Notable burials · Arts and entertainment
Writers and poets buried in District of Columbia
Wikidata records 126 writers as buried in 10 of the cemeteries we list in District of Columbia. Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington holds the most, with 50. District of Columbia has the 11th highest count of any state, out of 6,032 nationally.
People recorded as writers, novelists, poets, playwrights or screenwriters.
126
writers
10
cemeteries
10%
of notable burials in District of Columbia
1890s
the decade with the most deaths (13)
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Best documented
Writers and poets buried in District of Columbia
- Madeleine Albright1937-2022United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Gore Vidal1925-2012American writerRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Upton Sinclair1878-1968American writerRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- J. Edgar Hoover1895-1972American law enforcement administratorCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Henry Adams1838-1918American journalist, historian, academic, novelistRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- John Philip Sousa1854-1932American conductor and composerCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Katharine Graham1917-2001American publisher, editor and authorOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Albert Pike1809-1891American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and Confederate States Army general Associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, FreemasonOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Lyudmila Alexeyeva1927-2018Soviet-Russian human rights activistRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Spencer Fullerton Baird1823-1887American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, museum curator, and the 2nd Secretary of the SmithsonianOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Alain LeRoy Locke1885-1954American philosopher and writerCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Henry Schoolcraft1793-1864American anthropologistCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Alice Lee Roosevelt1884-1980American writer and socialiteRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Michael Novak1933-2017American theologian, philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomatRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- William Wirt1772-1834American author and statesman and United States Attorney GeneralCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Tim Russert1950-2008American journalistRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Hugh McCulloch1808-1895American financier and politicianRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- George Brown Goode1851-1896American ichthyologistOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Agnes von Kurowsky1892-1984American Nurse and Muse for Ernest HemingwayUnited States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Joseph Nelson Rose1862-1928U.S. botanistRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- John Howard Payne1791-1852American actor and writerOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- John A. Logan1826-1886American soldier and politicianRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Charles Francis Jenkins1867-1934American inventor and pioneer of cinema and televisionRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Mary Fuller1888-1973American actress and screenwriterCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Amos Kendall1789-1869American politicianThe Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Alexander Dallas Bache1806-1867American scientistCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Thomas Nelson Page1853-1922American lawyer, author, and diplomatRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Martha Dodd1908-1990American journalist, novelist and spy for the Soviet UnionRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Robert N. Butler1927-2010American academicRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- E. D. E. N. Southworth1819-1899American writerOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Ainsworth Rand Spofford1825-1908Librarian of CongressRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Oliveira Lima1867-1928Brazilian writer, librarian, literary critic, diplomat, historian and journalistMount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, DC
- John George Nicolay1832-1901German-American civil servant and authorOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Horatio King1811-1897United States Postmaster GeneralCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Guy N. Collins1872-1938American botanistProspect Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- George Watterston1783-1854Librarian of CongressCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Charles Frederick Henningsen1815-1877Confederate Army soldierCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Alice Lee Moqué1861-1919American traveler, writer, newspaper correspondent, photographer, and suffragistCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Frances Carpenter1890-1972American photographer and writerOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- William Russell Smith1815-1896American politicianMount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Sergei Kourdakov1951-1973KGB agent, writerRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Louis Leon Ludlow1873-1950American politicianRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Peter Force1790-1868American mayor, newspaper editor and historianRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Temple Bailey1880-1953American writerRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- William Franklin Sands1874-1946American diplomatMount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Mary C. Ames1831-1884American authorRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Timothy Brosnahan1856-1915American Jesuit educatorJesuit Community Cemetery, Foggy Bottom, DC
- Marvin Breckinridge Patterson1905-2002American photographer, photojournalist, cinematographer, and philanthropistRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- John Fletcher Hurst1834-1903American Methodist Episcopal bishopRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Arnaud de Borchgrave1926-2015American journalistRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Ella Loraine Dorsey1853-1935American author, journalist, translatorMount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Mary P. Burrill1881-1946American playwrightWoodlawn Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Lillian Rozell Messenger1843-1921American poet and writerThe Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Reinhold Solger1817-1866German-American writer and politicianCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Anne Royall1769-1854WriterCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Gamaliel Bailey1807-1859American physician, journalist, abolitionistOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Natalie Sumner Lincoln1881-1935American crime writerOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Mary Elizabeth Harper1820-1890American poetRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Louis de Geofroy1822-1899French diplomatMount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Emily Thornton Charles1845-1895American poet, journalist, suffragist, newspaper founderRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Margarita Spalding Gerry1870-1939American authorRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Fanny Kelly1845-1904American pioneerThe Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Harriet Newell Kneeland Goff1828-1901American temperance reformer and authorThe Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Max Robinson1939-1988Television journalist and artistOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Mary Stevens Beall1855-1917United States historian and librarianOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- J. Hunter Guthrie1901-1974American Jesuit philosopherJesuit Community Cemetery, Foggy Bottom, DC
- Philander Chase Johnson1866-1939American journalist, poet, and lyricistRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Catharine Van Valkenburg Waite1829-1913American activistRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Mary Theresa McKee Waggaman1846-1931American writerMount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Boris Filistinski1905-1991Soviet writer, poet and architectRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- L. Brent Bozell, Jr.1926-1997American activist and writerSaint Mary's Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Alfred B. Meacham1826-1882American politicianCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- George Washington Montgomery1804-1841Spanish writerOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Charles Lanman1819-1895American librarianOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Sophie Radford de Meissner1854-1957American writerOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Mary Mayo Crenshaw1875-1951American authorOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Henry Sherman1808-1879American writerOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- William Raspberry1935-2012American journalistRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Catherine Cate Coblentz1897-1951American children's writerRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Mary Berri Chapman Hansbrough1872-1951American artist and sociliateRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Mary Simmerson Cunningham Logan1838-1923American writer and editorUnited States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Frederick Douglass Jr.1842-1892Woodlawn Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Lee Hawkins Garby1890-1957American science fiction writerThe Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Elizabeth O. Sampson Hoyt1828-1912American philosopher, teacher, author, and social activistThe Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Mary Howard Schoolcraft1820-187819th century American authorCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Winifred Gales1761-1839American writerCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Lucy Burwell Page Saunders1808-1885American writer, 1808-1885Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Margaret L. Bailey1812-1888American newspaper publisher and poetOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- A. Maurice Low1860-1929British-American journalist and authorCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Joseph E. Nourse1819-1889American writer, editor, and USNO librarianOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Francis X. Talbot1889-1953American Jesuit editor and academic administratorJesuit Community Cemetery, Foggy Bottom, DC
- Harriet Newell Ralston1828-1920American poetRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Jeannie Blackburn Moran1841-1929American author, civic leader, socialite, philanthropistRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Charles Kroth Moser1877-1968American novelistRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- St. Clair McKelway1905-1980American journalist and writerRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Boris Prianisznikow1902-2002Polish journalistRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Osborn H. Oldroyd1842-1930Author and collector of Abraham Lincoln memorabiliaRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- John Luckey McCreery1835-1906American lawyer and poetThe Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, DC
- James Croxall Palmer1811-1883American Navy surgeon generalOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- William Horatio Barnes1832-1879US historianThe Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Albert Loren Cheney1852-1922American editor and authorThe Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, DC
- William Wister Haines1908-1989American screenwriterOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Helen Sioussat1902-1995Network executive in the early days of American televisionOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Evangeline Bruce1914-1995American writer and society hostessOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- May Garrettson Evans1866-1947WriterOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Frances Henshaw Baden1835-1911American writer of stories for girls and young womenCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Henry Oldys1859-1925American ornithologistRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- George Pitts1925-1987American journalist and newspaper editorRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Lella Warren1899-1982AuthorRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Maurice Brown Kirby1875-1911American writer and theatrical managerMount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Newbold Noyes1892-1942American writer and newspaper editorRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Fred Schultz Lincoln1873-1936Merchant and writerRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Sam C. Dunham1855-1920American poetThe Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, DC
- John Leander Bishop1820-1868American writerOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Charles Kitchell Gardner1787-1869American US Army officer, editor, author, Assistant Postmaster General, Treasury Department auditor, Surveyor General of OregonCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Hope Chamberlin1918-1974American journalist and authorOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Harriette Fanning Read1815-1876American poet, dramatist, actorOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Nancy Polke Lasselle1809-1866Indiana writer ?-1866Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Thomas Vincent Kelly1923-2010American journalistCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Thornton A. Washington1826-1894American military officerRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Maximilian Schele De Vere1820-1898UVA professor in 1800sRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Louise Connolly1862-1927American suffragist, writerRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- James F. Meline1811-1873American author 1811-73Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Bertha Gemeaux Woods1873-1952American writer and poetRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Adelia Vassar Paret1861-1912Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- John Calvin Wright1876-19551876-Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
Showing the 126 with the most Wikipedia language editions, of 126. Cemetery pages list everyone recorded there.
Over time
Deaths by decade
- 1830s2
- 1840s1
- 1850s4
- 1860s8
- 1870s6
- 1880s8
- 1890s13
- 1900s6
- 1910s9
- 1920s12
- 1930s10
- 1940s4
- 1950s11
- 1960s2
- 1970s6
- 1980s7
- 1990s5
- 2000s4
- 2010s7
- 2020s1
By recorded year of death, for the 126 people with one.
Cemeteries
Where they are buried
- Rock Creek Cemetery · Washington, DC50
- Oak Hill Cemetery · Washington, DC30
- Congressional Cemetery · Washington, DC20
- The Glenwood Cemetery · Washington, DC10
- Mount Olivet Cemetery · Washington, DC7
- United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery · Washington, DC3
- Jesuit Community Cemetery · Foggy Bottom, DC3
- Woodlawn Cemetery · Washington, DC2
- Prospect Hill Cemetery · Washington, DC1
- Saint Mary's Cemetery · Washington, DC1
More lists
Other notable burials in District of Columbia
United States representatives176American Civil War veterans78Journalists78Painters, sculptors and photographers70Scientists44United States senators43Governors34Physicians32Inventors and engineers29Mexican-American War veterans28Business leaders26Medal of Honor recipients22Actors20War of 1812 veterans20Architects17World War II veterans16
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.