Where journalists are buried
Wikidata records 1,833 journalists as buried in 766 of the cemeteries we list, across 49 states. Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, VA, holds the most, with 83.
People with journalist among their recorded occupations.
Map of cemeteries
Each point is a cemetery; open it for everyone recorded there.
Journalists and where they rest
- Mark Twain1835-1910American author and humoristWoodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, NY
- John F. Kennedy1917-1963President of the United States from 1961 to 1963Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Ernest Hemingway1899-1961American author and journalistKetchum Cemetery, Ketchum, ID
- Henry Ford1863-1947American business magnateFord Cemetery, Detroit, MI
- Ayn Rand1905-1982Russian-born American writer and public philosopherKensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
- Emma Goldman1869-1940Russian-born American anarchistForest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
- Saul Bellow1915-2005Canadian-American writerMorningside Cemetery, Brattleboro, VT
- Sinclair Lewis1885-1951American writer and playwrightGreenwood Cemetery, Sauk Centre, MN
- H. P. Lovecraft1890-1937American writer and editorSwan Point Cemetery, Pawtucket, RI
- Isaac Bashevis Singer1904-1991Polish-American writerCedar Park Cemetery, Oradell, NJ
- Frank Zappa1940-1993American musicianWestwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
- Washington Irving1783-1859American writer, historian and diplomatSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
- Charles Bukowski1920-1994German-American writerGreen Hills Memorial Park, Lomita, CA
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis1929-1994First Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Margaret Mitchell1900-1949American author and journalistOakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA
- Roger Ebert1942-2013American film critic and authorGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Jane Addams1860-1935American feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and writerCedarville Cemetery, Freeport, IL
- Frederick Douglass1818-1895African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionistMount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY
- P. T. Barnum1810-1891American showman and politicianMountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, CT
- John Updike1932-2009American novelist, poetRobeson Lutheran Church Cemetery, Flying Hills, PA
- Norman Mailer1923-2007American writerProvincetown Cemetery, Provincetown, MA
- Larry King1933-2021American television and radio hostHillside Memorial Park, Inglewood, CA
- Emily Greene Balch1867-1961American economist and writerForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Billy Wilder1906-2002Austrian and American filmmakerWestwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
- Hugh Hefner1926-2017American businessman and magazine publisherWestwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
- Gore Vidal1925-2012American writerRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Joseph Pulitzer1847-1911Hungarian-American newspaper publisher and politicianWoodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
- Theodore Dreiser1871-1945American novelist and journalistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- L. Frank Baum1856-1919American author of children's booksForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Charles G. Dawes1865-1951Vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Dorothy Parker1893-1967American poet, short story writer, critic and satiristWoodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
- Upton Sinclair1878-1968American writerRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Dashiell Hammett1894-1961American writerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Nellie Bly1864-1922American journalistWoodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
- Mircea Eliade1907-1986Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of ChicagoOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Sherwood Anderson1876-1941American writerRound Hill Cemetery, Marion, VA
- Zora Neale Hurston1891-1960African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocateGarden of Heavenly Rest Cemetery, Fort Pierce North, FL
- H. L. Mencken1880-1956American journalist and writerLoudon Park National Cemetery, Violetville, MD
- Henry George1839-1897American political economist and journalistGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- Robert Capa1913-1954American photographerAmawalk Hill Cemetery, Yorktown Heights, NY
- Stephen Crane1871-1900American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalistEvergreen Cemetery, Hillside, NJ
- Henry Adams1838-1918American journalist, historian, academic, novelistRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Alvin Toffler1928-2016American writer, futurist and businessmanWestwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
- Lion Feuchtwanger1884-1958German writerWoodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, CA
- Walter Cronkite1916-2009American broadcast journalistMount Moriah Cemetery, Grandview, MO
- Will Rogers1879-1935American humorist and entertainerForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Margaret Fuller1810-1850American writer and women's activistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Howard Zinn1922-2010American historian, playwright, and socialist thinkerNewton Cemetery, Newton, MA
- Barbara W. Tuchman1912-1989American historian and authorTemple Israel Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
- Antanas Smetona1874-1944First President of Lithuania from 4 April 1919 until 19 June 1920All Souls Cemetery, Chardon, OH
- Henry Wilson1812-1875Vice president of the United States from 1873 to 1875Dell Park Cemetery, Natick, MA
- Dorothy Day1897-1980American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convertCemetery of the Resurrection, Staten Island, NY
- Wallace Stevens1879-1955American poetCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Clifford D. Simak1904-1988American writer, journalistLakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, MN
- Richard Holbrooke1941-2010American diplomatOakland Cemetery, Sag Harbor, NY
- Noah Webster1758-1843American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and authorGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Peter Bogdanovich1939-2022American film directorWestwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
- Mary Higgins Clark1927-2020American author of suspense novelsGate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
- William Styron1925-2006American novelist and essayistWest Chop Cemetery, Vineyard Haven, MA
- Sergei Dovlatov1941-1990Soviet writerMount Hebron Cemetery, Queens, NY
- Edward R. Murrow1908-1965American broadcast journalistWorthington Center Cemetery, Rutland, MA
- Tom Wolfe1930-2018American author and journalistHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Ida B. Wells1862-1931American journalist and civil rights activistOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Lew Wallace1827-1905American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author of 'Ben Hur'Oak Hill Cemetery, Crawfordsville, IN
- James Russell Lowell1819-1891American poet, critic, editor, and diplomatMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Rush Limbaugh1951-2021American political commentatorBellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, MO
- Ed Sullivan1901-1974American television hostFerncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
- Katharine Graham1917-2001American publisher, editor and authorOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Horace Greeley1811-1872American politician and publisherGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- Ève Curie1904-2007Writer, journalist and pianist, younger daughter of Marie and Pierre CurieMetairie Cemetery, Metairie, LA
- Jerry Springer1944-2023American television personality and politicianMemorial Park Cemetery, Skokie, IL
- Melvil Dewey1851-1931American librarianNorth Elba Cemetery, Lake Placid, NY
- Ze'ev Jabotinsky1880-1940Russian Jewish poet, founder of Revisionist Zionist movementNew Montefiore Cemetery, West Babylon, NY
- William Lloyd Garrison1805-1879American journalist and abolitionistForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- James Thurber1894-1961American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwrightGreen Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- Phyllis Schlafly1924-2016American conservative activistCalvary Cemetery, Saint Louis, MO
- Henry Ward Beecher1813-1887American clergyman and activistGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- Neil Postman1931-2003American writer and academicCedar Park Cemetery, Oradell, NJ
- Herman Cain1945-2020American businessmanWestview Cemetery, Atlanta, GA
- Mike Wallace1918-2012American journalist, game show host and actorWest Chop Cemetery, Vineyard Haven, MA
- Carrie Chapman Catt1859-1947American social reformer, suffragistWoodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
- Lenny Bruce1925-1966American comedian and social criticEden Memorial Park, Mission Hills, CA
- Lucy Stone1818-1893American abolitionist and suffragistForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- John Kennedy Toole1937-1969American novelistGreenwood Cemetery, Metairie, LA
- George Ellery Hale1868-1938American astronomerOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Voltairine de Cleyre1866-1912American anarchist writer and feministForest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
- John Greenleaf Whittier1807-1892American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slaveryUnion Cemetery, Amesbury, MA
- Art Buchwald1925-2007Journalist, humorist, United States MarineWest Chop Cemetery, Vineyard Haven, MA
- Helen Thomas1920-2013American author and journalistForest Lawn Cemetery, Hamtramck, MI
- Frederick Law Olmsted1822-1903American landscape designer, journalist, social critic, and public administratorOld North Cemetery, Hartford, CT
- Fred Allen1894-1956American comedianGate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
- James Connolly1868-1957American triple jumperHolyhood Cemetery, Chestnut Hill, MA
- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn1890-1964American politicianForest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
- Mary McCarthy1912-1989American writerCastine Town Cemetery, Castine, ME
- Emma Lazarus1849-1887American poetB'nai Jeshurum and Shereth Israel Cemetery, Queens, NY
- William Cullen Bryant1794-1878American romantic poet and journalistRoslyn Cemetery, Greenvale, NY
- Kazys Grinius1866-1950Third President of Lithuania from 7 June 1926 until 17 December 1926Lithuanian National Cemetery, Justice, IL
- Ida Tarbell1857-1944American journalistWoodlawn Cemetery, Titusville, PA
- Rosika Schwimmer1877-1948Hungarian activist, editorFerncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh, NY
- Ben Hecht1894-1964American writer, director, and producerOak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, NY
- John Hay1838-1905American statesmanLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- George Gallup1901-1984American statisticianPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- William F. Buckley Jr.1925-2008American public intellectual, conservative author and political commentatorSaint Bernards Cemetery, Fitchburg, MA
- Harriet Quimby1875-1912American aviator, screenwriterKensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
- Gordon Parks1912-2006American photographer, musician, writer and film directorEvergreen Cemetery, Fort Scott, KS
- Robert Benchley1889-1945American writer and actorProspect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, MA
- Tom Lantos1928-2008American politicianCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Cyrus McCormick1809-1884American inventor and businessmanGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Walter Winchell1897-1972American gossip journalistMemory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, AZ
- Rube Goldberg1883-1970American cartoonistMount Pleasant Cemetery, Hawthorne, NY
- Daniel Pearl1963-2002American journalistMount Sinai Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Mathew Benjamin Brady1822-1896American photographerCongressional Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Carl Schurz1829-1906Union Army general, politicianSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
- Zecharia Sitchin1920-2010American-Israeli author of Azerbaijani originNew Montefiore Cemetery, West Babylon, NY
- Lysander Spooner1808-1887American political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian, abolitionist, individualist anarchist, legal theorist, a member of the socialist First International and entrepreneur of the 19th centuryForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Lucy Parsons1851-1942American communist anarchist labor organizerForest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
- William Dean Howells1837-1920American author, critic, and playwrightCambridge Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- John O'Hara1905-1970American journalist and writerPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Iris Chang1968-2004Chinese-American journalist and author of historical booksGates of Heaven Cemetery, Cupertino, CA
- John Hersey1914-1993American journalist, novelist, professorWest Chop Cemetery, Vineyard Haven, MA
- Thomas Nast1840-1902American cartoonistWoodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
- John Dickson Carr1906-1977American writerSpringwood Cemetery, Greenville, SC
- Alfred Eisenstaedt1898-1995German American photographerMount Hebron Cemetery, Queens, NY
- Cornelius Ryan1920-1974Irish American journalistRidgebury Cemetery, Danbury, CT
- James Oliver Curwood1878-1927American writer and conservationistOak Hill Cemetery, Owosso, MI
- Eddie Adams1933-2004American photographerGreenwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Natrona Heights, PA
- Christopher Latham Sholes1819-1890American politicianForest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, WI
- Gene Siskel1946-1999American film criticWestlawn Cemetery and Mausoleum, Norridge, IL
- Crystal Eastman1881-1928American lawyer and feministWoodlawn Cemetery, Canandaigua, NY
- Edmund Wilson1895-1972American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of lettersPleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet, MA
- Dith Pran1942-2008Cambodian photojournalistChestnut Grove Cemetery, Herndon, VA
- J. Stuart Blackton1875-1941American film producerForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- L. Sprague de Camp1907-2000American non- and speculative fiction writerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Ion Mihai Pacepa1928-2021Romanian generalArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.1902-1985American politicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Horatio Alger1832-1899American novelistGlenwood Cemetery, Maynard, MA
- Alice Stone Blackwell1857-1950American feminist, journalist and human rights advocateForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Erma Bombeck1927-1996American humorist and writerWoodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, OH
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich1836-1907American poet, novelist, editorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Dorothy Height1912-2010American activistFort Lincoln Cemetery, Colmar Manor, MD
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper1825-1911American writerEden Memorial Cemetery, Collingdale, PA
- Frank O'Hara1926-1966American poet, art critic and writerGreen River Cemetery, Springs, NY
- Helen Gurley Brown1922-2012American author, publisher, and businesswomanSisco Cemetery, Green Forest, AR
- Charles Coughlin1891-1979Canadian-American Catholic priest and radio commentatorHoly Sepulchre Cemetery, Farmington Hills, MI
- Josiah Warren1798-1874American social reformer, philosopher, inventor, musician, and authorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Frank Norris1870-1902American journalist and novelistMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Algis Budrys1931-2008Lithuanian-American author, editor, and criticMaryhill Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum, Niles, IL
- Susan Glaspell1876-1948American writerSnow Cemetery, Truro, MA
- Ben Bradlee1921-2014Executive editor of The Washington Post from 1968 to 1991Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Andrew Breitbart1969-2012American writer and publisherHillside Memorial Park, Inglewood, CA
Showing the 150 with the most Wikipedia language editions, of 1,833. Cemetery pages list everyone recorded there.
Deaths by decade
- 1730s3
- 1740s1
- 1760s1
- 1780s1
- 1800s2
- 1820s1
- 1830s7
- 1840s15
- 1850s23
- 1860s43
- 1870s54
- 1880s111
- 1890s119
- 1900s131
- 1910s124
- 1920s153
- 1930s113
- 1940s142
- 1950s141
- 1960s130
- 1970s96
- 1980s90
- 1990s80
- 2000s129
- 2010s103
- 2020s16
By recorded year of death, for the 1,829 people with one.
Where they are buried
- Arlington National Cemetery · Arlington, VA83
- Green - Wood Cemetery · Brooklyn, NY61
- Mount Auburn Cemetery · North Brighton, MA43
- Rock Creek Cemetery · Washington, DC41
- Woodlawn Cemetery · The Bronx, NY38
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park · Glendale, CA24
- Sleepy Hollow Cemetery · Sleepy Hollow, NY20
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery · Los Angeles, CA20
- Ferncliff Cemetery · Greenburgh, NY20
- Graceland Cemetery · Chicago, IL19
- Rosehill Cemetery · Chicago, IL19
- St Andrew's Ukrainian Cemetery · South Bound Brook, NJ18
- Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum · Finneytown, OH16
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park · Burbank, CA16
- Cypress Lawn Memorial Park · Colma, CA15
- Oak Hill Cemetery · Washington, DC14
- Kensico Cemetery · Valhalla, NY14
- Cave Hill Cemetery · Louisville, KY13
- Forest Home Cemetery · Forest Park, IL13
- Gate of Heaven Cemetery · Valhalla, NY13
- Mountain View Cemetery · Oakland, CA12
- Congressional Cemetery · Washington, DC12
- Forest Hills Cemetery · Roslindale, MA12
- Allegheny Cemetery · Bloomfield, PA12
- Forest Home Cemetery · Milwaukee, WI11
Top 25 of 766 cemeteries. The map shows all of them.
Journalists by state
- Alabama8
- Alaska2
- Arizona11
- Arkansas9
- California189
- Colorado2
- Connecticut39
- Delaware2
- District of Columbia78
- Florida10
- Georgia33
- Hawaii3
- Idaho3
- Illinois129
- Indiana25
- Iowa21
- Kansas17
- Kentucky27
- Louisiana16
- Maine19
- Maryland32
- Massachusetts140
- Michigan34
- Minnesota17
- Mississippi8
- Missouri29
- Montana5
- Nebraska12
- Nevada8
- New Hampshire8
- New Jersey60
- New Mexico5
- New York341
- North Carolina15
- Ohio84
- Oklahoma6
- Oregon23
- Pennsylvania99
- Rhode Island10
- South Carolina12
- South Dakota3
- Tennessee18
- Texas28
- Utah12
- Vermont6
- Virginia125
- Washington13
- West Virginia7
- Wisconsin33
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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.