Notable burials · Science and work
Physicians buried in California
Wikidata records 92 physicians as buried in 43 of the cemeteries we list in California. Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale holds the most, with 12. California has the 5th highest count of any state, out of 1,346 nationally.
People with physician among their recorded occupations.
92
physicians
43
cemeteries
1%
of notable burials in California
1940s
the decade with the most deaths (15)
Map of cemeteries
Loading map…
Each point is a cemetery; open it for everyone recorded there.
In order of death
Physicians buried in California
- Edmund Gardiner Bryant1836-1866American physicianCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Richard Porter Ashe1823-1871American physicianCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- William Peregrine Tilden1819-1873American physicianChico Cemetery, Chico, CA
- Thomas M. Logan1808-1876American physicianSacramento City Cemetery, Sacramento, CA
- James B. Gordon1823-1881American physician and diplomatSanta Rosa Rural Cemetery, Santa Rosa, CA
- Henry Gibbons1808-1884American physicianMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Frederick W. Hatch Jr.1821-1884American physicianSacramento City Cemetery, Sacramento, CA
- William M. Gwin1805-1885American politicianMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- John Pierre Backesto1831-1890American physicianOak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, CA
- John C. Handy1844-1891Physician in the American Old West.Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Silas Thompson Trowbridge1826-1893American physicianTulocay Cemetery, Napa, CA
- Charles Wesley Breyfogle1841-1895American mayor, physician, bankerOak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, CA
- Marshall Mead Chipman1822-1899American botanist and physicianMount Hope Cemetery, National City, CA
- Joseph LeConte1823-1901American geologistMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Joseph Henry Wythe1822-1901British-American preacher-physicianMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Charles William Doyle1852-1903British-American physician and writerCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Henry Hulme Warburton1819-1903English-born American physicianMission City Memorial Park, Santa Clara, CA
- Alvin J. Howe1850-1904American physician; second mayor of Santa Ana, CaliforniaEvergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- William Lawrence Woodruff1860-1910PhysicianSunnyside Cemetery, Signal Hill, CA
- George E. Goodfellow1855-1910American physicianAngelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- C. Annette Buckel1833-1912American physician and Civil War nurseMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Anna Hutchinson Searing1830-1912American doctor, teacher, botanist and mycologistOak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, CA
- Charles Anderson1850-1913American physicianSanta Barbara Cemetery, Montecito, CA
- George Frederick Reinhardt1869-1914American physician and medical professorChapel of the Chimes Cemetery, Union City, CA
- Joseph Harris Grier1835-1915Mayor of Elizabeth, New JerseyAngelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- James Madison Gore Carter1843-1919American physician and botanistHollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Finis E. Yoakum1851-1920American physicianForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Joseph O. Hirschfelder1854-1920Professor Clinical Medicine, Cooper Medical College, San FranciscoHome of Peace Cemetery, Colma, CA
- Jennie Kidd Trout1841-1921Canadian physicianForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Frank Seward Johnson1856-1922American physicianForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Walter Lindley1852-1922American physicianInglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
- George Ensign Bushnell1853-1924American physicianSan Gabriel Cemetery, San Marino, CA
- Willella Howe-Waffle1854-1924American physicianEvergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Albert Abrams1863-1924American doctorHome of Peace Cemetery, Colma, CA
- Morris Herzstein1854-1927German-American physicianCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Nellie B. Shafter Hascall1875-1930American suffragistCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Henry Tevis1857-1931American physician and botanistCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Anstruther Davidson1860-1932Scottish born American physician, botanist, entomologist and naturalistHollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Bessica Medlar Raiche1875-1932American aviator, dentist, and physicianFairhaven Memorial Park and Mortuary, Orange, CA
- William James Wanless1865-1933Surgeon and Presbyterian missionary, noted for his medical mission In Miraj, IndiaForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Ernest Adolphus Sturge1856-1934American physician, missionaryJapanese Cemetery, Colma, CA
- Theodore F. Johnson1851-1934American physicianla Vista Cemetery, Chula Vista, CA
- Samuel Ewer Simmons1874-1934California physicianSacramento City Cemetery, Sacramento, CA
- Wesley Wilbur Beckett1857-1936American physicianForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- John Randolph Haynes1853-1937American socialistAngelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Charlotte Johnson Baker1855-1937American physician, suffragist and botanical collectorGreenwood Cemetery, National City, CA
- Henry Harris1874-1938Hills of Eternity Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Sven Lokrantz1892-1940Swedish-American physicianHoly Cross Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
- Frederick A. Speik1882-1940American football player and coachSan Gabriel Cemetery, San Marino, CA
- George Pardee1857-1941Governor of CaliforniaMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- William Fitch Cheney1866-1941American physicianMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore1857-1942American physician, writer, newspaper editor, activistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Lilian Barbara Yeomans1861-194223 Jun 1861 - 9 Dec 1942Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Mary Ryerson Butin1857-1944American physicianArbor Vitae Cemetery, Madera, CA
- William Ross Laughlin1868-1945American osteopathic physician and surgeonWoodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, CA
- Thomas Hunt Morgan1866-1945American biologist and professor from KentuckyMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
- Miles J. Breuer1889-1945American physician and science fiction writerLos Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- James B. Bullitt1863-1946Physician, roentgenologistMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Virginia Pereira Álvarez1888-1947Venezuelan medicanFernwood Cemetery, Tamalpais-Homestead Valley, CA
- Zamin Ki Dost1866-1947American physician and writerGlen Haven and Sholom Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Ray Lyman Wilbur1875-1949American physician and politician (1875-1949); president of Stanford University from 1933 to 1943Alta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
- Georgianna K. Offutt1868-1949American suffragist and physicianEvergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Pasqual Mario Marafioti1878-1951American physician and vocal coachHollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Ty Cobb, Jr.1910-1952American physicianAlta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
- Middleton Stuart Elliott1872-1952United States Navy physician, admiral and Medal of Honor recipientFort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, CA
- George H. Kress1874-1954American physicianForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Mary Stone1873-1954Chinese medical doctorMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
- William Frederick Callfas1869-1955Canadian physicianForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Oliver Bagby1893-1959Brazilian physicianGolden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, CA
- Lula Talbott Ellis1866-1960Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Belle Wood-Comstock1880-1961American physicianForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Arthur H. Parmelee1883-1961American physician, football player, and coachSanta Barbara Cemetery, Montecito, CA
- Irving Leroy Ress1904-1962American physicianForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Ladislas Joseph Meduna1896-1964Hungarian-American neurologist and neuropathologistAlta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
- Erik Forfota1903-1966Santa Barbara Cemetery, Montecito, CA
- Frederick M. Rossiter1870-1967American physicianParadise Cemetery, Paradise, CA
- Franz Plewa1903-1971Physician and psychoanalyst from AustriaEl Toro Memorial Park, Lake Forest, CA
- Arnold Kegel1894-1972American gynecologistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Dwight Harrison Murray1888-1974American physicianTulocay Cemetery, Napa, CA
- Judith Graham Pool1919-1975Doctor that discovered cryoprecipitationHills of Eternity Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Katharine Scott Bishop1889-1975American anatomist, physician and histologistMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Thomas Carlyle Anderson1886-1975American Navy physicianEl Camino Memorial Park, Del Mar, CA
- Adele Eigenmann1896-1978American doctor, hospital administrator and scientific collectorTwenty Nine Palms Cemetery, Twentynine Palms, CA
- Jules C. Stein1896-1981American physician and businessman; co-founder of Music Corporation of AmericaForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Beulah Ream Allen1897-1989American nurse, physician and POWGolden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, CA
- Haing S. Ngor1940-1996Cambodian-American physician and actorRose Hills Memorial Park - Cemetery, Whittier, CA
- Dwight Locke Wilbur1903-1997American physicianCypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
- Don Flickinger1907-1997American military flight surgeonMount Tamalpais Cemetery, San Anselmo, CA
- Yoshiye Togasaki1904-1999American physicianChapel of the Chimes Cemetery, Union City, CA
- Malcolm C. Todd1913-2000American physicianGreen Hills Memorial Park, Lomita, CA
- William Ganz1919-2009American cardiologistMount Sinai Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Sammy Lee1920-2016American diver and physicianFort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, CA
Everyone on this list, by year of death. People without a recorded death year come last.
Over time
Deaths by decade
- 1860s1
- 1870s3
- 1880s4
- 1890s5
- 1900s5
- 1910s8
- 1920s9
- 1930s12
- 1940s15
- 1950s7
- 1960s7
- 1970s7
- 1980s2
- 1990s4
- 2000s2
- 2010s1
By recorded year of death, for the 92 people with one.
Cemeteries
Where they are buried
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park · Glendale, CA12
- Mountain View Cemetery · Oakland, CA10
- Cypress Lawn Memorial Park · Colma, CA7
- Angelus Rosedale Cemetery · Los Angeles, CA4
- Evergreen Cemetery · Los Angeles, CA3
- Sacramento City Cemetery · Sacramento, CA3
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery · Los Angeles, CA3
- Oak Hill Memorial Park · San Jose, CA3
- Alta Mesa Cemetery · Los Altos, CA3
- Santa Barbara Cemetery · Montecito, CA3
- Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum · Altadena, CA2
- Golden Gate National Cemetery · San Bruno, CA2
- Tulocay Cemetery · Napa, CA2
- Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery · San Diego, CA2
- Hills of Eternity Memorial Park · Colma, CA2
- Home of Peace Cemetery · Colma, CA2
- San Gabriel Cemetery · San Marino, CA2
- Chapel of the Chimes Cemetery · Union City, CA2
- Rose Hills Memorial Park - Cemetery · Whittier, CA1
- Los Angeles National Cemetery · Los Angeles, CA1
- Mission City Memorial Park · Santa Clara, CA1
- El Toro Memorial Park · Lake Forest, CA1
- Japanese Cemetery · Colma, CA1
- Woodlawn Cemetery · Santa Monica, CA1
- Mount Sinai Memorial Park · Burbank, CA1
Top 25 of 43 cemeteries. The map shows all of them.
More lists
Other notable burials in California
Actors3,238Writers and poets1,282Musicians and singers950World War II veterans454Business leaders340Painters, sculptors and photographers300Baseball players260World War I veterans207Scientists198Journalists189United States representatives172American football players154Medal of Honor recipients145Inventors and engineers131Architects114Aviators and astronauts81American Civil War veterans78Korean War veterans73Spanish-American War veterans50Boxers48Basketball players46Governors35United States senators32Vietnam War veterans24Mexican-American War veterans18Nobel Prize laureates15
Method
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.