About Lakewood Cemetery
Lakewood Cemetery is a church cemetery in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. The grounds sit at about 869 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 323 notable people buried here, including Hubert Humphrey, Clifford D. Simak and George Mikan. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 646448. The nearest other listed cemetery is Temple Israel Memorial Park, about 1.4 mi to the east. The nearest cremation provider we know of is Cremation Society Of Minnesota in Minneapolis, about 1.2 mi away. It is one of 92 cemeteries we list in Hennepin County, and 48 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Hennepin County dates to 1876. 9 of the 92 listings in Hennepin County have a phone number or website on record.
Notable people buried at Lakewood Cemetery
Among them: 29 business leaders, 23 US representatives, 19 writers, 13 football players, 11 scientists, 9 artists, 9 baseball players, 8 governors.
- Hubert Humphrey1911-1978Vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969
- Clifford D. Simak1904-1988American writer, journalist
- George Mikan1924-2005American basketball player, coach, commissioner
- John Bates Clark1847-1938American neoclassical economist
- Kelly Catlin1995-2019American cyclist
- Tiny Tim1932-1996American singer and musician
- Muriel Humphrey1912-1998American politician
- Wendell R. Anderson1933-2016American politician
- Stanisław Skrowaczewski1923-2017Polish composer and conductor
- Paul Wellstone1944-2002American politician
- Floyd B. Olson1891-193622nd governor of Minnesota
- Charles August Lindbergh1859-1924American politician
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- Franklin Clarence Mars1883-1934American businessman
- Forrest Mars1904-1999American businessman
- Orville Freeman1918-2003American politician
- Jim Ramstad1946-2020American lawyer and politician
- Martin Olav Sabo1938-2016American politician
- Siah Armajani1939-2020American sculptor and architect
- John Lind1854-1930American politician
- Robert Koehler1850-1917German-born painter and art teacher
- Rudy Perpich1928-1995American politician
- Thomas D. Schall1878-1935American lawyer and politician
- William D. Washburn1831-1912American politician
- Adolph Olson Eberhart1870-1944American politician
- Bill Goldsworthy1944-1996Canadian ice hockey player
- Dewey Johnson1899-1941American lawyer and politician from Minnesota
- John S. Pillsbury1827-1901American governor of Minnesota
- Robert McAlmon1895-1956American writer
- Guy V. Howard1879-1954American politician
- Joe Hutton1928-2009American basketball player-coach
- Joseph A. A. Burnquist1879-1961American politician
- A. A. Ames1842-1911American Civil War surgeon, mob boss and politician
- Barton Hepburn1906-1955American actor
- David T. Lykken1928-2006American behavioral geneticist
- Eugene McLanahan Wilson1833-1890American politician
- George Dayton1857-1938American businessman
- James Serrin1926-2012American mathematician
- Justus Miles Forman1875-1915American writer
- Loren Fletcher1833-1919American politician
- Oscar Youngdahl1893-1946American politician
- Alice Frost1905-1998American actress
- Bobby Marshall1880-1958American football player
- Gladys Roy1896-1927American wing walker, barnstormer and film actor
- John G. Alexander1893-1971American politician
- John Gilfillan1835-1924American politician
- John H. Stevens1820-1900American politician
- John S. Johnson1873-1934American racing cyclist and speed skater
- Maren Michelet1869-1932American teacher
- Sapphire1934-1996American professional wrestler and valet
- Sydney Anderson1881-1948American politician
- Walter Hughes Newton1880-1941American politician
- William I. Nolan1874-1943American politician
- William S. King1828-1900American politician
- Charles Edward Adams1867-1936American politician from Minnesota
- Cyrus Aldrich1808-1871American politician
- Einar Hoidale1870-1952American politician
- Godfrey G. Goodwin1873-1933Minnesota Representative
- Joseph Francis1801-1893American boat builder
- Karl Mueller1963-2005American musician
- Moses K. Armstrong1832-1906American politician
- Spencer Harris1900-1982American baseball player
- Amy Robbins Ware1877-1929American author; Red Cross worker in France
- Carl Strandlund1899-1974Swedish-American inventor
- Charles Alfred Pillsbury1842-1899American industrialist and politician
- Charles Raymond Robertson1889-1951American politician
- Conrad L. Wirth1899-1993Landscape architect, conservationist and park service administrator
- Emma A. Cranmer1858-1937American reformer, suffragist, writer
- Franklin Ellsworth1879-1942American politician
- Henry Turner Eddy1844-1921American university president
- Horace Cleveland1814-1900American landscape architect
- Isaac Atwater1818-1906American judge
- James Clark Haynes1848-1913American lawyer and politician
- Keith Fahnhorst1952-2018American football player
- Lewis A. Grant1828-1918United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Ossie Bluege1900-1985American baseball player and coach
- Paul Giel1932-2002American football and baseball player, college athletics administrator
- Pauline Fjelde1861-1923Norwegian-American artist and weaver
- Richard Pillsbury Gale1900-1973American politician
- Samuel Snider1845-1928American politician
- T. B. Walker1840-1928American lumberman and art collector
- Theodore Wirth1863-1949Swiss architect
- Thomas Heggen1918-1949American writer
- Alonzo Cooper Rand1831-1885American inventor and politician (183_-1885)
- Austin H. Young1830-1905American lawyer and politician
- Bob Bjorklund1918-1994American football player
- Buzz Arlett1899-1964American baseball player
- Cedric Adams1902-1961American broadcaster
- Charles B. Elliott1861-1935American jurist
- Charles M. Loring1833-1922American businessperson, miller and publicist
- Clara Elizabeth Fanning1878-1938American writer
- Cyrus Northrop1834-1922American academic
- Dick Siebert1912-1978American baseball player and coach
- Effie Woodward Fifield1857-1937American author
- Eli B. Ames1820-1897American lawyer and politician
- Ethel Edgerton Hurd1845-1929American physician and woman suffragist
- Franklin B. Long1842-1912American architect
- Frederick Corser1849-1924American architect
- Glen Sonmor1929-2015Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- Harry Wild Jones1859-1935American architect
- Henry Titus Welles1821-1898American businessman and politician
- Horatio P. Van Cleve1809-1891Union Army general
- Ida Dorsey1866-1918American madam
- Jacob Fjelde1859-1896Norwegian-American artist
- James Connelly1896-1972American flying ace
- James Ford Bell1879-1961American businessman
- John H. MacMillan, Jr.1895-1960American businessman
- John T. Fanning1837-1911American architect and hydraulic engineer
- John Williams1945-2012American football player
- Kenneth Rand1891-1918American poet
- Margaret Crosby1902-1972American Classical archaeologist
- Mary Ann Feldman1933-2019American music critic
- Robert Newton Adams1835-1914American Civil War Union general
- Sherry Robertson1919-1970Canadian baseball player
- Swan Turnblad1860-1933American newspaper publisher
- Thomas Lowry1843-1909American businessman
- Wallace G. Nye1859-1926American mayor
- Wilbur N. Taylor1846-1903United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
- Wilford Fawcett1885-1940American publisher and sport shooter
- William Henry Eustis1845-1928American mayor
- William W. McNair1836-1885American lawyer and politician
- Andrew B. Robbins1845-1910America entrepreneur and politician
- Andrew Davidson1840-1902American politician
- Bud Daugherty1890-1937American football coach
- Carl Pohlad1915-2009American financier
- Cora Johnstone Best1878-1930Physician, mountaineer, lecturer
- Curt Carlson1914-1999American businessman
- Daniel Fish1848-1924American journalist, lawyer and judge
- David Adam Secombe1827-1892American lawyer and politician
- Della Whitney Norton1840-1937American poet, author, Christian Scientist
- Elizabeth Augusta Russell1832-1911American philanthropist and reformer
- Ellen Torelle Nagler1870-1965American biologist, author, lecturer
- Erik August Skogsbergh1850-1939Swedish American preacher
- Fred Luehring1882-1981American sports coach and college athletics administrator
- George A. Brackett1836-1921American politician and businessman
- George A. Totten1870-1955American pastor, publisher, and political figure
- George N. Morgan1825-1866Union United States Army general
- H. David Dalquist1918-2005American chemical engineer
- Harriet G. Walker1841-1917President of Abbott Northwestern Hospital
- Harry Good1902-1997Tennis player
- Harry Snyder1867-1927American agriculturalist
- Henry J. Gjertsen1861-1911American politician (1861-1911), Minnesota -Senate 1903-06 (District 42)
- Howard Fox1920-2011American baseball executive
- Hugh G. Harrison1822-1891American businessman, banker and politician
- Hy Vandenberg1906-1994Major League Baseball pitcher
- Ima Winchell Stacy1867-1923American educator
- Isaac Wilson Joyce1836-1905American bishop
- J. E. Meyers1862-1944American politician
- James Gray1862-1916American journalist and politician
- James L. Adams1921-2014American politician from Minnesota
- John De Laittre1832-1912American businessman, banker and politician
- John Evenson Granrud1863-1920Norwegian-American teacher and writer
- John Hugh MacMillan1928-2008American businessman
- John Martin1820-1905(1820-1905) businessman, created the Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company
- John Sargent Pillsbury, Jr.1912-2005Businessperson
- L. J. Cooke1868-1943Basketball coach
- Lillian Gertrude Hahnen1882-1966(1882-1966) wife of Darl Beecher Ransberg Sr.
- Martha Angle Dorsett1851-1918American lawyer
- Melchior Falk Gjertsen1847-1913Norwegian-American priest
- Milan H. Sessions1821-1898American politician
- Orlando C. Merriman1827-1906American lawyer, politician and businessman
- Ossie Solem1891-1970American football player and coach, basketball coach, college athletics administrator
- Petra Fandrem Howard1891-1971American labor advocate for the deaf
- Pug Lund1913-1994American football player
- Robert Bruce Langdon1826-1895American businessman and politician
- Robert Pratt1845-1908American educator and politician
- Sherman W. Finger1883-1937American football, basketball, and track coach
- Stephen E. Chandler1841-1919Medal of Honor recipient
- Steve Foley1959-2008American musician
- Tom Shevlin1883-1915American football player
- Virgil Johnson1909-1993American ice hockey player
- William Bell Riley1861-1947American pastor
- William Hood Dunwoody1841-1914US businessman and museum benefactor
- William Lochren1832-1912United States federal judge
- Arthur Ross Rogers1864-1936American lumberman
- Bradley Phillips1818-1904American Presbyterian minister and politician
- Caroline A. Hall1838-1918American activist
- Charles E. Vanderburgh1829-1898American judge
- Charles Tyler Trowbridge1835-1907American politician
- Conrad L. Eklund1894-1953American-football player
- Darl Beecher Ransburg Jr.1913-1993
- David F. Simpson1860-1925American judge
- Dorilus Morrison1814-1897American politician
- Douglass H. Atwill1881-1960Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota
- Edmund Pennington1848-1926
- Edward C. Babb1834-1899American businessman and politician
- Estelle Woods Wilcox1849-1943Cookery book compiler and publisher from Minnesota, USA
- Everett Ward Olmsted1869-1943American linguist
- George Alfred Pillsbury1816-1898American businessman and politician
- George S. Pillsbury1921-2012American politician and businessman
- George W. Webster1870-1953American railroad executive
- Henry L. Williams1869-1931American football player and coach
- Horace Lowry1880-1931
- Jack Harrison1875-1952American football player and coach, politician, businessman
- James Albert Brush1846-1906American commercial photographer
- James Ostrand1871-1937Norwegian-American soldier and lawyer (1871-1937); Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
- James Sample1910-1995American conductor
- James Thomas Wyman1849-1918American politician (1849-1918), Minnesota -House 1893-94 (District 30); Senate 1895-98 (District 30)
- John Elliott Tappan1870-1957American lawyer and financial innovator
- John J. Wild1914-2009American inventor
- L. P. Hubbard1840-1932American businessman
- Louis L. Long1870-1925American architect, 1870-1925
- Lyle Wright1898-1963Canadian-American ice hockey manager and businessman
- Marguerite Wells1872-1959America social reformer
- Persis Robertson1896-1992American painter and printmaker
- Ponsonby Ogle1855-1902British writer, journalist and editor
- Roscoe Fawcett1886-1936Editor and publisher
- Rufus Rand1892-1971American businessman, military officer and politician
- Samuel Emery Adams1828-1912American politician (1828-1912), Minnesota -Senate 1857-60 (District 19)
- Scott Nimerfro1961-2016American film producer, television producer and screenwriter
- Thomas Henry Shevlin1852-1912American lumberman
- Thomas Robinson1837-1915United States Navy sailor, born 1837
- Wheelock Whitney, Sr.1894-1957American businessman
- William McAlmon1889-1917American-football player (1889-)
- William S. Ervin1886-1951American attorney and politician
- Abbie Louise Day1875-1946Professor of education
- Agnes Oliphant McNair1865-1922
- Albert M. Goodrich1860-1935American historian
- Alice Louise Olmsted1856-1881
- Alida Ferris1845-1917
- Alma Virginia Walker1908-1972
- Alonzo H. Linton1836-1911American railroad executive
- Anna Symmes Harrison1842-1926Sister of U.S. president Benjamin Harrison
- Archie Dean Walker1882-1971
- Arthur Allen Richardson1873-1950American photographer
- Beatrice M. Goodrich1854-1915American philanthropist
- Borghild Dahl1890-1984American English professor and author
- Bryan Ottoson1978-2005American guitarist
- Calvin Gibson Goodrich1856-1915Millionaire
- Calvin Gibson Goodrich1820-1880
- Carlos W. Del Plaine1893-1964Surgeon
- Caroline Macomber Crosby1871-1950American algologist
- Charles H. Bell1907-2003American photographer and businessman
- Charles Rolfe McCollom1883-1973American geologist
- Volunteer weather observer for meteorological project (1848-1870) of the Smithsonian Institution
- Clara Keziah Leavitt1864-1943American botanist and botanical collector
- Clinton Lee Walker1876-1944American businessman
- Cornelius B. Shove1844-1927American politician (1844-1927), Minnesota, House 1903-04 (District 40)
- Dale B. Harris1914-2007American professor of psychology
- Darius F. Morgan1854-1903American politician (1854-1903), Minnesota -House 1889-90 (District 4); Senate 1895-98 (District 32)
- DeWitt Clinton Morrison1842-1913Millionaire heir
- Donald Goodrich1888-1951Heir
- Ebenezer A. Hodsdon1820-1907
- Edith Lydia Frost1881-1958
- Edward Chenery Gale1862-1943US art collector and museum benefactor
- Volunteer weather observer for meteorological project (1848-1873) of the Smithsonian Institution
- Edward Junius Edwards1854-191127 Feb 1854 - 23 Jun 1911
- Edwin Graham Potter1852-1926American politician (1852-1926), Minnesota -Senate 1895-98 (District 31); Senate 1899-1902 (District 40)
- Eleanor Lowry1874-1935
- Elizabeth Hankinson Foss1872-1959American botanist and teacher
- Elmer George Uggen1891-1949US musician, composer, conductor, educator, and music store owner
- Eugenie S. Birkholz1853-1932American author and poet
- Faith Thompson1893-1961American historian
- Florence M. Hendrickson1898-1991
- Frank Elmore Bissell1845-1918American politician (1845-1918), Minnesota, House 1879-80 (District 31)
- Frank Griggs McMillan1856-1918American politician (1857-1918), Minnesota, Senate 1891-94 (District 30)
- Frank Hutchison Peavey1850-1901Millionaire
- Frank Totton Heffelfinger1869-1959
- Frederick Henry Boardman1848-1914American politician (1848-1914), Minnesota -House 1883-84 (District 30)
- Frederick Tryon1892-1940American economist
- Freeman Parker Lane1853-1927American politician (1853-1927), Minnesota -House 1889-90 (District 30)
- George H. Johnson1843-1929American politician, Minnesota -- "G.H." House 1877 (District 26)
- George Herbert Goodrich1860-1925American businessman, mayor of Anoka, Minnesota
- George R. Newell1845-1921Millionaire
- Gertrude Kline Colbydied 1960American dance educator
- Gilbert Marshal Walker1864-1928American businessman
- Grace Alice Day1878-1952Professor of education
- Gustaf F. Johnson1873-1959Swedish-American pastor
- Harriet Walker1870-1904
- Harry Byrd Humason1875-1950American banker
- Henry George Hicks1838-1912American politician (1838-1912), Minnesota, House 1878-82 (District 26); House 1883-84 (District 29); House 1897-98 (District 32); House 1907-08 (District 41)
- Henry Mitchell1882-1958American lawyer
- 9 Jul 1812 - 24 Dec 1898
- J. Kimball Whitney1927-2010President of Whitney Land Company
- James A. Peterson1859-1928American politician (1859-1928), Minnesota -House 1901-02 (District 42)
- James Ford Bell Jr.1903-1981American businessman, filmmaker and conservationist
- James Madison Bowler1838-1916American educator and politician
- James Stroud Bell1847-19151847-1915 , businessman
- Jessie Maria Polley1866-1919American botanist and botanical collector
- Joel B. Bassett1817-1912American politician (1817-1912), Minnesota -Territorial Council 1857 (District 11)
- Volunteer weather observer for meteorological project (1848-1873) of the Smithsonian Institution
- John Bigelow1841-1917Politician in Massachusetts, US
- John Conrad Oswald1824-1905American politician (1824-1905), Minnesota -- "J.C." Senate 1887-90 (District 30)
- John Franklin Calhoun1854-1922American politician (1854-1922), Minnesota, Senate 1903-10 (District 40)
- John Henry Barr1861-19371861-1937
- Julia Blanche Clifford1864-1918American botanist
- Julia Walker Smith1865-1951
- Katharine Deborah Stevens1852-1911
- Katharine S. Wheaton1884-1965
- Kay Kuchenberg Simak1908-1985Wife of science fiction author Clifford Simak
- Leon Barlow Walker1868-1887
- Louis Blodgett Newell1871-1966
- Louise Caroline Wilson1840-1918
- Lucia Louise Peavey1873-1941
- Marion Daniel Shutter1853-1939American clergyman
- Mary C. van Wert1881-1963American botanist and botanical collector
- Mary Dibble Wright1850-1903
- Mary Jordan Edwards1854-1942American botanist and botanical collector
- Nelle Pendleton Winston1878-1957
- Orion Alexander Bartholomew1837-1919American Civil War general
- Paul Kuetzing1849-1924Preparator, ornithologist, entomologist, lepidopterist
People whose Wikidata entry gives Lakewood 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
44.93274, -93.29967
What Lakewood 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.
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Funeral homes near Lakewood Cemetery
- Cremation Society Of Minnesota1.2 miCremation provider · Minneapolis · (612) 200-0335
- Washburn-McReavy Uptown Chapel1.9 miFuneral home · Minneapolis · (612) 377-2203
- Washburn-McReavy Welander Quest-Davies Funeral and Cremation1.9 miCremation provider · Minneapolis
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- Hodroff-Epstein Memorial Chapel2.4 miFuneral chapel · Minneapolis · (612) 871-1234
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Lakewood Cemetery located?
Lakewood Cemetery is at 3600 Hennepin Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55408 in Hennepin County. GPS coordinates: 44.93274, -93.29967.
What are the visiting hours of Lakewood Cemetery?
The recorded hours are: 08:00-20:00. Hours can change on holidays, so confirm with the cemetery.
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