List of cemeteries
This is a list of famous cemeteries , mausoleums and other places people are buried, world-wide. Please add as needed.
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
Brazil
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.
Roskilde cathedral, the burial place for most Danish kings and queens
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
World War II Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial , Collville-sur-Mer - honors American soldiers who died during operations in Europe during World War II
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 cemetary 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 .
Bukit China in Malacca is the largest (25 ha) Chinese cemetery outside China , with graves that date back to the Ming dynasty .
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 .
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.
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
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.
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