About Ferncliff Cemetery
Ferncliff Cemetery is a cemetery near Greenburgh, Westchester County, New York. It lies about 0.7 mi northwest of Greenburgh. The grounds sit at about 453 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 253 notable people buried here, including Malcolm X, Béla Bartók and Joan Crawford. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 949992. The nearest other listed cemetery is Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, about 1.9 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Edwards-Dowdle Funeral Home in Dobbs Ferry, about 1.9 mi away. It is one of 116 cemeteries we list in Westchester County, and 73 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 7 of the 116 listings in Westchester County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Greenburgh. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
Among them: 57 actors, 52 musicians, 45 writers, 20 journalists, 17 artists, 14 business leaders, 6 inventors and engineers, 5 Pulitzer Prize winners.
- Malcolm X1925-1965American Black rights activist
- Béla Bartók1881-1945Hungarian composer and pianist
- Joan Crawford1905-1977American actress
- James Baldwin1924-1987American writer
- Ludwig von Mises1881-1973Austrian-American economist
- Aaliyah1979-2001American R&B singer
- Karen Horney1885-1952American-German psychoanalyst
- Thelonious Monk1917-1982American jazz pianist and composer
- Soong May-ling1898-2003Chiang Kai-shek's wife, First Lady of the Republic of China
- Paul Robeson1898-1976American singer, actor, and political activist
- Otto Rank1884-1939Austrian psychoanalyst
- Basil Rathbone1892-1967English actor
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- Michel Fokine1880-1942Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
- Cab Calloway1907-1994American jazz singer
- Ed Sullivan1901-1974American television host
- Ernst Toller1893-1939German writer, politician and leader of the Munich Soviet Republic
- Jerome Kern1885-1945American composer of musical theater and popular music
- Wellington Koo1887-1985Diplomat and former President of the Republic of China
- Richard Barthelmess1895-1963American actor
- Rosika Schwimmer1877-1948Hungarian activist, editor
- Ruby Dee1922-2014American actress
- Harold Arlen1905-1986American composer of popular music
- Charles A. Beard1874-1948American historian
- Leopold Auer1845-1930Hungarian violinist, conductor and composer
- Clara Rockmore1911-1998Russian-American musician
- Oscar Hammerstein II1895-1960American librettist, lyricist, theatrical producer, and director of musicals
- Ossie Davis1917-2005American actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, and social activist
- Preston Sturges1898-1959American film director and screenwriter
- T. V. Soong1891-1971Chinese businessman and politician
- Kitty Carlisle1910-2007American stage and screen actress, singer, and spokesperson for the arts
- Mary Ritter Beard1876-1958American historian and women's suffrage activist
- Joseph Pilates1883-1967German inventor of pilates
- Augusta Savage1892-1962American sculptor
- Cornell Woolrich1903-1968American author and screenwriter
- H. H. Kung1881-1967Chinese banker and politician
- Heavy D1967-2011Jamaican-American rapper and actor
- Judy Tyler1932-1957American actress
- Robert Evans1930-2019American film producer
- William Moulton Marston1893-1947American psychologist, lawyer, inventor, and comic book writer
- Dana Reeve1961-2006American actress and singer
- Jam Master Jay1965-2002American hip hop musician
- Lionel Trilling1905-1975American literary critic
- Peter Revson1939-1974American racecar driver
- Ona Munson1903-1955American actress
- Sigmund Romberg1887-1951Hungarian-born American composer
- Albert Austin1881-1953English actor
- Alberta Hunter1895-1984American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse
- Mady Christians1896-1951Austrian actress
- Marion Lorne1883-1968American actress
- Soong Ai-ling1889-1973Wife of H. H. Kung
- George London1920-1985Opera singer from Canada
- Harry Emerson Fosdick1878-1969American pastor
- Tadd Dameron1917-1965American pianist
- Adolph Caesar1933-1986American actor
- Bayezid Osman Osmanoğlu1924-2017Pretender to the Ottoman throne
- Hugh Marlowe1911-1982American actor
- Lya De Putti1896-1931(1896-1931) actress
- Betty Shabazz1934-1997American educator and wife of Malcolm X
- Elsa Maxwell1883-1963American gossip columnist, author, songwriter, and hostess
- John Emery1905-1964American actor
- Owen Davis1874-1956American dramatist
- Arleen Auger1939-1993American soprano
- Betty Furness1916-1994American actress, consumer advocate and current affairs commentator
- Emery Roth1871-1948American architect
- Moss Hart1904-1961American playwright, librettist, and theatre director
- Ann Lowe1898-1981African American fashion designer
- Annette Hanshaw1901-1985American singer
- Arsenio Rodríguez1911-1970Cuban musician
- Brooks Atkinson1894-1984American critic
- Northern Calloway1948-1990American actor
- Theodor Reik1888-1969Austrian-American psychoanalyst
- Charles Richman1865-1940Actor
- Friedrich Schorr1888-1953Asutro-Hungarian opera singer
- Jane Gail1889-1963American actress
- John Erskine1879-1951American educator and novelist
- Maria Gay1876-1943Catalan opera singer
- William Rose Benét1886-1950American writer
- Charles Revson1906-1975American-Canadian businessman (Revlon)
- Connee Boswell1907-1976American musician
- Frederick William MacMonnies1863-1937United States expatriate sculptor
- George Brant Bridgman1864-1943Canadian-American artist and writer
- Henrietta Crosman1861-1944American actress
- Irène Bordoni1889-1953Italian-French actor and singer
- Malik Sealy1970-2000American basketball player
- Moms Mabley1894-1975American comedian and actress
- Walter White1893-1955American civil rights activist
- David B. Steinman1886-1960American civil engineer
- Denzil Best1917-1965American jazz drummer
- Howard Chandler Christy1873-1952American artist
- Lew Fields1867-1941American actor, comedian, vaudeville star, theatre manager, and producer
- Raymond Walburn1887-1969Actor
- Diana Sands1934-1973American actress
- Ladislava Bakanic1924-2021American gymnast
- Violet Mersereau1892-1975Actress
- Whitney Young1921-1971American civil rights leader
- Barbara Carroll1925-2017Jazz pianist, composer and vocalist.
- Bella Fromm1890-1972German journalist
- Lenore Ulric1892-1970American actress
- Ludwig Donath1900-1967Actor
- Tommy Armour1894-1968Scottish-American professional golfer
- Avon Long1910-1984American actor
- James Rennie1890-1965Canadian actor
- Joe Young1889-1939American lyricist
- Khalid Abdul Muhammad1948-2001American black nationalist, antisemitic and homophobic activist
- Mickey Deans1934-2003American musician and entrepreneur; fifth husband of Judy Garland
- Chang Jen-Chieh1877-1950Chinese political leader
- Hattie Carnegie1886-1956Fashion designer
- John Flanagan1865-1952American artist
- Malcolm Shabazz1984-2013Grandson of Malcolm X
- Robert Minor1884-1952American journalist, political cartoonist
- Lawrence Marston1857-1939American theater and film director
- Paul Shearer Althouse1889-1954American opera singer
- Sharon Redd1945-1992American musician
- Albert Edward Sterner1863-1946American painter and engraver
- Alfred Steele1901-1959(1901-1959) Pepsi-Cola executive
- Arthur Sasse1899-1991American photographer
- Ballington Booth1857-1940American activist
- Burton Rascoe1892-1957American writer
- Gene Weltfish1902-1980American anthropologist and historian
- Gustav Stolper1888-1947German economist and politician
- J. C. Higginbotham1906-1973Jazz trombonist
- Joe Muranyi1928-2012American jazz clarinetist
- John Lionel Golden1874-1955American playwright
- Michael Malloy1873-1933Irishman who lived in New York during the 1920s and 30s
- Myrtle Vail1888-1978American vaudevillian, radio and film actress
- Otto Soglow1900-1975American cartoonist
- Owen Davis, Jr.1907-1949American actor
- Paul Ash1891-1958American musician
- Vera Fokina1886-1958Russian ballet dancer and teacher
- Walter Greaza1897-1973American actor
- Albert E. Austin1877-1942Politician, physician
- Anna Schoen-René1864-1942German-American soprano and teacher
- Arno C. Gaebelein1861-1945American minister
- Benjamin De Casseres1873-1945Journalist and essayist
- Coenraad Valentijn Bos1875-1955Dutch musician
- Connie Rasinski1907-1965Animation director
- Constance Lindsay Skinner1877-1939Canadian journalist
- David Matthew Potts1906-1976American politician
- Diana Trilling1905-1996American literary critic
- Donald Foster1889-1969American actor
- Egmont Hegel Arens1887-1966American publisher:literature/art/industrial designer/commercial artist specializing in marketing/product packaging
- Fabian Franklin1853-1939American mathematician, engineer and journalist 1853 - 1939
- Giorgio Polacco1875-1960Italian conductor
- Jesse Crawford1895-1962Pianist and organist
- Leo Gerstenzang1892-1961Polish-American inventor
- Lydia Gibson1891-1964American artist
- Marie Tiffany1881-1948American singer and opera singer
- Ray Bloch1902-1982American songwriter
- Toni Stolper1890-1988Austrian-German economist and journalist
- Wolcott Gibbs1902-1958American theater critic, humorist and editor
- Zhang Youyi1900-1988Wife of Xu Zhimo
- Amy Ricard1882-1937American actress
- Andre Sennwald1907-1936American journalist
- Anis Fuleihan1900-1970American composer
- Anya Taranda1915-1970American actress
- Clint Blume1898-1973American baseball player
- David Warfield1866-1951American actor
- Dud Bascomb1916-1972American musician
- Maud Ballington Booth1865-1948American activist
- Maurice S. Campbell1869-1942American journalist, film director and Broadway producer
- Max Gordon1892-1978American theatre and film producer
- Nahan Franko1861-1930American conductor
- T. L. Soong1903-1987Banker
- William Oberhardt1882-1958American artist
- Arthur "Bugs" Baer1886-1969American journalist and humorist
- Blanche Satchel1906-1961Australian model and dancer
- Charles P. McClelland1854-1944United States judge
- Curt Proskauer1887-1972
- Dagmar Nordstrom1903-1976American composer, pianist, and singer
- Donna Damerel1912-1941American actress
- Ernest Paananen1879-1951Musical artist
- Gennaro Papi1886-1941Italian-American conductor
- Hubert Thomas Delany1901-1990American politician
- J. H. Wallis1885-1958American writer
- Jeffrey Miller1950-1970American student; victim of the Kent State massacre
- Jim Boyd1933-2013American actor
- Joseph P. Bickerton Jr.1878-1936American lawyer and theatre producer
- Marie Saxon1904-1941American actress
- Mike Coppola1900-1966American mobster
- Red Morgan1883-1981American baseball player
- Renee Harris1876-1969American theatre manager and producer
- René Albrecht-Carrié1904-1978American diplomatic historian
- Sherman Billingsley1896-1966Bootlegger, restaurateur
- Stephen Birch1873-1940Miner
- Anne Eisner Putnam1911-1967American painter
- Anton Bamberger1886-1950German-American entrepreneur, founder, pioneer of the US plastics recycling
- Charles Evans1926-2007American business leader
- Chi-ming Hou1924-1991American economist
- Frederick Bristol1839-1932American voice teacher
- Harry Archer1886-1960American composer
- Herbert Lincoln Aldrich1860-1948American writer and publisher
- King Calder1898-1964American film, television and theatre actor
- Kung Ling-i1915-2008Daughter of Kung Hsiang-hsi and Soong Ai-ling
- Kung Ling-kan1916-1992Son of Song Ailing
- Maurice Ketten1875-1965American cartoonist
- Peaches Browning1910-1956American actress
- Samuel J. Battle1883-1966African-American pioneer police officer
- Sibyl Sammis-MacDermid1876-1940American singer
- Tom Carvel1906-1990American businessman
- Albert Bartholdi1881-1954(1881-1954) Swiss-American historian
- Alexander Cores1901-1994Russian musician
- Alexander Stavenitz1901-1960American artist
- Beatrix Hawthorne1879-1967Granddaughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Carl Gustaf Mörner1897-1947
- Charles Joel Duveen1871-1940Antique dealer "Charles of London"
- Clara Steuermann1922-1982American music librarian, archivist, and pianist
- Elliott Stanton Shaw1887-1973American singer
- Ernie Fiorito1907-1960American composer
- Harry L. Cort1889-1937American writer and theatrical producer
- Irén Palásthyi1898-1985Operetta singer, actress, dancer (1898-1984/1985)
- J. Nilsen Laurvik1877-1953Norwegian-American art critic
- J. W. Knibbs1880-1953American football player and coach
- Jack Dye1874-1944American football player and surgeon
- Johann Gottfried Ohsol1878-1968Latvian-American social democrat
- John William Lindauer1914-1991
- Joseph L. Galiber1924-1995American politician
- Kung Ling-chie1921-1996Son of Song Ailing and Kong Xiangxi
- Kung Ling-chun1919-1994Daughter of Song Ailing
- Laura Francatelli1880-1967Titanic survivor
- Lemuel L. Foster1890-1981American civil servant, community leader
- Malcolm Pirnie1889-1967American civil and consulting engineer
- Manton M. Wyvell1878-1935American lawyer
- Marcelle Carroll1896-1936French actress
- Milton H. Biow1892-1976American advertising executive
- Richard Bauer1897-1946Architect from Austria
- Roy Frederic Heinrich1881-1943American illustrator, 1881-1943
- Rudolf Kommer1886-1943Romanian journalist
- Rudolf Orthwine1893-1970American publisher
- Toots Shor1903-1977American restaurateur
- W. Livingston Larned1880-1960Americal writer and poet 1880 - 1960
- William Augustine Brophy1878-1940Brunswick Records Studios
- Barclay George Acheson1886-1957American reverend
- Billy Mann1901-1974
- Blanche Vanderbilt Marcelin1868-1941Socialite
- Emily Bedford1882-1975
- Emma Selkin Aronsondied 1959American surgeon and gynecologist
- George Crosman Sedley-Brown1887-1938American radio actor and writer
- Helen Crawford1899-1943Musician
- James G. MacDermid1875-1960American composer
- James Powell1949-1964
- John Gunther1929-19474 Nov 1929 - 30 Jun 1947
- Joseph Migliucci1938-2020Fourth-generation owner of Mario's restaurant in the Bronx
- Kasbar Najarian1897-1964Armenian-American photographer
- Laura Hylan O'Brien1894-19651891 - uncertain Jan 1965
- Margaret Livingston1861-1944
- Maurice Aronson1869-1946American musician
- Minna McLeod Beck1878-1959American artist
- Paulding Fosdick1882-1967
- Samuel Tilly White1854-1935American piano manufacturer
- Sophie Taub Biow1895-1943American community organizer
- Violet Besson1875-1938American actress
- Walter Winchester Keith1899-1944
- Wendell C. Phillips1857-1934American surgeon
People whose Wikidata entry gives Ferncliff 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.
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What Ferncliff 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 Ferncliff Cemetery
- Edwards-Dowdle Funeral Home1.9 miFuneral home · Dobbs Ferry · (914) 693-3330
- Ballard-Durand Funeral and Cremation Services2.0 miCremation provider · Elmsford · (914) 592-6300
- Andre F Baker Funeral Home2.0 miFuneral home · White Plains · (914) 997-6900
- Lee's Funeral Home, LLC2.9 miFuneral home · White Plains · (914) 949-0372
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- Pulver-Heuss Memorials3.2 miMonument dealer · Hastings-on-Hudson · (914) 478-1430
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