Notable people buried in California

• Michael Jackson1958-2009
  American singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Marilyn Monroe1926-1962
  American actress and model
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Steve Jobs1955-2011
  American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc.
  Alta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
• Walt Disney1901-1966
  American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Richard Feynman1918-1988
  American theoretical physicist
  Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
• Judy Garland1922-1969
  American actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian
  Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
• Elizabeth Taylor1932-2011
  British-American actress
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Frank Sinatra1915-1998
  American singer and actor
  Desert Memorial Park Cemetery, Cathedral City, CA
• Bing Crosby1903-1977
  American singer and actor
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
• John Wayne1907-1979
  American actor
  Pacific View Memorial Park, Costa Mesa, CA
• Ray Bradbury1920-2012
  American author and screenwriter
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Humphrey Bogart1899-1957
  American actor
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Kobe Bryant1978-2020
  American basketball player
  Pacific View Memorial Park, Costa Mesa, CA
• Bette Davis1908-1989
  American actress
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Frank Zappa1940-1993
  American musician
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Carrie Fisher1956-2016
  American actress, writer and screenwriter
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Clark Gable1901-1960
  American actor
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Ray Charles1930-2004
  American singer, pianist and songwriter
  Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
• Robert Andrews Millikan1868-1953
  American physicist
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Truman Capote1924-1984
  American writer
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• David Lynch1946-2025
  American filmmaker
  Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
• Rita Hayworth1918-1987
  American actress
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
• Charles Bukowski1920-1994
  German-American writer
  Green Hills Memorial Park, Lomita, CA
• Lauren Bacall1924-2014
  American actress
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Maria Göppert Mayer1906-1972
  German-born American theoretical physicist
  El Camino Memorial Park, Del Mar, CA
• Fred Astaire1899-1987
  American dancer, choreographer, actor, and singer
  Oakwood Memorial Park, Simi Valley, CA
• Mary Pickford1892-1979
  Canadian actress and producer
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Kirk Douglas1916-2020
  American actor
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Ella Fitzgerald1917-1996
  American jazz singer
  Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
• Buster Keaton1895-1966
  American actor, comedian and filmmaker
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Paul Walker1973-2013
  American actor
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• James Stewart1908-1997
  American actor and military officer
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Shirley Temple1928-2014
  American actress and diplomat
  Alta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
• Gary Cooper1901-1961
  American actor
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
• Groucho Marx1890-1977
  American comedian
  Eden Memorial Park, Mission Hills, CA
• William Shockley1910-1989
  American physicist and inventor
  Alta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
• Matthew Perry1969-2023
  American-Canadian actor
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Michael Clarke Duncan1957-2012
  American actor
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Otto Stern1888-1969
  German-American physicist
  Sunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
• John Ford1894-1973
  American film director
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
• Spencer Tracy1900-1967
  American actor
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Sally Ride1951-2012
  American astronaut and physicist
  Woodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, CA
• Raymond Chandler1888-1959
  American novelist and screenwriter
  Mount Hope Cemetery, National City, CA
• Gene Kelly1912-1996
  American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Debbie Reynolds1932-2016
  American actress, singer, and dancer
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Paramahansa Yogananda1893-1952
  Yogi, Kriya Yoga guru and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Carl David Anderson1905-1991
  American physicist
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Zsa Zsa Gabor1917-2016
  Hungarian-American socialite and actress
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Larry King1933-2021
  American television and radio host
  Hillside Memorial Park, Inglewood, CA
• Burt Lancaster1913-1994
  American actor
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Lucille Ball1911-1989
  American actress
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Richard Simmons1948-2024
  American fitness instructor and video producer
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Dean Martin1917-1995
  American singer, actor, comedian and film producer
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Bob Hope1903-2003
  American entertainer
  San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Santa Clarita, CA
• Billy Wilder1906-2002
  Austrian and American filmmaker
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Hugh Hefner1926-2017
  American businessman and magazine publisher
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Jack Lemmon1925-2001
  American actor
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Donald Arthur Glaser1926-2013
  American physicist and neurobiologist
  Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
• Ginger Rogers1911-1995
  American actress and dancer
  Oakwood Memorial Park, Simi Valley, CA
• Farrah Fawcett1947-2009
  American actress
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Thomas Hunt Morgan1866-1945
  American biologist and professor from Kentucky
  Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
• Leonard Nimoy1931-2015
  American actor
  Hillside Memorial Park, Inglewood, CA
• Glenn Theodore Seaborg1912-1999
  American chemist
  Sunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
• Errol Flynn1909-1959
  Australian actor
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Theodore Dreiser1871-1945
  American novelist and journalist
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Nat King Cole1919-1965
  American singer and jazz pianist
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Ernest Borgnine1917-2012
  American actor
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Fritz Lang1890-1976
  Austrian filmmaker
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Burt Reynolds1936-2018
  American actor
  Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
• Harold Lloyd1893-1971
  American actor and comedian
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• L. Frank Baum1856-1919
  American author of children's books
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Garry Marshall1934-2016
  American actor and filmmaker
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Ronnie James Dio1942-2010
  American heavy metal singer
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Natalie Wood1938-1981
  American actress
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Quincy Jones1933-2024
  American record producer and composer
  Hillside Memorial Park, Inglewood, CA
• Don Rickles1926-2017
  American stand-up comedian
  Mount Sinai Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• William Saroyan1908-1981
  Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer
  Mountain View Cemetery, Fresno, CA
• James Caan1940-2022
  American actor
  Eden Memorial Park, Mission Hills, CA
• Jean Harlow1911-1937
  American film actress
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Owen Chamberlain1920-2006
  American physicist
  Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
• Robert Hofstadter1915-1990
  American physicist and Nobel laureate
  Home of Peace Cemetery, Santa Cruz, CA
• William Wyler1902-1981
  Swiss-German-American director and producer
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Brittany Murphy1977-2009
  American actress and singer
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Mickey Rooney1920-2014
  American actor
  Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
• John Huston1906-1987
  American film director, screenwriter, and actor
  Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
• Bob Saget1956-2022
  American stand-up comedian
  Mount Sinai Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Lemmy1945-2015
  British rock musician
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Will Durant1885-1981
  American historian, philosopher and writer
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Cecil B. DeMille1881-1959
  American film director, producer and actor
  Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
• Jack LaLanne1914-2011
  American exercise instructor
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• James Coburn1928-2002
  American actor
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Janet Gaynor1906-1984
  American actress
  Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
• Loretta Young1913-2000
  American actress
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
• Bela Lugosi1882-1956
  Hungarian-American actor
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
• Norma Shearer1902-1983
  Canadian-American actress
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Walter Matthau1920-2000
  American actor, comedian and director
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Rudolph Valentino1895-1926
  Italian actor
  Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
• Sharon Tate1943-1969
  American actress and model
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
• John McCarthy1927-2011
  American computer scientist and cognitive scientist
  Alta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
• Chester W. Nimitz1885-1966
  United States Navy fleet admiral
  Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, CA
• Bill Paxton1955-2017
  American actor and filmmaker
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Charles Laughton1899-1962
  British-American actor
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Sidney Sheldon1917-2007
  American writer
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Roy Orbison1936-1988
  American musician
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Jennifer Jones1919-2009
  American actress
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• George Cukor1899-1983
  American film director and producer
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Etta James1938-2012
  American singer
  Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
• Charles Francis Richter1900-1985
  American seismologist
  Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
• Penny Marshall1943-2018
  American actress, director and producer
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Gena Rowlands1930-2024
  American actress
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Peter Falk1927-2011
  American actor
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Brian Wilson1942-2025
  American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Shelley Winters1920-2006
  American actress
  Hillside Memorial Park, Inglewood, CA
• Bob Newhart1929-2024
  American stand-up comedian and actor
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Carole Lombard1908-1942
  American actress
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Janet Leigh1927-2004
  American actress
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Mary Astor1906-1987
  American actress and author
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
• Max Delbrück1906-1981
  Biophysicist
  Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
• Edwin McMillan1907-1991
  American physicist
  Sunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
• Wendell Meredith Stanley1904-1971
  American biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)
  Sunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
• Maurice Jarre1924-2009
  French composer and conductor
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Alvin Toffler1928-2016
  American writer, futurist and businessman
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Hattie McDaniel1893-1952
  American actress
  Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
• Stan Laurel1890-1965
  English actor
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• James Garner1928-2014
  American film and television actor
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• George C. Scott1927-1999
  American actor, film director and producer
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Cesar Romero1907-1994
  American actor
  Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
• Lion Feuchtwanger1884-1958
  German writer
  Woodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, CA
• Richard Kiel1939-2014
  American actor
  Belmont Memorial Park, Fresno, CA
• Jack Kirby1917-1994
  American comic book artist
  Valley Oaks Memorial Park Cemetery, Westlake Village, CA
• Rod Steiger1925-2002
  American actor
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Chuck McCann1934-2018
  American voice actor and comedian
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Douglas Fairbanks1883-1939
  American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer
  Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
• Chris Cornell1964-2017
  American musician
  Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
• William Randolph Hearst1863-1951
  American newspaper publisher
  Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
• Robert H. Grubbs1942-2021
  Nobel prize winning American chemist
  Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
• Will Rogers1879-1935
  American humorist and entertainer
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Ernst Lubitsch1892-1947
  German-American actor and film director
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Paul Reubens1952-2023
  American actor and comedian
  Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
• John Lee Hooker1917-2001
  American blues musician (1912 or 1917-2001)
  Chapel of the Chimes Cemetery, Union City, CA
• Cyd Charisse1922-2008
  American dancer and actress
  Hillside Memorial Park, Inglewood, CA
• Lee Van Cleef1925-1989
  American actor
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Clara Bow1905-1965
  American actress
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Ryan O'Neal1941-2023
  American actor
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• David Carradine1936-2009
  American actor
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Natalie Cole1950-2015
  American singer
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Donna Reed1921-1986
  American film and television actress
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Sam Cooke1931-1964
  American singer and songwriter
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Rex Harrison1908-1990
  British actor
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Tim Conway1933-2019
  American actor and comedian
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA

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