LIST OF CEMETERIES

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This is a list of 'famous cemeteries', mausoleums and other places people are buried, world-wide.

Argentina

★ La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires - burial site of Eva Perón, Federico Leloir, and many other Argentine figures

★ La Chacarita Cemetery (or "National Cemetery"), Buenos Aires - burial site of Juan Peron (until 2006), Carlos Gardel and many other notables.

★ Flores Cemetery, Buenos Aires

Australia

★ Rookwood Cemetery, (Sydney) - Proper name 'The Necropolis, Rookwood" at over 2.8 km², reputedly the largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere if not the world, first used in 1867. More than 1,000,000 interments.

★ Waverley Cemetery, (Sydney) - opened in 1877. Dramatic location on picturesque coastal site, many local historical figures such as writer Henry Lawson. 50,000 allotments.

★ Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, (Sydney) - incorporates Botany Cemetery, Eastern Suburbs Crematorium and Pioneer Park (where headstones from early Sydney burial grounds have been relocated).

★ Karrakatta Cemetery, (Perth) - opened in 1899 north of the Swan River and closest to the Perth city centre.

★ Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane - Proper name "The Brisbane General Cemetery" the oldest and largest Brisbane cemetery opened in 1875, was originally utilised by the earliest colonists. Resting place of author Steele Rudd.

★ Island of the dead - Port Arthur, Tasmania - early convict graves, part of the old goal and convict reform settlement.

★ Fremantle Cemetery, (Perth) - opened 1898 south of the Swan River and city of Perth -

★ Centennial Park Cemetery, Adelaide - opened in 1936 during South Australia's centenary year.

Austria

★ Zentralfriedhof, Vienna - Famous Austrian singer Wolfgang Ambros wrote "Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof" for its centennial in 1974.

★ Kapuzinergruft, Vienna - Final resting place of over 140 members of the House of Habsburg

Azerbaijan

★ ''Old Jugha'', Julfa - Historically considered to have the largest number of Khachkars, carved memorial stones. It is the center of a controversy about Khachkar destruction.

Belgium

★ Schoonselhof Cemetery in Antwerp

★ Ixelles Cemetery in Brussels

★ Laeken Cemetery in Brussels

★ Tyne Cot Cemetery near Ypres

Brazil

★ Cemitério da Consolação, São Paulo - writer Mário de Andrade, Monteiro Lobato, painter Tarsila do Amaral, former Brazil's president Campos Sales

★ Cemitério do Morumbi, São Paulo - singer Elis Regina, F1 racer Ayrton Senna, actor and comedian Ronald Golias

★ Cemitério São João Batista, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro. Santos Dumont, inventor of the airplane; Singer/Actress Carmen Miranda, composer Tom Jobim.

Canada

Manitoba

★ St. Boniface Cathedral Cemetery, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Burial site of Louis Riel. Oldest graveyard in Western Canada.

Newfoundland

★ Church of England Cemetery, St. John's.

Nova Scotia

★ Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Burial site for Joseph Howe, Robert Stanfield, Abraham Gesner, amongst others.

★ Fairview Cemetery, Halifax. Many victims of the RMS ''Titanic'' cemetery.

★ Mount Herman Cemetery , Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

★ Mount Olivet Cemetery, Halifax

New Brunswick

★ Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John. Final resting place of several early Canadian statesmen including Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley.

Quebec

★ Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont, (Formerly Sainte-Foy) Quebec City. Interred here are politicians Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Jean Lesage and others.

★ Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, Montreal. Some of the notables buried here include Maurice Richard, George-Étienne Cartier, Doug Harvey, Pierre Laporte.

★ Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal. Final resting place for Sui Sin Far, Anna Leonowens, John Abbott, Mordecai Richler, Sir Arthur Currie, Molson family members, and others.

★ Mount Hermon Cemetery, (Formerly Sillery), Quebec City, Empress of Ireland Memorial. G.R. Renfrew, Peter Simons, Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière,

★ Irish Cemetery at Grosse-Ile, Grosse Ile, Quebec. Over 6000 immigrants (mostly Irish) who died while quarantined during the Great Famine of 1847. Largest Irish cemetery outside of Ireland.

★ National Field of Honour, Pointe-Claire, an official veteran's cemetery.

★ Maplewood Cemetery, Saint-Félix-de-Kingsey

Ontario

★ Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa. The burial site includes Sir Robert Borden, Tommy Douglas, Gen. Andrew McNaughton

★ Notre Dame Cemetery, Ottawa. Interments here include Yousuf Karsh, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Aurel Joliat.

★ Cataraqui Cemetery, Kingston. Final resting place of Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Alexander Campbell

★ Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto. Those interred here include Timothy Eaton, Frederick Banting, Glenn Gould, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and others.

★ Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery in Toronto. The burial site for Margaret Anglin, Morley Callaghan, and King Clancy, amongst others.

★ Necropolis Cemetery, in Toronto. (Toronto Necropolis). The burial site of William Lyon Mackenzie, Ned Hanlon, and others. Monument to Samuel Lount and Peter Matthews.

★ Forest Lawn Mausoleum, Toronto. Includes the interment of Sir Henry Pellatt.

★ Park Lawn Cemetery, Toronto. The final resting place of Harold Ballard, Conn Smythe, John Swietlinski, amongst others.

★ York Cemetery, in Toronto. The burial site of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, and her husband Captain Kolikovsky, Tim Horton and others.

British Columbia

★ Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria. Final resting place of Sir James Douglas, Emily Carr, Billy Barker and Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie, the "Hanging Judge".

★ Mountain View Cemetery. The oldest cemetery in the City of Vancouver, it is the resting place of 145,000 people, including numerous notable figures in the city's history.

Alberta

★ Queen's Park Cemetery, Calgary. Final resting place of Owen Hart, a Professional wrestler and member of the prestigious Hart wrestling family, Dorothy Joudrie, Archibald Wilder, and Everett Johnson.

Chile

★ Cementerio General de Chile in Santiago, Chile, is the burial place for all but one of Chile's deceased Presidents including Salvador Allende plus other notables such as singers Víctor Jara and Violeta Parra.

People's Republic of China

★ Ancient Tombs at Longtou Mountain

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★ Mausoleum of Princess Zhenxiao

★ Cemetery of Zhaojun, Inner Mongolia

★ Mawangdui at Changsha, Hunan

★ Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, Xi'an

★ Mausoleum of Genghis Khan, Inner Mongolia

★ Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, Beijing

★ Thirteen Imperial Mausoleums of Ming Dynasty Emperors, Beijing

★ Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, Nanjing

★ Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Nanjing

★ Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng near Wuhan in Hubei province - probably best preserved funeral architecture of the Warring States Period

★ Tomb at Yinque at Linyi County, Shandong province

★ Zhao Mausoleum, Jiuzong mountain, Shaanxi province

Hong Kong

★ Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum - earliest funeral architecture in Hong Kong

★ Gallant Garden is the cemetery for civil and public servants who died in service

★ Hong Kong Cemetery - The early western cemetery in the early colonial era of Hong Kong

★ Stanley Military Cemetery - Not only one of the major military cemeteries of Hong Kong, but also one of the last battlefields of Hong Kong Defence, 1941

★ Sai Wan War Cemetery - Most of the WWII of Hong Kong and East Asia Stage war deads are buried there

Macau

★ Old Protestant Cemetery
==Colombia==

★ Central Cemetery of Bogota - Houses several national heroes, poets and former Colombian presidents

Croatia

★ Mirogoj Cemetery in Zagreb - the biggest cemetery in Croatia, one of the most beautiful and oldest in Europe

★ Municipal Cemetery in Varazdin

Czech Republic

★ Sedlec ossuary - Kutná Hora

★ Old Jewish Cemetery - Prague

★ Olsany Cemetery, Prague - the biggest graveyard in the Czech republic

★ Vysehrad cemetery, Prague - the Czech Republic's most important cemetery, it is the burial site for Antonín Dvořák, Alfons Mucha and Bedřich Smetana, amongst others.

Cuba

★ Cementerio Santa Ifigenia - Bacardi family, José Marti and many others

Denmark

★ Roskilde Cathedral in the city of Roskilde is the burial place for most Danish kings and queens

★ Assistens Kirkegård in the Nørrebro section of Copenhagen is the burial site for Danish notables such as Hans Christian Andersen and Niels Bohr as well as for several African-American jazz musicians.

Ecuador

★ Cementerio General de Guayaquil

Egypt

★ Great Pyramid of Giza

★ Saqqara

★ Valley of the Kings

★ Cairo City of the Dead

Estonia

'''Tallinn'''

★ Kopli cemetery

★ Mõigu cemetery

★ Kalamaja cemetery

★ Hiiu-Rahu cemetery

★ Jewish cemetery

★ Liiva cemetery

★ Metsakalmistu cemetery

★ Pirita cemetery

★ Tõnismäe Monument

★ Tallinn Military Cemetery

★ Pärnamäe cemetery

★ Siselinna cemetery

★ Rahumäe cemetery
'''Tartu'''

★ Pauluse cemetery

★ Puiestee cemetery

★ Raadi cemetery

★ Rahumäe cemetery
'''Paide'''

★ Reopalu cemetery

★ Sillaotsa cemetery

Finland

★ Hietaniemi Cemetery, Helsinki

France

★ Cimetière de Bagneux, Paris - burial place for Jean Vigo, Gribouille, Alfred Jarry and others.

★ Catacombs of Paris, millions of remains in caves and tunnels under the city of Paris.

★ Cimetière des Gonards, Versailles, burial place for Edith Wharton, Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte and others.

★ Grand Jas Cemetery, Cannes - buried here are Lily Pons, Peter Carl Fabergé, Martine Carol and other celebrities

★ Les Invalides, Paris - war heroes including Napoleon

★ Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris - resting place of Edgar Degas, Heinrich Heine, Georges Feydeau, other artists and writers. Émile Zola was initially buried here, but his remains were later moved to the Panthéon. His gravestone can still be seen here, however.

★ Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris - serves the great artistic quarter of Montparnasse, including the graves of Charles Baudelaire, Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Seberg, Serge Gainsbourg and Man Ray. Pierre Laval and Porfirio Diaz are also buried here.

★ Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery

★ Panthéon, Paris - France's most honored, including Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Émile Zola.

★ Cimetière de Pantin in Paris is the burial site of the singer Damia, and the Cancan dancer, known as La Goulue, and other notables.

★ Cimetière de Passy, Paris - Claude Debussy, Edouard Manet.

★ Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris - resting place of famous persons such as Colette, Baron Georges Haussmann, Eugène Delacroix, Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Molière, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gertrude Stein, Édith Piaf, Marcel Proust, Pierre Desproges and Frédéric Chopin. Many French Holocaust victims are commemorated there.

★ Saint Denis Basilica, Paris - burial site for French Royalty.

★ Cimetière de Saint-Ouen, Paris - where, on 24 May 1430, Joan of Arc was told to recant or face summary execution. Some of those buried here are the painters Suzanne Valadon, Jules Pascin, and tennis star, Suzanne Lenglen.

★ Saint Remi Basilica, Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France

★ Cimetière Saint-Vincent, a small cemetery in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris contains the graves of such notables as Arthur Honegger, Marcel Carné, Maurice Utrillo and others.

Foreign cemeteries

★ Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery: Ivan Bunin, Rudolph Nureyev, Felix Yusupov, Andrei Tarkovsky

★ Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial

★ Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery

★ Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery

Germany

Hamburg

★ Hamburg, Hauptfriedhof Ohlsdorf (Ohlsdorf Main Cemetery), with 4.05 km² largest cemetery on Earth. 1.280000 graves.

★ Hamburg, Hauptfriedhof Öjendorf (Öjendorf Main Cemetery)

★ Hamburg, Jüdischer Friedhof Altona (Altona Jewish Cemetery)

★ Hamburg, Jüdischer Friedhof Ohlsdorf (Ohlsdorf Jewish Cemetery)

★ Hamburg, Jüdischer Friedhof Ottensen (Ottensen Jewish Cemetery)

North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen)

★ Cologne, Melaten

Saxony

★ Herrnhut, the Hutberg Moravian Graveyard, God's Acre

Saxony-Anhalt

★ Dessau, Neuer Begräbnisplatz

★ Halle, Stadtgottesacker

★ Magdeburg, Dom St. Mauritius & St. Katharina, Kathedrale St. Sebastian

Schleswig-Holstein

★ Elmshorn, Jüdischer Friedhof (Elmshorn Jewish Cemetery)

★ Lübeck, Burgtor-Friedhof

★ Rendsburg, Garnisonsfriedhof

Greece

★ Kerameikon - ancient cemetery in Athens

★ Proto Nekrotafio (''First Cemetery of Athens'') - Cemetery in Central Athens, including the graves of many famous Greek politicians and celebrities like Melina Mercouri, Andreas Papandreou, George Papandreou, George Seferis, Manos Hadjidakis.

★ Anastaseos tou Kyriou (''Resurrection of Lord'') - The biggest public cemetery of Greece. Located east of Thessaloniki.

★ Akrotiri, Chania, Crete - ''Venizelos' tombs''. Burial site of the politician Eleftherios Venizelos.

★ Vergina, Pella - (Macedonian Tombs). Tomb of the ancient Macedonian King, Phillip II of Macedon.

★ Tatoi Royal Cemetery - Athens.

★ Mikra British Honorary Cemetery - Located in the municipality of Kalamaria, in Thessaloniki. The Memorial commemorates 478 nurses, officers and men of the Commonwealth forces who died when troop transports and hospital ships were lost in the Mediterranean, and who have no grave but the sea.

★ Skorpios Island, Ionian Sea - Burial site of 20th century's shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis and his daughter Christina Onassis.

Hungary

★ Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest

★ Farkasréti Cemetery in Budapest

★ List of cemeteries in Budapest
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Indonesia

★ Imogiri - founded by Sultan Agung

★ Kalibata Cemetery

Iran

★ Astan-e Quds-e Razavi in Mashhad

★ Bam cemetery in Bam

★ Behesht-e Fazl in Neyshabur (Where Fazlinb-e shazan-e Neyshaburi's shrine is placed)

★ Behesht-e Zahra in Tehran - largest Iranian cemetery

★ Beheshtieh in Tehran - Jewish cemetery

★ Takht-e Foolad in Esfahan

★ Bagh-e Rezvan in Esfahan

★ Gurestan Bastani, Bushehr (the ancient cemetery, Bushehr)

★ Maghbarat ol-Shoara (the Poets’ cemetery in Tabriz)

★ Vadi-e Rahmat, Tabriz Cemetery

★ Naqsh-e Rustam (Achaemenid Royal Cemetery)

★ Shah-Abdol-Azim Cemetery, Rayy, Tehran

★ Shah Cheragh, Shiraz

Iraq

★ Wadi-us-Salaam, Najaf - largest Islamic cemetery

★ Shuneziya, Baghdad - Burial place of saints and many pious personalities.

Republic of Ireland

★ Carrowmore, County Sligo

★ Deansgrange, County Dublin

★ Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

★ Huguenot Cemetery, Dublin

★ Newgrange, County Meath

★ St. Fintan's Cemetery, Sutton, Dublin

Israel

★ Mount Herzl, the official cemetery for the leaders of Israel, where many Prime Ministers of Israel and President of Israel are buried. Theodor Herzl, Zeev Jabotinsky, Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin are among those who are buried here.

★ Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem - in almost continual use from First Temple times until today. Oskar Schindler and Menachem Begin buried here. See also and list of notable people buried on the Mount of Olives.

★ Har HaMenuchot in Jerusalem.

★ Kinnereth Cemetery, a small cemetery on the Sea of Galilee shore. The poets Rachel and Naomi Shemer are buried here.

Italy

★ Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze, Florence - resting place of Donatello and many members of the Medici family;

★ Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze, Florence - resting place of Galileo, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Gioacchino Rossini and many other notables;

★ 'English' Cemetery, Florence - burial site for Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Frances Trollope, Theodore Parker and others;

★ Porte Sante, Florence - resting place of Carlo Collodi and many others;

★ Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice - resting place of Titian, Claudio Monteverdi and the heart of Antonio Canova;

★ Campo di Verano cemetery, Rome - Largest cemetery in Rome

★ Cimitero Monumentale in Milan is a very large cemetery that includes the ''Famedio'' (Temple of Fame) where Giuseppe Verdi, Vladimir Horowitz, Alessandro Manzoni, Arturo Toscanini, and others are interred;

★ Camposanto, Pisa

★ Catacombs of Rome

★ Mausoleum of Theodoric

★ Protestant Cemetery, Rome - resting place of Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats;

★ San Michele, Venice - Venice's main cemetery and resting place of Ezra Pound, Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Diaghilev;

★ Cimitero Monumentale di Staglieno, Genoa--famous for its sepulchral sculpture and architecture.

Japan

★ Foreign cemeteries in Japan

Kenya

★ Wajee Nature Park, Nyeri, resting place of Robert Baden-Powell founder of the Scouting movement.

Latvia

★ Bralu kapi

★ Lielie kapli

★ Pokrova kapi

★ Meža kapi

★ Raiņa kapi

★ Sarkandaugavas kapi

Lithuania

★ Antakalnis Cemetery, Vilnius

★ Rasos Cemetery, Vilnius

Malaysia

★ Bukit China in Malacca is the largest (250,000 m²) Chinese cemetery outside China, with graves that date back to the Ming dynasty.

★ Taman Selatan

★ Tanjung Kupang Memorial

★ Taiping War Cemetery

★ Labuan War Cemetery

Mexico

★ Panteón de Dolores, Mexico City

★ Panteón Español, Mexico City

★ Panteón Francés, Mexico City

★ Panteón de Belén, Guadalajara, Jalisco

★ Panteón del Carmen, Monterrey, Nuevo León

★ Panteón de Dolores, Monterrey, Nuevo León

★ Parque funeral Guadalupe, Monterrey, Nuevo León

★ Panteones Municipales de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo León

★ Panteón del Roble, Monterrey, Nuevo León

★ Panteón Valle de Paz, Monterrey, Nuevo León

★ Panteón Tepeyac, Monterrey, Nuevo León

Netherlands

★ Westgaarde, Amsterdam

★ Zorgvlied, Amsterdam

★ Westerkerk, Amsterdam - Resting place of Rembrandt van Rijn

★ Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam - Resting place of Joost van den Vondel, Michiel de Ruyter

★ Nieuwe Kerk, Delft - Resting place of William I of Orange, most members of House of Orange

★ Oude Kerk, Delft - Resting place of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Maarten Tromp, Johannes Vermeer

★ Holten Canadian War Cemetery

★ Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery

★ Bergen op Zoom Canadian War Cemetery

New Zealand

★ Northern Cemetery (Dunedin) - final resting place of Thomas Bracken, author of New Zealand's national anthem, ''God Defend New Zealand''.

Pakistan

★ Tomb of Muhammad Iqbal located in front of the Badshahi Masjid, Lahore

★ Chaukundi, Karachi

★ Mazar-e-Quaid, Karachi - Final resting place of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan

★ Miani Sahib Qabaristan (Lahore) - Hundreds of years old, it is the largest cemetery in Lahore, contains graves of saints and pious people.

★ Makli Hill (Thatta) - One of the largest necropolises in the world, contains hundreds of graves of saints, pious people, local rulers and kings.

Peru

★ Presbitero Maestro -

Poland

★ Gliwice - New Jewish Cemetery (Szobiszowice) (pol. ''Nowy Cmentarz Żydowski w Gliwicach''),

★ Kraków - Rakowice Cemetery,

★ Kraków - Skałka, the "National Pantheon",

★ Kraków - Wawel Cathedral, burial place for Polish kings, bishops of Kraków,poets and national heroes,

★ Szczecin - Central Cemetery - one of the largest cemeteries in Europe,

★ Warsaw - Powązki Cemetery, among those interred here are film director Krzysztof Kieślowski and Nobel Prize winning author Władysław Reymont,

★ Wrocław - Old Jewish Cemetery - The most famous person buried here is Ferdinand Lassalle, the founder of German Socialist Party.

Portugal

★ Church of Santa Engrácia - the National Pantheon, burial place of Amália Rodrigues, Vasco da Gama among others.

Puerto Rico

★ Puerto Rico National Cemetery in Bayamón

★ Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery in Old San Juan, bural place of authors Pedro Salinas, Muna Lee and singer Tony Croatto

Romania

★ Bellu cemetery, Bucharest

★ Merry Cemetery, Săpânţa (Maramureş)

★ Central Cemetery, Cluj-Napoca

Russia

★ 'Moscow'

★ Novodevichy Cemetery at the New Maidens' Convent, Moscow - many famous Russians and citizens of the former Soviet Union buried here including Nikita Khrushchev, Boris Jeltsin, the writers Nikolai Gogol and Anton Chekhov, and composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich.

★ Vagankovskoye Cemetery, Moscow, Russia is the burial site for Inga Artamonova, Vladimir Vysotsky, Sergei Grinkov, Sergei Yesenin and others.

★ Donskoe Cemetery in Moscow is an old necropolis next to the Donskoy Monastery.

★ Rogozhskoye cemetery in Moscow is the center of Old Believer community in Russia and the world.

★ Lenin's Mausoleum - the final resting place of Vladimir Lenin, with his embalmed body on public display.

★ Kremlin Wall Necropolis - part of the Kremlin Wall where Soviet governments buried many prominent Communist figures.

★ Pantheon, Moscow - a project in the 1950s to construct a monumental memorial tomb in Moscow, Soviet Union

★ Vvedenskoye Cemetery - cemetery of the former German community in Moscow

★ 'St. Petersburg'

★ Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg, Russia. Among those interred here is author Fyodor Dostoevsky, scientist Mikhail Lomonosov, and composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

★ Persian Shiite Cemetery, St. Petersburg

★ Peter and Paul Fortress, Petersburg - all Russian Tsars since Peter the Great are buried in the cathedral.

★ Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery, St Petersburg - burial ground for the victims of the Siege of Leningrad and probably the largest cemetery in the world by the number of people interred.

★ Komarovo Cemetery, Komarovo, Saint Petersburg - burial place of Saint Petersburg scientific and cultural intelligentsia such as Anna Akhmatova

★ Novodevichy Cemetery (Saint Petersburg) should be distinguished from the eponymous cemetery in Moscow.

★ Volkovo Cemetery one of the largest non orthodox cemeteries in St. Petersburg

★ Smolensk Cemetery another of the largest non orthodox cemeteries in St. Petersburg

Slovakia

★ Slavín monumental memorial and cemetery of fallen Soviet Army soldiers in Bratislava

★ National Cemetery in Martin

★ Cemeteries of Villages in Eastern Slovakia

Slovenia

★ Žale, Ljubljana

Serbia

★ Novo Groblje in Belgrade - burial ground of many famous Serbs

South Korea

★ Seoul National Cemetery

★ Daejeon National Cemetery

Spain

★ Cementerio de la Almudena - Madrid's largest cemetery

★ El Escorial - burial place for the monarchs of Spain

★ Cementerio de San Fernando - Sevilla's cemetery

★ ''Panteón de Hombres Ilustres'', in Madrid

★ Royal Chapel of Granada, where the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella and Ferdinand with Joanna of Castile "La Loca" and Philip the Handsome lie.

★ Valle de los Caídos. Francisco Franco, Primo de Rivera, and more than 30.000 soldiers of both factions deceased in the Spanish Civil War lay there.

Saudi Arabia

★ Baqi Cemetery, Medina

★ Ma'ala Cemetery, Mecca
Both these cemeteries are outstanding religiously historical burial grounds. Eminent early Islamic figures are buried at both these sites as well as other places. However, these two cemeteries are held in esteem. Many people even today desire these sites to be their final journey.

Sweden

★ Riddarholmskyrkan, Stockholm

★ Norra begravningsplatsen, established in 1827 in northern Stockholm, is the burial site for a number of Swedish notables including Alfred Nobel, Ingrid Bergman and Ulrich Salchow.

★ Skogskyrkogården, a relatively new cemetery opened in 1920 in southern Stockholm, has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Amongst others, the cemetery contains the graves of actress Greta Garbo.

★ Uppsala Cathedral is the burial site for several Swedish kings and queens from the 16th and 17th century, as well as Carolus Linnaeus and Emanuel Swedenborg. The nearby Old Graveyard houses the grave of Dag Hammarskjöld.

Switzerland

★ Basel

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★ Friedhof Hörnli

★ Berne

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★ Bremgartenfriedhof: Michail Alexandrowitsch Bakunin.

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★ Schosshaldenfriedhof: Paul Klee.

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★ Friedhof Bümpliz (with sculptures by Schang Hutter)

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★ Jüdischer Friedhof Bern: Max Horkheimer.

★ Geneva

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★ Cimetière des Rois: Jorge Luis Borges

★ Kilchberg, Zurich: Thomas Mann, Katia Mann, Erika Mann, Golo Mann, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

★ Morcote

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★ Cemetery Morcote: Alexander Moissi (1879-1935), Georges Baklanoff (1882-1938), Georg Kaiser (1878-1945), Eugen d'Albert (1864-1932).

★ Zurich

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★ Friedhof Fluntern: burial site for Elias Canetti, Kurt Früh, Therese Giehse, Fritz Hug, James Joyce, Karl Moser, Lavoslav Růžička, Paul Scherrer, Emil Oprecht

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★ Privatfriedhof Hohe Promenade: Grabstädte Arnold Escher von der Linth.

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★ Friedhof Manegg: Walter Matthias Diggelmann, Alfred Escher, Friedrich Glauser, Kurt Gloor, Othmar Schoeck.

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★ Friedhof Nordheim: Albin Zollinger.

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★ Friedhof Rehalp: Heinrich Federer.

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★ Friedhof Sihlfeld: Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli, Karl Culmann, Gustav Gull, Rudolf Koller, Johanna Spyri, August Bebel, Henri Dunant, Gottfried Keller.

Syria

★ Bab-e-Sagheer Cemetery (Damascus) - One of the most famous cemeteries in the Muslim world, it contains the resting places of the Wives of Prophet R.A, Companions of the Prophet Muhammad SAW, saints and other pious personalities.

Taiwan (Republic of China)

★ Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall

★ Chin Pao San

★ Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery

★ Tamsui Foreign Cemetery

Thailand

★ Kanchanaburi War Cemetery

Turkey

Ankara

★ Cebeci Asri Cemetery: The cemetery for high ranked public and military officials in Ankara

★ Turkish State Cemetery: Cemetery in Ankara reserved for presidents, prime ministers and high ranked military officials fought at the Turkish War of Independence

Gallipoli

★ Beach Cemetery, Anzac: Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery containing the remains of allied troops who died during the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915

İstanbul

★ Karacaahmet: 400 year-old cemetery in Üsküdar, Istanbul

★ Zincirlikuyu Cemetery: One of the greatest cemeteries in Istanbul

★ Haydarpaşa Cemetery: Cemetery for British soldiers who died during the Crimean War and British Commonwealth soldiers of the two World Wars

★ Kuzguncuk Jewish cemetery

Ukraine

★ Lychakivskiy Cemetery, Lviv - The burial site for Polish and Ukrainian notables including writer Maria Konopnicka and the poet, Ivan Franko.

United Kingdom

★ Abney Park, Stoke Newington, London - Opened in 1840, it is one of London's Magnificent Seven cemeteries and was the first wholly non-denominational cemetery in Europe; architecture by William Hosking, arboretum by Loddiges, design concept by George Collison based partly on the 'New World' principles and designs of Mount Auburn Cemetery. Although open to all, it became particularly noted as the main C19th burial place of English nonconformist ministers, scholars and missionaries as Bunhill Fields became full

★ Aldershot Military Cemetery, first enclosed in 1856, it is the final resting place Military personal of all ranks, or ex military personnel and for internment of wives and families, and for some civilians who have spent their life with the army.

★ Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol - established 1837, first burial 1839

★ Ballyoan Cemetery, County Londonderry

★ Belfast City Cemetery, Belfast

★ Brompton Cemetery- Opened in 1840, it is one of London's Magnificent Seven cemeteries and is the final resting place for a number of prominent persons including Samuel Cunard, Emmeline Pankhurst, Sir Charles Fremantle amongst others.

★ Brookwood Cemetery - Brookwood, Woking,Surrey - resting place for over 240,000 people.

★ Bunhill Fields, London, England - note as the main late C17th, C18th and early C19th burial place of nonconformist ministers, scholars, and literary figures including John Bunyan, William Blake, Isaac Watts and Daniel Defoe

★ Canongate Kirkyard, Edinburgh, Scotland - Resting place of Adam Smith, regarded as the founder of modern economics

★ Croydon Cemetery, London, England

★ Ford Park Cemetery, Plymouth, England

★ Golders Green Crematorium, Golders Green, London, England

★ Highgate Cemetery, London, is notable for its Egyptian Avenue and Lebanon Circle. The tomb of Karl Marx, topped with a huge bronze bust, is here. Highgate is also the final resting place of Douglas Adams, Jacob Bronowski, Charles Cruft, George Eliot, Michael Faraday, William Friese-Greene, Stella Gibbons, Sheila Gish, Radclyffe Hall, Leslie Hutchinson, Sidney Nolan, prolific actor Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, Elizabeth Siddal, Herbert Spencer, Feliks Topolski and Max Wall.

★ Iona Abbey, last resting place of many kings of Scotland, and Labour leader John Smith

★ 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.

★ Milltown Cemetery, Falls Road, Belfast

★ Southern Cemetery, Manchester

★ St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery at Kensal Green in London is the final resting place for a number of notables including Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Sax Rohmer and Krystyna Skarbek.

★ St Botolph Aldersgate, London

★ St Margarets, London

★ St Paul's Cathedral, London

★ Victoria Gate, Hyde Park

★ Westminster Abbey, London, also the final resting place of prolific stage and screen actor Lord Laurence Olivier

★ West Norwood Cemetery, one of London's Magnificent Seven, containing a record 65 listed monuments, and many notables including Sir Henry Bessemer, Dr William Marsden, Sir Hiram Maxim, Paul Julius Baron von Reuter

★ Glasgow Necropolis, Glasgow, Scotland - Better known for its elaborate mausolea than celebrated cadavers.

United States of America

Alabama

★ Ahavas Chesed Cemetery, Mobile

★ Church Street Graveyard, Mobile

★ Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham - Bear Bryant, Eddie Kendricks, Sun Ra.

★ Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile

★ Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville

★ Oak Hill Cemetery, Birmingham - Louise Wooster

★ Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery - Hank Williams

★ Old Catholic Cemetery, Mobile

★ Sha'arai Shomayim Cemetery, Mobile

★ Pine Hill Cemetery, Auburn

Arizona

★ Boothill Graveyard (Tombstone, Arizona) - Billy Clanton, Frank McLaury, and Tom McLaury.

★ Greenwood Memory Lawn (Phoenix, Arizona) - Walter Winchell.

★ Mesa Cemetery (Mesa, Arizona) - Waylon Jennings, and Ernesto Miranda.

★ National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona (Phoenix, Arizona)

★ Paradise Memorial Gardens (Scottsdale, Arizona) - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.

★ Pioneer & Military Memorial Park (Phoenix, Arizona) - Darrell Duppa, and King Woolsey.

★ Railroad Park (Willcox, Arizona) - Rex Allen and his horse, KoKo.

★ Wittmann Cemetery (Wittmann, Arizona)

Arkansas

★ Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock - known as Westminster Abbey of Arkansas;

California

Connecticut

★ All Saint's Cemetery, North Haven;

★ Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven;

★ Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport;

District of Columbia

★ Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

★ Holy Rood Cemetery, (on the grounds of Georgetown University), Washington, D.C.

★ Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

★ Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

★ Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington D.C.

Florida

★ Limona Cemetery, Brandon

★ Geneva Cemetery, Geneva is where Lewis Paine, a/k/a Lewis Thornton Powell, co-conspirator in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, is buried.

★ Ocoee Cemetery, Ocoee, FL

Georgia

★ Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, made famous by the ''Bird Girl'' sculpture featured on the cover of the book, and in the movie of, ''Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'';

★ Forest Lawn Cemetery, College Park - Final resting place of Whitman Mayo (actor who played Grady Wilson on the 1970s hit sitcom "Sanford and Son").

★ Lincoln Cemetery, Atlanta - Final resting place of Theodore "Tiger" Flowers (first African-American middle-weight boxing champion) and Rev. Hosea L. Williams (civil rights leader who worked with Martin Luther King, Jr.)

★ Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change, Atlanta - Final resting place of civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr.

★ Morehouse College, Atlanta - Final resting place of Dr. John Hope (President of Atlanta University) and wife, Dr. Benjamin E. Mays (President of Morehouse College and mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr.) and wife Sadie

★ Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, is where Margaret Mitchell, author of ''Gone with the Wind'', Maynard H. Jackson (first black mayor of Atlanta), Bobby Jones (famed golfer) are buried. It is also known for its Victorian memorials to the Confederate cause and Confederate dead.

★ Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens, is where numerous Georgia politicians, Confederate soldiers, and other notable UGA and Athens people are buried. Dean Rusk, former United States Secretary of State, and Ricky Wilson, guitarist in the rock band ''The B-52's'', are buried in this cemetery.

★ Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, is where Allman Brothers Band guitarist Duane Allman and bassist Berry Oakley are buried.

★ South-View Cemetery, Atlanta- Final resting place of Alonzo F. Herndon (Atlanta's first black millionaire), Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr. and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Sr. (mother and father of Martin Luther King, Jr.).

★ Westview Cemetery, Atlanta- Largest Cemetery in Southeastern United States. Final resting place of Henry W. Grady, Joel Chandler Harris (Author), Asa Candler(businessman) and Rev. Dr. Corneilus L. Henderson (United Methodist Church Minister/Bishop).

★ St. James Episcopal Cemetery, Marietta. The final resting place of both JonBenet Ramsey and Patsy Ramsey.

Hawai‘i

★ Hawai‘i State Veterans Cemetery, Kāne‘ohe, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, official state veterans cemetery for those who served in the United States Armed Forces

★ Honolulu Catholic Cemetery, 839A South King Street, Honolulu. Notable persons interred here include the Roman Catholic bishops of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands, as well as other famous persons such as Congressional delegate Robert Wilcox and Tahitian princess Eugénie Ninito Sumner.

★ National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, official United States Armed Forces cemetery comparable to Arlington National Cemetery, final resting place of Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War and Gulf War dead. Also interred are the former Governors of Hawai‘i, influential American statesmen, Challenger disaster victims, among others.

★ Royal Masoleum at Mauna‘ala, Nu‘uanu, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, official resting place of the Kamehameha and Kalakaua dynasties who reigned over the Kingdom of Hawai‘i

★ USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i, official resting place of those killed during the attack on Honolulu on 7 December 1941

★ Valley of the Temples, Kāne‘ohe, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, home of the Byodo-In Temple and final resting place of Walter F. Dillingham. Former Philippines dictator President Ferdinand E. Marcos was also entombed here for a brief period, and his mausoleum was open to public visitation, until his body was returned to the Philippines where it remains until today on permanent display in a shrine specially built for him in the family's home province of Ilocos Norte.

Idaho

★ Ketchum Cemetery, Ketchum, Idaho - Burial place of Ernest Hemingway

Illinois

★ Chicago:

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★ Bachelor's Grove Cemetery - a small, abandoned and reportedly haunted cemetery.

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★ Graceland Cemetery - resting place of many members of Chicago's architectural, political, and industrial elite. Marshall Field, Cyrus McCormick, Carter Harrison, Potter Palmer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Louis Sullivan, and Daniel Burnham are a few famous people buried here.

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★ Mount Carmel Cemetery - the final resting place of several Bishops and Archbishops of Chicago, as well as organized crime figures such as Al Capone. The cemetery is located just west of Chicago in Hillside, Illinois.

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★ Rosehill Cemetery - Julius Rosenwald, Oscar Meyer and others.

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★ Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago - burial site for Enrico Fermi, Cap Anson, Jesse Owens and other notables.

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★ Westlawn Cemetery - Jack Ruby, Abe Saperstein.

★ Burr Oak Cemetery and Restvale Cemetery, Alsip (near Chicago) - are the final resting places for many prominent African-American musicians and other personalities including Muddy Waters, Dinah Washington, Candy Jim Taylor, Ezzard Charles.

★ Chippiannock Cemetery, Rock Island. Listed on the cemetery National Registry in 1994. Memorials created by significant artists, including Alexander Stirling Calder and Paul de Vigne.

★ Evergreen Cemetery in Bloomington - resting place of former Vice President of the United States Adlai E. Stevenson I, former U.S. Ambassdor to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson II, and former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Davis, among others.

★ Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield - resting place of former President of the United States Abraham Lincoln, and members of his family, as well as notable state of Illinois politicians.

★ Forest Park

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★ German Waldheim Cemetery - Including several anarchists and socialists, including the Haymarket Martyrs, Emma Goldman, and others.

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★ Jewish Waldheim Cemetery

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★ Altenheim Cemetery

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★ Woodlawn Cemetery

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★ Showmen's Rest - circus performers

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★ Concordia Cemetery

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★ Virden Cemetery
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Indiana

★ Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis - third largest cemetery in the United States (by area) and burial place of John Dillinger, Charles Fairbanks, Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling, President Benjamin Harrison, James Whitcomb Riley, eleven Indiana Governors and fourteen Indiana Mayors.

★ Flanner and Buchanan, with 5 locations.

★ Heady Lane Cemetery, Fishers, Indiana-small cemetery which dates back to the early 1800s and has many members of the Heady family in it.

★ Park Cemetery, Fairmount - burial place of James Dean.

★ Pleasant Valley Cemetery - small cemetery which dates back to the early 1800s.

★ Beech Grove Cemetery Orange County, Indiana. Very Large, originally a Quaker Cemetery

★ Hunt Cemetery Orange County, Indiana

Iowa

★ Linwood Cemetery, Dubuque. One of the main cemeteries for people living in the Dubuque area. Originally it was the cemetery for the city's Protestants, but now it serves people of all faiths. A number of prominent Iowans are buried at the cemetery.

★ Logan Park Cemetery, Sioux City- burial place of cartoonist, Jay Darling and of notable historical figures.

★ Mount Calvary Cemetery, Dubuque. This cemetery was originally the main burial location for the German Catholics of Dubuque. It is presently one of the two main Catholic cemeteries in Dubuque.

★ Mount Olivet Cemetery, Dubuque. This cemetery, along with Mount Calvary Cemetery, is one of two main Catholic cemeteries in Dubuque.

★ Oakdale Cemetery, Davenport. Burial place of jazz legend, Bix Beiderbecke.

★ Oakland Cemetery, Centerville. This cemetery is the city owned cemetery for Centerville and is the burial place of former Governor of Iowa, Francis M. Drake.

★ Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City. This cemetery is home to the Black Angel, a burial monument surrounded by mystery and superstition.

★ Saint Joseph Cemetery, Earling.

Kansas

★ Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery, Leavenworth. Founded in 1862. Burial place of Civil War and Indian War veterans, including eight Medal of Honor recipients, and the Fort and town's namesake, Brigadier General Henry Leavenworth.

★ Sunset Cemetery, Manhattan. The first cemetery in Manhattan, founded in 1860. It is the burial place of the fourth Governor of Kansas Nehemiah Green, Earl Woods, scientist Samuel Wendell Williston, anthropologist Solon Toothaker Kimball, and other local notables, including one Medal of Honor recipient.

Kentucky

★ Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville - burial place of President Zachary Taylor.

★ Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville - burial place of Colonel Sanders.

★ Moffitt Cemetery, Milton - a part of the film Some Came Running, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine, was shot on location here.

★ Lexington Cemetery, Lexington - established 1849. Burial place of Henry Clay, John Hunt Morgan, and John Cabell Breckinridge.

Louisiana

★ Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans - grandest of the city's cemeteries, it is the burial site of notables such as Al Hirt, P.G.T. Beauregard and others. Because of the high water table (parts of the city are below sea level), graves in New Orleans cemeteries are above ground.

★ St. Louis Cemetery #1,#2,#3, New Orleans - burial place of Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, and many notable pirates and politicians.

Maine

★ First Parish Cemetery, York

Maryland

★ Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg

★ Crownsville Veterans Cemetery, Crownsville, Maryland

★ Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, Timonium

★ Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Silver Spring - Mattie Stepanek,

★ Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore - final resting place of Samuel Arnold, John Wilkes Booth, Allen Dulles, Johns Hopkins, Benjamin Chew Howard, Joseph E. Johnston, Sidney Lanier, and many other important Marylanders

★ Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Suitland

★ Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore - final resting place of Charles Joseph Bonaparte, Frederick William Nicholls Crouch, H. L. Mencken, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Mary Pickersgill, and many other important Marylanders.

★ Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick - Barbara Fritchie, Francis Scott Key

★ Old Saint Paul's Cemetery, Baltimore - Lewis Armistead, George Atzerodt, Samuel Chase, John Eager Howard, and many other important Marylanders.

★ United States Naval Academy Cemetery, Annapolis

★ Saint Mary's Cemetery, Rockville - F Scott Fitzgerald

★ Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, Baltimore - James McHenry, Edgar Allan Poe, and many other important Marylanders.

★ U.S. National Ceme

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