Lists of cemeteries

This is a list of famous cemeteries world-wide. Please add as needed.

• Arlington National Cemetery, military cemetery established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Robert E. Lee's home, near Washington, D.C..
• Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa Dei Frari
• Bukit China in Malacca is the largest (25 ha) Chinese cemetery outside mainland China, with graves that date back to the Ming dynasty.
• Bunhill Fields, London, England, resting place of William Blake, Daniel Defoe
• Catacombs of Paris, millions of remains in caves and tunnels under the city of Paris, France.
• Cimetiere de Montparnasse, Paris serves the great artistic quarter of Montparnasse, including the graves of Baudelaire, Ionesco, Beckett, Sartre, and Man Ray.
• Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris - resting place of Zola, Degas, Feydeau, other artists and writers.
• Cimetière de Passy, - Paris, France - Claude Debussy, Edouard Manet
• Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, resting place of artists, writers, and Jim Morrison, and Oscar Wilde. Many French Holocaust victims are buried there.
• English Cemetery of Florence
• Fairview Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The RMS Titanic cemetery.
• Ford Park Cemetery, Plymouth, England
• Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, final resting place of the stars, 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
• Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin
• Golders Green Crematorium, Golders Green, London, England
• Grant's Tomb, New York City, largest mausoleum in North America, contains the bodies of Ulysses S. Grant and his wife, Julia Dent Grant. Strictly speaking, the answer to the question "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?" is that no one is buried there.
• Green-Wood Cemetery; where the upper-crust of New York once yearned to be buried
• Highgate Cemetery, London; the tomb of Karl Marx, topped with a huge bronze bust, is here; Highgate is notable for its "Egyptian catacombs", where Galsworthy, George Eliot, and Dante Gabriel Rosetti were buried.
• Les Invalides, Paris, France - War heroes including Napoleon
• Kensal Green, London, oldest English cemetery still in operation, many elaborate Victorian mausoleums, including those of Thackeray and Trollope.
• Lenin's Tomb, Moscow, Lenin's embalmed corpse is on display in a climate-controlled glass box. For several years, Joseph Stalin's body was also there, but was removed as part of de-Stalinization.
• Jewish Cemetery, Prague
• Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, bird, plant, and tree sanctuary, featured in the first version of the film, The Thomas Crowne Affair.
• Mount of Olives, in Jerusalem, in almost continual use from First Temple times until today.
• Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Canada.
• Novodevichy Cemetery - Russia, Moscow, Luzhnecky, Blng. 2. Many famous Russians and citizens of the former Soviet Union buried there.
• Old Burial Ground, Chelsea
• Panteon de Dólores, Mexico City, Mexico
• The Panthéon, Paris - France's most honored, including Voltaire, Rousseau.
• Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Poland,
• Protestant Cemetery, Rome
• Punchbowl, Honolulu, military cemetery of the Pacific, in the Punchbowl Crater of an extinct volcano known as Puowaina, Hawaiian for "Hill of Sacrifice."
• La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Saint Denis Basilica, Paris, France, burial site for French Royalty.
• St. Botolph Aldersgate
• St. Louis Cemetery #1,#2,#3, New Orleans, burial place of Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, many pirates and politicians. Because the city is below sea level, graves in New Orleans cemeteries are above ground.
• St. Margarets, London
• San Michele, Venice
• Santa Croce
• Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, upstate New York, scene of Washington Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane.
• The Taj Mahal
• Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg, Russia,
• Victoria Gate, Hyde Park
• Westminster Abbey, London, England
• Zentralfriedhof, Vienna - Famous Austrian singer Wolfgang Ambros wrote Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof for its centennial in 1974.
• Žale, Ljubljana