List of people buried at Arlington National Cemetery
This list states all of the notable individuals that are buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Military burials
- Creighton Abrams (1914–1974), United States Army General who commanded U.S. military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968–1972
- Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold (1886–1950), first (and so far only) General of the Air Force
- David E. Baker (1946–2009), United States Air Force Brigadier General. Holds distinction of being the only former Prisoner of War of the Vietnam War to later fly combat missions during Operation Desert Storm.[1]
- John Basilone (1916–1945), US Marine Gunnery Sergeant, killed at Iwo Jima, received the Medal of Honor and posthumously the Navy Cross for bravery. Portrayed in the HBO mini-series "The Pacific".
- Gordon Beecher (1904–1973), United States Navy Vice Admiral and composer
- Jeremy Michael Boorda (1939–1996), US Navy Admiral and Chief of Naval Operations
- Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (1912–1988), World War II Marine Corps fighter ace, Medal of Honor recipient, and commander of VMF-214, the "Black Sheep Squadron" (basis for the 1970s TV series Baa Baa Black Sheep)
- Omar Nelson Bradley (1893–1981), commanded the 12th Army Group in Europe during World War II, first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the last living five star general.
- Ruby G. Bradley (1907–2002), Colonel and, with 34 medals, one of the most decorated women in U.S. military history
- Alfred Winsor Brown (1885–1938), naval officer and 31st Naval Governor of Guam.
- Miles Browning (1897–1954), World War I and World War II Navy officer and hero of the Battle of Midway
- Frank Buckles (1901–2011), last known American veteran of World War I.[2]
- Omar Bundy (1861–1940), World War I Major General who commanded the 1st Brigade, 1st Expeditionary Division in France, awarded the French Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre.
- John Allen Campbell (1835–1880), Brevet Brigadier General; American Civil War, first Governor of Wyoming Territory in 1869 and Third Assistant Secretary of State.
- Roger Chaffee (1935–1967) and Gus Grissom (1926–1967), astronauts killed in the Apollo 1 fire (Edward White was buried at West Point)
- Claire Lee Chennault (1893–1958), was a United States military aviator who commanded the "Flying Tigers" during World War II.
- William Christman (1843-1864), First soldier to be buried at Arlington Cemetery
- Bertram Tracy Clayton (1862–1918), Congressman from New York, killed in action in 1918
- John Clem (1851–1937), Major General, AKA Johnny Shiloh, arguably the youngest noncomissioned officer ever to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces. Was the last living Civil War veteran on active duty at the time of his retirement.
- Charles Austin Coolidge (1844–1926), Brigadier General, served in Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War and the China Relief Expedition.
- Scott Crossfield (1921–2006), US Naval aviator and test pilot, first to fly at twice the speed of sound; played a major role in the design and development of the North American X-15.
- William P. Cronan 1879-1929), US Navy officer and 19th Naval Governor of Guam.
- Louis Cukela (1888–1956), Marine Corps Major, awarded two Medals of Honor for same act in World War I
- Jane Delano (1862–1919), Director, Army Nursing Corps
- Sir John Dill (1881–1944) United Kingdom, British Diplomat and Field Marshal
- William Joseph Donovan (1883–1959), Major General and Chief of the OSS during World War II
- Abner Doubleday (1819–1893), Civil War general erroneously credited with inventing baseball
- John Dunn (19__-2009), US Army Colonal, ranking officer of the Tiger Prisoners while POW during the Korean War, and credited with saving the lives of the Tiger Survivors.
- Clarence Ransom Edwards (1860–1931), commanded the 26th "Yankee" Division in World War I
- Alan Louis Eggers, Medal of Honor recipient for World War I.
- Frank J. Fletcher (1885–1973), Admiral, U.S. Navy, World War II; operational commander at Coral Sea and Midway; awarded Medal of Honor.
- Nathan Bedford Forrest III (1905–1943) Brigadier General of the United States Army Air Forces, and a great-grandson of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. First American general to be killed in action during World War II
- Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes and Michael Strank: three of the six servicemen immortalized in Joe Rosenthal's iconic photo Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (Strank was killed in action just days after the photo was taken)
- John Gibbon (1827–1896), Brigadier General, Union Army, Civil War, most notably commander of 2nd Division, US II Corps that repelled Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
- Charles D. Griffin (1906–1996), Navy four-star Admiral.
- David Haskell Hackworth (1930–2005), Colonel and most decorated American soldier
- William "Bull" Halsey (1882–1959), World War II Navy five-star Fleet Admiral
- Grace Hopper (1906–1992), rear admiral, pioneering computer scientist
- Kara Spears Hultgreen (1965–1994), the first female naval carrier-based fighter pilot
- James Jabara (1923–1966), the first American jet ace in history. He's credited with shooting down 15 enemy aircraft during aerial combat.
- Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. (1920–1978), USAF, first African American four-star General in the U.S. Armed Forces
- Philip Kearny (1815–1862), "fearless" one-armed cavalry general killed at Chantilly during the Civil War
- Włodzimierz B. Krzyżanowski (1824–1887), Polish military leader and Civil War Union general.
- Henry Louis Larsen (1890-1962), Marine Lieutenant General; commanded the first deployed American troops in both World Wars; Governor of Guam and American Samoa.
- Francis Lupo (1895–1918), Private killed in France during World War I; holds the distinction of possibly being the longest U.S. service member missing in action to be found (1918–2003)
- Mark Matthews (1894–2005), last surviving Buffalo Soldier
- Henry Pinckney McCain (1861–1941), US Army officer and Adjutant Generals of the U.S. Army; Uncle to McCain Sr, grand-uncle of McCain Jr.
- John S. McCain, Jr. (1911–1981), USN Admiral - father of Senator John McCain
- John S. McCain, Sr. (1884–1945), USN Admiral - grandfather of Senator John McCain and father of McCain Jr.
- David McCampbell (1910–1996), Captain, the US Navy's top World War II Ace with 34 kills
- Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (1816–1892), Brigadier General. Arlington National Cemetery was established by Brig. Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, who commanded the garrison at Arlington House and appropriated the grounds on June 15, 1864 for use as a military cemetery. His intention was to render the house uninhabitable should the Lee family ever attempt to return. A stone and masonry burial vault in the rose garden, 20 feet (6.1 m) wide and 10 feet (3.0 m) deep, and containing the remains of 2,111 Civil War dead, was among the first monuments to Union dead erected under Meigs' orders. Meigs himself was later buried within 100 yards (91 m) of Arlington House with his wife, father and son.
- Nelson A. Miles (1839–1925) U.S. Army Lieutenant General; served in the Civil War, Indian Wars, and the Spanish-American War. Noted for accepting the surrender of Geronimo and his band of Apache.
- Glenn Miller (1904–1944), Major and well known band leader who disappeared over the English Channel while flying to Paris. His body was never found, but he has a memorial headstone.
- Audie Murphy (1924–1971), U.S. Army, America's most decorated combat soldier of World War II and popular movie actor
- Edward Ord (1818–1883), Major General, Army of the James during the Appomattox Campaign, Union Army, Civil War.
- Brandon Van Parys (fought in Iraq from January 15, 2007 until his death on February 5, 2007. He was killed by a rocket propelled grenade in the Al Anbar Providence.)
- George S. Patton IV (1923–2004), Major General of the Army and son of famed WWII General, George S. Patton
- John J. Pershing (1860–1948), America's first General of the Armies, commanded American forces in World War I
- David Dixon Porter (1813–1891), Admiral, Union Navy, Civil War, most notable as the Union naval commander during the Vicksburg Campaign, a turning point of the war which split the Confederacy in two.
- Francis Gary Powers (1929–1977), American U-2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960
- John Aaron Rawlins (1831–1869), Civil War general, chief of staff and later Secretary of War to Ulysses S. Grant
- Alfred C. Richmond (1902–1984), Commandant of the United States Coast Guard
- Hyman G. Rickover (1900–1986), father of the Nuclear Navy
- Matthew Ridgway (1895–1993), WWII and Korea General, Chief of Staff of the Army
- William S. Rosecrans (1819–1898), Major General, Army of the Cumberland, Union Army, Civil War
- William T. Ryder (1913–1992), Brigadier General, first American paratrooper.
- August Schomburg (1908-1972), Lieutenant General, Commander United States Army Ordinance and Missle Command; Commander, Industrial College of the Armed Forces
- Thomas Selfridge (1882–1908), First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army and the first person to die in a crash of a powered airplane
- Philip Sheridan (1831–1888), commanding general, Union Army, Civil War
- Daniel E. Sickles (1819–1914), Major General, III Corps, Army of the Potomac, Union Army, Civil War. Also served as U.S. Minister to Spain and as U.S. Representative from New York
- Robert F. Sink Lt. General, and former Regimental Commander of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, he was also a close friend of "Easy Company" commander Major Richard Winters, he is portrayed by Vietnam Veteran, and retired Marine Captain Dale Dye in the HBO/BBC miniseries Band of Brothers.
- Walter Bedell Smith (1895–1961), General, U.S. Army, World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower's Chief of Staff during Eisenhower's tenure at SHAEF and Director of the CIA from 1950 to 1953. Also served as U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1948.
- Larry Thorne (1919–1965) Finland, Finnish soldier who served in the US special forces and was a World War II veteran; called "soldier who fought under three flags (Finland, Germany and USA)". Reputedly the only former Waffen-SS member to be buried at the cemetery.
- Matt Urban (1919–1995), Colonel, U.S Army, most highly decorated soldier for valor in the history of the US Military
- Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV (1883–1953),General, hero of Bataan and Corregidor; highest ranking POW in World War II
- Robert Webb (1922–2002), B-17 Flying Fortress pilot
- Joseph Wheeler (1836–1906), served as a Major General for two opposing forces: the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War and Philippine-American War
- Orde Charles Wingate (1903–1944) United Kingdom, British major general, creator and commander of the Chindits
- Clark H. Woodward (1877–1968), Vice Admiral, served in five wars: the Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, Boxer Rebellion and both World Wars
- Charles Young (1864–1922), first African-American Lieutenant colonel in the US Army
As of May 2006, there were 367 Medal of Honor recipients buried in Arlington National Cemetery,[3] nine of whom are Canadians.
Wartime service members with other distinguished careers
- Peter H. Allabach, Colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War, Chief of the United States Capitol Police
- Sosthenes Behn, (1882-1957), businessman and founder of ITT Corporation
- Hugo Black, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- William J. Brennan, Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Ron Brown, Secretary of Commerce
- William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State, three-time presidential candidate, orator
- William Francis Buckley, CIA Station Chief, murdered in Beirut.
- Charles Burlingame, pilot of hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 during September 11, 2001 attacks.
- Clark Clifford, Secretary of Defense, advisor to four presidents
- Winifred Collins, a World War II WAVES
- Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr., Apollo astronaut, third man to walk on the Moon
- James C. Corman (1920–2000), California politician
- Dwight F. Davis, Secretary of War, established the Davis Cup
- Michael E. DeBakey, famous cardiovascular physician, U.S. Army soldier during World War II
- John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State
- Medgar Evers, civil rights activist
- Stanley L. Greigg, U.S. Congressman from Iowa
- Dashiell Hammett, author
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, wounded three times in the Civil War, "The Great Dissenter"[4]
- Grace Hopper, rear admiral, pioneering computer scientist
- Robert G. Ingersoll, political leader and orator, noted for his agnosticism
- Edward Stanley Kellogg (1870–1948), U.S. Navy Captain, 16th Governor of American Samoa (1923–1925).
- Edward M. Kennedy (1932–2009), U.S. Army Veteran (1951–1953), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1962–2009).
- John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), U.S. Navy officer during World War II, U.S. Representative (1947–1953), U.S. Senator (1953–1961), President of the United States, (1961–1963).
- Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968), Attorney General of the United States (1961–1964), U.S. Senator from New York (1965–1968).
- Frank Kowalski, U.S. Army veteran of World War II; U.S. Representative from Connecticut
- Pierre Charles L'Enfant France, military engineer, architect, and urban planner; designed the city of Washington
- Robert Todd Lincoln, Secretary of War, son of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
- Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion
- Allard Lowenstein, U.S. Congressman from New York. [5]
- John R. Lynch, freedman, U.S. Army major, and Member of Congress.
- Mike Mansfield, longest-serving Senate Majority Leader, ambassador to Japan.
- George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the Army, General of the Army, Emissary to China, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense. Instrumental in developing the European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan) after World War II
- Lee Marvin, Marine Corps veteran and actor.
- Bill Mauldin, editorial cartoonist; noted for World War II-era work satirizing military life in Stars and Stripes
- George B. McClellan, Jr. (1865–1940) Mayor of New York (1904–1909), son of Union Army Major General George B. McClellan
- John C. Metzler, World War II sergeant, former superintendent of Arlington National Cemetery (1951–1972); his son John C. Metzler, Jr. has been the superintendent since 1991.
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York
- Phelps Phelps, 38th Governor of American Samoa and United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic
- Spot Poles, considered among the greatest outfielders of the Negro Leagues
- William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States
- Earl W. Renfroe, orthodontist who helped originate the concept of preventive and interceptive orthodontics.
- Frank Reynolds, ABC television anchorman
- Samuel W. Small, journalist, evangelist, prohibitionist.
- Johnny Micheal Spann, CIA officer, first American killed in Afghanistan. Although Spann had served in the USMC, he was not in the military when killed. However, because he had received the CIA's Intelligence Star, considered the equivalent of the US Military's Silver Star and recognized as such by President George W. Bush, Spann was approved for burial in Arlington National Cemetery.[6]
- Ted Stevens, (1923-2010), US Senator from Alaska
- Samuel S. Stratton, 15-term U.S. Representative from New York
- William Howard Taft, Secretary of War, President of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States
- John W. Weeks, Secretary of War, U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative
- George Westinghouse, Civil War veteran, Westinghouse Electric founder
- Harvey W. Wiley, first Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, "father" of the Pure Food and Drug Act
- Charles Willeford, World War II veteran and author
- Charles Wilson, Texas congressman who aided in the success of Operation Cyclone during the Soviet war in Afghanistan
Notable civilians
- Julian Bartley, Sr. (54), United States Consul General, and his son Jay Bartley (20), killed together in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi
- Constance Bennett, Hollywood film actress, buried with her husband, Brigadier General Theron John Coulter.
- Harry Blackmun, Thurgood Marshall, William O. Douglas and Potter Stewart, four justices of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Leslie Coffelt, Secret Service member killed fighting off would-be-assassins of President Harry S. Truman in the 1950 assassination attempt at Blair House.
- George Washington Parke Custis, founder of Arlington Plantation, grandson of Martha Washington, step-grandson of President George Washington, father to Mary Anna Custis Lee.
- Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis, wife to George Washington Parke Custis, daughter of William Fitzhugh and Ann Bolling Randolph Fitzhugh, mother to Mary Anna Custis Lee.
- John Gibson and Jacob Chestnut, United States Capitol Police officers killed in the 1998 Capitol shooting attack
- Matthew Henson, first African-American to seek the North Pole
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1929-1994 Wife of John F. Kennedy.
- Edward M. Kennedy (1932–2009), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1962–2009).
- Phyllis Kirk, famous TV and film actress, alongside her husband.
- James Parks, freedman, the only person buried at Arlington Cemetery who was born on the grounds.
- Manuel Quezon (1878–1944), President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines (1935–1944), transferred in 1946 to a cemetery in Manila
- Mary Randolph, first person to be buried at Arlington Plantation, descendant of Pocahontas and John Rolfe, cousin to Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis.
- Marie Teresa Rios, author of Fifteenth Pelican, basis for The Flying Nun television show.
- Leslie Sherman, student killed in the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre (her parents Holly and Anthony Sherman are both veterans and will be buried next to their daughter)[7]
- Remains from all of the Space Shuttle Challenger's crew are interred in Section 46, including four civilians and three military members.
Whether or not they were wartime service members, U.S. presidents are eligible to be buried at Arlington, since they oversaw the armed forces as commanders-in-chief.
Four state funerals have been held at Arlington: those of Presidents William Howard Taft and John F. Kennedy, that of General John J. Pershing, and that of U.S. Senator from Massachusetts Edward M. Kennedy.
References
- ^ Michael Robert Patterson, ed (May 13, 2009). "David E. Baker: Brigadier General, United States Air Force". Arlington National Cemetery Website. http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/debaker.htm. Retrieved March 16, 2011.
- ^ Paul Duggan (March 15, 2011). "Frank Buckles, last U.S. veteran of World War I, laid to rest at Arlington". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/frank-buckles-last-known-us-world-war-i-veteran-is-laid-to-rest-at-arlington/2011/03/10/ABHVLFZ_story.html. Retrieved March 16, 2011.
- ^ Medal of Honor Recipients Buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington National Cemetery. Retrieved on April 9, 2006.
- ^ New York Times Obituary, March 6, 1935; and www.arlingtoncemetery.net/owholmes.htm
- ^ "Headstone A K Lowenstein". Arlington National Cemetery Website. http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/aklowen.jpg.
- ^ Bush At War, Bob Woodward, Simon and Schuester, 2002, page 317
- ^ Megan Greenwell (26 April 2007). "An 'Abundant Life' of Enthusiasm and Achievement". Washington Post (Washingtonpost.com). http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/25/AR2007042502762.html. Retrieved 2011-07-29.
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