Notable people buried in Virginia

• George Washington1732-1799
  Founding Father and first U.S. president
  Washington Family Cemetery, Mount Vernon, VA
• John F. Kennedy1917-1963
  President of the United States from 1961 to 1963
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Thomas Jefferson1743-1826
  Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809
  Jefferson Tomb, Charlottesville, VA
• James Monroe1758-1831
  President of the United States from 1817 to 1825
  Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
• William Howard Taft1857-1930
  27th President of the United States from 1909 to 1913
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Henry Kissinger1923-2023
  American diplomat and geopolitical advisor, served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• John Tyler1790-1862
  President of the United States from 1841 to 1845
  Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
• Wernher von Braun1912-1977
  German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect
  Ivy Hill Cemetery, Alexandria, VA
• George Marshall1880-1959
  American army officer and statesman
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis1929-1994
  First Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Robert F. Kennedy1925-1968
  American politician and lawyer
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Donald Rumsfeld1932-2021
  American politician and diplomat
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Colin Powell1937-2021
  American general and diplomat
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg1933-2020
  American lawyer and jurist
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Michael Collins1930-2021
  American astronaut
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Jefferson Davis1808-1889
  President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865
  Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
• Grace Hopper1906-1992
  American computer scientist and United States Navy officer
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• John Glenn1921-2016
  American astronaut and politician
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Ted Kennedy1932-2009
  United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1962 to 2009
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Martha Washington1731-1802
  First Lady of the United States from 1789 to 1797
  Washington Family Cemetery, Mount Vernon, VA
• Dashiell Hammett1894-1961
  American writer
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Sherwood Anderson1876-1941
  American writer
  Round Hill Cemetery, Marion, VA
• Lee Marvin1924-1987
  American actor
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Robert Peary1856-1920
  Explorer from the United States
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Joe Louis1914-1981
  American boxer
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Arthur Ashe1943-1993
  American tennis player
  Woodland Cemetery, East Highland Park, VA
• Stonewall Jackson1824-1863
  General of the Confederate Army in the American Civil War
  Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington, VA
• Murray Rothbard1926-1995
  American economist
  Oakwood Cemetery, Orange, VA
• John J. Pershing1860-1948
  United States Army general in World War I
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Bob Dole1923-2021
  American politician
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Alan Bean1932-2018
  American astronaut and painter
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Ignacy Jan Paderewski1860-1941
  Polish pianist, composer, supporter of Poland's independence movements, politician, Prime Minister of reborn Poland
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Robert McNamara1916-2009
  American businessman and Secretary of Defense
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Omar Bradley1893-1981
  United States Army general
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Maureen O'Hara1920-2015
  Irish, American actress and singer
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Chuck Yeager1923-2020
  American World War II flying ace and test pilot; first pilot to fly faster than sound
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Richard E. Byrd1888-1957
  American naval officer, explorer
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Pete Conrad1930-1999
  American astronaut and lunar explorer
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• George Westinghouse1846-1914
  American inventor and businessman
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Jerome Karle1918-2013
  American physical chemist
  Columbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• John Young1930-2018
  American astronaut, naval officer, test pilot and aeronautical engineer
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• R. Lee Ermey1944-2018
  American actor and soldier
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• John Foster Dulles1888-1959
  United States Secretary of State
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Christa McAuliffe1948-1986
  American educator and astronaut
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Gus Grissom1926-1967
  American astronaut
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Antonin Scalia1936-2016
  Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 to 2016
  Fairfax Memorial Park, Kings Park West, VA
• Robert Green Ingersoll1833-1899
  American lawyer, orator, and politician
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• John Marshall1755-1835
  Chief justice of the United States from 1801 to 1835,
  Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, VA
• Edgar Mitchell1930-2016
  American astronaut
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• William Jennings Bryan1860-1925
  American politician
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Fay Bainter1893-1968
  American actress
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Judith Resnik1949-1986
  American engineer and astronaut
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Albert B. Sabin1906-1993
  Jewish-Polish-American physician and epidemiologist who developed oral polio vaccines
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Hiram Bingham III1875-1956
  American academic, explorer, treasure hunter and politician
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Robert Byrd1917-2010
  American politician
  Columbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Tom Wolfe1930-2018
  American author and journalist
  Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
• Mary Jackson1921-2005
  American mathematician and aerospace engineer
  Bethel AME Church Cemetery, Hampton, VA
• Laurel Clark1961-2003
  NASA astronaut, medical doctor, United States Navy Captain, and Space Shuttle mission specialist
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• James Irwin1930-1991
  American astronaut
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Charles Durning1923-2012
  American actor
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Simon Newcomb1835-1909
  American astronomer
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Audie Murphy1924-1971
  American soldier and actor
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Roger Bruce Chaffee1935-1967
  United States Navy commander, NASA astronaut
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Elizabeth Monroe1768-1830
  First Lady of the United States from 1817 to 1825
  Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
• Alexander Haig1924-2010
  Former U.S. Secretary of State and U.S. Army general
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Philip Sheridan1831-1888
  United States Army general
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Earl Warren1891-1974
  Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Oliver Wendell Holmes1841-1935
  American jurist (1841-1935); US Supreme Court justice from 1902 to 1932
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Cyrus Vance1917-2002
  United States Secretary of State from 1977 to 1980
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Francis Gary Powers1929-1977
  American pilot shot down flying a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Thurgood Marshall1908-1993
  Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 to 1991
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• James E. Webb1906-1992
  Administrator of NASA in 1961-1968
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Leslie Groves1896-1970
  United States Army Corps of Engineers officer
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Ronald McNair1950-1986
  American physicist, astronaut
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Lawrence Eagleburger1930-2011
  American statesman and diplomat
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Julia Gardiner Tyler1820-1889
  First Lady of the United States
  Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
• Helen Herron Taft1861-1943
  First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Jackie Cooper1922-2011
  American actor, director
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Richard F. Gordon1929-2017
  American astronaut
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Martha Jefferson Randolph1772-1836
  First Lady of the United States from 1801 to 1809
  Jefferson Tomb, Charlottesville, VA
• Michael P. Anderson1959-2003
  Astronaut, scientist
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Edmund Muskie1914-1996
  American politician
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• John Wesley Powell1834-1902
  American geologist
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• David M. Brown1956-2003
  American astronaut
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Dwight Filley Davis Sr.1879-1945
  American politician and tennis player
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Dick Scobee1939-1986
  American astronaut
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• William Rehnquist1924-2005
  Chief justice of the United States from 1986 to 2005
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Henry H. Arnold1886-1950
  American general officer holding the ranks of General of the Army and General of the Air Force
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Gregory Jarvis1944-1986
  American astronaut
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Michael J. Smith1945-1986
  American astronaut
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Elizabeth Magie1866-1948
  American board game designer
  Columbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Leon Uris1924-2003
  American author
  Quantico National Cemetery, Triangle, VA
• Charles Wilkes1798-1877
  Naval officer and explorer from the United States
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Stuart Roosa1933-1994
  American astronaut
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Ellison Onizuka1946-1986
  American astronaut from Kealakekua, Kona, Hawaii, first Asian American to reach space, later died in the Space Shuttle Challenger accident
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• William Halsey Jr.1882-1959
  United States admiral
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Alfred Worden1932-2020
  American astronaut
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Edmund Randolph1753-1813
  American attorney
  Old Chapel Cemetery, Berryville, VA
• Robert Todd Lincoln1843-1926
  Union Army officer, U.S. ambassador, and Secretary of War
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan1927-2003
  American politician
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• John Paul Stevens1920-2019
  United States Supreme Court justice
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Mike Gravel1930-2021
  American politician; United States Senator
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Michael Ellis DeBakey1908-2008
  American cardiac surgeon
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Creighton Abrams1914-1974
  United States Army General
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• William P. Rogers1913-2001
  American politician
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Donn F. Eisele1930-1987
  American astronaut
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Edward Brooke1919-2015
  American politician from Massachusetts
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• J. E. B. Stuart1833-1864
  Confederate cavalry general
  Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
• Maxwell D. Taylor1901-1987
  American military officer and diplomat
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Richard Lugar1932-2019
  American politician
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Caspar Weinberger1917-2006
  American politician
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• James Forrestal1892-1949
  United States Navy officer and civil servant, Undersecretary of the Navy
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• William D. Leahy1875-1959
  United States admiral, ambassador to France, Chief of Staff
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Zitkala-Sa1876-1938
  Yankton Dakota writer
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Ted Stevens1923-2010
  American politician
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Matthew Fontaine Maury1806-1873
  United States Navy officer
  Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
• V. C. Andrews1923-1986
  American novelist
  Olive Branch Cemetery, Portsmouth Heights, VA
• Warren E. Burger1907-1995
  Chief justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Constance Bennett1904-1965
  American actress
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Jimmy Doolittle1896-1993
  American military officer and aviation pioneer
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Frank Lautenberg1924-2013
  U.S. Senator from New Jersey
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Dith Pran1942-2008
  Cambodian photojournalist
  Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Herndon, VA
• Frank Jack Fletcher1885-1973
  United States Navy admiral, Medal of Honor recipient
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• L. Sprague de Camp1907-2000
  American non- and speculative fiction writer
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Harry Stack Sullivan1892-1949
  American psychiatrist & psychoanalyst
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Ion Mihai Pacepa1928-2021
  Romanian general
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• John Warner1927-2021
  American lawyer and politician
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Henry Hartsfield1933-2014
  American astronaut
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Medgar Evers1925-1963
  African-American civil rights activist
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Lauri Törni1919-1965
  Finnish military officer in the Finnish Army, Waffen-SS, and U.S. Army
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Priscilla Lane1915-1995
  American actress
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• James Branch Cabell1879-1958
  American author
  Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
• Ellen Glasgow1873-1945
  Novelist, short story writer
  Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
• Charlie Wilson1933-2010
  American politician
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Alexander Vandegrift1887-1973
  United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient and Commandant of the Marine Corps
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• William O. Douglas1898-1980
  US Supreme Court justice from 1939 to 1975
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• William J. Donovan1883-1959
  U.S. Army soldier during WWII, lawyer, intelligence officer and diplomat, head of the OSS
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Mal Whitfield1924-2015
  American middle-distance runner and sprinter
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Brent Scowcroft1925-2020
  9th & 17th United States National Security Advisor
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Martha Jefferson1748-1782
  First lady of Virginia, wife of Thomas Jefferson
  Jefferson Tomb, Charlottesville, VA
• Pierre Charles L’Enfant1754-1825
  French-born American architect
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Claire Lee Chennault1893-1958
  US general
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Melvin Laird1922-2016
  20th-century American politician
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• C. Gordon Fullerton1936-2013
  American astronaut and test pilot
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Walter Reed1851-1902
  American physician and medical researcher
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Isabella Karle1921-2017
  American physical chemist
  Columbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Joseph Lawton Collins1896-1987
  United States Army general
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Matthew Ridgway1895-1993
  United States Army general
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Hyman G. Rickover1900-1986
  United States admiral; Father of the Nuclear Navy
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
• Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.1915-1944
  Junior officer in the United States Navy and elder brother of John F. Kennedy
  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA

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