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List of famous cemeteries
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This list of cemeteries compiles notable cemeteries, mausoleums and other places people are buried, worldwide. Reasons for notability include their design, their history and their interments.
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Argentina
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.
- Cairns Pioneer Cemetery, (Cairns)(Queensland) [1]
- Waverley Cemetery, (Sydney) - opened in 1877. Dramatic location on picturesque coastal site, many local historical figures such as writer Henry Lawson. 50,000 allotments.
- See also: Category:Burials at Waverley Cemetery
- 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.
- See also: Category:Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery
- 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 -
- See also: Category:Burials at Fremantle Cemetery
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belgium
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 de Vila Formosa, São Paulo - the biggest cemetery in Latin America
- Cemitério São João Batista, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro. Santos Dumont, early pioneer of aviation; Singer/Actress Carmen Miranda, composer Tom Jobim.
Brunei
Bulgaria
Canada
Manitoba
Newfoundland
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 sinking.
- Mount Herman Cemetery, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
- Mount Olivet Cemetery, Halifax. Nineteen victims of the sinking of RMS Titanic are buried here.
- Holy Cross Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Burial site for Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, Prime Minister of Canada
New Brunswick
Quebec
- Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont, (Formerly Sainte-Foy) Quebec City. Interred here are politicians Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Jean Lesage and others.
- Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery, 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, 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.
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.
- Hope Cemetery, Ottawa.
- 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
Alberta
Chile
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
- 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
Macau
Croatia
Czech Republic
Cuba
Denmark
Ecuador
El Salvador
Egypt
Estonia
Tallinn
Tartu
Pärnu
Paide
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 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
Germany
Bavaria (Bayern)
- Bayreuth, Bayreuth Friedhof Burial site of Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt and Jean Paul amongst others
- Munich, Nordfriedhof Burial site of Peter Igelhoff and Paul Troost
- Munich, Ostfriedhof. Burial site of Friedrich Hollaender, Rudolf Moshammer, Leni Riefenstahl and Barbara Valentin.
- Munich, Südlichen Friedhof zu München. Burial site of Leo von Klenze and Karl Spitzweg.
- Munich, Westfriedhof. Burial site of Alexandra, Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari and Ernst Röhm.
- Nuremberg, Johanniskirchhof
- Andechs, Kloster Andechs und Wittelsbacher Friedhof. Burial site of the Wittelsbachs
Berlin
- Berlin - Charlottenburg, Friedhof Heerstraße, Burial site of Leo Blech, Karl Bonhoeffer, Horst Buchholz, Tilla Durieux, George Grosz, Maximilian Harden, Hilde Hildebrand, Joachim Ringelnatz and Grethe Weiser.(See de:Friedhof Heerstraße)
- Berlin - Charlottenburg, British War Cemetery, Heerstraße.(See de:Britischer Friedhof an der Heerstraße)
- Berlin - Kreuzberg, Holy Trinity Cemetery I Burial site of Fanny Hensel Felix Mendelssohn and Rahel Varnhagen (See: (de:Friedhöfe vor dem Halleschen Tor) also Holy Trinity Cemetery II Burial site of Martin Gropius, Adolph von Menzel and Theodor Mommsen. (See de:Friedhöfe an der Bergmannstraße)
- Berlin - Kreuzberg, Jersusalem und Neue Kirche III Burial site of Adelbert von Chamisso and E.T.A. Hoffmann (See: de:Friedhöfe vor dem Halleschen Tor), also Friedhof IV der Gemeinde Jerusalems- und Neue Kirche Burial site of Rikard Nordraak. (See: de:Friedhof IV der Gemeinde Jerusalems- und Neue Kirche)
- Berlin - Kreuzberg, Luisenstädtischer Friedhof Burial site of Gustav Stresemann. (See de:Luisenstädtischer Friedhof)
- Berlin - Lichtenberg, Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde. Burial site of Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht.
- Berlin - Mitte, Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof. Burial site of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Bertolt Brecht, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, John Heartfield and Johannes Rau. (See de:Friedhof der Dorotheenstädtischen und Friedrichswerderschen Gemeinden)
- Berlin - Mitte, Invalidenfriedhof. Burial site of Reinhard Heydrich, Fritz Todt, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Manfred von Richthofen temporary, Hans von Seeckt, Werner von Fritsch, Karl von Bulow, Ernst Udet, Werner Moelders, Helmuth von Moltke, Alfred von Schlieffen
- Berlin - Schöneberg, Städtischer Friedhof III. Burial site of Marlene Dietrich and Helmut Newton.
- Berlin - Schöneberg, Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof Berlin. Burial site of the Brothers Grimm. (See de:Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof Berlin)
- Berlin - Weißensee, Weißensee Cemetery. The largest old Jewish cemetery in Europe.
- Berlin - Wilmersdorf, Friedhof Schmargendorf. Burial site of Max Pechstein.
- Berlin - Zehlendorf, Städtischer Friedhof Berlin-Zehlendorf. Burial site of Heinrich George.
- Berlin - Zehlendorf, St Annen Friedhof, Dahlem Dorf. Burial site of Rudi Dutschke.
- Berlin - Zehlendorf, Waldfriedhof Dahlem, Hüttenweg. Burial site of Gottfried Benn, Karl Hofer, Bernd Rosemeyer and Werner Sombart.
- Berlin - Zehlendorf, Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf, Potsdamer Chaussee. Burial site of Willy Brandt, La Jana, Helmut Käutner, Julius Leber, Hildegard Knef, Erich Mühsam, Ernst Reuter and Renée Sintenis.
Brandenburg
Hamburg
Lower Saxony
North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
Cemetery for russian soldiers
Rhineland-Palatinate
Saxony
Saxony-Anhalt
Schleswig-Holstein
Greece
- Kerameikon - ancient cemetery in Athens
- 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
- See also Category:Cemeteries in Hungary
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
- Wadi-us-Salaam, Najaf - one of the largest cemeteries in the world, containing approximately five million graves
- Shuneziya, Baghdad - Burial place of saints and many pious personalities.
Ireland
Israel
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
- 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, Eva Peron 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
Kenya
Latvia
Riga
Liberia
Lithuania
Malaysia
Malta
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
- Margraten - Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial
- Bergen op Zoom Canadian War Cemetery
- Beth Haim of Ouderkerk aan de Amstel
New Zealand
Norway
Pakistan
Graves and Tombs at Chaukundi
- Tomb of Muhammad Iqbal located in front of the Badshahi Masjid, Lahore
- Chaukhandi Tombs, 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 necropolis in the world, contains hundreds of graves of saints, pious people, local rulers and kings.
- Wadi-a-Hussain Cemetery, Karachi
Philippines
Peru
Poland
- Kraków - Rakowicki 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,
Portugal
Puerto Rico
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