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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.
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Rookwood Cemetery, (Sydney) - at over 280ha, 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.
- Waverly Cemetery (Sydney) - picturesque coastal site, many local historical figures.
Island of the dead - Pt Arthur Tasmania - early convict graves
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Roskilde cathedral, the burial place for most Danish kings and queens
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Cimetière de Bagneux, Paris - burial place for Jean Vigo, Gribouille, Alfred Jarry and others.
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Catacombs of Paris, millions of remains in caves and tunnels under the city of Paris.
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Les Invalides, Paris - war heroes including Napoleon
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Cimetière des Gonards, Versailles, burial place for Edith Wharton, Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte and others.
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Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris - resting place of Emile Zola, Edgar Degas, Georges Feydeau, other artists and writers.
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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.
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Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery
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Cimetière de Pantin in Paris is the burial site of the singer Damia, and the Cancan dancer, known as La Goulue, and other notables.
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Cimetière de Passy, Paris - Claude Debussy, Edouard Manet.
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The Panthéon, Paris - France's most honored, including Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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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.
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Saint Denis Basilica, Paris - burial site for French Royalty.
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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.
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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
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World War II Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Collville-sur-Mer - honors American soldiers who died during operations in Europe during World War II
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Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze, Florence - resting place of Donatello and many members of the Medici family.
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Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze, Florence - resting place of Galileo, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Gioacchino Rossini and many other notables
- English Cemetery of Florence
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Porte Sante, Florence - resting place of Carlo Collodi and many others.
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Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice - resting place of Titian, Claudio Monteverdi and the heart of Antonio Canova.
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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.
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Camposanto, Pisa
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Catacombs of Rome
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Mausoleum of Theodoric
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Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow - many famous Russians and citizens of the former Soviet Union buried here including Nikita Khrushchev, the writer Anton Chekhov, and composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich.
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Vagankovskoye Cemetery, Moscow, Russia is the burial site for Inga Artamonova, Igor Talkov, Sergei Yesenin and others.
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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.
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Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg - all Russian Tsars since Peter the Great are buried in the cathedral.
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Bunhill Fields, London, England - nonconformist resting place of William Blake, Daniel Defoe.
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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.
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Ford Park Cemetery, Plymouth, England
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Golders Green Crematorium, Golders Green, London, England
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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.
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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.
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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
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St Paul's Cathedral, London
- Victoria Gate, Hyde Park
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Westminster Abbey, London
See : List of United States cemeteries
- 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:
Last updated: 02-05-2005 20:38:30
Last updated: 05-03-2005 17:50:55
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