Greenwood Memorial Park (San Diego)

Greenwood Memorial Park is a cemetery located on unincorporated land surrounded by the city of San Diego at 4300 Imperial Avenue in San Diego County, California. The cemetery is adjacent to Mount Hope Cemetery.

Opened in 1907, Greenwood covers approximately 125 acre five miles east of downtown San Diego. The cemetery is an example of a rural cemetery, incorporating architecture, art, and landscaping into its design. Greenwood and its accompanying mortuary are now part of NorthStar Memorial Group (NSMP).

Notable interments

 * Belle Benchley (1882–1973), director of the San Diego Zoo from 1927–1953
 * Dan Broderick, attorney, and his wife Linda, murdered by his ex-wife, Betty Broderick, in 1989
 * Victor Buono (1938–1982), character actor (He is entombed with his mother, Myrtle, but his name is not inscribed on the crypt. )
 * George Burnham (1868–1939), banker, politician
 * Marvel Crosson (1904–1929), pioneer female aviator
 * Bob Elliott (1916–1966), Major League Baseball player, 1947 National League MVP
 * David Faber (1928–2015), Polish-born Holocaust survivor, author, lecturer
 * David R. Splaine, (1834-1916), Civil War Veteran, first appointed keeper of Ballast Point Lighthouse
 * Walter Fuller (1910–2003), jazz trumpeter and vocalist, civil-rights activist
 * Ulysses S. "Buck" Grant, Jr. (1852–1929), son of Ulysses S. Grant, attorney and investment capitalist, developer of the U.S. Grant Hotel
 * Ulysses S. Grant IV (1893–1977), grandson of President Ulysses S. Grant and former chairman of the Department of Geology, University of California at Los Angeles
 * Burke Hanford (1872–1928), sailor, recipient of the Medal of Honor
 * William "Bill" Kettner (1864–1930), United States Congressman, civic booster
 * Jonathan Latimer (1906–1983), American crime writer known his novels and screenplays.
 * Moses A. Luce (1842–1933), Civil War veteran, Medal of Honor recipient, attorney, founder of Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps
 * Charles Schroeter (1837–1921), Civil War and Apache War veteran, Medal of Honor recipient; re-interred at Miramar National Cemetery in 2015
 * Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1861–1936), operatic contralto
 * Phil Swing (1884–1963), United States Congressman
 * Gregon A. Williams, Marine Corps Major general; served in Nicaragua, World War II and Korean War
 * Harold Bell Wright (1872–1944), best-selling writer

There is one British Commonwealth war grave to a Lieutenant-Commander Surgeon of the Royal Navy of World War I.