List of 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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Argentina
- La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires - burial site of Eva Perón, Juan Manuel Fangio
- Cementerio de la Chacarita in Buenos Aires, Argentina is the "National Cemetery" where Juan Peron, Carlos Gardel, Hans Langsdorff and other notables are interred.
Australia
- Rookwood Cemetery, (Sydney) - at over 2.8 km², reputedly the largest burial site in the Southern Hemisphere, first used in 1867.
- Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane - the oldest and largest Brisbane cemetery, was originally utilised by the earliest colonists. Resting place of author Steele Rudd.
- Waverley Cemetery, (Sydney) - picturesque coastal site, many local historical figures.
Island of the dead - Pt Arthur Tasmania - early convict graves
Austria
- Zentralfriedhof, Vienna - Famous Austrian singer Wolfgang Ambros wrote "Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof" for its centennial in 1974.
- Kapuzinergruft, Vienna - Final resting place of 145 members of the House of Habsburg
Belgium
- Ixelles Cemetery in Brussels.
Brazil
- Cemitério do Morumbi, Sao Paulo - singer Elis Regina, F1 racer Ayrton Senna.
- Cemitério São João Batista, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro. Singer/Actress Carmen Miranda, composer Tom Jobim.
Canada
- Province of Nova Scotia:
- Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax - burial site for Joseph Howe, Robert Stanfield, Abraham Gesner, amongst others.
- Fairview Cemetery, Halifax - many victims of the RMS Titanic cemetery.
- Mount Olivet Cemetery, Halifax
- Province of New Brunswick:
- Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John - final resting place of several early Canadian statesmen including Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley.
- Province of Quebec:
- Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont, Sainte-Foy - 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.
- Province of Ontario:
- Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa. The burial site includes Sir Robert Borden, Tommy Douglas, Gen. Andrew McNaughton
- Notre Dame Cemetery, Ottawa. Interrments 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, and others.
- Province of British Columbia
- Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria - final resting place of Sir James Douglas, Emily Carr, Billy Barker and Sir Matthew Maillie Begbie, the "Hanging Judge".
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Zhao Mausoleum, Jiuzong mountain, Shaanxi province
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 Antonin Dvorak, Alfons Mucha and Bedrich Smetana, amongst others.
Denmark
- Roskilde cathedral, the burial place for most Danish kings and queens
Egypt
- Great Pyramid of Giza
- Saqqara
- Valley of the Kings
- Cairo City of the Dead
Finland
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 Emile Zola, Edgar Degas, Georges Feydeau, other artists and writers.
- 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
- 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.
- The Panthéon, Paris - France's most honored, including Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
- Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris - resting place of famous persons such as Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison and Frederic Chopin. Many French Holocaust victims are buried there.
- Saint Denis Basilica, Paris - burial site for French Royalty.
- Cimetière de Saint-Ouen, Paris - where Joan of Arc was led for the public renunciation of her sins. Some of those buried here are the painters Suzanne Valadon, Jules Pascin, and tennis star, Suzanne Lenglen.
- 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.
- Saint Remi Basilica, Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France
Germany
- Berlin, Städtischer Friedhof III, Schöneberg.
- Berlin, Waldfriedhof, Zehlendorf.
- Berlin, Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde.
- Hamburg, Friedhof Ohlsdorf
- München, Ostfriedhof.
- München, Westfriedhof.
- Nuremberg, Johanniskirchhof
Greece
- Kerameikon - ancient cemetery in Athens
Hungary
Iran
- Astan-e Quds-e Razavi in Mashhad
- Bam cemetery in Bam
- Behesht-e Zahra in Tehran - largest Iranian cemetery
- Gurestan Bastani, Bushehr (the ancient cemetery, Bushehr)
- Maghbarat ol-Shoara (the Poets’ cemetery in Tabriz)
- Naksh-i Rustam (Achaemenid Royal Cemetery)
- Shah-Abdol-Azim Cemetery, Rayy, Tehran
- Shah Cheragh, Shiraz
Iraq
- Wadi-us-Salaam in Najaf - largest Islamic cemetery
Ireland
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 of Florence
- 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 for 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.
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.
- Kinnereth Cemetery, a small cemetery on the Sea of Galilee shore. The poets Rachel and Neomi Shemer are buried here.
Japan
Lithuania
Malaysia
- Bukit China in Malacca is the largest (250,000 m²) Chinese cemetery outside China, with graves that date back to the Ming dynasty.
Mexico
Netherlands
- Westgaarde, Amsterdam
Poland
- Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw - Among those interred here are film director Krzysztof Kieslowski and Nobel Prize winning author Wladyslaw Reymont.
- Old Jewish Cemetery, Wrocław (former Breslau). The most famous person buried here is Ferdinand Lassalle, the founder of German Socialist Party.
Romania
- Cimitirul Bellu, Bucharest
- Cimitirul Vesel, Sapanta (Maramures)
Russia
- Novodevichy Cemetery at the New Maidens' Convent, Moscow - many famous Russians and citizens of the former Soviet Union buried here including Nikita Khrushchev, 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, Igor Talkov, Sergei Yesenin and others.
- 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.
- Persian Shiite Cemetery, St. Petersburg
- Peter and Paul Fortress, Petersburg - all Russian Tsars since Peter the Great are buried in the cathedral.
Slovenia
- Žale, Ljubljana
Spain
- Cementerio de la Almudena - Madrid's largest cemetery
- El Escorial - burial place for the monarchs of Spain
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.
Taiwan
- Jin Bao Mountain
- Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery
Ukraine
- Lychakivskiy Cemetery, Lviv - Among those interred here are poet Ivan Franko.
United Kingdom
- Bunhill Fields, London, England - nonconformist resting place of William Blake, Daniel Defoe.
- 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.
- 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. 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
United States of America
See : List of United States cemeteries
Vietnam
- Maidich National Cemetery - cemetery established after French occupation ended in 1954 as a place of worship for heroes of the people. Those buried here include statesmen, writers, poets, and others who have close ties to Vietnam's current government.
See also:
- List of Memorials
- List of mausoleums
- War memorial with a list of noted war memorials