List of burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery

A

• Hannah Adams, author
• Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, scientist, author
• Louis Agassiz, scientist
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich, author
• George Thorndike Angell, advocate for the humane treatment of animals, founder of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
• Nathan Appleton, congressman
• William Appleton, congressman
• Thomas F. August, attorney and politician who served as the 31st Mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts

  B

• Hosea Ballou, Universalist theologian and minister
• Stanisław Barańczak, Polish poet and translator
• John Bartlett, Writer and publisher of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Benjamin E. Bates, industrialist, founder of Bates College
• Jonathan Bayliss, Gloucester novelist and playwright
• Jeremy Belknap, clergyman and historian
• Jacob Bigelow, designer of Mt. Auburn Cemetery
• J. W. Black, photographer
• Edwin Booth, actor
• Edwin Boring, psychologist
• Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician, seaman, author; his monument was the first life size bronze to be cast in America
• Ada Chastina Bowles, Universalist minister.
• William Brewster, ornithologist
• Peter Bent Brigham, Boston businessman and philanthropist
• Phillips Brooks, American Episcopal bishop
• Roger Brown, American social psychologist, buried together with his partner Albert Gilman
• Charles Bulfinch, architect
• McGeorge Bundy, presidential cabinet official
• Anson Burlingame, lawyer, legislator, diplomat

  C

• George Cabot, statesman
• James Henry Carleton, United States Army officer
• William Ellery Channing, Unitarian theologian
• Stanley Cavell, philosopher
• Joyce Chen, chef
• John Ciardi, poet, translator
• Alvan Clark, astronomer and telescope maker
• Nancy Talbot Clark, female physician
• James B. Conant, president of Harvard University
• Sherman Conant, Union major and 9th Florida Attorney General
• Richard David Cowan, buried together with his partner Stewart Mitchell, intimate of Gerald and Sara Murphy
• Christopher Pearse Cranch ), Transcendentalist writer and artist
• Robert Creeley, poet
• Benjamin Williams Crowninshield, statesman, U.S. Secretary of the Navy
• Frank Crowninshield, creator and editor of Vanity Fair magazine
• Benjamin Robbins Curtis, United States Supreme Court justice
• Charlotte Cushman, actress

  D

• Felix Octavius Carr Darley, artist
• Charles Devens, jurist and Union general
• Samuel Dexter, congressman
• Dorothea Dix, nurse, hospital reformer
• George Dorr, preservationist, founder of today's Acadia National Park
• Mildred Dresselhaus, physicist

  E

• Mary Baker Eddy, religious leader
• Harold "Doc" Edgerton, engineer, scientist
• Charles William Eliot, Harvard University president
• Martha May Eliot, foremost pediatrician and specialist in public health
• Edward Everett, Governor of Massachusetts, President of Harvard University, United States Secretary of State, speaker at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
• William Everett, congressman

  F

• Achilles Fang, sinologist, comparatist, and friend of Ezra Pound
• Fannie Farmer, cookbook author
• Fanny Fern, feminist author
• Annie Adams Fields, author and hostess; wife of James Thomas Fields
• James Thomas Fields, writer and publisher
• William M. Folger, United States Navy rear admiral and grandson of Mayhew Folger
• Felix Frankfurter, United States Supreme Court Justice
• Buckminster Fuller, architect
• Margaret Fuller, writer, critic, and women's rights advocate; her body was lost in a shipwreck but a monument was erected to her memory in the Fuller family plot

  G

• Isabella Stewart Gardner, art collector, museum founder
• Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator
• Charles Hammond Gibson Jr, philanthropist and art collector
• Albert Gilman, Shakespeare scholar and professor of English at Boston University, buried together with his partner Roger Brown
• Augustus Addison Gould, conchologist and malacologist
• Curt Gowdy, sportscaster
• Asa Gray, 19th century American botanist
• Horace Gray, United States Supreme Court justice
• James Monroe Gregory, Howard University Dean
• Ludlow Griscom, field ornithologist
• Horatio Greenough, sculptor

  H

• Charles Hale, journalist, statesman
• Mary Whitwell Hale, teacher hymnwriter
• Edward Needles Hallowell, Union Army officer
• Charles Hayden, financier and philanthropist
• George Stillman Hillard, author, lawyer, legislator
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., physician/author
• Winslow Homer, artist
• Harriet Hosmer, first female professional sculptor
• Albion P. Howe, Union army general
• George Howe, architect
• Julia Ward Howe, activist, poet, and author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
• Samuel Gridley Howe, physician, abolitionist, and advocate of education for the blind
• Horatio Hollis Hunnewell, banker, railroad financier, philanthropist, amateur botanist
• Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt, early female physician; her monument, a statue of Hygieia, was carved by Edmonia Lewis

  J

• Harriet Ann Jacobs, escaped slave and author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• Melvin Johnson, lawyer, Marine officer, and firearms designer
• Edward F. Jones, New York lieutenant governor 1886–1891

  K

• Michael Kelly, journalist, writer, columnist, and editor
• Edward Kent, governor of Maine
• Jon Franklin Kropper High Tech Industrialist.

L

• Edwin H. Land, scientist
• Christopher Columbus Langdell, legal educator
• Abbott Lawrence, politician, philanthropist
• Henry Cabot Lodge, politician
• Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., politician
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet
• Katharine Peabody Loring, educator and long-time companion of Alice James
• A. Lawrence Lowell, Harvard University president
• Amy Lowell, poet
• Charles Russell Lowell, Civil War general and casualty of the Battle of Cedar Creek
• Francis Cabot Lowell, U.S. congressman and Federal judge
• James Russell Lowell, poet and foreign diplomat
• Josephine Shaw Lowell, wife of Gen. Charles Russell Lowell, sister of Col. Robert Gould Shaw
• Maria White Lowell, poet and wife of James Russell Lowell

  M

• Bernard Malamud, writer
• Abby Adeline Manning, artist, buried together with her companion, Anne Whitney
• Jules Marcou, geologist
• Brian G. Marsden, astronomer
• Abraham Maslow, psychologist who created Maslow's hierarchy of needs
• Augustus P. Martin, American politician and Union artillerist during the Civil War
• Isaac McLellan, author and poet
• Susan Minns, American biologist, philanthropist, and collector
• Stewart Mitchell, American poet, editor, and professor of English literature, buried together with his partner, Richard David Cowan
• Franklin B. Morse, football player and journalist
• Leopold Morse, United States House of Representatives
• William T.G. Morton, demonstrator of ether anesthesia
• Stephen P. Mugar, Armenian-American philanthropist and founder of the Star Market chain of supermarkets; father of David Mugar
• Joseph B. Murdock, United States Navy rear admiral who served as commander-in-chief of the United States Asiatic Fleet and as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
• John Murray, founder of the Universalist Church in America

  N

• Shahan Natalie, principal organizer of Operation Nemesis, Armenian national philosophy writer
• Rose Standish Nichols, landscape architect
• Charles Eliot Norton, scholar and author
• Richard Norton, professor of archaeology, organizer of the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps
• Robert Nozick, philosopher

  O

• Richard Olney, statesman
• Joseph Wallace Oman, admiral and governor of US Virgin Islands
• Frances Sargent Osgood, poet
• Harrison Gray Otis, U.S. representative, mayor of Boston
• Laurence R. Owen, U.S. ladies skating champion
• Maribel Y. Owen, U.S. pairs figure skating champion

  P

• Daniel Pinckney Parker, merchant
• Harvey D. Parker, hotelier
• Francis Parkman, historian
• Fanny Parnell, poet, Irish Nationalist, and the sister of Charles Stewart Parnell
• Charles Pickering , naturalist/race scientist
• Benjamin Pitman , American businessman who married Hawaiian nobility
• Henry Hoʻolulu Pitman eldest son of Benjamin Pitman and Kinoʻoleoliliha, a Hawaiian high chiefess, Union Soldier of Native Hawaiian descent
• Eleanor H. Porter, novelist

  Q

• Josiah Quincy III, statesman and educator

  R

• John Rawls, philosopher's grave
• Anne Revere, actress
• William Eustis Russell, governor of Massachusetts

  S

• Paul A. Samuelson, economist, Nobel Prize winner
• Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., historian, presidential speechwriter, public intellectual
• Julian Seymour Schwinger, theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• Lemuel Shaw, chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
• B. F. Skinner, psychologist's grave
• Charles Lewis Slattery, bishop, author
• Henry Davis Sleeper, interior designer
• Franklin W. Smith, promoter of historical architecture
• Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, phrenologist
• Daniel C. Stillson, inventor of the Stillson pipe wrench
• I. F. Stone, journalist
• Joseph Story, United States Supreme Court Justice
• Gerry Studds, United States House of Representatives
• Charles Sumner, statesman

  T

• Frank William Taussig, economist
• Randall Thompson, composer
• William Ticknor, publisher and the founder of the publishing house Ticknor and Fields
• William Davis Ticknor, Sr., president and chairman of the board of Commercial Solvents Corporation and president of Commercial Pigments Corporation
• Frederic W. Tilton, American educator and 7th Principal of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts
• William S. Tilton, Civil War brigade commander
• Charles Turner Torrey, American abolitionist
• George Makepeace Towle, lawyer, politician, author
• Charles Tufts, businessman who donated the land for Tufts University

  V

• Maribel Vinson, nine-time U.S. skating champion and coach

  W

• Charles F. Walcott, Union Army colonel and brevet brigadier general
• Benjamin Waterhouse, physician
• Anne Whitney, sculptor, buried together with her companion, Abby Adeline Manning.
• Nathaniel Parker Willis, publisher, editor, author, poet
• Joseph Winlock, Astronomer
• Robert Charles Winthrop, statesman
• Roger Wolcott, governor of Massachusetts
• Joseph Emerson Worcester, lexicographer