Where architects are buried
Wikidata records 861 architects as buried in 397 of the cemeteries we list, across 46 states. Mount Auburn Cemetery in North Brighton, MA, holds the most, with 39.
People with architect among their recorded occupations.
Map of cemeteries
Each point is a cemetery; open it for everyone recorded there.
Architects and where they rest
- Thomas Jefferson1743-1826Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809Jefferson Tomb, Charlottesville, VA
- Elie Wiesel1928-2016Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivorKensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
- I. M. Pei1917-2019Chinese-American architectKensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe1886-1969German architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Louis Sullivan1856-1924American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- László Moholy-Nagy1895-1946Hungarian artistGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Eero Saarinen1910-1961American architectWhite Chapel Cemetery, Troy, MI
- Louis Kahn1901-1974Estonian-American architectMontefiore Cemetery, Rockledge, PA
- Christabel Pankhurst1880-1958Suffragette, co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, editorWoodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, CA
- Hector Guimard1867-1942French architectGate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
- William Le Baron Jenney1832-1907American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Daniel Burnham1846-1912American architect and urban designerGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Minoru Yamasaki1912-1986American architectLakeville Cemetery, Leonard, MI
- Cedric Gibbons1893-1960American art directorCalvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Robert Moses1888-1981American urban plannerWoodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
- Michael Graves1934-2015American architect and designer of consumer productsPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Pierre Charles L’Enfant1754-1825French-born American architectArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Julia Morgan1872-1957American architect and engineerMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Fazlur Khan1929-1982Bangladeshi architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- John Augustus Roebling1806-1869German-American engineerRiverview Cemetery, Trenton, NJ
- Herbert Bayer1900-1985Austrian architect, photographer, graphic and typographerAspen Grove Cemetery, Aspen, CO
- Hans Hofmann1880-1966German-American painterSnow Cemetery, Truro, MA
- Lilia Skala1896-1994Austrian-American actressLakeview Cemetery, New Canaan, CT
- Vasyl Krychevsky1873-1952Ukrainian artistSt Andrew's Ukrainian Cemetery, South Bound Brook, NJ
- James Hoban1762-1831Irish architectMount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Charles Eames1907-1978American designerCalvary Cemetery, Saint Louis, MO
- Nora Stanton Blatch Barney1883-1971American civil engineer, architect and suffragistWoodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
- Keye Luke1904-1991American actorRose Hills Memorial Park - Cemetery, Whittier, CA
- Dankmar Adler1844-1900ArchitectRosemont Park Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- John Marin1870-1953American artistFairview Cemetery, Fairview, NJ
- Joseph Strauss1870-1938American structural engineerForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Henry Hobson Richardson1838-1886American architectWalnut Hills Cemetery, Bellevue, MA
- Albert Kahn1869-1942American architectWhite Chapel Cemetery, Troy, MI
- Marion Mahony Griffin1871-1961American architect and artistGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Billy Casper1931-2015American golferEvergreen Cemetery, Springville, UT
- Calvert Vaux1824-1895Anglo-American architectMontrepose Cemetery, Kingston, NY
- Mary Colter1869-1958American architect and designerOakland Cemetery, Saint Paul, MN
- Horatio Greenough1805-1852American artistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Charles Bulfinch1763-1844American architectMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Raymond Hood1881-1934American architectSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
- John Russell Pope1874-1937American architectBerkeley Memorial Cemetery, Newport East, RI
- Richard Morris Hunt1827-1895American architectIsland Cemetery, Newport, RI
- Ray Eames1912-1988American artist, designer, and filmmakerCalvary Cemetery, Saint Louis, MO
- Emery Roth1871-1948American architectFerncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
- William Thornton1759-1828British-American physician, inventor, painter and architectCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Felix de Weldon1907-2003Austrian-american sculptorArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- John Wellborn Root1850-1891American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Henry Bacon1866-1924American architectOakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, NC
- William Van Alen1882-1954American architectCold Spring Cemetery, Cold Spring, NY
- Gene Stratton-Porter1863-1924American writer and naturalistHollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- James Bogardus1800-1874American inventor and architectGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- Robert Mills1781-1855American architectCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Bruce Graham1925-2010Peruvian-American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Louise Blanchard Bethune1856-1913American architectForest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, NY
- Julius Shulman1910-2009American photographerHillside Memorial Park, Inglewood, CA
- Charles Follen McKim1847-1909American Beaux-Arts architectRosedale Cemetery, West Orange, NJ
- Paul László1900-1993ArchitectWestwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
- Pierre Koenig1925-2004American architectLos Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Siah Armajani1939-2020American sculptor and architectLakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, MN
- Frederick Ward Putnam1839-1915American anthropologist and biologistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Bruce Goff1904-1982American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Joseph Lyman Silsbee1848-1913American architectOakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, NY
- Katherine Stinson1891-1977American aviatorSanta Fe National Cemetery, Santa Fe, NM
- Paul Philippe Cret1876-1945French-American architect and industrial designerThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- Theodate Pope Riddle1867-1946American architectRiverside Cemetery, Farmington, CT
- Alexander Jackson Davis1803-1892American architectBloomfield Cemetery, Glen Ridge, NJ
- Julian Abele1881-1950American architectEden Memorial Cemetery, Collingdale, PA
- Thomas Ustick Walter1804-1887American architectLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Herbert J. Krapp1886-1973American architectSalem Field Cemetery, Queens, NY
- George Washington Donaghey1856-1937American politicianRoselawn Cemetery, Little Rock, AR
- John Smibert1688-1751American artistGranary Burying Ground, Boston, MA
- Mother Joseph Pariseau1823-1902Religious Sister and pioneerMother Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Vancouver, WA
- George Bergstrom1876-1955American architectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- George Howe1886-1955American architect and educatorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Ernest Flagg1857-1947American architectEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Gilmore David Clarke1892-1982American architectArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- John Meehan1902-1963American art directorInglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
- George B. Post1837-1913American architectWoodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
- Joseph Urban1872-1933Austrian-American architectSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
- Adolf Cluss1825-1905German-born American architectOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- George Kessler1862-1923American landscape architectBellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, MO
- George Grant Elmslie1869-1952American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Hugo Ballin1879-1956American artistWoodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, CA
- William Holabird1854-1923American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Edward Austin Kent1854-1912American architectForest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, NY
- Ithiel Town1784-1844American architectGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Elijah E. Myers1830-1909American architectWoodlawn Cemetery, Ferndale, MI
- J. George Stewart1890-1970American politicianLower Brandywine Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Greenville, DE
- Elizabeth Hirsh Fleisher1892-1975American architectMount Sinai Cemetery, Cheltenham, PA
- Charles A. Platt1861-1933American landscape architectEast Cemetery, Manchester, CT
- Harry Kendall Thaw1871-1947American playboyAllegheny Cemetery, Bloomfield, PA
- Ada Bell Maescher1868-1939American club woman and building contractorForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Montgomery C. Meigs1816-1892Union Army generalArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Daniel McCallum1815-1878Canadian engineer and early organizational theoristMount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY
- Fletcher Steele1885-1971American architectMount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY
- Bernard Maybeck1862-1957ArchitectMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- James Renwick Jr.1818-1895American architectGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- William Howe1803-1852American bridge builderSpringfield Cemetery, Springfield, MA
- Joseph Nathaniel French1888-1975American architectRoseland Park Cemetery, Berkley, MI
- Welton Becket1902-1969American architectEvergreen Washelli Cemetery, Shoreline, WA
- Gordon Kaufmann1888-1949American architectGolden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, CA
- Frank Furness1839-1912Philadelphia architect and United States Army Medal of Honor recipientLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- George W. Maher1864-1926American architectRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Reino Aarnio1912-1988American architectPachaug Cemetery, Jewett City, CT
- Carl Jules Weyl1890-1948German art directorForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Horace Jackson1898-1952American film director, screenwriterForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- William Robert Ware1832-1915American architectMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Arthur Brown, Jr.1874-1957American architectCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Joachim Gotsche Giæver1856-1925Norwegian engineerGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- David Adler1882-1949American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Jacob Wrey Mould1825-1886British-American architectGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- John McComb Jr.1763-1853American architectGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- Volodymyr Sichynskyi1894-1962American architect and art historianSt Andrew's Ukrainian Cemetery, South Bound Brook, NJ
- Howard Garns1905-1989American architect and creator of SudokuCrown Hill National Cemetery, Indianapolis, IN
- John Prentiss Benson1865-1947American architect and painterHarmony Grove Cemetery, Peabody, MA
- Henry Van Brunt1832-1903United States architectCambridge Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Hammatt Billings1818-1874American architect and illustratorMilton Cemetery, Milton, MA
- William W. Boyington1818-1898American politician and architectRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Horace Trumbauer1868-1938American architectWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
- Edgar M. Lazarus1868-1939American architectOheb Shalom Cemetery, Canton, MD
- Ida Annah Ryan1873-1950American architectGrove Hill Cemetery, Waltham, MA
- Henry A. Schade1900-1992United States Navy commodoreArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Samuel Parsons1844-1923American landscape architectWoodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
- Charles Eliot1859-1897American landscape architectMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- J. André Fouilhoux1879-1945French born American architectGreen Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
- Howard Van Doren Shaw1869-1926American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Claire Allen1853-1942American architectMount Evergreen Cemetery, Jackson, MI
- Stanley Tigerman1930-2019American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- David Bates Douglass1790-1849American civil and military engineer; academic administrator; and cemetery architectGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- Myron Hunt1868-1952American architectSan Gabriel Cemetery, San Marino, CA
- Charles Ebbets1859-1925American baseball executiveGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- Theodore Link1850-1923American architectBellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, MO
- Henry Ives Cobb1859-1931American architectGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- Anna Pendleton Schenck1874-1915American architectGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- Barry Byrne1883-1967American architectCalvary Catholic Cemetery, Evanston, IL
- Alexander Ralston1771-1827Scottish-American architectCrown Hill National Cemetery, Indianapolis, IN
- Morgan Colt1876-1926American painter, architect and artisanCedar Lawn Cemetery, Elmwood Park, NJ
- Arnold Sutermeister1830-1907Union army officerElmwood Cemetery, Kansas City, MO
- William Eugene Drummond1876-1946American Prairie School architectForest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
- Ray Kappe1927-2019American architectHillside Memorial Park, Inglewood, CA
- Samuel McIntire1757-1811American architectCharter Street Cemetery, Salem, MA
- Solomon Andrew Layton1864-1943American architectRose Hill Burial Park, Nichols Hills, OK
- Edward Clark1822-1902American architectRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Hildreth Meiere1892-1961American muralist and mosaic artistHoly Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, CA
- Samuel Sloan1815-1884American architectMount Moriah Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
- John Galen Howard1864-1931American architectSunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
- B. Marcus Priteca1889-1971Scottish-American architectHills of Eternity Cemetery, Seattle, WA
- Clarence H. Johnston, Sr.1859-1936American architectOakland Cemetery, Saint Paul, MN
- George D. Mason1856-1948American architectEvergreen Cemetery, Ferndale, MI
- Edward Pearce Casey1864-1940American designer and architectCasey Cemetery, North Kingstown, RI
Showing the 150 with the most Wikipedia language editions, of 861. Cemetery pages list everyone recorded there.
Deaths by decade
- 1750s1
- 1800s2
- 1810s1
- 1820s7
- 1830s3
- 1840s4
- 1850s9
- 1860s14
- 1870s13
- 1880s24
- 1890s37
- 1900s45
- 1910s73
- 1920s90
- 1930s105
- 1940s110
- 1950s89
- 1960s79
- 1970s56
- 1980s35
- 1990s24
- 2000s20
- 2010s16
- 2020s3
By recorded year of death, for the 860 people with one.
Where they are buried
- Mount Auburn Cemetery · North Brighton, MA39
- Graceland Cemetery · Chicago, IL38
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park · Glendale, CA30
- Green - Wood Cemetery · Brooklyn, NY23
- Woodlawn Cemetery · The Bronx, NY16
- Arlington National Cemetery · Arlington, VA12
- Rosehill Cemetery · Chicago, IL12
- Forest Hills Cemetery · Roslindale, MA12
- Newton Cemetery · Newton, MA12
- Crown Hill National Cemetery · Indianapolis, IN12
- Mountain View Cemetery · Oakland, CA10
- Cypress Lawn Memorial Park · Colma, CA10
- Lake View Cemetery · East Cleveland, OH8
- Swan Point Cemetery · Pawtucket, RI8
- Lakewood Cemetery · Minneapolis, MN7
- Sleepy Hollow Cemetery · Sleepy Hollow, NY7
- West Laurel Hill Cemetery · Bala Cynwyd, PA7
- Forest Lawn Cemetery · Buffalo, NY7
- Bellefontaine Cemetery · Saint Louis, MO6
- Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum · Finneytown, OH6
- Allegheny Cemetery · Bloomfield, PA6
- Grove Street Cemetery · New Haven, CT6
- Laurel Hill Cemetery · Philadelphia, PA6
- Congressional Cemetery · Washington, DC5
- Oakwood Cemetery · Syracuse, NY5
Top 25 of 397 cemeteries. The map shows all of them.
Architects by state
- Alabama6
- Arizona3
- Arkansas4
- California114
- Colorado3
- Connecticut27
- Delaware1
- District of Columbia17
- Florida3
- Georgia11
- Hawaii1
- Idaho1
- Illinois74
- Indiana16
- Iowa5
- Kansas12
- Kentucky5
- Louisiana10
- Maine8
- Maryland7
- Massachusetts158
- Michigan20
- Minnesota12
- Mississippi1
- Missouri15
- Montana1
- Nebraska4
- New Hampshire2
- New Jersey21
- New Mexico4
- New York105
- North Carolina5
- Ohio24
- Oklahoma1
- Oregon6
- Pennsylvania55
- Rhode Island12
- South Carolina3
- Tennessee12
- Texas9
- Utah7
- Vermont6
- Virginia23
- Washington15
- West Virginia4
- Wisconsin8
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How this list is made
A person is on this list when their Wikidata entry gives a cemetery we list as their place of burial and also carries the statement this list is built on. We do not add anyone by judgment, so the list reflects how complete Wikidata is: some people are missing, and burial places can be disputed.
Names, years and descriptions are shown as Wikidata records them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists.