams Fithian1839-1898
- John H. Redington1824-1890American businessman and politician
- John Philip Hogan1881-1961American civil engineer
- Lennart Palme1881-1971
- Lilla Brokaw Gilbert1892-1975American socialite
- Louise Redfield Peattie1900-1965American writer
- Magnus Mainland1878-1959American-football player
- Mimi Brokaw1906-1956Daughter of Lucille and Irving Brokaw
- Morris McNeil Musselman1899-1952American screenwriter and writer
- Norman E. Jennett1877-1970American cartoonist
- Paul Brinkman1918-2003American film actor and businessman
- Perceval S. Rossiter1874-1957American Navy surgeon general
- Renzo Fenci1914-1999Italian-American sculptor
- Spud Harder1906-1994American football and baseball coach
- Alfred P. Redington1865-1937
- Alfred Poett1839-1909American civil engineer
- Betty Warner Sheinbaum1920-2017American artist
- C. M. Gidney1855-1933
- Carmen Dibblee1886-1964
- Charles A. Fernald1872-1956
- Charles Loring Brace, Jr1855-1938
- Charlotte Maria Bagg1851-1942American botanical collector
- Converse Morrill Converse1901-1976
- David Banks Rogers1868-1954American anthropologist
- Edith Dillon Denny1884-1976
- Ellen Winchester1861-1927
- Emma Brace Donaldson1859-1952
- Estelle Barbour1878-1960
- Ethel Barksdale Wack1898-1974Ethel Barksdale Wack
- Fanny Barrett Conolly1849-1901
- Florence Alden Wilson1883-1964Instructor in home economics
- Folkert Brons1907-1988Ph.D. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen 1938
- Frances Ames1903-1979American socialite, scientific and botanical collector in Alaska
- Francesca Dekum1906-1992
- Frederick Lewis Miller Masury1874-1950
- Genevieve Bothin1894-1983Socialite
- Genevieve Bothin Lyman1919-2011
- Geraldine Pollock Graham1901-1976
- Gertrude Minturn Pinchot1872-1939
- Gladys Woods Grissom1898-1931
- Harris Hudson1888-1982American historian
- Honora Elizabeth Winthrop1868-1958
- Horace Davis Pillsbury1873-1940American lawyer
- Irene Geiringer1899-1983Austrian-born musicologist
- James Madison Kemper1894-196514 Nov 1893 - 22 Jul 1965
- Jean Stettheimer1906-20066 Mar 1906 - certain 25 Mar 2006
- Joel Remington Fithian1874-1936
- Joseph Grafton Minot1858-1939American businessman and genealogist
- Joseph S. Reynolds1839-1911Soldier, lawyer, politician
- Kevin J. Masterson1945-2020Early victim of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Lucy Hubbard Russell1876-1937
- Marian Hartwell1891-1990American artist, and founder of a school
- Mary Pritchett1891-1984American literary agent
- Mildred Lane Kemper1923-1986American philanthropist
- Molly O'Daniel1922-1996
- Peter Cooper Bryce1889-1964
- Ralph Nelson Isham1865-1937
- Reginald Goodwin Fernald1880-1946American lawyer and publisher
- Robert Brent Ord1827-1889
- Robert Farwell Chatfield-Taylor1908-1980
- Ruth Norman Halls1898-1990Latin Teacher
- Samuel Russell Dabney1901-1959
- Sanford Robinson Gifford1892-1944American ophthalmologist
- Thomas Eaton Cornell1908-1940
- Thomas F Cornell1874-19171874 - 15 Feb 1917
- William Earl Graham1890-1949
People whose Wikidata entry gives Santa Barbara Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
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What Santa Barbara Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
Funeral homes near Santa Barbara Cemetery
- Welch-Ryce-Haider Funeral Chapels3.0 miFuneral home · Santa Barbara · (805) 965-5145
- McDermott-Crockett & Associates Mortuary3.6 miMortuary · Santa Barbara · (805) 202-4944
- Simply Remembered Cremation Care4.4 miCremation provider · Santa Barbara · (805) 569-7000
- Pueblo Del Rey Funeral Services4.6 miFuneral home · Santa Barbara · (805) 845-7420
- Simply Remembered Cremation Care6.5 miCremation provider · Santa Barbara · (805) 569-7000
- Smart Cremation7.8 miCremation provider · Santa Barbara · (805) 964-6186
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
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- What Happens When a Cemetery Is Full?Closed and inactive cemeteries, who maintains them, and what it means for families with existing plots.
- What Does a Headstone Cost?Flat markers, upright headstones and monuments, materials, engraving, installation fees and the cemetery's foundation charge.