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List of famous cemeteries
This is a list of famous cemeteries, mausoleums and other places people are buried, world-wide. Please add as needed.
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- La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires - burial site of Eva Peron, F1 race driver, Juan Manuel Fangio
- Zentralfriedhof, Vienna - Famous Austrian singer Wolfgang Ambros[?] wrote "Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof" for its centennial in 1974.
- Fairview Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia - the RMS Titanic cemetery.
- Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario.
- Ancient Tombs at Longtou Mountain
- Bukit China[?] in Malacca is the largest (25 ha) Chinese cemetery outside Mainland China, with graves that date back to the Ming dynasty.
- Cemetery of Zhaojun, Inner Mongolia
- Mawangdui[?] at Changsha, Hunan
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, Xi'an
- Mausoleum of Genghis Khan, Inner Mongolia
- Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum in Hong Kong - earliest funeral architecture in Hong Kong
- Shisanling[?] at Beijing - the thirteen imperial mausoleums of Ming Dynasty
- Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum[?], Nanjing, resting place for Sun Yat-sen
- Tomb of Marquis Yi[?] near Wuhan in Hubei province - probably best preserved funeral architecture of the Warring States Period
- Tomb at Yinque[?] at Linyi County[?], Shandong province
- Roskilde cathedral, the burial place for most Danish kings and queens
- Catacombs of Paris, millions of remains in caves and tunnels under the city of Paris.
- Les Invalides, Paris - war heroes including Napoleon.
- Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris - resting place of Emile Zola, Edgar Degas, Georges Feydeau, other artists and writers.
- Cimetiere de Montparnasse, Paris - serves the great artistic quarter of Montparnasse, including the graves of Charles Baudelaire, Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean Paul Sartre, and Man Ray.
- Cimetière de Passy, Paris - Claude Debussy, Edouard Manet.
- The Panthéon, Paris - France's most honored, including Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
- Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris - resting place of artists, writers (including Oscar Wilde), and Jim Morrison. Many French Holocaust victims are buried there.
- Saint Denis Basilica, Paris - burial site for French Royalty.
- Saint Remi Basilica[?], Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France
- Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa Dei Frari[?]
- English Cemetery of Florence[?]
- Mausoleum of Theodoric
- Protestant Cemetery, Rome[?] resting place for Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats
- San Michele, Venice[?]
- Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem - in almost continual use from First Temple times until today. Oskar Schindler is buried here.
- Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw - Among those interred here are film director Krzysztof Kieslowski and Nobel Prize winning author Wladyslaw Reymont.
- Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow - many famous Russians and citizens of the former Soviet Union buried here including Nikita Khrushchev, the writer Anton Chekhov, and composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich.
- Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg, Russia. Among those interred here is author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and composers Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and César Cui.
- Bunhill Fields, London, England - nonconformist resting place of William Blake, Daniel Defoe.
- Ford Park Cemetery, Plymouth, England
- Golders Green Crematorium, Golders Green, London, England
- Highgate Cemetery, London - the tomb of Karl Marx, topped with a huge bronze bust, is here; Highgate is notable for its "Egyptian catacombs", where John Galsworthy, George Eliot, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti were buried.
- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, oldest English cemetery of its type still in operation, many elaborate Victorian mausoleums, including those of William Makepeace Thackeray and Anthony Trollope.
- St Botolph Aldersgate[?], London
- St Margarets, London[?]
- St Paul's Cathedral, London
- Victoria Gate, Hyde Park[?]
- Westminster Abbey, London
- Arlington National Cemetery - military cemetery established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Robert E. Lee's home, near Washington, D.C..
- Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles, California
- Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery, Los Angeles, California - resting place for Liberace, Lucille Ball, and Buster Keaton
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California - satirized in Evelyn Waugh's novel, The Loved One.
- Gettysburg National Cemetery, in Pennsylvania, at the dedication of which in November, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address.
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York - Samuel Morse, William March "Boss" Tweed, F.A.O. Schwarz and Jean-Michel Basquiat are among the burials here
- Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Culver City, California - Al Jolson, Jack Benny and Milton Berle are buried here
- Hollywood Forever Memorial Park Cemetery, Hollywood, California - burial place of Mel Blanc
- Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California - Bing Crosby, Lawrence Welk, Bela Lugosi are among the Holy Cross residents
- Home of Peace Cemetery, East Los Angeles, California- two of the Three Stooges were interred here
- Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California
- Mount Auburn Cemetery[?], Cambridge, Massachusetts - bird, plant, and tree sanctuary, featured in the first version of the film, The Thomas Crown Affair.
- Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery, Hollywood Hills, California[?]
- Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Chatsworth, California[?]
- Park Cemetery[?], Fairmount, Indiana - burial place of James Dean
- Punchbowl[?], Honolulu - military cemetery of the Pacific, in the Punchbowl Crater of an extinct volcano known as Puowaina, Hawaiian for "Hill of Sacrifice."
- San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, California
- St. Louis Cemetery #1,#2,#3[?], New Orleans - burial place of Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, and many notable pirates and politicians. Because the city is below sea level, graves in New Orleans cemeteries are above ground.
- Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown, New York - scene of Washington Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane.
- Spring Hill Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee
- Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, North Hollywood, California[?]
- Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Westwood, California - Marilyn Monroe, Frank Zappa, and Billy Wilder are buried here
- Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, New York - Duke Ellington, Herman Melville, and Joseph Pulitzer are among those buried at this Woodlawn
- Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica, California
- Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee
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