Business leaders buried in Ohio
Wikidata records 126 business leaders as buried in 36 of the cemeteries we list in Ohio. Lake View Cemetery in East Cleveland holds the most, with 39. Ohio has the 7th 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 Ohio
- John D. Rockefeller1839-1937American industrialist and philanthropistLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Eddie Rickenbacker1890-1973United States Army Medal of Honor recipientGreen Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- Charles F. Kettering1876-1958American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 140 patentsWoodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, OH
- James Middleton Cox1870-1957American politician and Governor of OhioWoodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, OH
- Orville Wright1871-1948American aviation pioneerWoodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, OH
- Mark Hanna1837-1904American businessman and politicianLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Harvey Samuel Firestone1868-1938American businessmanColumbiana Cemetery, Columbiana, OH
- Alphonso Taft1810-1891American diplomatSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Charles Francis Brush1849-1929American businessmanLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Garrett Morgan1877-1963American inventorLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Samuel P. Bush1863-1948American businessmanGreen Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- Wilbur Wright1867-1912American aviation pioneerWoodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, OH
- James Gamble1803-1891British co-founder of Procter & GambleSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- William Starling Sullivant1803-1873US bryologistGreen Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- David Tod1805-1868American businessman, lawyer, diplomat and railroad executiveOak Hill Cemetery, Youngstown, OH
- Alexander Winton1860-1932British automotive pioneerLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- James Ward Packard1863-1928American businessmanOakwood Cemetery, Warren, OH
- William Procter1801-1884British co-founder of Procter & GambleSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- George H. Bender1896-1961American politicianKnollwood Cemetery, Mayfield Heights, OH
- Charles Keating1923-2014American businessmanGate of Heaven Cemetery, Sixteen Mile Stand, OH
- Amos Root1839-1923American beekeeperSpring Grove Cemetery, Medina, OH
- Charles Louis Fleischmann1835-1897Czech-American businessmanSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Asa S. Bushnell1834-1904Republican politician from OhioFerncliff Cemetery, Springfield, OH
- Lewis Miller1829-1899American inventor, educator and philanthropistGlendale Cemetery, Akron, OH
- James Ritty1836-1918American inventorWoodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, OH
- William Doud Packard1861-1923American businessmanOakwood Cemetery, Warren, OH
- John S. Knight1894-1981American newspaper publisherRose Hill Burial Park, Fairlawn, OH
- Bernard Kroger1860-1938American businessmanSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Nicholas Longworth1783-1863American winemaker and art collectorSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Frank Rockefeller1845-1917American businessmanLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Mortimer Dormer Leggett1821-1896Union Army generalLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- James Murray Spangler1848-1915American inventorWestlawn Cemetery, Canton, OH
- John Henry Patterson1844-1922American industrialistWoodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, OH
- Samuel Andrews1836-1904Chemist/inventorLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Jeptha Wade1811-1890American entrepreneur, daguerreotypist and portrait painterLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Frank Seiberling1859-1955American inventor and businessmanGlendale Cemetery, Akron, OH
- George Henry Chamberlain1862-1943American legislatorRidgelawn Cemetery, Elyria, OH
- Sereno Peck Fenn1844-1927American businessmanLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Powel Crosley, Jr.1886-1961American businessmanSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Dietrich Gruen1847-1911German-born American watchmakerSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- William McLean1794-1839American politicianSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Samuel Mather1851-1931American businessman and philanthropist 1851-1931Lake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Frederick W. Galbraith1874-1921National commander of the American Legion from 1920 to 1921Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Charles W. Somers1868-1934American baseball executiveLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Edward Williams1843-1903Businessman, born 1843Lake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- William Cooper Procter1862-1934American businessmanSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Alfred Kelley1789-18591789-1859 , promoter of canal, railroad, banking, and taxation systemsGreen Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- Arthur B. McBride1888-1972American sports team owner, entrepreneur, businessman, and real estate developerHoly Cross Cemetery, Brook Park, OH
- Leicester King1789-1856Businessman and politician from the United StatesOakwood Cemetery, Warren, OH
- Bezaleel Wells1763-1846American politicianUnion Cemetery, Steubenville, OH
- Alfred T. Goshorn1833-1902Union United States Army officerSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Henry Sherwin1842-1916American businessmanLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Colgate Hoyt1849-1922American businessmanLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- William G. Mather1857-1951American businessmanLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Samuel T. Wellman1847-1919American businessmanLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Howard Melville Hanna1840-1921American businessmanLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Samuel Augustus Fuller1837-1891American steel industry executiveLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- John Huntington1832-1893American businessman and philanthropistLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Arthur L. Parker1885-1945American businessman and inventorLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Jesse Root Grant1794-1873Father of Ulysses S. GrantSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Ferdinand Schumacher1822-1908American entrepreneurGlendale Cemetery, Akron, OH
- Simon Lazarus1807-1877American businessmanGreen Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- Robert Norris Hartzell1896-1968American aircraft industrialistWoodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, OH
- William McKinley, Sr.1807-1892American businessmanWestlawn Cemetery, Canton, OH
- Harold E. Talbott1888-1957United States Secretary of the Air ForceWoodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, OH
- Rufus C. Dawes1867-1940American diplomatOak Grove Cemetery, Marietta, OH
- Benjamin F. Weybrecht1861-1926American politicianAlliance City Cemetery, Alliance, OH
- John William Kiser1857-191619th-century American industrialistSpring Grove Cemetery, Saint Paris, OH
- Melville E. Ingalls1842-1914American businessmanSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Robert Livingston Ireland Jr.1895-1981American businessmanLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Francis Harrington Glidden1832-1922American businessmanLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Arthur Nash1870-1927American businessmanSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Bert Wolstein1927-2004Businessman from the United StatesMayfield Cemetery, Cleveland Heights, OH
- Henry Chisholm1822-1881American businessmanLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Hinman B. Hurlbut1815-1884American businessman and a founder of the Cleveland Museum of ArtLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Windsor T. White1866-1958American businessmanLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Samuel Livingston Mather1882-1960Lake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Frank A. Scott1873-1949American businessmanLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Jeptha Homer Wade II1857-1926American financier, philanthropist, and art collectorLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- John R. Buchtel1820-1892American businessman and philanthropistGlendale Cemetery, Akron, OH
- Edmund F. Arras1875-1951American lawyer and entrepreneurGreen Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- Sam Miller1921-2019Jewish, American businessman and philanthropistBet Olam Cemetery, Beachwood, OH
- Fred Lazarus, Jr.1884-1973American businessmanGreen Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- Reuben R. Springer1800-1884American businessman and philanthropistSaint Joseph New Cemetery, Covedale, OH
- Julius Freiberg1823-1905German-American distillery ownerUnited Jewish Cemetery - Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, OH
- George Huffman1862-1897US businessmanWoodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, OH
- Walter H. Gahagan1864-1930American civil engineer and construction contractorRiverside Cemetery, Troy, OH
- Henry Totten1824-1899American businessman and politicianWooster Cemetery, Wooster, OH
- Ewing Thomas Boles1895-1992American bankerWalnut Grove Cemetery, Worthington, OH
- Christina Sunga Ryook1975-2001American businesswoman of Korean descent, victim of the September 11 attacks at North Tower, World Trade CenterEvergreen Cemetery, North Olmsted, OH
- Marion G. Warner1861-1922American businessman and photographerMound Cemetery, Monroe, OH
- Joseph T. Carew1848-1914American department store ownerSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Levi Addison Ault1851-1930Canadian-born businessman/bureaucratSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Salmon Portland Chase Halle1866-1949American businessman and philanthropistMayfield Cemetery, Cleveland Heights, OH
- Horace Kelley1819-1890American industrialist and philanthropistLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Orson Minott Oviatt1799-1869General and postmaster from Richfield, OhioWoodland Cemetery, Hough, OH
- Franz Rudolph Wurlitzer1831-1914American musical instrument makerSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.1889-1957Cleveland art collector, philanthropist, businessmanLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- William Chisholm1843-1905American industrialistLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- John Kilgour1835-1914American businesspersonSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Stewart Henry Chisholm1846-1933American industrialistLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- George H. Ely1825-1894American iron industrialist and politicianLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Joseph A. McDonald1864-1930American businessmanOak Hill Cemetery, Youngstown, OH
- Loren M. Berry1888-1980American businessmanWoodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, OH
- John Williams Stoddard1837-1917American automotive pioneerWoodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, OH
- Clarence Buckingham1854-1913American businessman and art collectorWoodlawn Cemetery, Zanesville, OH
- Edward C. Berry1854-1931American businessperson in Athens, OhioAthens Cemetery, Athens, OH
- William Henry Morgan1865-1928Alliance City Cemetery, Alliance, OH
- Willis Hinksman Ramsey1861-1936Alliance City Cemetery, Alliance, OH
- Clements Eugene Biedenbach1953-2025Former mayor of Beverly, Ohio, USABeverly Cemetery, Beverly, OH
- Helen Boiardi1905-1995Italian-American businesswomanAll Souls Cemetery, Chardon, OH
- Frank F. Bonnet1856-1923American businessmanGreenwood Cemetery, Zanesville, OH
- Clarence A. Crane1875-1931American entrepreneurPark Cemetery, Garrettsville, OH
- Oris Paxton Van Sweringen1879-1936Lake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Mantis James Van Sweringen1881-1935American architectLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Julius Balke, Sr.1830-1893German-American industrialistSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Dudley S. Blossom1879-1938American businessman and philanthropistLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Max C. Fleischmann1877-1951American businessmanSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Jacob Hoffner1799-1894American businessmanSpring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum, Finneytown, OH
- Henry Kelsey Devereux1859-1932American businessmanLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Alexander Cushing Brown1885-1964American industrialistLake View Cemetery, East Cleveland, OH
- Jessie M. Good1856-1930American businessperson and horticulturalistFerncliff Cemetery, Springfield, OH
- John Edwin Miller1834-1882American publisher and president of farm machinery businessGlendale Cemetery, Akron, OH
- Robert J. Massie1949-2015American businesspersonGreen Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- Shirley Wing1885-1925American diplomatGreen Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH
- Eliam Eliakim Barney1807-1880American industrialistWoodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, OH
Showing the 126 with the most Wikipedia language editions, of 126. Cemetery pages list everyone recorded there.
Deaths by decade
- 1830s1
- 1840s1
- 1850s2
- 1860s3
- 1870s3
- 1880s6
- 1890s16
- 1900s8
- 1910s14
- 1920s17
- 1930s19
- 1940s7
- 1950s9
- 1960s6
- 1970s3
- 1980s3
- 1990s2
- 2000s2
- 2010s3
- 2020s1
By recorded year of death, for the 126 people with one.
Where they are buried
- Lake View Cemetery · East Cleveland, OH39
- Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum · Finneytown, OH22
- Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum · Dayton, OH12
- Green Lawn Cemetery · Columbus, OH9
- Glendale Cemetery · Akron, OH5
- Oakwood Cemetery · Warren, OH3
- Alliance City Cemetery · Alliance, OH3
- Westlawn Cemetery · Canton, OH2
- Ferncliff Cemetery · Springfield, OH2
- Mayfield Cemetery · Cleveland Heights, OH2
- Oak Hill Cemetery · Youngstown, OH2
- Rose Hill Burial Park · Fairlawn, OH1
- United Jewish Cemetery - Walnut Hills · Cincinnati, OH1
- All Souls Cemetery · Chardon, OH1
- Woodlawn Cemetery · Zanesville, OH1
- Athens Cemetery · Athens, OH1
- Gate of Heaven Cemetery · Sixteen Mile Stand, OH1
- Walnut Grove Cemetery · Worthington, OH1
- Woodland Cemetery · Hough, OH1
- Knollwood Cemetery · Mayfield Heights, OH1
- Riverside Cemetery · Troy, OH1
- Oak Grove Cemetery · Marietta, OH1
- Holy Cross Cemetery · Brook Park, OH1
- Saint Joseph New Cemetery · Covedale, OH1
- Greenwood Cemetery · Zanesville, OH1
Top 25 of 36 cemeteries. The map shows all of them.
Other notable burials in Ohio
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.