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Physicians buried in Pennsylvania
Wikidata records 94 physicians as buried in 35 of the cemeteries we list in Pennsylvania. Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia holds the most, with 25. Pennsylvania has the 3rd highest count of any state, out of 1,346 nationally.
People with physician among their recorded occupations.
94
physicians
35
cemeteries
3%
of notable burials in Pennsylvania
1890s
the decade with the most deaths (14)
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In order of death
Physicians buried in Pennsylvania
- Phineas Bond1717-1773American physician;Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, PA
- Hugh Mercer1726-1777Jacobite and General in the American Revolutionary WarLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Benjamin Rush1746-1813American physician, educator, and authorChrist Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, PA
- John Conrad Otto1774-1844American physicianThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- Jacob Randolph1796-18481796-1848 , physician and surgeonChrist Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, PA
- Robert Eglesfeld Griffith1798-1850American physician, botanist, and educatorThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- Samuel George Morton1799-1851American physician and naturalistLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Robert Montgomery Bird1806-1854American novelist, playwright, physicianLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- William P. C. Barton1786-1856American surgeon and scientistLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Elisha Kent Kane1820-1857American explorer and military medical officerLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Henry Bond1790-1859American physician and genealogistLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Franklin Bache1792-1864American physicianLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- William Pepper1810-1864American physician, writer 1810-1864Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- John Redman Coxe1773-1864American botanist and physicianThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- David Jayne1799-1866American pharmacist and businessmanThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- Robley Dunglison1798-1869PhysicianLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Samuel Jackson1787-1872American physician 1787-1872The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- Hugh Lenox Hodge1796-1873American physician, educator, authorLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Wilmer Worthington1804-1873American physician and politicianThe Oaklands Cemetery, West Chester, PA
- Charles Evans1802-1879Philadelphia doctor and Quaker 1802-1879Friends Southwestern Burial Ground, Millbourne, PA
- George Bacon Wood1797-1879American physician and university professorLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Constantine Hering1800-1880Homeopathic physician and naturalistWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
- Isaac Israel Hayes1832-1881United States explorer and physicianOakland Friends Cemetery, West Chester, PA
- Allen Voorhees Lesley1822-1881American physicianLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Robert Bridges1806-1882American physician, pharmacist and botanistThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- John Lawrence LeConte1825-1883American entomologistWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
- Alfred L. Elwyn1804-1884American physicianLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- William Walters Dale1817-1891American physicianAshland Cemetery, Carlisle, PA
- Joseph Leidy1823-1891American anatomist and paleontologistWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
- Samuel W. Crawford, Jr.1829-1892United States Army surgeon and Union generalLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Edwin Goundie Martin1836-1893Mayor of Allentown, PennsylvaniaFairview Cemetery, Allentown, PA
- John Henry Rauch1828-1894American physicianMount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, PA
- Georgianna Rumbley1852-1894American physicianEden Memorial Cemetery, Collingdale, PA
- Robert Evans Peterson1812-1894American publisher and physicianLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Jeremiah Bernard Brinton1835-1894American physician and botanistLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Alfred J. Martin1837-1896Mayor of Allentown, PennsylvaniaFairview Cemetery, Allentown, PA
- H. H. Holmes1861-1896American con artist and serial killerHoly Cross Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
- Theodore George Wormley1826-1897American toxicologist and legal physicianThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- William H. Pancoast1834-1897American physicianWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
- William Pepper1843-1898United States physicianLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Daniel Garrison Brinton1837-1899American archaeologist and ethnologistMedia Cemetery, Media, PA
- Jacob Mendes Da Costa1833-1900American physicianThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- Edward O. Shakespeare1846-1900American ophthalmologist and bacteriologistWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
- William Henry Egle1830-1901American physician, author and historian from PennsylvaniaHarrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, PA
- Richard J. Dunglison1834-1901American physicianLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- D. Heber Plank1842-1906American physician and mineralogistCaernarvon Cemetery, Elverson, PA
- Alfred John Yost1870-1907Mayor of Allentown, PennsylvaniaFairview Cemetery, Allentown, PA
- Henry Cadwalader Chapman1845-1909American physician and naturalistLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Richard K. Macalester1859-1910American physicianLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Henry Herbert Herbst1858-1911Mayor of Allentown, PennsylvaniaFairview Cemetery, Allentown, PA
- Albert Sydney Ashmead1850-1911American physicianLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- John Herr Musser1856-1912American physician, teacher, and writerWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
- Charles Lester Leonard1861-19131861-1913 , physicianWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
- Silas Weir Mitchell1829-1914American physicianThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- Anna Lukens1844-1917American physicianLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Samuel Brubaker Hartman1830-19181830-1918 , physician and proprietary medicine manufacturerLancaster Cemetery, Lancaster, PA
- Samuel Gibson Dixon1851-1918American lawyer, bacteriologist, and sanitarianLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Caroline Still Anderson1848-1919American physician, educator, and activistEden Memorial Cemetery, Collingdale, PA
- Horatio Curtis Wood Jr.1841-1920American physician and naturalistThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- Charlotte Yhlen1839-1920Swedish physicianWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
- Ewing Jordan1847-1920American physicianWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
- Walter Jackson Freeman1860-1920American physicianThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- Robert Walter1841-1921Canadian American physicianSaint John's Hains Cemetery, Wernersville, PA
- Hiram M. Hiller, Jr.1867-1921American physicianUnion Cemetery, Bellefonte, PA
- Edmund Jennings Lee1853-1922American physician and authorThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- Charles David Schaeffer1864-1923Mayor of Allentown, PennsylvaniaFairview Cemetery, Allentown, PA
- Harriet Judd Sartain1830-1923American physicianMount Peace Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Adolph W. Miller1841-1923German-American physician, pharmacist and botanistMount Moriah Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
- Jacob da Silva Solis-Cohen1838-19271838-1927 , physician and pioneer laryngologistMount Sinai Cemetery, Cheltenham, PA
- P. J. Higgins1851-1928American physicianSaint Mary's Cemetery, Lancaster, PA
- Maude Kelly1877-1928Physician and World War I veteranLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Anna Elizabeth Broomall1847-1931American obstetricianMedia Cemetery, Media, PA
- J. Madison Taylor1855-1931U.S. physicianThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- William Williams Keen1837-1932First U.S. brain surgeonThe Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
- Jacob Sidwell Hackney1862-1933American physicianOak Grove Cemetery, South Uniontown, PA
- John Wiegand Eckfeldt1851-1933American physician, botanist and photographerArlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, PA
- William Henry Mercur1861-1933American physicianHomewood Cemetery, Wilkinsburg, PA
- Thompson S. Westcott1862-1933American physicianMount Moriah Cemetery, Yeadon, PA
- George Irvine McKelway1850-1935American physicianWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
- Milton Rosenau1869-1946American physicianChelten Hills Cemetery, Wyndmoor, PA
- Solomon Solis-Cohen1857-1948Jewish American physician, professor of medicine and prominent ZionistMount Sinai Cemetery, Cheltenham, PA
- Virginia M. Alexander1899-1949American physicianMount Lawn Cemetery, Sharon Hill, PA
- Frederic Lewy1885-1950German-born American neurologistHaverford New Meeting Cemetery, Ardmore, PA
- Alfreda Bosworth Withington1860-1951American physicianIvy Hill Cemetery, Wyndmoor, PA
- Chevalier Jackson1865-1958American physicianWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
- Francis Ashley Faught1881-1963American physicianWest Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, PA
- Mary Riggs Noble1872-1965American physician and civil servantEast Harrisburg Cemetery, Penbrook, PA
- Douglas Macfarlan1886-1966American physicianLaurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
- Francis Dring Wetherill Lukens1899-1978American physicianAllegheny Cemetery, Bloomfield, PA
- Gifford Bryce Pinchot1915-1989American author and medical researcherMilford Cemetery, Gold Key Lake, PA
- Dorothy Chacko1904-1992Indian physician and social workerChester Rural Cemetery, Parkside, PA
- Alfred L. Bell Jr.1923-1995American physicianSaint Michaels Cemetery, Birdsboro, PA
- Alvin P. Shapiro1920-1998American physicianHomewood Cemetery, Wilkinsburg, PA
- J. T. Whitsonborn 1853American physician and educatorCalvary Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum, Homestead, PA
Everyone on this list, by year of death. People without a recorded death year come last.
Over time
Deaths by decade
- 1770s2
- 1810s1
- 1840s2
- 1850s6
- 1860s5
- 1870s5
- 1880s6
- 1890s14
- 1900s7
- 1910s10
- 1920s13
- 1930s8
- 1940s3
- 1950s3
- 1960s3
- 1970s1
- 1980s1
- 1990s3
By recorded year of death, for the 93 people with one.
Cemeteries
Where they are buried
- Laurel Hill Cemetery · Philadelphia, PA25
- The Woodlands · Philadelphia, PA14
- West Laurel Hill Cemetery · Bala Cynwyd, PA12
- Fairview Cemetery · Allentown, PA5
- Christ Church Burial Ground · Philadelphia, PA3
- Mount Moriah Cemetery · Yeadon, PA2
- Media Cemetery · Media, PA2
- Homewood Cemetery · Wilkinsburg, PA2
- Eden Memorial Cemetery · Collingdale, PA2
- Mount Sinai Cemetery · Cheltenham, PA2
- Allegheny Cemetery · Bloomfield, PA1
- Arlington Cemetery · Drexel Hill, PA1
- Calvary Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum · Homestead, PA1
- Ivy Hill Cemetery · Wyndmoor, PA1
- Milford Cemetery · Gold Key Lake, PA1
- Harrisburg Cemetery · Harrisburg, PA1
- Mount Peace Cemetery · Philadelphia, PA1
- Oak Grove Cemetery · South Uniontown, PA1
- Chester Rural Cemetery · Parkside, PA1
- Saint Mary's Cemetery · Lancaster, PA1
- Union Cemetery · Bellefonte, PA1
- East Harrisburg Cemetery · Penbrook, PA1
- The Oaklands Cemetery · West Chester, PA1
- Friends Southwestern Burial Ground · Millbourne, PA1
- Holy Cross Cemetery · Yeadon, PA1
Top 25 of 35 cemeteries. The map shows all of them.
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Other notable burials in Pennsylvania
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Method
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.