Painters, sculptors and photographers buried in California
Wikidata records 300 artists as buried in 76 of the cemeteries we list in California. Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale holds the most, with 57. California has the 2nd highest count of any state, out of 2,295 nationally.
People recorded as painters, sculptors, photographers, illustrators or visual artists.
Map of cemeteries
Each point is a cemetery; open it for everyone recorded there.
Painters, sculptors and photographers buried in California
- Walt Disney1901-1966American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney CompanyForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- David Lynch1946-2025American filmmakerHollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Farrah Fawcett1947-2009American actressWestwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
- Leonard Nimoy1931-2015American actorHillside Memorial Park, Inglewood, CA
- Harold Lloyd1893-1971American actor and comedianForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Janet Gaynor1906-1984American actressHollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Jack Kirby1917-1994American comic book artistValley Oaks Memorial Park Cemetery, Westlake Village, CA
- Liberace1919-1987American pianistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Tex Avery1908-1980American animator and directorForest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Gutzon Borglum1867-1941American sculptorForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Russ Meyer1922-2004American film director and photographerStockton Rural Cemetery, Stockton, CA
- J. Stuart Blackton1875-1941American film producerForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Red Skelton1913-1997American comedianForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Nehemiah Persoff1919-2022American actor and painterCambria Cemetery, Cambria, CA
- Julia Morgan1872-1957American architect and engineerMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Oskar Fischinger1900-1967German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painterHoly Cross Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
- Edward S. Curtis1868-1952American photographerForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Edgar G. Ulmer1904-1972American film director, set designerHollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Richard F. Outcault1863-1928American cartoonistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Rex Ingram1892-1950Irish film directorForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Robert Ripley1890-1949American cartoonistSanta Rosa Odd Fellows Cemetery, Santa Rosa, CA
- Keye Luke1904-1991American actorRose Hills Memorial Park - Cemetery, Whittier, CA
- Howard Zieff1927-2009American film directorMount Sinai Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Thomas Kinkade1958-2012American painterMadronia Cemetery, Saratoga, CA
- Ruth St. Denis1879-1968American dancerForest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Tyrus Wong1910-2016Chinese-American artistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Robert B. Sherman1925-2012American songwriterHillside Memorial Park, Inglewood, CA
- Mona Freeman1926-2014American actressForest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Lillian Disney1899-1997American artist and philanthropistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Thomas Hill1829-1908American painterMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Joseph Ruttenberg1889-1983American journalist and cinematographerHillside Memorial Park, Inglewood, CA
- Bill Peet1915-2002Artist, illustrator, author, animator and story tellerForest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Floyd Gottfredson1905-1986American cartoonistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Jan Styka1858-1925Polish artistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Tige Andrews1920-2007American actorWestwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
- Carmelita Geraghty1901-1966American actress and painterHollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Harriet Chalmers Adams1875-1937American explorer, writer and photographerChapel of the Chimes Cemetery, Union City, CA
- Orry-Kelly1897-1964Australian costume designerForest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Lois Hamilton1943-1999American model, actress, artist, author, and aviatorValhalla Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Granville Redmond1871-1935American artistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Gene Stratton-Porter1863-1924American writer and naturalistHollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Roland Totheroh1890-1967American cinematographerValhalla Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Ruth Harriet Louise1903-1940American photographerHome of Peace Memorial Park, Los Angeles, CA
- Prince Andrew Andreievich Romanovsky1923-2021Russian princeOlema Cemetery, Lagunitas-Forest Knolls, CA
- Andrew Loomis1892-1959American artistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Harry Lachman1886-1975American artist and filmmakerHollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Julius Shulman1910-2009American photographerHillside Memorial Park, Inglewood, CA
- Burton Holmes1870-1958American traveler and filmmaker (1870-1958), founder of Burton Holmes Films, Inc.Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Frank Kelly Freas1922-2005American artistOakwood Memorial Park, Simi Valley, CA
- Archie Stout1886-1973American cinematographerForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Charles Kemper1900-1950American actorHoly Cross Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
- Jean Howard1910-2000American actressHollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Rollo Beck1870-1950American explorer, ornithologist and bird collectorOak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, CA
- Rinaldo Cuneo1877-1932American painterItalian Cemetery, Colma, CA
- Jacqueline Piatigorsky1911-2012French-born American chess player and artistWestwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
- Norbert Brodine1896-1970American cinematographerForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Fred Sersen1890-1962Czechoslovak/American painter and cinema special effects artistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Lucy Saroyan1946-2003American actressMountain View Cemetery, Fresno, CA
- Luther Standing Bear1868-1939Oglala Lakota writer and actorHollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- William Keith1838-1911Scottish-American painterMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Burr McIntosh1862-1942American photographer, actor and publisherForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Sargent Claude Johnson1887-1967African American artistCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Douglas Tilden1860-1935American sculptorMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Bob Mizer1922-1992American photographer and filmmakerValhalla Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Hugo Ballin1879-1956American artistWoodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, CA
- Laurence Stallings1894-1968American writerFort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, CA
- Tōyō Miyatake1895-1979American photographerEvergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Elizabeth Fleischman1867-1905American radiographerSalem Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Rowena Meeks Abdy1887-1945American modernist painterCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Jimmy Swinnerton1875-1974American cartoonist and painterDesert Memorial Park Cemetery, Cathedral City, CA
- George Wharton James1858-1923American lecturer, photographer and journalistMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
- Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich1917-2004American micropaleontologistRiverside National Cemetery, Riverside, CA
- Stan Levey1926-2005American musicianForest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Albert Arnold Gillespie1899-1978American cinema special effects artistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Clarence Sinclair Bull1895-1979American photographerWestwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
- Anders G. Aldrin1889-1970American engraverForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Edgar Alwin Payne1882-1947American artistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Alice Brown Chittenden1859-1944American painterCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Charles Christian Nahl1818-1878American artistCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Barbara Shermund1899-1978American cartoonist and illustratorCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Valentin Wolfenstein1845-1909Swedish photographerAngelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- William Mortensen1897-1965American photographerFairhaven Memorial Park and Mortuary, Orange, CA
- Elmer Bischoff1916-1991American artistSunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
- Rafael Méndez Arceo1906-1981Mexican musicianForest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Maud Humphrey1868-1940American artist, suffragistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Ian Hornak1944-2002American artistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Kate Carew1869-1961American cartoonistMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- James Chappell1891-1964American astronomer and photographerGolden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, CA
- Elisabeth Hallowell Saunders1861-1910American scientific illustrator, photographer, naturalist and teacherMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
- Hildreth Meiere1892-1961American muralist and mosaic artistHoly Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, CA
- Elise Cavanna1902-1963American actress, comedian, dancer and artistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Oscar Miestchaninoff1884-1956Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Sarah Stein1870-1953American art collector and painterCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Samuel Marsden Brookes1816-1892American painterCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Sophia Hoare1836-1915British photographer operating in TahitiCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Elizabeth Baker Bohan1849-1930British-born American author and artistWoodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, CA
- Marian Osgood Hooker1875-1968American photographer and physicianAngelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- William F. Cogswell1819-1903American artistEvergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- George Washington Smith1876-1930American architect and painterSanta Barbara Cemetery, Montecito, CA
- Vance Gerry1929-2005American artistMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
- Jean Mannheim1862-1945German-American painterMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
- Morojo1904-1964American cosplay pioneerTwenty Nine Palms Cemetery, Twentynine Palms, CA
- Donald Jahraus1892-1963Special effects artistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Hugh Gibb1916-1992British musicianForest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Tadeusz Styka1889-1954PainterForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Frank Van der Veer1921-1982American optical and visual special effects artistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Frank E. Kleinschmidt1871-1949German-American explorer and filmmakerForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Francis de Erdely1904-1959Hungarian-American artistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Edmund Sylvers1957-2004American singerHoly Cross Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
- Dezső Lányi1879-1951Hungarian-american sculptorHollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl1833-1889American artistMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- William Shew1820-1903American businessman, daguerreotypist and early photographerMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Robert Randall1918-1984American photographerFort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, CA
- Hy Peskin1915-2005PhotographerEl Camino Memorial Park, Del Mar, CA
- Marli Ehrman1904-1982German-American textile designerSanta Barbara Cemetery, Montecito, CA
- Channa Horwitz1932-2013American artistMount Sinai Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Alex Anderson1920-2010CartoonistWoodlawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Frank Cuprien1871-1948American landscape painterFairhaven Memorial Park and Mortuary, Orange, CA
- Guy Murchie1907-1997American journalistFairhaven Memorial Park and Mortuary, Orange, CA
- Oriana Weatherbee Day1838-1886American painterGreenlawn Cemetery, Colma, CA
- Harry Stuart Fonda1864-1942American painter, musician and teacherGreenlawn Cemetery, Colma, CA
- Lansing Brown, Jr.1900-1962American photographerForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Harry Redmond, Jr.1909-2011American artistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Petronelle Sombart1897-1949American artist and dancerForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Ernest A. Bachrach1899-1973American photographerForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Rufus Keeler1885-1934American ceramicistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Dorothea Holt Redmond1910-2009American artistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Helmi Juvonen1903-1985American artistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Whitey Schafer1903-1951American photographerHoly Cross Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
- George Walter Caldwell1866-1946American otolaryngologist, writer, and painterHollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- John Herbert Evelyn Partington1843-1899English-American painterMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Samuel McLaughlin1826-1914First official photographer of the Province of Canada and publisher of Canada's first photographic collectionAngelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Edward Buk Ulreich1884-1966American artistGolden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, CA
- Donal Hord1902-1966American artistGreenwood Cemetery, National City, CA
- Clarence K. Hinkle1880-1960American painterSanta Barbara Cemetery, Montecito, CA
- Charles Dorman Robinson1847-1933PainterMount Tamalpais Cemetery, San Anselmo, CA
- Charles Ellis Johnson1857-1926American photographerOak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, CA
- Jean Jacques Vioget1794-1855Swiss surveyorOak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, CA
- Esther Rose1901-1990American artistEl Carmelo Cemetery, Pacific Grove, CA
- Leonard Benedict Loeb1891-1978Swiss-born American physicistEl Carmelo Cemetery, Pacific Grove, CA
- Melvin Earl Cummings1876-1936American sculptorHoly Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, CA
- William Herman Rulofson1826-1878American photographerWoodlawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- E. F. Joseph1900-1979Saint Lucian-born American photographer, photojournalistSunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
- Francis Marion Wells1848-190319th century sculptor active in San FranciscoGreenlawn Cemetery, Colma, CA
- A. O. Carpenter1836-1919American photographerUkiah Cemetery, Ukiah, CA
- Herbert C. White1896-1962American Seventh-day Adventist missionaryPierce Brothers Crestlawn Memorial Park, Norco, CA
- James B. Shackelford1886-1969American cinematographer and photographerForest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Richard C. Miller1912-2010American photographerForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- William Brice1921-2008American artistWestwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
- Dimitre Mehandjiysky1915-1999Bulgarian artistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
Showing the 150 with the most Wikipedia language editions, of 300. Cemetery pages list everyone recorded there.
Deaths by decade
- 1850s1
- 1870s2
- 1880s3
- 1890s2
- 1900s10
- 1910s8
- 1920s16
- 1930s21
- 1940s32
- 1950s44
- 1960s45
- 1970s32
- 1980s24
- 1990s18
- 2000s19
- 2010s18
- 2020s3
By recorded year of death, for the 298 people with one.
Where they are buried
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park · Glendale, CA57
- Cypress Lawn Memorial Park · Colma, CA26
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park · Burbank, CA21
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery · Los Angeles, CA18
- Mountain View Cemetery · Oakland, CA15
- Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum · Altadena, CA8
- Santa Barbara Cemetery · Montecito, CA8
- Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery · Colma, CA7
- Golden Gate National Cemetery · San Bruno, CA7
- Westwood Memorial Park · Santa Monica, CA6
- Oak Hill Memorial Park · San Jose, CA6
- Angelus Rosedale Cemetery · Los Angeles, CA6
- Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery · San Diego, CA5
- Hillside Memorial Park · Inglewood, CA5
- Valhalla Memorial Park · Burbank, CA5
- Inglewood Park Cemetery · Inglewood, CA5
- Fairhaven Memorial Park and Mortuary · Orange, CA5
- Sunset View Cemetery · Kensington, CA4
- El Carmelo Cemetery · Pacific Grove, CA4
- Holy Cross Cemetery · Inglewood, CA4
- Woodlawn Memorial Park · Colma, CA3
- Greenlawn Cemetery · Colma, CA3
- Woodlawn Cemetery · Santa Monica, CA3
- Mount Sinai Memorial Park · Burbank, CA3
- Mount Hope Cemetery · National City, CA3
Top 25 of 76 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.