Architects buried in California
Wikidata records 114 architects as buried in 36 of the cemeteries we list in California. Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale holds the most, with 30. California has the 2nd highest count of any state, out of 861 nationally.
People with architect among their recorded occupations.
Map of cemeteries
Each point is a cemetery; open it for everyone recorded there.
Architects buried in California
- Levi Goodrich1822-1887American architectOak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, CA
- A. Page Brown1859-1896American architectCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- John J. Newsom1837-1902ArchitectMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Adam C. Willard1840-1906Architect who worked in Riverside, CaliforniaAngelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Samuel Newsom1848-1908Canadian-born American architect active in CaliforniaMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Robert Brown Young1854-1914Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Charles M. Rousseau1848-1918American architectHoly Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, CA
- Henry Geilfuss1850-1922German-born American architect, owned firm Henry Geilfuss & SonCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Henry A. Westbrook1847-1922Architect who designs several historic houses in Riverside, CaliforniaEvergreen Cemetery, Riverside, CA
- Gene Stratton-Porter1863-1924American writer and naturalistHollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- William Everett Blaikie1863-1926Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Henry Harwood Hewitt1874-1926American architectHollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Frank Delos Wolfe1862-1926American architectOak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, CA
- Charles Peter Weeks1870-1928American architectMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- C. J. Colleydied 1928Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- William J. Dodd1862-1930American architectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Frank Shaver Allen1860-1930American architectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Joseph Cather Newsom1858-1930Canadian-born American architectMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- George Washington Smith1876-1930American architect and painterSanta Barbara Cemetery, Montecito, CA
- John Galen Howard1864-1931American architectSunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
- Robert H. Spurgeon Jr.1894-1931American architectEvergreen Cemetery, Riverside, CA
- John Parkinson1861-1935ArchitectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- W. H. Weeks1864-1936American architectPioneer Cemetery, Watsonville, CA
- August Nordin1869-1936American architectCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- John James Backus1863-1937American architect, active in CaliforniaForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Joseph Strauss1870-1938American structural engineerForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Sumner Hunt1865-1938American architectAngelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Ada Bell Maescher1868-1939American club woman and building contractorForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Silas Reese Burns1855-1940American architectSan Gabriel Cemetery, San Marino, CA
- Frank Dale Hudson1868-1941American architectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Alexander Edward Curlett1881-1942American architectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Sidney Barker Newsom1877-1942American architectGolden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, CA
- Louis Christian Mullgardt1866-1942American architectEl Encinal Cemetery, Monterey, CA
- Alfred Rosenheim1859-1943American architectInglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
- Edwin F. Gillette1863-1943American architectMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Frank L. Meline1875-1944American real estate developer and architectGrand View Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Donald B. Parkinson1895-19451895 - 1945Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- William Henry Mohr1860-1946American architectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Timothy L. Pflueger1892-1946American architectCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Samuel Heiman1885-1947American architectGolden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, CA
- Louis C. Waldman1862-1947Architect known for buildings in Riverside, CaliforniaEvergreen Cemetery, Riverside, CA
- Carl Jules Weyl1890-1948German art directorForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Herbert Denman Scott1904-1948American architectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Arthur Bridgman Clark1866-1948American architect, professor, authorAlta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
- Harold H. Weeks1895-1948American architectCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Henry Squarebriggs Mackay1860-1948Fairhaven Memorial Park and Mortuary, Orange, CA
- Gordon Kaufmann1888-1949American architectGolden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, CA
- Duncan McDuffie1877-1951American architectMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Horace Jackson1898-1952American film director, screenwriterForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Myron Hunt1868-1952American architectSan Gabriel Cemetery, San Marino, CA
- Sumner Spaulding1892-1952American architectFort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, CA
- Howard Arden Edwards1884-1953Born 1884Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- George Washington Bird1854-1953Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- William P. Bell1886-1953American golf course architectMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
- Lewis P. Hobart1873-1954American architectCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- George Bergstrom1876-1955American architectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- James Edward Allison1870-1955American architectMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
- Hugo Ballin1879-1956American artistWoodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, CA
- Albert Frankel1868-1957Swedish architectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- T. Paterson Ross1874-1957American architectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Arthur Brown, Jr.1874-1957American architectCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Julia Morgan1872-1957American architect and engineerMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Bernard Maybeck1862-1957ArchitectMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Edward Leodore Mayberry Jr.1871-1957American architect and engineerSan Gabriel Cemetery, San Marino, CA
- William Templeton Johnson1877-1957American architectGreenwood Cemetery, National City, CA
- John Lawrence McCauley1878-1957American architectCypress View Mausoleum, National City, CA
- Roland Coate1890-1958American architectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Christabel Pankhurst1880-1958Suffragette, co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, editorWoodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, CA
- John Danley Atchison1870-1959ArchitectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Cedric Gibbons1893-1960American art directorCalvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Robert Edmund Williams1874-1960Canadian-born American architect, active in Los AngelesAngelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Frederick H. Reimers1889-1961American architectMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Hildreth Meiere1892-1961American muralist and mosaic artistHoly Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, CA
- Percy Parke Lewis1885-1962American architectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- David Clark Allison1881-1962ArchitectValhalla Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Claud Wilbur Beelman1884-1963American architectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- John Meehan1902-1963American art directorInglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
- John C. Austin1870-1963English-American architectMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
- Harold Field Kellogg1884-1964American architectRose Hills Memorial Park - Cemetery, Whittier, CA
- David D. Smith1886-1964American architectWoodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, CA
- Anna Louise Murphy Vhay1881-1964American architectSanta Barbara Cemetery, Montecito, CA
- Stiles O. Clements1883-1966California architectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- William Mooser III1893-1969American architectCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- George Adrian Applegarth1875-1972American architectHoly Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, CA
- Joseph Eichler1900-1974American architectAlta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
- Robert Stacy-Judd1884-1975American architectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Raymond M. Kennedy1891-1976American architectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Albert John Evers1888-1977American architectCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Oliver Rousseau1891-1977American architectHoly Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, CA
- Robert Byrd1904-1978American architectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- William F. Cody1916-1978American architectDesert Memorial Park Cemetery, Cathedral City, CA
- Archie Thomas Newsom1894-1978American architectMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- John Elgin Woolf1908-1980American architectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Paul R. Williams1894-1980American architectInglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
- Wallace Neff1895-1982American architectMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
- Peter J. Weber1893-1983American architectOak Park Cemetery, Claremont, CA
- József Bábolnay1886-1983Hungarian architectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Herbert Lyman Gilman1888-1983American architectRose Hills Memorial Park - Cemetery, Whittier, CA
- Robert Oliver Clements1918-1987American architect, active in CaliforniaForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Birge Clark1893-1989American architectAlta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
- S. Charles Lee1899-1990American architectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Keye Luke1904-1991American actorRose Hills Memorial Park - Cemetery, Whittier, CA
- Stanley Clark Meston1910-1992ArchitectSanta Barbara Cemetery, Montecito, CA
- Paul László1900-1993ArchitectWestwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
- Frank Lewis Hope Sr.1901-1994American architect, active in CaliforniaHoly Cross Cemetery, National City, CA
- Graham H. Woolfall1898-1995American architectPacific View Memorial Park, Costa Mesa, CA
- Ian Donald Terner1939-1996American architect & nonprofit administratorSan Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, CA
- Harold Levitt1921-2003American architectForest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Pierre Koenig1925-2004American architectLos Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Dorothea Holt Redmond1910-2009American artistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Julius Shulman1910-2009American photographerHillside Memorial Park, Inglewood, CA
- Cyrus Jhabvala1920-2014Indian architectHollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Felix M. Warburg1924-2019ArchitectEternal Home Cemetery, Colma, CA
- Ray Kappe1927-2019American architectHillside Memorial Park, Inglewood, CA
Everyone on this list, by year of death. People without a recorded death year come last.
Deaths by decade
- 1880s1
- 1890s1
- 1900s3
- 1910s2
- 1920s8
- 1930s13
- 1940s19
- 1950s22
- 1960s14
- 1970s9
- 1980s8
- 1990s7
- 2000s4
- 2010s3
By recorded year of death, for the 114 people with one.
Where they are buried
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park · Glendale, CA30
- Mountain View Cemetery · Oakland, CA10
- Cypress Lawn Memorial Park · Colma, CA10
- Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery · Colma, CA4
- Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum · Altadena, CA4
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery · Los Angeles, CA4
- Rose Hills Memorial Park - Cemetery · Whittier, CA3
- Golden Gate National Cemetery · San Bruno, CA3
- Evergreen Cemetery · Riverside, CA3
- Woodlawn Cemetery · Santa Monica, CA3
- Angelus Rosedale Cemetery · Los Angeles, CA3
- Alta Mesa Cemetery · Los Altos, CA3
- Inglewood Park Cemetery · Inglewood, CA3
- San Gabriel Cemetery · San Marino, CA3
- Santa Barbara Cemetery · Montecito, CA3
- Calvary Cemetery · Los Angeles, CA2
- Oak Hill Memorial Park · San Jose, CA2
- Hillside Memorial Park · Inglewood, CA2
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park · Burbank, CA2
- Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery · San Diego, CA1
- Los Angeles National Cemetery · Los Angeles, CA1
- Eternal Home Cemetery · Colma, CA1
- Sunset View Cemetery · Kensington, CA1
- Westwood Memorial Park · Santa Monica, CA1
- San Francisco National Cemetery · San Francisco, CA1
Top 25 of 36 cemeteries. The map shows all of them.
Other notable burials in California
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.