Where inventors and engineers are buried
Wikidata records 1,162 inventors and engineers as buried in 533 of the cemeteries we list, across 48 states. Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA, holds the most, with 91.
People with inventor or engineer among their recorded occupations.
Map of cemeteries
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Inventors and engineers and where they rest
- George Washington1732-1799Founding Father and first U.S. presidentWashington Family Cemetery, Mount Vernon, VA
- Steve Jobs1955-2011American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc.Alta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
- Thomas Jefferson1743-1826Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809Jefferson Tomb, Charlottesville, VA
- Walt Disney1901-1966American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney CompanyForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Henry Ford1863-1947American business magnateFord Cemetery, Detroit, MI
- Enrico Fermi1901-1954Italian, American physicistOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Richard Feynman1918-1988American theoretical physicistMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
- Paul Dirac1902-1984British theoretical physicistRoselawn Cemetery, Tallahassee, FL
- Wernher von Braun1912-1977German and later American aerospace engineer and space architectIvy Hill Cemetery, Alexandria, VA
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse1791-1872American inventor and painterGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- John Bardeen1908-1991American physicist and engineerForest Hill Cemetery, Madison, WI
- Joseph Priestley1733-1804English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theoristRiverview Cemetery, Northumberland, PA
- William Shockley1910-1989American physicist and inventorAlta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
- B.F. Skinner1904-1990American behavioristMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Robert H. Goddard1882-1945American physicistHope Cemetery, Worcester, MA
- Benoit Mandelbrot1924-2010Polish-born, French and American mathematicianGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Donald Arthur Glaser1926-2013American physicist and neurobiologistMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Peter Debye1884-1966Dutch-American physicist and physical chemistPleasant Grove Cemetery, Cayuga Heights, NY
- Jack Kilby1923-2005American electrical engineerSparkman Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, TX
- Howard Hughes1905-1976American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producerGlenwood Cemetery, Houston, TX
- Josiah Willard Gibbs1839-1903American scientistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Robert Fulton1765-1815American engineer and inventorTrinity Church Cemetery, New York City, NY
- Nellie Bly1864-1922American journalistWoodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
- Claude Shannon1916-2001American mathematician and information theoristMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- 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
- Jack LaLanne1914-2011American exercise instructorForest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- John McCarthy1927-2011American computer scientist and cognitive scientistAlta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
- Joseph Henry1797-1878American scientist and the 1st Secretary of the SmithsonianOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- George Gamow1904-1968Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologistGreen Mountain Cemetery, Boulder, CO
- Les Paul1915-2009American jazz guitarist, country guitarist, songwriter and inventorPrairie Home Cemetery, Waukesha, WI
- John B. Goodenough1922-2023American materials scientistAustin Memorial Park Cemetery, Austin, TX
- Alan MacDiarmid1927-2007New Zealand chemistArlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, PA
- James Naismith1861-1939Canadian-American coach; inventor of basketballMemorial Park Cemetery, Lawrence, KS
- Herman Hollerith1860-1929American statistician and inventor(1860-1929)Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- George Westinghouse1846-1914American inventor and businessmanArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Leo Baekeland1863-1944Belgium American inventorSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
- Charles Goodyear1800-1860American inventorGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- John Pemberton1831-1888American pharmacist, inventor of Coca-ColaLinwood Cemetery, Columbus, GA
- Bill Anders1933-2024American astronaut and lunar explorerU.S. Naval Academy Cemetery, Naval Academy, MD
- Lee de Forest1873-1961American inventorSan Fernando Mission Cemetery, Santa Clarita, CA
- Warner Baxter1889-1951American actorForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Levi Strauss1829-1902German-Jewish-born American businessmanHome of Peace Cemetery, Colma, CA
- Judith Resnik1949-1986American engineer and astronautArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Ruth Handler1916-2002American businesswomanHillside Memorial Park, Inglewood, CA
- John Browning1855-1926Firearms designer of the United StatesOgden City Cemetery, Ogden, UT
- Albert B. Sabin1906-1993Jewish-Polish-American physician and epidemiologist who developed oral polio vaccinesArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Theodore von Kármán1881-1963Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicistHollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Emile Berliner1851-1929German-born American inventorRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Frances Allen1932-2020American computer scientistSaint Augustine Cemetery, Peru, NY
- Madam C. J. Walker1867-1919American entrepreneurWoodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
- Eli Whitney1765-1825American inventorGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- John Vincent Atanasoff1903-1995American computer pioneerPine Grove Cemetery, Mount Airy, MD
- Irving Fisher1867-1947American economist and statisticianEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Lee Iacocca1924-2019American businessmanWhite Chapel Cemetery, Troy, MI
- Samuel Langley1834-1906American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the SmithsonianForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Leo Fender1909-1991American inventor and founder of the Fender companyFairhaven Memorial Park and Mortuary, Orange, CA
- Howard H. Aiken1900-1973Pioneer in computing, original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computerLauderdale Memorial Park, Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Karl Guthe Jansky1905-1950American physicist and radio engineerForest Hill Cemetery, Madison, WI
- Gideon Sundback1880-1954Swedish-American inventorGreendale Cemetery, Meadville, PA
- Wallace Carothers1896-1937American organic chemistGlendale Cemetery, Des Moines, IA
- Mihajlo Pupin1858-1935Serbian-American physicist, physical chemist and philanthropistWoodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
- Ralph H. Baer1922-2014German-born American inventor and engineerHebrew Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Willis Carrier1876-1950American inventorForest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, NY
- George Meade1815-1872United States Army general and civil engineerLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Bruce McCandless II1937-2017American astronautU.S. Naval Academy Cemetery, Naval Academy, MD
- Berenice Abbott1898-1991American photographerNew Blanchard Cemetery, Sangerville, ME
- Philo Farnsworth1906-1971American inventorProvo City Cemetery, Provo, UT
- Josephine Cochrane1839-1913American inventorGlenwood Cemetery, Shelbyville, IL
- Walter Percy Chrysler Sr.1875-1940(1875-1940) American automotive industry executiveSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
- Vladimir K. Zworykin1888-1982Russian-American engineerPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- John Jacob Astor IV1864-1912American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonelTrinity Church Cemetery, New York City, NY
- Rick Husband1957-2003American astronautLlano Cemetery, Amarillo, TX
- William G. Morgan1870-1942Inventor of volleyballGlenwood Cemetery, Lockport, NY
- King Camp Gillette1855-1932American entrepreneurForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Eunice Newton Foote1819-1888American scientist, inventor and women's rights activistGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- Bill Hewlett1913-2001American electrical engineer, co-founder of Hewlett-PackardLos Gatos Cemetery, San Jose, CA
- Mildred Dresselhaus1930-2017American physicistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Elias Howe1819-1866American inventorGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- Gregory Jarvis1944-1986American astronautMohawk Cemetery, Mohawk, NY
- Richard von Mises1883-1953Austrian physicist and mathematicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Edwin Stanton Porter1870-1941American film pioneerKensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
- Gene Amdahl1922-2015American physicistBethania Cemetery, Dell Rapids, SD
- Ellison Onizuka1946-1986American astronaut from Kealakekua, Kona, Hawaii, first Asian American to reach space, later died in the Space Shuttle Challenger accidentArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- William Le Baron Jenney1832-1907American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- P. G. T. Beauregard1818-1893Confederate generalMetairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
- Edwin H. Land1909-1991American scientist and inventorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Cyrus McCormick1809-1884American inventor and businessmanGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Richard Jordan Gatling1818-1903American firearm designerCrown Hill National Cemetery, Indianapolis, IN
- Rube Goldberg1883-1970American cartoonistMount Pleasant Cemetery, Hawthorne, NY
- Elisha Otis1811-1861Founder of Otis Elevator Co.Oakland Cemetery, Yonkers, NY
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz1865-1923Prussian-American mathematician, electrical engineerVale Cemetery, Schenectady, NY
- Thomas Midgley1889-1944American chemist and engineerGreen Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- Henry Gantt1861-1919American engineerMount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, NJ
- Elisha Gray1835-1901American electrical engineerRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Ambrose Burnside1824-1881American general and politicianSwan Point Cemetery, Pawtucket, RI
- Lincoln Ellsworth1880-1951American explorerMarkillie Cemetery, Hudson, OH
- Alexander Agassiz1835-1910Swiss-American zoologist and engineerForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- George Antheil1900-1959American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventorRiverview Cemetery, Trenton, NJ
- Raymond Vahan Damadian1936-2022American scientist and inventorPinelawn Memorial Park, East Farmingdale, NY
- David Sarnoff1891-1971Russian-born American businessmanKensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
- Henry J. Kaiser1882-1967American industrialistMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Stan Winston1946-2008American special effects artistHillside Memorial Park, Inglewood, CA
- Elihu Thomson1853-1937American inventorPine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, MA
- Charles F. Kettering1876-1958American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 140 patentsWoodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, OH
- Thomas Gold1920-2004Austrian astrophysicistPleasant Grove Cemetery, Cayuga Heights, NY
- Christopher Latham Sholes1819-1890American politicianForest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, WI
- Jimmy Doolittle1896-1993American military officer and aviation pioneerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Preston Sturges1898-1959American film director and screenwriterFerncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
- Henry J. Heinz1844-1919American businessmanHomewood Cemetery, Wilkinsburg, PA
- Glenn Curtiss1878-1930American aviator and industrialistPleasant Valley Cemetery, Bath, NY
- Michael S. Hart1947-2011American author, founder of Project GutenbergWoodlawn Cemetery, Urbana, IL
- Sam Loyd1841-1911American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematicianMaple Grove Cemetery, Queens, NY
- Józef Kazimierz Hofmann1876-1957Polish musicianForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Henry Hartsfield1933-2014American astronautArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Robert Moses1888-1981American urban plannerWoodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
- George Pullman1831-1897Engineer and businessman from the United StatesGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Sam Jaffe1891-1984American actor, teacher, musician and engineerEden Memorial Park, Mission Hills, CA
- Emily Warren Roebling1843-1903US civil engineer, helped complete the Brooklyn BridgeCold Spring Cemetery, Cold Spring, NY
- Charles Martin Hall1863-1914American chemistWestwood Cemetery, Oberlin, OH
- John Deere1804-1886American blacksmith and manufacturerRiverside Cemetery, Moline, IL
- John DeLorean1925-2005American engineer and executive in the U.S. automobile industryWhite Chapel Cemetery, Troy, MI
- Cyrus West Field1819-1892American businessmanStockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, MA
- C. Gordon Fullerton1936-2013American astronaut and test pilotArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Josiah Warren1798-1874American social reformer, philosopher, inventor, musician, and authorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Fazlur Khan1929-1982Bangladeshi architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- John Augustus Roebling1806-1869German-American engineerRiverview Cemetery, Trenton, NJ
- Ernst Alexanderson1878-1975Swedish American electrical engineerVale Cemetery, Schenectady, NY
- Walter A. Shewhart1891-1967American statistical quality control expertFriends Central Cemetery, Northfield, NJ
- Robert W. Wood1868-1955American physicist and inventorSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA
- Frances Spence1922-2012American physicist and computer scientistHoly Rood Cemetery, Westbury, NY
- Eugene Stoner1922-1997American firearms designerQuantico National Cemetery, Triangle, VA
- John Mauchly1907-1980American physicistRose Hill Cemetery, Ambler, PA
- Wilson Greatbatch1919-2011American engineer and inventorClarence Fillmore Cemetery, Clarence, NY
- Kelly Johnson1910-1990American aerospace engineerForest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Elliot See1927-1966American test pilot and NASA astronautArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Clifton Williams1932-1967American astronautArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Stephen Timoshenko1878-1972Ukrainian & American engineerAlta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
- Lewis Howard Latimer1848-1928American inventorOak Grove Cemetery, Fall River, MA
- Henriette Avram1919-2006American computer programmer and system analystArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- John Wesley Hyatt1837-1920American inventor of plasticFair Mount Cemetery, Chatham, NJ
- Ransom E. Olds1864-1950American businessmanMount Hope Cemetery, Lansing, MI
- An Wang1920-1990American businessmanLincoln Cemetery, Lincoln, MA
- Charles Bassett1931-1966United States Air Force test pilot and astronautArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Caleb Bradham1867-1934American pharmacist, inventor of Pepsi-ColaCedar Grove Cemetery, New Bern, NC
- Peter Cooper1791-1883American politician and businessmanGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- Granville Tailer Woods1856-1910American inventorSaint Michael's Cemetery, Manhattan, NY
- Dean Smith1931-2015American basketball coachOld Chapel Hill Cemetery, Chapel Hill, NC
- William David Coolidge1873-1975American physicistVale Cemetery, Schenectady, NY
- L. L. Langstroth1810-1895American beekeeperWoodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, OH
Showing the 150 with the most Wikipedia language editions, of 1,162. Cemetery pages list everyone recorded there.
Deaths by decade
- 1660s1
- 1740s2
- 1780s1
- 1790s3
- 1800s2
- 1810s1
- 1820s6
- 1830s6
- 1840s9
- 1850s19
- 1860s27
- 1870s38
- 1880s57
- 1890s72
- 1900s63
- 1910s109
- 1920s88
- 1930s109
- 1940s92
- 1950s93
- 1960s58
- 1970s61
- 1980s60
- 1990s44
- 2000s67
- 2010s64
- 2020s10
By recorded year of death, for the 1,162 people with one.
Where they are buried
- Arlington National Cemetery · Arlington, VA91
- Green - Wood Cemetery · Brooklyn, NY43
- Woodlawn Cemetery · The Bronx, NY34
- Mount Auburn Cemetery · North Brighton, MA28
- Laurel Hill Cemetery · Philadelphia, PA20
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park · Glendale, CA19
- Crown Hill National Cemetery · Indianapolis, IN16
- Graceland Cemetery · Chicago, IL13
- West Point Cemetery · West Point, NY12
- Oak Hill Cemetery · Washington, DC11
- Lake View Cemetery · East Cleveland, OH11
- Kensico Cemetery · Valhalla, NY10
- Grove Street Cemetery · New Haven, CT9
- Homewood Cemetery · Wilkinsburg, PA9
- Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum · Altadena, CA8
- Rock Creek Cemetery · Washington, DC8
- Mount Hope Cemetery · Rochester, NY8
- Woodlawn Cemetery · Ferndale, MI8
- Cedar Hill Cemetery · Newington, CT8
- Swan Point Cemetery · Pawtucket, RI8
- Rosedale Cemetery · West Orange, NJ8
- Mountain View Cemetery · Oakland, CA7
- Green Mount Cemetery · Baltimore, MD7
- Bellefontaine Cemetery · Saint Louis, MO7
- Congressional Cemetery · Washington, DC7
Top 25 of 533 cemeteries. The map shows all of them.
Inventors and engineers by state
- Alabama10
- Alaska3
- Arizona7
- Arkansas1
- California131
- Colorado4
- Connecticut46
- District of Columbia29
- Florida5
- Georgia8
- Hawaii2
- Idaho2
- Illinois55
- Indiana31
- Iowa8
- Kansas3
- Kentucky1
- Louisiana4
- Maine9
- Maryland27
- Massachusetts90
- Michigan39
- Minnesota7
- Mississippi1
- Missouri15
- Montana1
- Nebraska3
- Nevada2
- New Hampshire12
- New Jersey46
- New Mexico2
- New York214
- North Carolina8
- Ohio45
- Oklahoma5
- Oregon5
- Pennsylvania90
- Rhode Island12
- South Dakota1
- Tennessee4
- Texas15
- Utah13
- Vermont8
- Virginia113
- Washington7
- West Virginia3
- Wisconsin16
- Wyoming2
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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.