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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.
- 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
- 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