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Located in The Bronx, the Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City.

Notable people interred there include:

• Irving Berlin
• Nellie Bly
• Ralph Bunche[?]
• George M. Cohan
• Miles Davis
• Clarence Day[?]
• Duke Ellington
• David Farragut
• Frankie Frisch[?]
• Antoinette Perry Frueauff - The Tony Award is named after her
• Jay Gould
• Archibald Gracie[?]
• Oscar Hammerstein II, composer
• Lionel Hampton
• W.C. Handy
• Victor Herbert
• Barbara Hutton[?], Woolworth heiress, America's "poor little rich girl"
• Charles Evans Hughes
• Collis P. Huntington[?]
• Augustus D. Juilliard[?]
• Fiorello LaGuardia
• Roland Macy[?]
• Bat Masterson[?], US Marshall
• George McManus[?]
• Herman Melville
• Marilyn Miller[?]
• Robert Moses[?]
• Thomas Nast
• James Cash Penny[?]
• Otto Preminger, actor and director
• Joseph Pulitzer
• Damon Runyon
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Joseph Stella[?]
• John William Sterling, one of Yale's largest benefactors
• Olive Thomas[?], actress and wife of Jack Pickford
• C. J. Walker[?], she was the first African-American millionaire
• Frank Woolworth, chain store founder

See also: List of other famous cemeteries

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