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Physicians buried in Virginia
Wikidata records 86 physicians as buried in 19 of the cemeteries we list in Virginia. Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington holds the most, with 57. Virginia has the 6th highest count of any state, out of 1,346 nationally.
People with physician among their recorded occupations.
86
physicians
19
cemeteries
2%
of notable burials in Virginia
1950s
the decade with the most deaths (11)
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In order of death
Physicians buried in Virginia
- James McClurg1746-1823American politicianSaint Johns Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- David Hunter Tucker1815-1871American physicianHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Alexander Henry Hoff1822-1876American physicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- George William Bagby1828-1883American physician and editorShockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- J. J. Moorman1802-1885American physicianEast Hill Cemetery, Salem, VA
- Robert Gamble Cabell, Sr.1809-1889American physicianHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Alexander Thomas Augusta1825-1890American Civil War surgeonArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Edwin Harvie Smith1813-1891Physician, politicianShockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Charles Sutherland1829-1895American surgeonArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- John B. Hamilton1847-1898Union United States Army soldierArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- James Lycurgus Ord1822-1898American physicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Elliott Coues1842-1899American ornithologistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Hunter McGuire1832-1900American physicianHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Lachlan Tyler1851-1902American physicianHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Sarah Garland Boyd Jones1865-1905African American physician from the U.S. state of VirginiaEvergreen Cemetery, Montrose, VA
- Charles F. Rand1839-1908American Civil War Medal of Honor recipientArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- John Shaw Billings1838-1913American surgeon, statistician, United States Army officer, designer of New York Public libraryArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- George Miller Sternberg1838-1915American physician (1838-1915); 18th U.S. Army Surgeon General from 1893 to 1902Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- William Crawford Gorgas1854-192022nd Surgeon General of the United States ArmyArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Edwin Gilliam Booth1839-1922American physicianCedar Grove Cemetery, Williamsburg, VA
- Caroline Burghardt1834-1922American physicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Kate Waller Barrett1857-1925American physicianAquia Episcopal Church Cemetery, Aquia Harbour, VA
- Leonard Wood1860-19275th Chief of Staff of the U.S. ArmyArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Henry Crécy Yarrow1840-1929American ornithologistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Carter S. Cole1862-1931American physician and writerMasonic Cemetery, Culpeper, VA
- Ennion Gifford Williams1874-1931American physicianHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- William Gray Schauffler Sr.1863-1933(1863-1933) American physicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Lillian Atkins Clarkdied 1934American physicianElmerton Cemetery, Hampton, VA
- Robert Wilson Shufeldt1850-1934American scientistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Isabel Haslup Lamb1864-1936American physicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Francis S. Nash1854-1938American Navy physician and explorerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Melvin M. Franklin1874-1938PhysicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Walter Drew McCaw1863-1939Chief surgeon in the United States Army Medical CorpsArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Antonio Gentile1903-1939American physician and creator of the Mr. Peanut characterCedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, VA
- Anita Newcomb McGee1864-1940American physicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Charles W. Berry1871-1941American physician, soldier, and New York City ComptrollerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Joseph Milton Heller1872-1943PhysicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Warren T. Vaughan1893-1944American allergistHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Aaron H. Appel1856-1945U.S. military surgeonArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- James S. Wilson1871-1945American Army physicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Beverley R. Tucker1874-1945American physicianHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Charles Cheves Haskell1880-1947American physicianMount Calvary Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Gustavus M. Blech1870-1949American physician, surgeon, medical educatorArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Wallace DeWitt1878-1949American military physicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Erik Hakansson1886-1950American teacherArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- John T. Sprague1865-1950American physicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Gustav Manning1873-1953German American businessmanArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Lewis Ryers Thompson1883-1954American physicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- James Stevens Simmons1890-1954US bacteriologistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- W. A. Newman Dorland1864-1956American physicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Mary Baughman1874-1956American physicianHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- John Friend Mahoney1889-1957American physicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- US Army officer and physicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Joseph I. Martin1894-1957American Army physician and generalArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Ross T. McIntire1889-1959American physician and naval officerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Allan Joseph McLaughlin1872-1961American physician, US Assistant Surgeon-GeneralArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Thomas Milton Rivers1888-1962United States admiralArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz1890-1963American politicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Charles E. Riggs1869-1963US Navy medical officerArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Louis H. Bauer1888-1964American doctorArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Raymond W. Bliss1888-1965American generalArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Arthur William Pindar1900-1965American physicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Walter B. Martin1888-1966American physicianElmwood Cemetery, Norfolk, VA
- Rosalie Slaughter Morton1876-1968American physicianSpring Hill Cemetery, West Lynchburg, VA
- Stanhope Bayne-Jones1888-1970American physician and bacteriologist, U.S. Army Brigadier generalArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Robert O. Canada1913-1972American Navy admiral and physicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- George Russell Callendar1884-1973Army Physician and GeneralArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- William Thomas Sanger1885-1975American physicianHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Milton Friedman1903-1983Quantico National Cemetery, Triangle, VA
- Albert B. Sabin1906-1993Jewish-Polish-American physician and epidemiologist who developed oral polio vaccinesArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Leonard A. Scheele1907-1993Surgeon General of the United StatesArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- John H. Ebersole1925-1993American pioneer in submarine medicine and radiation oncology, Captain US NavyArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- James W. Watts1904-1994American neurosurgeonSpring Hill Cemetery, West Lynchburg, VA
- Henry St. George Tucker Jr.1913-1996American physicianHollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
- Nina Bencich Woodside1931-1997American physicianStonewall Memory Gardens, Bull Run, VA
- Thomas A. Warthin1909-1997American physicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Claudine M. Gay1915-2001American physicianOak Hill Cemetery, Fredericksburg, VA
- Byron C. Gwinn1932-2001PhysicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- James G. Zimmerly1941-2002American physicianArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Paul F. Dishner1924-2003America physician and benefactorKane Cemetery, Dryden, VA
- Laurel Clark1961-2003NASA astronaut, medical doctor, United States Navy Captain, and Space Shuttle mission specialistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- David M. Brown1956-2003American astronautArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Abram Salmon Benenson1914-2003American physician and epidemiologistArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Edward D. Freis1912-2005American physician and researcher, who received the Albert Lasker Award for his studies of the treatment of hypertension.King David Memorial Gardens, Idylwood, VA
- Michael Ellis DeBakey1908-2008American cardiac surgeonArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
- Christine E. Haycock1924-2008American nurse and surgeonArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
Everyone on this list, by year of death. People without a recorded death year come last.
Over time
Deaths by decade
- 1820s1
- 1870s2
- 1880s3
- 1890s6
- 1900s4
- 1910s2
- 1920s6
- 1930s10
- 1940s10
- 1950s11
- 1960s9
- 1970s4
- 1980s1
- 1990s7
- 2000s10
By recorded year of death, for the 86 people with one.
Cemeteries
Where they are buried
- Arlington National Cemetery · Arlington, VA57
- Hollywood Cemetery · Richmond, VA10
- Spring Hill Cemetery · West Lynchburg, VA2
- Shockoe Hill Cemetery · Richmond, VA2
- Quantico National Cemetery · Triangle, VA1
- Cedar Grove Cemetery · Williamsburg, VA1
- Oak Hill Cemetery · Fredericksburg, VA1
- Stonewall Memory Gardens · Bull Run, VA1
- Masonic Cemetery · Culpeper, VA1
- Saint Johns Cemetery · Richmond, VA1
- King David Memorial Gardens · Idylwood, VA1
- Evergreen Cemetery · Montrose, VA1
- Elmwood Cemetery · Norfolk, VA1
- Cedar Hill Cemetery · Suffolk, VA1
- Aquia Episcopal Church Cemetery · Aquia Harbour, VA1
- East Hill Cemetery · Salem, VA1
- Elmerton Cemetery · Hampton, VA1
- Kane Cemetery · Dryden, VA1
- Mount Calvary Cemetery · Richmond, VA1
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Other notable burials in Virginia
World War II veterans1,175World War I veterans815American Civil War veterans444Medal of Honor recipients401Spanish-American War veterans353Korean War veterans314United States representatives305Writers and poets279Vietnam War veterans213Aviators and astronauts171Journalists125Inventors and engineers113Painters, sculptors and photographers95Business leaders92Scientists86United States senators85American football players81Governors64Mexican-American War veterans53Actors50Musicians and singers45Baseball players43Architects23Supreme Court justices19Basketball players18
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.