Business leaders buried in District of Columbia
Wikidata records 26 business leaders as buried in 6 of the cemeteries we list in District of Columbia. Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington holds the most, with 9. District of Columbia has the 22nd highest count of any state, out of 3,027 nationally.
People recorded as businesspeople, entrepreneurs or industrialists.
Map of cemeteries
Each point is a cemetery; open it for everyone recorded there.
Business leaders buried in District of Columbia
- James Greenleaf1765-1843Land speculatorCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Mary Surratt1820-1865Lincoln assassination conspiratorMount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Franklin Steele1813-1880American settlerOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Henry David Cooke1825-1881American journalist, financier and governorOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Horace Capron1804-1885American businessman, agriculturalist, and Union Army officerOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Mary Ann Hall1850-1886American brothel ownerCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Benjamin H. Warder1824-1894American businessmanRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Blanche Bruce1841-1898American politicianWoodlawn Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Alexander Robey Shepherd1835-1902American politicianRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Levi Leiter1834-1904American businessmanRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- John Wesley Hoyt1831-1912American businessman and politicianThe Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Samuel Walter Woodward1848-1917American businessmanOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Anthony Francis Lucas1855-1921Croatian oil explorerRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- William W. Chamberlaine1836-1923American railroad executive, businessman, and Confederate army officerThe Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, DC
- John Wilbur Dwight1859-1928American politicianRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Herman Hollerith1860-1929American statistician and inventor（1860-1929）Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Emile Berliner1851-1929German-born American inventorRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Hagop Bogigian1847-1931First Armenian-American millionaireThe Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Charles Ranlett Flint1850-1934American businessmanRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- George Lyttleton Upshur1856-19388 Feb 1856 - 24 Apr 1938Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Dempster McIntosh1896-1984American businessman and diplomatRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Katharine Graham1917-2001American publisher, editor and authorOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Stuart C. Davidson1922-2001American businessmanRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Robert Mosbacher1927-2010American businessman, yacht racer and politicianCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Charles H. Percy1919-2011American businessman and U.S. senatorOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Vernon Jordan1935-2021American lawyer and civil rights activistOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
Everyone on this list, by year of death. People without a recorded death year come last.
Deaths by decade
- 1840s1
- 1860s1
- 1880s4
- 1890s2
- 1900s2
- 1910s2
- 1920s5
- 1930s3
- 1980s1
- 2000s2
- 2010s2
- 2020s1
By recorded year of death, for the 26 people with one.
Where they are buried
- Oak Hill Cemetery · Washington, DC9
- Rock Creek Cemetery · Washington, DC9
- Congressional Cemetery · Washington, DC3
- The Glenwood Cemetery · Washington, DC3
- Mount Olivet Cemetery · Washington, DC1
- Woodlawn Cemetery · Washington, DC1
Other notable burials in District of Columbia
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.