People buried in Brooklyn, New York City
Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) cemetery in Brooklyn , New York City . The cemetery lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park , and is generally bounded by 20th Street to the northeast, Fifth Avenue to the northwest, 36th and 37th Streets to the southwest, Fort Hamilton Parkway to the south, and McDonald Avenue to the east. Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery .
Walter W. Bahan (1860–1916), lawyer and member New York State Assembly
James Bard (1815–1897), marine artist, buried in unmarked grave
Peter Townsend Barlow (1857–1921), New York City Magistrate
Susie M. Barstow (1836-1923), landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), artist
William Holbrook Beard (1824–1900), painter of Bulls and Bears representing the market cycle; a bear statue sits on top of his headstone
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887), abolitionist
Augustus Belknap (1841-1889), Union Army officer and railway executive
George Wesley Bellows (1882–1925), painter
James Gordon Bennett, Sr. (1795–1872), founder/publisher of the New York Herald
Richard Rodney Bennett (1936–2012; cremated), composer of film, TV and concert music
Henry Bergh (1818–1888), founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), pianist, composer, and conductor; alongside his wife, actress Felicia Montealegre (1922–1978)
Sid Bernstein (1918–2013), American music promoter
Jane Augusta Blankman (1823–1860), courtesan
Samuel Blatchford (1820–1893), U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Stanley Bosworth (1927–2011), founding headmaster of prestigious Saint Ann's School
William Oland Bourne (1819–1901), American clergyman, journalist, social reformer
William R. Brewster (1828–1869), Civil War Union Brevet Brigidier General
Andrew Bryson (1822–1892), United States Navy rear admiral
Charlotte Canda (1828–1845), a debutante killed in a carriage accident on her 17th birthday
Duncan Candler (1873–1949), architect
Elliott Carter (1908–2012), composer
Alice Cary (1820–1871), poet, author
Phoebe Cary (1824–1871), poet, author
George Catlin (1796–1872), painter of Native Americans in the Old West
Henry Chadwick (1824–1908), Baseball Hall of Fame member (memorial)
William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), painter, teacher
Kate Claxton (1850–1924), American theatre actress noted for her role of Louise in the play The Two Orphans [ 1]
DeWitt Clinton (1769–1828), unsuccessful U.S. presidential candidate 1812 ; U.S. Senator from New York; seventh and ninth Governor of New York
Henry Ives Cobb Jr. , (1883-1974), artist and architect
William Colgate , (1783-1853), English-American soap industrialist who founded in 1806 what became the Colgate-Palmolive company.
Barry Commoner (1917–2012), American environmentalist, professor and presidential candidate
William J. Coombs (1833–1922), U.S. Congressman from Brooklyn
George H. Cooper (1821–1891), United States Navy rear admiral
Peter Cooper (1791–1883), inventor, manufacturer, abolitionist, founder of Cooper Union
James Creighton, Jr. (1841–1862), first pitcher to throw a fastball [ 2]
Edwin Pearce Christy (1815–1862), minstrel, known for performing the Stephen Foster song "Old Folks at Home " (aka "Swanee River")
Bruce Crane (1857–1937), painter
Thomas T. Craven (1873–1950), United States Navy vice admiral
L. Adele Cuinet (1854/55-1933), dental surgeon
George Washington Cullum (1809–1892), Superintendent of the United States Military Academy
John Phineas Curran (1928-2003), noted physician
Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888), artist ("Currier and Ives ")
Duncan Curry (1812–1894), baseball pioneer and insurance executive
Elizabeth Cushier (1837–1931), professor of medicine and for 25 years before her retirement in 1900, one of New York's most prominent obstetricians
Bronson M. Cutting (1888–1935), United States Senator from New Mexico (1927–1928; 1929–1935)
Marcus Daly (1841–1900), Irish -born copper industrialist in Montana
James E. Davis (1962–2003), assassinated City Councilman, was buried here for a few days; upon learning his killer's ashes were also in Green-Wood, his family had his body exhumed and reinterred in the Cemetery of the Evergreens [ 3]
Charles Schuyler De Bost (1826–1895), baseball pioneer
Joseph Delafield (1790–1875), militia officer, diplomat and lawyer
Julia Livingston Delafield (1801–1882), society hostess
Richard Delafield (1798–1873), Chief of Engineers and Superintendent of West Point
Francis E. Dorn (1911–1987), U.S. Naval Commander, attorney and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 12th congressional district
Mabel Smith Douglass (1874–1933), founder and first dean of the New Jersey College for Women
Dorothy Catherine Draper (1807-1901), chemist and educator
Dorothea A. Dreier (1870-1923), painter
Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877-1952), artist and social reformer
Raoul Pène Du Bois (1914-1985), American costume designer
Thomas Clark Durant (1820–1885), key figure in building the First transcontinental railroad
William West Durant (1850–1934), son of Thomas Clark Durant and designer and developer of camps in the Adirondack Great Camp style
James Durno (1795–1873), husband of labor activist Sarah Bagley (1806–1883)
Fred Ebb (1928–2004), lyricist
Charles Ebbets (1859–1925), baseball team (Brooklyn Dodgers ) owner; built Ebbets Field
Elizabeth F. Ellet (1818–1877), American writer and poet
Georgia Engelhard (1906–1985), mountaineer in the Canadian Rockies and the Selkirk ranges. Niece of Alfred Stieglitz and his wife, Georgia O'Keeffe .
Philip Evergood (1901–1973), was an American painter, etcher, lithographer, sculptor, illustrator and writer
George Edwin Ewing (1828–1884), Scottish sculptor
Charles Feltman (1841–1910), claimed to be the first person to put a hot dog on a bun
Edward Ferrero (1831–1899), American Civil War General at the Battle of the Crater and in the Appomattox Campaign
Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888), was an American scientist, physicist, inventor, and women's rights campaigner from Seneca Falls, New York. Her experiments on the warming effect of sunlight on different gases were overlooked until the 21st century
Edwin Forbes (1839–1895), American Civil War and postbellum artist, illustrator, and etcher
Lockwood de Forest (1850–1932), American painter, interior designer, and furniture designer
Isaac Kaufmann Funk (1839–1912), American editor, lexicographer, publisher, and spelling reformer
Joey Gallo (1929–1972), mobster
Charles M. Gage (1848-1919), cofounder of Gage & Tollner restaurant
William Delbert Gann (1878–1955), Stock Market author and visionary
Mary Gannon ("Mrs George Stevenson"; 1829–1868), American stage actress and comedienne
Asa Bird Gardiner (1839–1919), controversial soldier, attorney, and prosecutor
Robert Selden Garnett (1819–1861), brigadier general of the Confederate States Army and the first general killed in the American Civil War
Henry George (1839–1897), writer, politician and economist
Henry George, Jr. (1862–1916), United States Representative from New York
Jasper W. Gilbert (1818–1899), justice on the New York Supreme Court
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829–1869), composer
John Franklin Gray (1804–1882), the first practitioner of Homeopathy in the United States
Horace Greeley (1811–1872), unsuccessful U.S. presidential candidate 1872 ; founder of the New York Tribune
Robert Stockton Green (1831–1895), Governor of New Jersey
Dudley Sanford Gregory (1800–1874), first mayor of Jersey City, U.S. House of Representatives (1847–1849)
Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815–1857), literary critic
Ann Hall (1792-1863), painter and popular 19th-century miniaturist
Edward Wheeler Hall (1881–1922), one of the victims of the Hall–Mills murder case
Frances Noel Stevens Hall (1874–1942), wife of Edward and suspect in the Hall–Mills murder
Paul Hall (1914–1980), labor leader
Henry Wager Halleck (1815–1872), U.S. Army Commander during the middle part of the American Civil War
William Stewart Halsted (1852–1922), pioneer in American medicine and surgery, often credited as the "Father of Modern American Surgery"
Jeremiah Hamilton (1806/1807–1875), "the only black millionaire in New York" around the time of the American Civil War
William John Hammond (1797–1848), British actor-manager and comedian
John Hardy (1835–1913), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York
Townsend Harris (1804–1878), first U.S. Consul General to Japan
Nathaniel H. Harris (1834–1900), Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War[ 4]
William S. Hart (1864–1946), star of silent "Western" movies
John A. Hartwell (1861–1940), noted athlete, philanthropist, pioneer in American surgery, and personal physician of Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Hastings (1784–1872), wrote the music to the hymn "Rock of Ages"
Genevieve Hecker (1883–1960), champion golfer
Joseph Henderson (1826–1890), notable harbor pilot
Philip A. Herfort (1851–1921), violinist and orchestra leader
Emery S. Hetrick (1931–1987), American psychiatrist and one of the founders of the Hetrick-Martin Institute
Abram S. Hewitt (1822–1903), Teacher, lawyer, iron manufacturer, U.S. Congressman, and a mayor of New York; son-in-law of Peter Cooper
Henry B. Hidden (c. 1839–1862), American Civil War cavalry officer
Grace Webster Haddock Hinsdale (1832–1902), author
DeWolf Hopper (1858–1935), actor
Charles Horman (1942–1973), journalist, murdered in Chile by the regime of Augusto Pinochet , subject of the film Missing
Elizabeth Horman (1904-2001), artist
Elias Howe (1819–1867), invented the sewing machine (see Walter Hunt )
James Howell (1829–1897), 19th mayor of Brooklyn
Walter Hunt (1785–1869), invented the safety pin
Paul Jabara (1948–1992), actor, singer and songwriter
Abraham Jacobi (1830–1919), the Father of American Pediatrics
Leonard Jerome (1817–1891), entrepreneur, grandfather of Winston Churchill
Morris Ketchum Jesup (1830–1908), founder of YMCA New York and president of the American Museum of Natural History
Eastman Johnson (1824–1906), American painter, and co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Author of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" with his wife Grace Nail Johnson [ 5]
Tom L. Johnson (1854–1911), former mayor of Cleveland, Ohio
Willard F. Jones (1890–1967), naval architect , head of National Safety Council 's marine section and Vice President of Gulf Oil
Bashar Barakah Jackson (Pop Smoke) (1999–2020), rapper[ 6]
Florence La Badie (1888–1917), actress
John La Farge (1835–1910), artist
Harriet Burton Laidlaw (1873-1949) , suffragette
Laura Jean Libbey (1862–1924), popular "dime-store" novelist
Brockholst Livingston (1757–1823), U.S. Supreme Court Justice
William Livingston (1723–1790), signer of the U.S. Constitution; first Governor of New Jersey
Pierre Lorillard IV (1833–1901), tobacco tycoon, introduced the tuxedo to the U.S.
Wauhope Lynn (1856–1920), lawyer, judge, and politician
John W. Mackay (1831–1902), millionaire, one of the Bonanza Kings of Virginia City, NV and the Comstock Lode
A. Damien Martin (1933-1991), life partner to Emery Hetrick , co-founder of the Hetrick-Martin Institute , psychiatrist, professor at NYU School of Education , and LGBT History Month Icon
Alfred Henry Maurer (1868-1932), modernist painter
James Maury (1746–1840), first U.S. consul to Liverpool, England
Ormsby M. Mitchel (1805–1862), American astronomer and major general in the American Civil War
Henry James Montague (1840–1878), stage actor[ 7]
Lola Montez (1821–1861), actress and mistress of many notable men among them King Ludwig I of Bavaria
Charles Morgan (1795–1878), shipping magnate
Frank Morgan (1890–1949), actor (The Wizard of Oz )
Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872), invented Morse code , language of the telegraph
Nicholas Muller (1836 - 1917), U.S. Congressman
James Kirke Paulding (1779–1860), U.S. Secretary of the Navy under Martin Van Buren
Mary Ellis Peltz (1896–1981), American drama and music critic, magazine editor, poet and writer on music.
Carmine Persico , (1933–2019), American mobster
Anson Greene Phelps (1781–1853), founder of Phelps, Dodge mining and copper company
Duncan Phyfe (1770–1854), cabinetmaker
Hezekiah Pierrepont (1768–1838) merchant and founder of Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
Arthur Tappan Pierson (1837–1911), an American Presbyterian pastor, Christian leader, missionary and writer
William "Bill The Butcher" Poole (1821–1855), a member of the Bowery Boys gang and the Know Nothing political party; also a bare-knuckle boxer
Henry Jarvis Raymond (1820–1869), American journalist and politician and founder of The New York Times
Ada Rehan (1857–1916), American stage actor
Samuel C. Reid (1783–1861), suggested the design upon which all U.S. flags since 1818 have been based
John Roach (1815–1887), founder of shipbuilding company Roach & Sons
Alice Roosevelt (1861–1884), first wife of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
Martha Bulloch Roosevelt (1834–1884), mother of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
Robert Roosevelt (1829–1906), uncle of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. (1831–1878), father of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
Henry Rutgers (1745–1830), Revolutionary War hero, philanthropist, namesake of Rutgers University
George Nicholas Sanders (1812–1873), Union sympathizer with the Confederacy, said to have planned the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
William Cary Sanger (1853–1921), United States Assistant Secretary of War from 1901 to 1903
Ira Sankey (1840–1908), hymn composer
Frederick August Otto Schwarz (1836–1911), founder of specialty toy retailer FAO Schwarz
Peter Sharpe (1777–1842), American politician, served as a United States Representative from New York
Eli Siegel (1902–1978), poet, educator, founder of the philosophy Aesthetic Realism
J. Marion Sims (1813–1883), physician called "founder of modern gynecology ".[ 8]
John D. Sloat (1781–1867), United States Navy commodore, claimed California for the U.S.
Henry Warner Slocum (1827–1894), Union general in the American Civil War , U.S. Representative from New York
Ole Singstad (1882–1969), Norwegian-American civil engineer , designed Lincoln Tunnel and others
Francis Barretto Spinola (1821–1891), first Italian-American elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
Emma Stebbins (1815–1882), artist, sculptor of Bethesda Fountain
George Steers (1819–1856), designer of the Yacht America, winner of the first America's Cup.
Henry Steinway (1797–1871), founder of Steinway & Sons , piano manufacturers
William Steinway (1836–1896), son of Henry Steinway, and founder of Steinway, New York
John Austin Stevens Jr. (1827–1910), founder of Sons of the Revolution
Susan McKinney Steward (1847–1918), one of the first black women to earn a medical degree, and the first in the state of New York
Lynne Stewart (1939–2017), civil rights lawyer
Clara Harrison Stranahan (1831–1905), author; founder and trustee of Barnard College
James S. T. Stranahan (1808–1898), "Father of Prospect Park ", instrumental promoter of the park, the Brooklyn Bridge , and the consolidation of Brooklyn into Greater New York
Francis Scott Street (1831–1883), co-owner of Street & Smith publishers
Silas Stringham (1798–1876), long-serving United States Navy officer during the American Civil War and War of 1812
George Crockett Strong (1832–1863), Union brigadier general in the American Civil War
Thomas William "Fightin' Tom" Sweeny (1820–1892), Irish immigrant and American Civil War general
John Thomas (1805–1871), founder of The Christadelphians
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), artist
Eugene Tollner (1849-1935), cofounder of Gage & Tollner restaurant
Matilda Tone (or Mathilda) (1769–1849), widow of Irish rebel Wolfe Tone
Johnny Torrio (1882–1957), mobster
Robert H. Torsney (1935-2009), New York City Police Department officer who was acquitted of murdering Randolph Evans in 1976.
George Francis Train (1829–1904), railroad promoter
Juan Trippe (1899–1981), airline pioneer, headed Pan Am from 1927 to 1968
Robert Troup (1756–1832), Revolutionary War hero, New York State assemblyman and Judge; body moved to Green-Wood in 1872[ 9]
William Magear "Boss" Tweed (1823–1878), notorious New York political boss, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and New York State Senate
Steven C. Vincent (1955–2005), American journalist and author kidnapped and murdered in Iraq in August 2005
Ned Vizzini (1981–2013), American author
Leopold von Gilsa (1824–1870), American Civil War colonel and brigade commander
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^ Pop Smoke to be laid to rest in Brooklyn as suspects in his murder ‘still at large’
^ "Final Tributes To Montague. Thousands Of Friends Attend His Funeral Services" . The New York Times . August 22, 1878. The mortal remains of Henry J. Montague were laid to rest yesterday within the quiet precincts of Green-Wood Cemetery....
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