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Woodlawn Cemetery
Located in
The Bronx
, the
Woodlawn Cemetery
is one of the largest cemeteries in
New York City
.
Notable people interred there include:
Irving Berlin
Nellie Bly
Ralph Bunche
George M. Cohan
Celia Cruz
Miles Davis
Clarence Day
Duke Ellington
David Farragut
Frankie Frisch
Antoinette Perry Frueauff
- The
Tony Award
is named after her
Jay Gould
Archibald Gracie
Oscar Hammerstein, Sr
Lionel Hampton
W.C. Handy
Victor Herbert
Barbara Hutton, Woolworth heiress, America's "poor little rich girl"
Charles Evans Hughes
Collis P. Huntington
Augustus D. Juilliard
Fiorello LaGuardia
Roland Macy
Bat Masterson, US Marshall
George McManus
Herman Melville
Marilyn Miller
Robert Moses
Thomas Nast
James Cash Penny
Otto Preminger
, actor and director
Joseph Pulitzer
Damon Runyon
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Joseph Stella
John William Sterling
, one of
Yale
's largest benefactors
Olive Thomas, actress and wife of
Jack Pickford
C. J. Walker, she was the first
African-American
millionaire
Frank Woolworth
, chain store founder
See also:
List of other famous cemeteries