Notable burials · CT
Notable people buried in Connecticut
Wikidata records 1,850 notable people as buried in Connecticut, spread over 223 of the cemeteries we list, the 9th highest count of any state. Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven holds the most, with 309 (17% of the state total).
1,850
notable burials
223
cemeteries with one or more
309
at Grove Street Cemetery
By theme
Who is buried in Connecticut
Government
Military
American Civil War veterans33Korean War veterans3Medal of Honor recipients13Mexican-American War veterans4American Revolutionary War veterans9Spanish-American War veterans6War of 1812 veterans4World War I veterans16World War II veterans26
Arts and entertainment
Sports
Science and work
Aviators and astronauts2Business leaders56Inventors and engineers46Nobel Prize laureates5Physicians59Scientists91
From occupations, offices, awards and military service recorded on Wikidata. One person can appear in several lists.
People
Best-documented burials in Connecticut
- Katharine Hepburn1907-2003American actressCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- P. T. Barnum1810-1891American showman and politicianMountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, CT
- Benoit Mandelbrot1924-2010Polish-born, French and American mathematicianGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- J. P. Morgan1837-1913American financier, banker, and art collectorCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- John Kenneth Galbraith1908-2006Canadian-American economist and diplomatIndian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, CT
- Josiah Willard Gibbs1839-1903American scientistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Samuel Colt1814-186219th-century American industrialist and inventorCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Lars Onsager1903-1976American physical chemist and theoretical physicistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- John B. Watson1878-1958American psychologist (1878Willowbrook Cemetery, Westport, CT
- Benny Goodman1909-1986American jazz clarinetist and bandleaderLong Ridge Union Cemetery, North Stamford, CT
- Mary Tyler Moore1936-2017American actress and television producerOaklawn Cemetery, Fairfield, CT
- Bronisław Malinowski1884-1942Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USAEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Sidney Altman1939-2022Canadian American molecular biologistCongregation Mishkan Israel Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Dave Brubeck1920-2012American jazz pianist and composerUmpawaug Cemetery, Georgetown, CT
- John Franklin Enders1897-1985American medical researcherFairview Cemetery, West Hartford, CT
- Teresa Wright1918-2005American actressEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Thomas A. Steitz1940-2018American biochemistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Jason Robards1922-2000American actorOaklawn Cemetery, Fairfield, CT
- Art Carney1918-2003American actor and comedianRiverside Cemetery, Old Saybrook Center, CT
- Wallace Stevens1879-1955American poetCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Charles Goodyear1800-1860American inventorGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Noah Webster1758-1843American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and authorGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Josef Albers1888-1976German-American designer, painter, educator and typographerOrange Center Cemetery, Orange, CT
- Joan Bennett1910-1990American actressPleasant View Cemetery, Salem, CT
- Dickinson W. Richards1895-1973American physician, Nobel Prize recipientEast Cemetery, Litchfield, CT
- Charles Ives1874-1954American modernist composerWooster Cemetery, Danbury, CT
- James Dwight Dana1813-1895American mineralogist, scientist and zoologistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Eli Whitney1765-1825American inventorGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Irving Fisher1867-1947American economist and statisticianEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Hermann Broch1886-1951Austrian writerUnion Cemetery, Killingworth, CT
- Frederic Edwin Church1826-1900American landscape painterSpring Grove Cemetery, Hartford, CT
- Othniel Charles Marsh1831-1899American paleontologistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Isaac Stern1920-2001American musicianMorningside Cemetery, Sherman, CT
- Victor Borge1909-2000Danish comedian and pianistPutnam Cemetery, Cos Cob, CT
- Frederick Law Olmsted1822-1903American landscape designer, journalist, social critic, and public administratorOld North Cemetery, Hartford, CT
- Johnny Winter1944-2014American blues guitarist and singerUnion Cemetery, Easton, CT
- Alice Hamilton1869-1970American physician and toxicologistCove Cemetery, Chester Center, CT
- Prescott Bush1895-1972American politician and US Senator from ConnecticutPutnam Cemetery, Cos Cob, CT
- Michael Rostovtzeff1870-1952Russian historian of ancient historyGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Roger Sherman1721-1793Early American lawyer and politician, Founding Father of the United StatesGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Cornelius Ryan1920-1974Irish American journalistRidgebury Cemetery, Danbury, CT
- Ernest William Brown1866-1938English-American astronomer and mathematicianEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Jaroslav Pelikan1923-2006US historian of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history at YaleGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Fanny Crosby1820-191519th century Christian hymnistMountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, CT
- Teddy Wilson1912-1986American jazz pianistFairview Cemetery, New Britain, CT
- Nathan Hale1755-1776Soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary WarNathan Hale Cemetery, South Coventry, CT
- William Graham Sumner1840-1910American sociologistAlderbrook Cemetery, Guilford Center, CT
- Oliver Ellsworth1745-1807Chief justice of the United States from 1796 to 1800Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, CT
- Edith Hamilton1867-1963American teacher and writerCove Cemetery, Chester Center, CT
- Gene Tunney1897-1978American boxerLong Ridge Union Cemetery, North Stamford, CT
- Fritz Reiner1888-1963Hungarian American orchestra conductorWillowbrook Cemetery, Westport, CT
- Lilia Skala1896-1994Austrian-American actressLakeview Cemetery, New Canaan, CT
- Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet1787-1851American educator and founder of the American School for the DeafCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- William Dwight Whitney1827-1894American orientalist, linguist and lexicographerGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Oliver Wolcott1760-1833United States federal judge; second U.S. Secretary of the TreasuryEast Cemetery, Litchfield, CT
- Harry K. Daghlian, Jr.1921-19451940s physicist who died of radiation poisoningCedar Grove Cemetery, New London, CT
- William Gillette1853-1937American actor, inventor and writerRiverside Cemetery, Farmington, CT
- Øystein Ore1899-1968Norwegian mathematicianGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Moses Gunn1929-1993American actorNut Plains Cemetery, Guilford, CT
- Gideon Welles1802-1878American government official; United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869Cedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Horace Wells1815-1848American dentist and anaesthesia pioneerCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Nathan Jacobson1910-1999American mathematicianGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Sidney Dillon Ripley1913-2001American ornithologist and 8th Secretary of the SmithsonianEast Cemetery, Litchfield, CT
- Robert Yerkes1876-1956American psychologistEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Oliver Winchester1810-1880American businessman and politicianEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- William James Glackens1870-1938Painter from the United StatesCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- William Henry Welch1850-1934American physician and scientistNorfolk Center Cemetery, Winchester Center, CT
- Mort Walker1923-2018American comic strip cartoonistWillowbrook Cemetery, Westport, CT
- William Chester Minor1834-1920American army surgeon, psychiatric-hospital patient, and lexicographical researcherEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Emma Tillman1892-2007Supercentenarian, oldest person in the worldSpring Grove Cemetery, Hartford, CT
- Charles Dudley Warner1829-1900American writerCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic1937-2003American neuroscientistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Walter Camp1859-1925American football player and coach, college athletics administratorGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Ida Barney1886-1982American astronomerGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Oliver Wolcott1726-1797American politician, ConnecticutEast Cemetery, Litchfield, CT
- Matthew Cowles1944-2014American actor and playwrightCarmel Hill Cemetery, Bethlehem Village, CT
- Willie Pep1922-2006American boxerRose Hill Memorial Park Cemetery, Wethersfield, CT
- Addison Emery Verrill1839-1926U.S. zoologistEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Elsie Ferguson1883-1961American actressDuck River Cemetery, Old Saybrook, CT
- Shizuo Kakutani1911-2004Japanese mathematicianGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Benjamin Silliman Sr.1779-1864Early American chemist and science educatorGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Laurent Clerc1785-1869French-American deaf educatorSpring Grove Cemetery, Hartford, CT
- Roger Tory Peterson1908-1996American naturalist, ornithologist and writerDuck River Cemetery, Old Saybrook, CT
- Jonathan Spence1936-2021British-born historianGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Delia Bacon1811-1859American author best known for her work on Shakespearean authorshipGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- General Tom Thumb1838-1883American circus performerMountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, CT
- Ron Palillo1949-2012American actor and teacherSaint Lawrence Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Alfred Ely Beach1826-1896American businessmanUnion Cemetery, Stratford, CT
- Elizabeth Akers Allen1832-1911American author, journalist, poetWestfield Cemetery, Danielson, CT
- Telford Taylor1908-1998American attorney and law professorMorningside Cemetery, Sherman, CT
- George Devol1912-2011American inventorBald Hill Cemetery, Wilton, CT
- Frank McHugh1898-1981American actorFairview Cemetery, West Hartford, CT
- Alexander Kipnis1891-1978Russian-American operatic bassWillowbrook Cemetery, Westport, CT
- Edwin D. Morgan1811-1883Union Army general and politicianCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Lyman Beecher1775-1863American Presbyterian minister and American Temperance Society co-founderGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- William Manchester1922-2004American author, journalist and historianIndian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, CT
- John Boswell1947-1994American historianGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Hubert Anson Newton1830-1896American astronomer and scientistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Herbert William Conn1859-1917American bacteriologist and educatorPine Grove Cemetery, Middletown, CT
- Richard Bennett1870-1944ActorPleasant View Cemetery, Salem, CT
- Abraham Ribicoff1910-1998American politicianCornwall Cemetery, West Torrington, CT
- John Maurice Clark1884-1963American economistHillside Cemetery, Wilton, CT
- John Robert Gregg1867-1948Irish inventor and writerLakeview Cemetery, New Canaan, CT
- John Pierpont Morgan, Jr.1867-1943American bankerCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Morgan Bulkeley1837-1922American politicianCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- James Rowland Angell1869-1949American psychologist and educatorGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Thomas Hooker1586-1647Puritan ministerAncient Burying Ground, Hartford, CT
- Lili Chookasian1921-2012American contralto opera singerBranford Center Cemetery, Branford, CT
- James O'Neill1847-1920Irish-American theatre actorSaint Mary Cemetery, New London, CT
- Gustavus Woodson Smith1821-1896Confederate Army generalCedar Grove Cemetery, New London, CT
- Fern Andra1893-1974American actressCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Isaac Toucey1792-1869American politicianCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Elias Loomis1811-1889American science writerGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- William Henry Brewer1828-1910American botanistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Adrienne Morrison1883-1940American actressPleasant View Cemetery, Salem, CT
- Archibald Vincent Arnold1889-1973United States Army generalCalvary Cemetery, Collinsville, CT
- Barbara Baxley1923-1990American actressUmpawaug Cemetery, Georgetown, CT
- Solon Borglum1868-1922American artistSilvermine Cemetery, New Canaan, CT
- James Earle Fraser1876-1953American artistWillowbrook Cemetery, Westport, CT
- Walter Feit1930-2004Austrian-American mathematicianGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Anastasy Vonsyatsky1898-1965Russian anti-Bolshevik émigré to USAWest Thompson Cemetery, Thompson, CT
- Vernon Dalhart1883-1948American country music singerMountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, CT
- James Greenway1903-1989American ornithologistPutnam Cemetery, Cos Cob, CT
- Marian Shockley1908-1981American actressPutnam Cemetery, Cos Cob, CT
- William Temple Hornaday1854-1937American conservationist and zoologistPutnam Cemetery, Cos Cob, CT
- Daniel Coit Gilman1831-1908American educator and academicYantic Cemetery, Norwich, CT
- Benjamin Tallmadge1754-1835American politicianEast Cemetery, Litchfield, CT
- Douglas C. Kenney1946-1980American writer, co-founder and editor of National LampoonNewtown Village Cemetery, Newtown, CT
- Charles Kaman1919-2011American businessman, engineer and inventorFairview Cemetery, West Hartford, CT
- Ann Haven Morgan1882-1966American zoologist and ecologistCedar Grove Cemetery, New London, CT
- John Milton Niles1787-1856American politicianOld North Cemetery, Hartford, CT
- Anne Morgan1873-1952American philanthropistCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Junius Spencer Morgan1813-1890American banker and financierCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Joseph Roswell Hawley1826-1905Union Army general, politicianCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Timothy Dwight IV1752-1817American historianGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Andrew Hull Foote1806-1863Union Navy admiral and United States Navy admiralGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Ross Granville Harrison1870-1959American biologistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead1867-1941American gynecologistIndian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, CT
- Fidelia Bridges1834-1923American artistMountain View Cemetery, Canaan, CT
- Lavinia Warren1841-1919American circus performerMountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, CT
- William Alfred Buckingham1804-1875American politicianYantic Cemetery, Norwich, CT
- William Russel Dudley1849-1911BotanistAlderbrook Cemetery, Guilford Center, CT
- Simon Lake1866-1945American inventorKings Highway Cemetery, Milford, CT
- Emilio Daddario1918-2010American politicianSaint Sebastian Cemetery, Middletown, CT
- Benjamin Stark1820-1898American politicianCedar Grove Cemetery, New London, CT
- Kitty Genovese1935-1964American murder victimLakeview Cemetery, New Canaan, CT
- Emily Barringer1876-1961American ambulance surgeonLakeview Cemetery, New Canaan, CT
- Henry Clay Work1832-1884American composer and songwriterSpring Grove Cemetery, Hartford, CT
- Henry Barnard1811-1900American educationalistCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Charles Emerson Beecher1856-1904American paleontologistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
Showing 150 of 1,850. Each cemetery page lists everyone recorded there.
Ordered by the number of Wikipedia language editions with an article about the person.
Cemeteries
Where they are buried
- Grove Street Cemetery · New Haven309
- Cedar Hill Cemetery · Newington172
- Evergreen Cemetery · New Haven90
- East Cemetery · Litchfield68
- Cedar Grove Cemetery · New London51
- Old North Cemetery · Hartford50
- Lakeview Cemetery · New Canaan50
- Yantic Cemetery · Norwich49
- Indian Hill Cemetery · Middletown46
- Putnam Cemetery · Cos Cob44
- Mountain Grove Cemetery · Bridgeport41
- Spring Grove Cemetery · Hartford30
- Woodland Cemetery · Stamford25
- Oaklawn Cemetery · Fairfield24
- Riverside Cemetery · Farmington23
- Willowbrook Cemetery · Westport21
- East Norwalk Cemetery · East Norwalk20
- Riverside Cemetery · Waterbury20
- Ancient Burying Ground · Hartford18
- Duck River Cemetery · Old Saybrook18
- Mount Saint Benedict Cemetery · Blue Hills17
- Elm Grove Cemetery · Mystic17
- Norwich City Cemetery · Norwich15
- Fairview Cemetery · New Britain15
- Palisado Cemetery · Windsor14
Method
About this list
Names, years and descriptions come from Wikidata, where each person’s entry gives the cemetery as their place of burial. It covers people with an encyclopedia entry, not every grave. How we build it.
Other states
Notable burials in other states
- Alabama635
- Alaska139
- Arizona297
- Arkansas378
- California9,351
- Colorado247
- Delaware100
- District of Columbia1,261
- Florida478
- Georgia859
- Hawaii172
- Idaho150
- Illinois3,508
- Indiana1,269
- Iowa748
- Kansas487
- Kentucky889
- Louisiana450
- Maine589
- Maryland1,397
- Massachusetts5,034
- Michigan1,368
- Minnesota839
- Mississippi289
- Missouri1,271
- Montana137
- Nebraska404
- Nevada250
- New Hampshire422
- New Jersey1,938
- New Mexico222
- New York10,713
- North Carolina560
- North Dakota46
- Ohio2,567
- Oklahoma376
- Oregon566
- Pennsylvania3,541
- Rhode Island699
- South Carolina391
- South Dakota151
- Tennessee902
- Texas1,599
- Utah626
- Vermont437
- Virginia5,460
- Washington487
- West Virginia252
- Wisconsin1,183
- Wyoming107