Notable burials · MA
Notable people buried in Massachusetts
Wikidata records 5,034 notable people as buried in Massachusetts, spread over 417 of the cemeteries we list, the 4th highest count of any state. Mount Auburn Cemetery in North Brighton holds the most, with 1,333 (26% of the state total).
5,034
notable burials
417
cemeteries with one or more
1,333
at Mount Auburn Cemetery
By theme
Who is buried in Massachusetts
Government
Governors57Supreme Court justices6United States representatives259United States senators40Vice Presidents of the United States1
Military
American Civil War veterans124Korean War veterans9Medal of Honor recipients72Mexican-American War veterans10American Revolutionary War veterans15Spanish-American War veterans18Vietnam War veterans5War of 1812 veterans8World War I veterans38World War II veterans57
Arts and entertainment
Sports
Science and work
Aviators and astronauts6Business leaders188Inventors and engineers90Nobel Prize laureates11Physicians154Scientists217
From occupations, offices, awards and military service recorded on Wikidata. One person can appear in several lists.
People
Best-documented burials in Massachusetts
- Ralph Waldo Emerson1803-1882American philosopherSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA
- Emily Dickinson1830-1886American poetWest Cemetery, Amherst Center, MA
- Henry David Thoreau1817-1862American essayist, poet, and philosopherSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA
- William James1842-1910American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatistCambridge Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Harriet Beecher Stowe1811-1896American abolitionist and authorPhillips Academy Cemetery, Andover, MA
- Nathaniel Hawthorne1804-1864American authorSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA
- Louisa May Alcott1832-1888American novelistSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA
- Eugene O'Neill1888-1953American playwrightForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Henry James1843-1916American and British writerCambridge Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Jack Kerouac1922-1969American writerEdson Cemetery, Lowell, MA
- Abraham Maslow1908-1970American psychologistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- B.F. Skinner1904-1990American behavioristMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Norman Mailer1923-2007American writerProvincetown Cemetery, Provincetown, MA
- Karl Landsteiner1868-1943Jewish-Austrian biologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureateProspect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, MA
- John Rawls1921-2002American philosopher, philosophy teacherMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Robert H. Goddard1882-1945American physicistHope Cemetery, Worcester, MA
- Emily Greene Balch1867-1961American economist and writerForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Samuel P. Huntington1927-2008American political scientistTisbury Village Cemetery, Vineyard Haven, MA
- Julian Seymour Schwinger1918-1994American theoretical physicistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Edward O. Wilson1929-2021American biologist, naturalist, and writerWestview Cemetery, Bedford, MA
- Claude Shannon1916-2001American mathematician and information theoristMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Robert Burns Woodward1917-1979American chemistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Simon Kuznets1901-1985Russian-born American economist and statisticianSharon Memorial Park, Sharon, MA
- Wes Craven1939-2015American filmmakerLamberts Cove Cemetery, Vineyard Haven, MA
- Samuel Adams1722-1803American statesman, political philosopher, governor of Massachusetts and Founding Father of the United StatesGranary Burying Ground, Boston, MA
- Roman Jakobson1896-1982Russian linguistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt1868-1921American astronomer and human calculatorCambridge Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- James Batcheller Sumner1887-1955American chemistCanton Cemetery, Canton, MA
- Oliver Wendell Holmes1809-1894American poet and physicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Theodore William Richards1868-1928United States chemistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- E. E. Cummings1894-1962American authorForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Robert Nozick1938-2002American political philosopherMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Carl Ferdinand Cori1896-1984Czech Nobel prize laureate and scientistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Elizabeth Bishop1911-1979American poetHope Cemetery, Worcester, MA
- Margaret Fuller1810-1850American writer and women's activistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Patty Duke1946-2016American actressForest Cemetery, Carlisle, MA
- Howard Zinn1922-2010American historian, playwright, and socialist thinkerNewton Cemetery, Newton, MA
- George Minot1885-1950American physicianForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- George Kennedy1925-2016American actorForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Henry Wilson1812-1875Vice president of the United States from 1873 to 1875Dell Park Cemetery, Natick, MA
- Maria Mitchell1818-1889American astronomerProspect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, MA
- Norman Rockwell1894-1978American painter and illustratorStockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, MA
- Gordon Allport1897-1967American psychologistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Ruth Gordon1896-1985American actress and writerHancock Cemetery, Quincy, MA
- William Styron1925-2006American novelist and essayistWest Chop Cemetery, Vineyard Haven, MA
- Phillis Wheatley1753-1784First African-American poetCopps Hill Burial Ground, VA Boston Healthcare System, Brockton Campus, MA
- Mary Baker Eddy1821-1910American founder of Christian ScienceMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- George Shultz1920-2021American politicianDawes Cemetery, Chesterfield, MA
- Daniel Webster1782-185214th and 19th United States Secretary of StateWinslow Cemetery, Marshfield, MA
- Edward R. Murrow1908-1965American broadcast journalistWorthington Center Cemetery, Rutland, MA
- Anne Sexton1928-1974American poetForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Williamina Fleming1857-1911Astronoma escocesaMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- James Russell Lowell1819-1891American poet, critic, editor, and diplomatMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Reinhold Niebuhr1892-1971American Protestant theologianStockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, MA
- John Hancock1737-1793American Patriot and statesman during the American RevolutionGranary Burying Ground, Boston, MA
- John Cheever1912-1982American novelist and short story writerFirst Parish Cemetery, Norwell, MA
- Thomas Huckle Weller1915-2008American virologistWoodlawn Cemetery, Wellesley, MA
- Josephine Hull1877-1957American stage and film actressNewton Cemetery, Newton, MA
- Bernard Malamud1914-1986American authorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Eleanor H. Porter1868-1920American novelistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Anne Revere1903-1990American actressMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Amy Lawrence Lowell1874-1925US writerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Winslow Homer1836-1910American landscape painterMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Samuel Langley1834-1906American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the SmithsonianForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.1888-1969American businessman, politician and diplomatHolyhood Cemetery, Chestnut Hill, MA
- Edward Charles Pickering1846-1919American astronomerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- William Lloyd Garrison1805-1879American journalist and abolitionistForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Paul Revere1735-1818American silversmith and Patriot in the American RevolutionGranary Burying Ground, Boston, MA
- Albert Bierstadt1830-1902American painterRural Cemetery, New Bedford, MA
- Mike Wallace1918-2012American journalist, game show host and actorWest Chop Cemetery, Vineyard Haven, MA
- William T. G. Morton1819-1868United States dental surgeonMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Mary Daly1928-2010American feminist philosopher and theologianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Lucy Stone1818-1893American abolitionist and suffragistForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- 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
- James Connolly1868-1957American triple jumperHolyhood Cemetery, Chestnut Hill, MA
- Thomas Burke1875-1929American sprinterHolyhood Cemetery, Chestnut Hill, MA
- John Heard1946-2017American actorOld South Cemetery, Ipswich, MA
- Archibald MacLeish1892-1982American poet and Librarian of CongressPine Grove Cemetery, Conway, MA
- Asa Gray1810-1888American botanistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Nettie Stevens1861-1912American geneticistFairview Cemetery, Westford, MA
- Mildred Dresselhaus1930-2017American physicistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Rose Kennedy1890-1995American philanthropist and Kennedy family matriarchHolyhood Cemetery, Chestnut Hill, MA
- Margaret Abbott1876-1955American golferHarmony Grove Cemetery, Peabody, MA
- Richard von Mises1883-1953Austrian physicist and mathematicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Julia Ward Howe1819-1910American abolitionist, social activist, and poetMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Amos Bronson Alcott1799-1888American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformerSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA
- Robert J. Van de Graaff1901-1967American physicistCentral Cemetery, Beverly, MA
- John Harvard1607-1638English-American clergyman and philanthropistPhipps Street Burying Ground, Charlestown, MA
- Lizzie Borden1860-1927American murder suspectOak Grove Cemetery, Fall River, MA
- William F. Buckley Jr.1925-2008American public intellectual, conservative author and political commentatorSaint Bernards Cemetery, Fitchburg, MA
- Cotton Mather1663-1728American religious minister and scientific writerCopps Hill Burial Ground, VA Boston Healthcare System, Brockton Campus, MA
- Robert Benchley1889-1945American writer and actorProspect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, MA
- Edwin H. Land1909-1991American scientist and inventorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Ellery Harding Clark1874-1949American track and field athleteForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Peter Benchley1940-2006American authorProspect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, MA
- Arthur M. Schlesinger1917-2007American historian, social critic, and public intellectualMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- William Ellery Channing1780-1842American Unitarian clergymanMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- John Winthrop1588-1649Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and Author of "City upon a Hill"Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, MA
- 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
- William Dean Howells1837-1920American author, critic, and playwrightCambridge Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- David Souter1939-2025American lawyer and juristLakeside Cemetery, Wakefield, MA
- John Hersey1914-1993American journalist, novelist, professorWest Chop Cemetery, Vineyard Haven, MA
- Edward Everett1794-1865American politician, pastor, educator, diplomat and oratorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Dorothea Dix1802-1887American author and social reformerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Edwin Hall1855-1938American physicistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Mary Whiton Calkins1863-1930American philosopher and psychologistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Alexander Agassiz1835-1910Swiss-American zoologist and engineerForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Christian Herter1895-1966American politicianProspect Hill Cemetery, Millis, MA
- Washington Allston1779-1843American artistOld Burying Ground, West Cambridge/Harvard Square, MA
- George David Birkhoff1884-1944American mathematicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Oscar Zariski1899-1986American mathematicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Helen B. Taussig1898-1986Jewish-American cardiologistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Rosemary Kennedy1918-2005Younger sister of John F. KennedyHolyhood Cemetery, Chestnut Hill, MA
- Benjamin Peirce1809-1880American mathematicianCambridge Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Elihu Thomson1853-1937American inventorPine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, MA
- Serge Koussevitzky1874-1951Russian and American conductor, composer, and double-bassistChurch on the Hill Cemetery, Lenox, MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge1850-1924American statesmanMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Harriet Jacobs1815-1897American slave, writer, and abolitionistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Edmund Wilson1895-1972American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of lettersPleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet, MA
- William Cranch Bond1789-1859American astronomerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.1902-1985American politicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Josiah Royce1855-1916American philosopherMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Fanny Bullock Workman1859-1925American geographer, cartographer, explorer, travel writer, and mountaineerRural Cemetery & Crematory, Worcester, MA
- James Bryant Conant1893-1978American chemistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Thelma Todd1906-1935American actressBellevue Cemetery, Methuen, MA
- Horatio Alger1832-1899American novelistGlenwood Cemetery, Maynard, MA
- Amy Beach1867-1944American composer and pianistForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Alice Stone Blackwell1857-1950American feminist, journalist and human rights advocateForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Whitey Bulger1929-2018Irish-American gangster and crime bossSaint Josephs Cemetery, Oak Hill Park, MA
- Richard Wilbur1921-2017American poetDawes Cemetery, Chesterfield, MA
- Thomas Curtis1873-1944American athleteMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- William Hickling Prescott1796-1859American historian and HispanistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich1836-1907American poet, novelist, editorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Charles Sumner1811-1874American abolitionist and statesmanMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Florence Bascom1862-1945American geologistCollege Cemetery, Williamstown, MA
- Cyrus West Field1819-1892American businessmanStockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, MA
- Gregory Goodwin Pincus1903-1967American biochemistMountain View Cemetery, Shrewsbury, MA
- Wendell Phillips1811-1884American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyerGranary Burying Ground, Boston, MA
- Josiah Warren1798-1874American social reformer, philosopher, inventor, musician, and authorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Daniel Chester French1850-1931American sculptorSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA
- Sumner Paine1868-1904American sport shooterForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Harry Nelson Pillsbury1872-1906American chess playerLaurel Hill Cemetery, Reading, MA
- Susan Glaspell1876-1948American writerSnow Cemetery, Truro, MA
- Hilda Geiringer1893-1973Austrian mathematicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Benjamin Apthorp Gould1824-1896American astronomerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Robert W. Wood1868-1955American physicist and inventorSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA
- Edward Everett Hale1822-1909American author, historian and Unitarian ministerForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Mildred Dunnock1901-1991American theater, film and television actressLamberts Cove Cemetery, Vineyard Haven, MA
- David Halberstam1934-2007American writer, journalist, historianProspect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, MA
Showing 150 of 5,034. Each cemetery page lists everyone recorded there.
Ordered by the number of Wikipedia language editions with an article about the person.
Cemeteries
Where they are buried
- Mount Auburn Cemetery · North Brighton1,333
- Forest Hills Cemetery · Roslindale358
- Harmony Grove Cemetery · Peabody115
- Newton Cemetery · Newton110
- Rural Cemetery & Crematory · Worcester94
- Springfield Cemetery · Springfield83
- Sleepy Hollow Cemetery · Concord77
- Granary Burying Ground · Boston69
- Bridge Street Cemetery · Northampton64
- Cambridge Cemetery · North Brighton60
- Milton Cemetery · Milton59
- Stockbridge Cemetery · Stockbridge53
- Lowell Cemetery · Lowell50
- Mount Wollaston Cemetery · Quincy48
- Hope Cemetery · Worcester45
- Woodlawn Cemetery · Everett43
- Holyhood Cemetery · Chestnut Hill43
- Kings Chapel Burying Ground · Boston43
- Pittsfield Cemetery · Pittsfield42
- Wildwood Cemetery · Amherst Center42
- Pine Grove Cemetery · Lynn39
- Mount Hope Cemetery · Roslindale39
- Rural Cemetery · New Bedford38
- Walnut Hills Cemetery · Bellevue34
- Oak Grove Cemetery · New Bedford31
Method
About this list
Names, years and descriptions come from Wikidata, where each person’s entry gives the cemetery as their place of burial. It covers people with an encyclopedia entry, not every grave. How we build it.
Other states
Notable burials in other states
- Alabama635
- Alaska139
- Arizona297
- Arkansas378
- California9,351
- Colorado247
- Connecticut1,850
- Delaware100
- District of Columbia1,261
- Florida478
- Georgia859
- Hawaii172
- Idaho150
- Illinois3,508
- Indiana1,269
- Iowa748
- Kansas487
- Kentucky889
- Louisiana450
- Maine589
- Maryland1,397
- Michigan1,368
- Minnesota839
- Mississippi289
- Missouri1,271
- Montana137
- Nebraska404
- Nevada250
- New Hampshire422
- New Jersey1,938
- New Mexico222
- New York10,713
- North Carolina560
- North Dakota46
- Ohio2,567
- Oklahoma376
- Oregon566
- Pennsylvania3,541
- Rhode Island699
- South Carolina391
- South Dakota151
- Tennessee902
- Texas1,599
- Utah626
- Vermont437
- Virginia5,460
- Washington487
- West Virginia252
- Wisconsin1,183
- Wyoming107