List of interments at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)

The following is a list of notable persons interred in Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York).

A

 * Charles H. Adams, politician
 * Anthony Allaire
 * Vivian Beaumont Allen
 * Vincent Alo
 * Anastasia, Princess of Greece and Denmark buried with her parents in the family mausoleum.
 * John Murray Anderson
 * Alexander Archipenko
 * Herman Ossian Armour
 * Hugh D. Auchincloss
 * James C. Auchincloss

B

 * Benjamin Babbitt
 * Jules Bache
 * James Anthony Bailey
 * Jacob Baiz
 * Joseph C. Baldwin
 * Billy Bang
 * Frances Elizabeth Barrow
 * Diana Barrymore
 * Nora Bayes
 * Charles Becker
 * Digby Bell
 * Laura Joyce Bell
 * Alva Belmont
 * Oliver Belmont
 * Irving Berlin, songwriter and musician
 * Maximilian Berlitz
 * Samuel Betts
 * Amelia Bingham
 * Ausburn Birdsall
 * Elizabeth Bisland
 * Cornelius Bliss
 * Nellie Bly
 * Coralie Blythe
 * George Boldt
 * Robert W. Bonynge
 * Emma Booth, involved with the Salvation Army
 * Gail Borden
 * Bostwick family
 * Anne Lynch Botta
 * William V. Brady, Mayor of New York City
 * Josephine Brandell
 * Boris Brasol
 * Herbert Brenon
 * Bricktop
 * Benjamin Bristow
 * Addison Brown
 * Henry Bruckner, Bronx Borough President
 * Charles Waldron Buckley
 * Ralph Bunche, United Nations official and diplomat
 * Richard Busteed
 * Benjamin Franklin Butler (1795–1858), lawyer
 * Charles Butler

C

 * Hervey C. Calkin
 * Harry Carey
 * Charles A. Carleton
 * Diahann Carroll
 * Vernon and Irene Castle, well-known husband & wife dancing team, movie stars
 * Carrie Chapman Catt
 * Alfred C. Chapin
 * John Wilbur Chapman, Evangelist, Author, Hymn Writer
 * Robert Chesebrough, Chemist, discovered petroleum jelly
 * Joseph Hodges Choate, lawyer, diplomat
 * Bobby Clark (comedian)
 * Horace F. Clark
 * Huguette Clark
 * William A. Clark
 * Henry Clews
 * George M. Cohan – bronze statue in center of Times Square
 * Ornette Coleman
 * Barron Collier
 * Samuel Colman, painter, interior designer, and writer
 * Ida Conquest
 * Austin Corbin
 * Ricardo Cortez
 * Lotta Crabtree
 * Charles Nelson Crittenton
 * William Nelson Cromwell
 * Celia Cruz
 * Countee Cullen
 * Frederick Kingsbury Curtis

D

 * Leopold Damrosch
 * Jess Dandy
 * Miles Davis
 * Clarence Day
 * Zachariah Deas
 * Cornelius H. DeLamater
 * George W. De Long
 * Rafael Díez de la Cortina y Olaeta, linguist
 * Sidney Dillon
 * E.L. Doctorow
 * Charles Cleveland Dodge, Brigadier General (youngest), American Civil War
 * William E. Dodge
 * Richard Dorson
 * Elsie Driggs, painter of Precisionism
 * Paul Du Chaillu
 * Vernon Duke
 * Finley Peter Dunne
 * William C. Durant

E

 * Gertrude Ederle, record-setting swimmer
 * Gus Edwards, songwriter and vaudevillian
 * Duke Ellington
 * Albert Ellis

F

 * Benjamin L. Fairchild
 * David Farragut
 * Edoardo Ferrari-Fontana
 * Bud Fisher
 * Clara Fisher
 * Rudolph Fisher
 * Clyde Fitch
 * Geraldine Fitzgerald
 * James Montgomery Flagg
 * Joe Foy, baseball player
 * Frankie Frisch, baseball player
 * Antoinette Perry Frueauff

G

 * Tommy Gagliano, Mobster
 * Lindley Miller Garrison, US Secretary of War
 * Francis Patrick Garvan, Director of Bureau of Investigations
 * John Warne Gates, Gilded Age industrialist and gamble
 * Charles Sidney Gilpin, stage actor
 * Thomas F. Gilroy, Mayor of New York City
 * Ambrosio José Gonzales, Cuban general
 * Jay Gould, stage actor
 * Archibald Gracie
 * Archibald Gracie III, Confederate General
 * Archibald Gracie IV, Titanic survivor
 * Charles K. Graham, Union General & Civil Engineer
 * George Bird Grinnell, anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer.
 * Lawrence Grossmith, English actor
 * Simon Guggenheim, U.S. Senator, philanthropist

H

 * The Haffen family of Haffen Brewing Company are buried on 'brewers' row.'
 * Oscar Hammerstein Sr.
 * Lionel Hampton
 * W. C. Handy
 * Edward Harkness, philanthropist
 * Lamon V. Harkness, businessman, stockholder in Standard Oil, yachtsman
 * William L. Harkness
 * Charles K. Harris
 * William Frederick Havemeyer, businessman, Mayor of New York City
 * William Haviland, actor
 * Coleman Hawkins
 * Millicent Hearst
 * August Heckscher
 * John Held Jr.
 * Victor Herbert
 * Adelaide Herrmann
 * Alexander Herrmann
 * Christian Archibald Herter
 * John D. Hertz, businessman, thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder
 * Jim Holdsworth, baseball player
 * Celeste Holm, actress
 * Richard Hudnut
 * Charles Evans Hughes, 11th Chief Justice of the United States
 * Frederick P. Hummel
 * Harold Hunter, skateboarder
 * Arabella Huntington – cenotaph as she is buried in California
 * Collis P. Huntington
 * Barbara Hutton
 * Henry Baldwin Hyde

I

 * Samuel Isham

J

 * Milt Jackson
 * Illinois Jacquet
 * Fanny Janauschek
 * Bumpy Johnson
 * Hall Johnson
 * Augustus D. Juilliard

K

 * Hermann Jakob Knapp
 * Felix Knight
 * Pedro Knight
 * Fritz Kreisler

L

 * Fiorello La Guardia
 * Scott La Rock
 * Daniel S. Lamont


 * Walter W. Law
 * Canada Lee
 * Henry Lehman
 * Frank Leslie
 * J. C. Leyendecker, illustrator
 * Harold Lockwood
 * Frank Belknap Long, horror author
 * Mansfield Lovell, Confederate officer
 * August Guido Lüchow, restaurateur
 * George Platt Lynes

M

 * A. Kingsley Macomber, businessman, Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder
 * Rowland Macy
 * Frankie Manning, dancer, instructor, and choreographer
 * Martha Mansfield
 * Vito Marcantonio, politician
 * Dewey Markham
 * Alfred Erskine Marling
 * Louis Marx, toy merchant
 * Bat Masterson, lawman, writer
 * Victor Maurel
 * William McAdoo
 * Josiah Calvin McCracken
 * Alice Foote MacDougall, restaurateur
 * Charles McCarron, vaudeville composer
 * George A. McGuire
 * Jackie McLean, musician
 * George McManus, cartoonist
 * Roi Cooper Megrue, playwright
 * Marie Mattingly Meloney
 * Herman Melville, author
 * Dean Meminger
 * Mario Merola (1922–1987), lawyer, New York City Councilman, and Bronx County District Attorney
 * William P. Merrill
 * Harry F. Millarde (1885–1931), silent film actor and director
 * Cyrus Miller, lacrosse player
 * Gilbert Miller
 * Marilyn Miller
 * Norma Miller
 * Florence Mills
 * John Purroy Mitchel, Mayor of New York City
 * John Bassett Moore
 * George L. K. Morris (1905–1975), Cubist artist, writer, and editor
 * Paul Morton
 * Robert Moses, government official, planner, builder, and Parks Department Commissioner of New York City
 * Bernarr McFadden Founder of the Physical Culture Hotel in Dansville, NY, McFadden Publications

N

 * Thomas Nast, political cartoonist
 * LeRoy Neiman, artist
 * Harold Nicholas
 * Ruth Rowland Nichols
 * Hideyo Noguchi
 * James W. Nye

O

 * Blanche Oelrichs
 * Hermann Oelrichs
 * William Butler Ogden
 * Chauncey Olcott
 * Joe "King" Oliver
 * Dave Orr
 * Marcus Otterbourg

P

 * Augustus G. Paine Jr.
 * Felix Pappalardi
 * Dorothy Parker (ashes reburied at Woodlawn in 2020)
 * James Cash Penney
 * Antoinette Perry, actress, director and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing
 * Alex Pompez, African-American baseball executive
 * Generoso Pope
 * George B. Post
 * Otto Preminger, film director
 * Samuel I. Prime
 * Frederick Freeman Proctor, vaudeville impresario
 * Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper owner and founder of Pulitzer prize
 * Mihajlo Pupin
 * Hovsep Pushman (1877–1966), American artist of Armenian background

R

 * Charles Ranhofer
 * Norman B. Ream
 * Theodor Reik
 * Gaetano Reina
 * Lance Reventlow
 * Grantland Rice
 * Vincent Richards
 * Tex Rickard
 * Max Roach
 * Delmar "Barney" Roos
 * Margaret Rudkin, Pepperidge Farm founder
 * Dick Rudolph, major league baseball pitcher, one of 17 who was allowed to continue to throw the spitball after baseball made against the rules in 1920
 * Damon Runyon

S

 * Alexander P. de Seversky, a Russian-American aviation pioneer and inventor
 * Louis Sherry, restaurateur, caterer, confectioner and hotelier
 * Ada "Bricktop" Smith, dancer, jazz singer, vaudevillian and saloon-keeper
 * Ruth Brown Snyder, murderer
 * Elizabeth Cady Stanton, early women's rights activist
 * Joseph Stella, artist
 * Josef Stránský, Czech conductor, composer, and art collector
 * Ida Straus
 * Isidor Straus – owner of Macy's Department Store, Democratic member of the 53rd Congress of the United States, victim of the sinking of the RMS Titanic
 * William Lafayette Strong, Mayor of New York City
 * William Matheus Sullivan, prominent New York City lawyer and patron of music
 * Karl Struss

T

 * Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, artist
 * Jōkichi Takamine
 * Clarice Taylor
 * Ben Teal, theater director
 * Jerry Thomas, bartender
 * Olive Thomas
 * James Walter Thompson, businessman, advertiser
 * Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate General
 * Dan Topping
 * Henry E. Tremain, Civil War Medal of Honor recipient, author, lawyer
 * Ada Bampton Tremaine, philanthropist
 * Cicely Tyson

U

 * Vladimir Ussachevsky
 * Gladys Unger
 * Irwin Untermyer
 * Samuel Untermyer

V

 * Abraham Van Buren
 * Robert Anderson Van Wyck, first Mayor of Greater New York City
 * Virginia Fair Vanderbilt

W

 * Madam C. J. Walker
 * Arthur Mellen Wellington
 * William Collins Whitney
 * Bert Williams
 * Lottie Williams
 * Ann Woodward
 * Frank Winfield Woolworth
 * James Hood Wright
 * Cootie Williams