Where scientists are buried
Wikidata records 1,905 scientists as buried in 861 of the cemeteries we list, across 51 states. Mount Auburn Cemetery in North Brighton, MA, holds the most, with 90.
People recorded as scientists, including chemists, physicists, mathematicians, biologists and astronomers.
Map of cemeteries
Each point is a cemetery; open it for everyone recorded there.
Scientists and where they rest
- Enrico Fermi1901-1954Italian, American physicistOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Richard Feynman1918-1988American theoretical physicistMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
- Carl Sagan1934-1996American astrophysicist, cosmologist and authorLake View Cemetery, Cayuga Heights, NY
- Paul Dirac1902-1984British theoretical physicistRoselawn Cemetery, Tallahassee, FL
- John von Neumann1903-1957Hungarian and American mathematician and physicistPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Rachel Carson1907-1964American marine biologist and conservationistParklawn Memorial Park and Menorah Gardens, North Bethesda, MD
- Kurt Gödel1906-1978Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematicsPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Linus Pauling1901-1994American scientistOswego Pioneer Cemetery, Lake Oswego, OR
- Wernher von Braun1912-1977German and later American aerospace engineer and space architectIvy Hill Cemetery, Alexandria, VA
- John Forbes Nash1928-2015American mathematician and economistSaint Paul's Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Robert Andrews Millikan1868-1953American physicistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
- Maria Göppert Mayer1906-1972German-born American theoretical physicistEl Camino Memorial Park, Del Mar, CA
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse1791-1872American inventor and painterGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- Eugene Paul Wigner1902-1995Hungarian-American physicist and mathematicianPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Steven Weinberg1933-2021American theoretical physicistTexas State Cemetery, Austin, TX
- John Bardeen1908-1991American physicist and engineerForest Hill Cemetery, Madison, WI
- Hans Bethe1906-2005German-American nuclear physicistPleasant Grove Cemetery, Cayuga Heights, NY
- Joseph Priestley1733-1804English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theoristRiverview Cemetery, Northumberland, PA
- William Shockley1910-1989American physicist and inventorAlta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
- Murray Gell-Mann1929-2019American physicistRed Butte Cemetery, Aspen, CO
- Otto Stern1888-1969German-American physicistSunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
- Arthur Holly Compton1892-1962American physicistWooster Cemetery, Wooster, OH
- Gerty Cori1896-1957Austro-Hungarian-American biochemistBellefontaine Cemetery, Saint Louis, MO
- Sally Ride1951-2012American astronaut and physicistWoodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, CA
- James Franck1882-1964German-American physicistOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Emanuel Lasker1868-1941Greman chess player, World Chess championB'nai Jeshurum and Shereth Israel Cemetery, Queens, NY
- Karl Landsteiner1868-1943Jewish-Austrian biologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureateProspect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, MA
- Grace Hopper1906-1992American computer scientist and United States Navy officerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Isidor Isaac Rabi1898-1988American physicistRiverside Cemetery, Saddle Brook, NJ
- Carl David Anderson1905-1991American physicistForest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
- Robert H. Goddard1882-1945American physicistHope Cemetery, Worcester, MA
- Benoit Mandelbrot1924-2010Polish-born, French and American mathematicianGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Charles Sanders Peirce1839-1914American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientistMilford Cemetery, Gold Key Lake, PA
- Donald Arthur Glaser1926-2013American physicist and neurobiologistMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Peter Debye1884-1966Dutch-American physicist and physical chemistPleasant Grove Cemetery, Cayuga Heights, NY
- Thomas Hunt Morgan1866-1945American biologist and professor from KentuckyMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
- Jack Kilby1923-2005American electrical engineerSparkman Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, TX
- Glenn Theodore Seaborg1912-1999American chemistSunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
- Hermann Weyl1885-1955German mathematicianPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- John Kenneth Galbraith1908-2006Canadian-American economist and diplomatIndian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, CT
- Josiah Willard Gibbs1839-1903American scientistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Julian Seymour Schwinger1918-1994American theoretical physicistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Robert Edwards1925-2013English physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine and in-vitro fertilisationElmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, AL
- Owen Chamberlain1920-2006American physicistMountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
- Philip W. Anderson1923-2020American physicistPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Robert Fulton1765-1815American engineer and inventorTrinity Church Cemetery, New York City, NY
- Robert Hofstadter1915-1990American physicist and Nobel laureateHome of Peace Cemetery, Santa Cruz, CA
- Edward O. Wilson1929-2021American biologist, naturalist, and writerWestview Cemetery, Bedford, MA
- Claude Shannon1916-2001American mathematician and information theoristMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Lars Onsager1903-1976American physical chemist and theoretical physicistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Annie Jump Cannon1863-1941American astronomerLakeside Cemetery, Dover, DE
- Robert Burns Woodward1917-1979American chemistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Franz Boas1858-1942German-American anthropologistDale Cemetery, Ossining, NY
- John Hasbrouck Van Vleck1899-1980American physicistForest Hill Cemetery, Madison, WI
- John Robert Schrieffer1931-2019American physicistGreenwood Cemetery, Eustis, FL
- John McCarthy1927-2011American computer scientist and cognitive scientistAlta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
- Joseph Henry1797-1878American scientist and the 1st Secretary of the SmithsonianOak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Roman Jakobson1896-1982Russian linguistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Charles Francis Richter1900-1985American seismologistMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
- George Gamow1904-1968Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologistGreen Mountain Cemetery, Boulder, CO
- Raymond Davis Jr.1914-2006American scientistBlue Point Cemetery, Blue Point, NY
- Melvin Schwartz1932-2006American experimental physicistKetchum Cemetery, Ketchum, ID
- Max Delbrück1906-1981BiophysicistMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt1868-1921American astronomer and human calculatorCambridge Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Henry Adams1838-1918American journalist, historian, academic, novelistRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Edwin McMillan1907-1991American physicistSunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
- Wendell Meredith Stanley1904-1971American biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)Sunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
- James Batcheller Sumner1887-1955American chemistCanton Cemetery, Canton, MA
- Theodore William Richards1868-1928United States chemistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Willard Van Orman Quine1908-2000American philosopher and logicianGlendale Cemetery, Akron, OH
- Clifford Shull1915-2001American physicistRosemont Cemetery, Newberry, SC
- Christian B. Anfinsen1916-1995American biochemistBeth Tfiloh Cemetery, Woodlawn, MD
- Robert H. Grubbs1942-2021Nobel prize winning American chemistMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
- John B. Goodenough1922-2023American materials scientistAustin Memorial Park Cemetery, Austin, TX
- Sidney Altman1939-2022Canadian American molecular biologistCongregation Mishkan Israel Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Carl Ferdinand Cori1896-1984Czech Nobel prize laureate and scientistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Alan MacDiarmid1927-2007New Zealand chemistArlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, PA
- Edward Adelbert Doisy1893-1986American biochemistOak Hill Cemetery, Oakland, MO
- Herman Hollerith1860-1929American statistician and inventor(1860-1929)Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
- Paul Lauterbur1929-2007American chemistGraceland Cemetery, Sidney, OH
- John Franklin Enders1897-1985American medical researcherFairview Cemetery, West Hartford, CT
- Thomas A. Steitz1940-2018American biochemistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Edward Emerson Barnard1857-1923American astronomer and astronomical photographerMount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, TN
- Jerome Karle1918-2013American physical chemistColumbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Edward Calvin Kendall1886-1972American chemistOakwood Downtown Cemetery, Rochester, MN
- Leo Baekeland1863-1944Belgium American inventorSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY
- Charles Goodyear1800-1860American inventorGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Lee de Forest1873-1961American inventorSan Fernando Mission Cemetery, Santa Clarita, CA
- Maria Mitchell1818-1889American astronomerProspect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, MA
- Robert F. Furchgott1916-2009American biochemistSaint Lawrence Cemetery, Charleston, SC
- George Pólya1887-1985Hungarian mathematicianAlta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
- Robert Bruce Merrifield1921-2006American biochemistBrookside Cemetery, Englewood, NJ
- Alonzo Church1903-1995American mathematician and logicianPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Harlow Shapley1885-1972American astronomerNorth Cemetery, Peterborough, NH
- Howard Temin1934-1994American geneticistForest Hill Cemetery, Madison, WI
- Charles Greeley Abbot1872-1973American astrophysicist and the 5th Secretary of the SmithsonianFort Lincoln Cemetery, Colmar Manor, MD
- James A. Van Allen1914-2006American astrophysicistSouthampton Cemetery, Tuckahoe, NY
- Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr.1915-1974American pharmacologistBurlingame City Cemetery, Osage City, KS
- Theodore von Kármán1881-1963Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicistHollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
- Hiram Bingham III1875-1956American academic, explorer, treasure hunter and politicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Henry Norris Russell1877-1957American astronomerPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Mary Jackson1921-2005American mathematician and aerospace engineerBethel AME Church Cemetery, Hampton, VA
- Williamina Fleming1857-1911Astronoma escocesaMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Simon Newcomb1835-1909American astronomerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- James Dwight Dana1813-1895American mineralogist, scientist and zoologistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- André Weil1906-1998French mathematicianPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Thomas Huckle Weller1915-2008American virologistWoodlawn Cemetery, Wellesley, MA
- John Vincent Atanasoff1903-1995American computer pioneerPine Grove Cemetery, Mount Airy, MD
- Samuel Langley1834-1906American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the SmithsonianForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Howard H. Aiken1900-1973Pioneer in computing, original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computerLauderdale Memorial Park, Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Melvil Dewey1851-1931American librarianNorth Elba Cemetery, Lake Placid, NY
- Meriwether Lewis1774-1809American explorerPioneer Cemetery, Hohenwald, TN
- Edward Charles Pickering1846-1919American astronomerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Henry Draper1837-1882American physician and astronomerGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- Karl Guthe Jansky1905-1950American physicist and radio engineerForest Hill Cemetery, Madison, WI
- Wallace Carothers1896-1937American organic chemistGlendale Cemetery, Des Moines, IA
- Mihajlo Pupin1858-1935Serbian-American physicist, physical chemist and philanthropistWoodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY
- Ronald McNair1950-1986American physicist, astronautArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- George Bernard Dantzig1914-2005American mathematicianLos Gatos Cemetery, San Jose, CA
- George Ellery Hale1868-1938American astronomerOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Vladimir K. Zworykin1888-1982Russian-American engineerPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Matthew C. Perry1794-1858American naval officerIsland Cemetery, Newport, RI
- Richard F. Gordon1929-2017American astronautArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Frederick Law Olmsted1822-1903American landscape designer, journalist, social critic, and public administratorOld North Cemetery, Hartford, CT
- Hans Reichenbach1891-1953German, American philosopherWoodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, CA
- Benjamin Rush1746-1813American physician, educator, and authorChrist Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, PA
- Israel Gelfand1913-2009Soviet-American mathematicianFloral Park Cemetery, Dayton, NJ
- Jesse Douglas1897-1965American mathematicianMontefiore Cemetery, Elmont, NY
- Michael P. Anderson1959-2003Astronaut, scientistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Asa Gray1810-1888American botanistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- John Wesley Powell1834-1902American geologistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- David Starr Jordan1851-1931American ichthyologist and educatorAlta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
- Eunice Newton Foote1819-1888American scientist, inventor and women's rights activistGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- Ellen Swallow Richards1842-1911American chemistChrist Church Cemetery, South Amboy, NJ
- William Morris Davis1850-1934American geographerMountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
- Mildred Dresselhaus1930-2017American physicistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Walter Cunningham1932-2023American astronautTexas State Cemetery, Austin, TX
- John William Draper1811-1882British-American academicGreen - Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
- George Gallup1901-1984American statisticianPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Richard von Mises1883-1953Austrian physicist and mathematicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Wilfrid Voynich1865-1930Polish revolutionary, antiquarian, bibliophile, historian and eponym of Voynich manuscriptGate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
- Robert J. Van de Graaff1901-1967American physicistCentral Cemetery, Beverly, MA
- Lyman Spitzer1914-1997American astronomerPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Gene Amdahl1922-2015American physicistBethania Cemetery, Dell Rapids, SD
- Charles Wilkes1798-1877Naval officer and explorer from the United StatesArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Hugh Everett III1930-1982US physicist and discoverer of the relative-state interpretation of quantum mechanicsFort Lincoln Cemetery, Colmar Manor, MD
- Oskar Morgenstern1902-1977Austrian economistPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- William Fox1879-1952Hungarian-American film producerSalem Field Cemetery, Queens, NY
- Edwin H. Land1909-1991American scientist and inventorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz1865-1923Prussian-American mathematician, electrical engineerVale Cemetery, Schenectady, NY
Showing the 150 with the most Wikipedia language editions, of 1,905. Cemetery pages list everyone recorded there.
Deaths by decade
- 1760s1
- 1780s1
- 1790s1
- 1800s3
- 1810s7
- 1820s3
- 1830s4
- 1840s10
- 1850s17
- 1860s28
- 1870s32
- 1880s55
- 1890s64
- 1900s98
- 1910s121
- 1920s129
- 1930s148
- 1940s160
- 1950s145
- 1960s167
- 1970s131
- 1980s136
- 1990s126
- 2000s150
- 2010s126
- 2020s36
By recorded year of death, for the 1,899 people with one.
Where they are buried
- Mount Auburn Cemetery · North Brighton, MA90
- Arlington National Cemetery · Arlington, VA57
- Grove Street Cemetery · New Haven, CT40
- Princeton Cemetery · Princeton, NJ34
- Green - Wood Cemetery · Brooklyn, NY33
- Forest Hill Cemetery · Madison, WI26
- Laurel Hill Cemetery · Philadelphia, PA26
- Rock Creek Cemetery · Washington, DC24
- Woodlawn Cemetery · The Bronx, NY20
- Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum · Altadena, CA16
- Alta Mesa Cemetery · Los Altos, CA16
- Mountain View Cemetery · Oakland, CA14
- West Laurel Hill Cemetery · Bala Cynwyd, PA14
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park · Glendale, CA13
- Sunset View Cemetery · Kensington, CA13
- Forest Hill Cemetery · Ann Arbor, MI13
- Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum · Finneytown, OH13
- Lake View Cemetery · East Cleveland, OH12
- Evergreen Cemetery · New Haven, CT12
- Lakewood Cemetery · Minneapolis, MN11
- Albany Rural Cemetery · Menands, NY11
- Green Lawn Cemetery · Columbus, OH11
- Oakwoods Cemetery · Chicago, IL11
- Bellefontaine Cemetery · Saint Louis, MO10
- The Woodlands · Philadelphia, PA10
Top 25 of 861 cemeteries. The map shows all of them.
Scientists by state
- Alabama8
- Alaska2
- Arizona10
- Arkansas5
- California198
- Colorado7
- Connecticut91
- Delaware4
- District of Columbia44
- Florida16
- Georgia21
- Hawaii2
- Idaho3
- Illinois66
- Indiana52
- Iowa40
- Kansas14
- Kentucky16
- Louisiana5
- Maine22
- Maryland62
- Massachusetts217
- Michigan42
- Minnesota21
- Mississippi1
- Missouri30
- Montana1
- Nebraska10
- Nevada11
- New Hampshire17
- New Jersey73
- New Mexico10
- New York241
- North Carolina21
- North Dakota2
- Ohio95
- Oklahoma10
- Oregon17
- Pennsylvania118
- Rhode Island18
- South Carolina3
- South Dakota4
- Tennessee11
- Texas48
- Utah17
- Vermont24
- Virginia86
- Washington16
- West Virginia3
- Wisconsin45
- Wyoming6
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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.