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American football players buried in Tennessee

Wikidata records 50 football players as buried in 29 of the cemeteries we list in Tennessee. Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville holds the most, with 7. Tennessee has the 11th highest count of any state, out of 1,537 nationally.

People with American football player among their recorded occupations.

50
football players
29
cemeteries
6%
of notable burials in Tennessee
1960s
the decade with the most deaths (9)

Map of cemeteries

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Each point is a cemetery; open it for everyone recorded there.

In order of death

American football players buried in Tennessee

Everyone on this list, by year of death. People without a recorded death year come last.

Over time

Deaths by decade

  • 1900s1
  • 1910s1
  • 1920s1
  • 1930s1
  • 1940s2
  • 1950s8
  • 1960s9
  • 1970s5
  • 1980s6
  • 1990s1
  • 2000s7
  • 2010s8

By recorded year of death, for the 50 people with one.

Cemeteries

Where they are buried

Top 25 of 29 cemeteries. The map shows all of them.

More lists

Other notable burials in Tennessee

United States representatives117Musicians and singers107American Civil War veterans100Business leaders43Baseball players35Governors33United States senators30Writers and poets28World War II veterans27Actors26Journalists18Medal of Honor recipients18Painters, sculptors and photographers17Basketball players17Mexican-American War veterans17

American football players in every state

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.

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