Business leaders buried in North Carolina
Wikidata records 19 business leaders as buried in 13 of the cemeteries we list in North Carolina. Salem Cemetery in Winston-Salem holds the most, with 5. North Carolina has the 29th highest count of any state, out of 3,027 nationally.
People recorded as businesspeople, entrepreneurs or industrialists.
Map of cemeteries
Each point is a cemetery; open it for everyone recorded there.
Business leaders buried in North Carolina
- Thomas Michael Holt1831-1896American politicianLinwood Cemetery, Graham, NC
- N. A. Ramsey1827-1906Businessman, Confederate soldierMaplewood Cemetery, Durham, NC
- R. J. Reynolds1850-1918American businessman, founder R.J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanySalem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, NC
- Napoleon Bonaparte McCanless1851-1920American industrialistChestnut Hill Cemetery, Salisbury, NC
- Francis Henry Fries1855-1931American industrialistSalem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, NC
- Caleb Bradham1867-1934American pharmacist, inventor of Pepsi-ColaCedar Grove Cemetery, New Bern, NC
- John Hampton Adams1875-1935American textile executiveOakwood Cemetery, High Point, NC
- Orah Jane Crawford Kluttz1868-1947American botanical collector and business womanOld Chapel Hill Cemetery, Chapel Hill, NC
- Washington Irving Bullard1881-1948American businessperson and advocate for civil rights for womanElmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, NC
- James Addison Jones1869-1950American businessmanElmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, NC
- James A. Gray Jr.1889-1952American politician, chairman R. J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanySalem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, NC
- Hill Zahn1893-1957American basketball coachEvergreen Cemetery, Charlotte, NC
- R. J. Reynolds, Jr.1906-1964American businessmanSalem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, NC
- B. Everett Jordan1896-1974American politicianPine Hill Cemetery, Burlington, NC
- Burton C. Gray1941-1989Economist, businessman, and conservative political theoristSalem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, NC
- George Watts Hill1901-1993American businessmanMaplewood Cemetery, Durham, NC
- David Harrison1929-1996American politicianBrendle Cemetery, Hazelwood, NC
- Tab Thacker1962-2007American sport wrestler and actorEvergreen Cemetery, Winston-Salem, NC
- William Covington Beck, Jr.1960-2009American businessmanSharon Memorial Park, Charlotte, NC
Everyone on this list, by year of death. People without a recorded death year come last.
Deaths by decade
- 1890s1
- 1900s1
- 1910s1
- 1920s1
- 1930s3
- 1940s2
- 1950s3
- 1960s1
- 1970s1
- 1980s1
- 1990s2
- 2000s2
By recorded year of death, for the 19 people with one.
Where they are buried
- Salem Cemetery · Winston-Salem, NC5
- Elmwood Cemetery · Charlotte, NC2
- Maplewood Cemetery · Durham, NC2
- Old Chapel Hill Cemetery · Chapel Hill, NC1
- Evergreen Cemetery · Charlotte, NC1
- Cedar Grove Cemetery · New Bern, NC1
- Linwood Cemetery · Graham, NC1
- Pine Hill Cemetery · Burlington, NC1
- Brendle Cemetery · Hazelwood, NC1
- Sharon Memorial Park · Charlotte, NC1
- Oakwood Cemetery · High Point, NC1
- Evergreen Cemetery · Winston-Salem, NC1
- Chestnut Hill Cemetery · Salisbury, NC1
Other notable burials in North Carolina
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.