Scientists buried in Florida
Wikidata records 16 scientists as buried in 11 of the cemeteries we list in Florida. Evergreen Cemetery in Gainesville holds the most, with 3. Florida has the 27th highest count of any state, out of 1,905 nationally.
People recorded as scientists, including chemists, physicists, mathematicians, biologists and astronomers.
Map of cemeteries
Each point is a cemetery; open it for everyone recorded there.
Scientists buried in Florida
- Willis Stanley Blatchley1859-1940American entomologist, malacologist, geologist, and authorDunedin Cemetery, Dunedin, FL
- Mary Francis Baker1876-1941Botanist and writerPalm Cemetery, Winter Park, FL
- William Alphonso Murrill1869-1957American botanist and mycologistEvergreen Cemetery, Gainesville, FL
- Antonio Longoria1890-1970American fringe physicistPalm Cemetery, Winter Park, FL
- Edwin Fraser Hopkins1891-1972American botanistGreenwood Cemetery, Orlando, FL
- Howard H. Aiken1900-1973Pioneer in computing, original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computerLauderdale Memorial Park, Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Arthur Forrest Camp1896-1982American botanist and plant pathologistOak Grove Cemetery, Lake Alfred, FL
- Paul Dirac1902-1984British theoretical physicistRoselawn Cemetery, Tallahassee, FL
- Ruth Olive Schornhurst Breen1905-1987BotanistOakland Cemetery, Tallahassee, FL
- Archie Carr1909-1987American university professor, zoologist, and conservationistEvergreen Cemetery, Gainesville, FL
- Lena B. Smithers Hughes1905-1987American botanistGreenwood Cemetery, Orlando, FL
- Miles C. Hartley1901-1989Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1933Myrtle Hill Memorial Park, East Lake-Orient Park, FL
- Charles Wilson McArthur1921-2001Ph.D. Tulane University 1954Roselawn Cemetery, Tallahassee, FL
- Robert Cade1927-2007American medical doctor, nephrologist, research scientist, inventor of GatoradeEvergreen Cemetery, Gainesville, FL
- Louis Charles Graue1923-2018Ph.D. Indiana University 1950South Florida National Cemetery, Lake Worth, FL
- John Robert Schrieffer1931-2019American physicistGreenwood Cemetery, Eustis, FL
Everyone on this list, by year of death. People without a recorded death year come last.
Deaths by decade
- 1940s2
- 1950s1
- 1970s3
- 1980s6
- 2000s2
- 2010s2
By recorded year of death, for the 16 people with one.
Where they are buried
- Evergreen Cemetery · Gainesville, FL3
- Roselawn Cemetery · Tallahassee, FL2
- Greenwood Cemetery · Orlando, FL2
- Palm Cemetery · Winter Park, FL2
- Oakland Cemetery · Tallahassee, FL1
- South Florida National Cemetery · Lake Worth, FL1
- Dunedin Cemetery · Dunedin, FL1
- Lauderdale Memorial Park · Fort Lauderdale, FL1
- Myrtle Hill Memorial Park · East Lake-Orient Park, FL1
- Oak Grove Cemetery · Lake Alfred, FL1
- Greenwood Cemetery · Eustis, FL1
Other notable burials in Florida
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.