Mount Auburn Cemetery is a historic, "garden-style" burial ground in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is located between Cambridge and Watertown, and was dedicated in 1831. The grounds has long been the preferred burial ground for the middle class and elite of New England.

This list highlights its notable internees, though many others are contained within the large and scenic grounds.

There is an important instance in which burial at Mt, Auburn was proposed, but did not happen: the abolitionist John Brown, executed by Virginia in 1859. His friend Wendell Phillips, meeting the funeral party in Troy, New York, hoped to take the body to Boston for burial in Mount Auburn Cemetery, as Charles Turner Torrey had been. An impromptu announcement said this was not going to happen, since Brown had wanted to be buried at his farm in North Elba, New York. Phillips, speaking at the funeral, "intimated that Massachusetts would yet possess the remains of John Brown."

In the 2nd half of the 19th century, The Ladies' Repository magazine published a series of brief articles on "The Distinguished Dead of Mt. Auburn", six in 1870.

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A Hannah Adams (1755–1831), author Elizabeth Cary Agassiz (1822–1907), scientist, author Louis Agassiz (1807–1873),Corbett, William. Literary New England: A History and Guide. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1993: 106. scientist Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907), author George Thorndike Angell (1823–1909), advocate for the humane treatment of animals, founder of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Nathan Appleton (1779–1861), congressman William Appleton (1786–1862), congressman Thomas F. August (1926–2005), attorney and politician who served as the 31st Mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts

B Hosea Ballou (1771–1852), Universalist theologian and minister Stanisław Barańczak (1946–2014), Polish poet and translator John Bartlett (1820–1905), Writer and publisher of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Benjamin E. Bates (1808–1878), industrialist, benefactor of Bates College Jonathan Bayliss (1926–2009), Gloucester (Mass.) novelist and playwright Jeremy Belknap (1744–1798), clergyman and historian Bertha Isabelle Barker (1868 - 1963), bacteriologist at Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research studied tuberculosis. Jacob Bigelow (1787–1879), designer of Mt. Auburn Cemetery J. W. Black (1825–1896), photographer James Henry Blake (1845–1941), zoologist and scientific illustrator Edwin Booth (1833–1893), actor Edwin Boring (1886–1968), psychologist Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838), mathematician, seaman, author; his monument was the first life size bronze to be cast in America Ada Chastina Bowles (1836–1928), Universalist minister. William Brewster (1851–1919), ornithologist Peter Bent Brigham (1807–1877), Boston businessman and philanthropist Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), American Episcopal bishop Caroline Lamson Brown (1852-1928), Titanic survivor Roger Brown (1925–1997), American social psychologist, buried together with his partner Albert Gilman Charles Bulfinch (1763–1844), architect McGeorge Bundy (1919–1996), presidential cabinet official Anson Burlingame (1820–1870), lawyer, legislator, diplomat

C George Cabot (1752–1823), statesman Mary Whiton Calkins (1863–1930), psychologist and philosopher James Henry Carleton (1814–1873), United States Army officer William Ellery Channing (1780–1842), Unitarian theologian Stanley Cavell (1926–2018), philosopher Joyce Chen (1917–1994), chef Linus Child (1802–1870), lawyer and politician Rufus Choate (1799–1859), lawyer, Massachusetts legislator and U.S. Senator John Ciardi (1916–1986), poet, translator Alvan Clark (1804–1887), astronomer and telescope maker John M. Clark (1821–1902), sheriff of Suffolk County Nancy Talbot Clark (1825–1901), physician James B. Conant (1893–1978), president of Harvard University Sherman Conant (1839–1890), Union major and 9th Florida Attorney General Richard David Cowan (1909–1939), buried together with his partner Stewart Mitchell, intimate of Gerald and Sara Murphy Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813–1892)), Transcendentalist writer and artist Robert Creeley (1926–2005), poet Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1772–1851), statesman, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Frank Crowninshield (1872–1947), creator and editor of Vanity Fair magazine Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809–1874), United States Supreme Court justice Charlotte Cushman (1816–1876), actress

D Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1821–1888), artist Frederick B. Deknatel (1905–1973), art historian Charles Devens (1820–1891), jurist and Union general Samuel Dexter (1761–1816), congressman Dorothea Dix (1802–1887), nurse, hospital reformer George Dorr (1853–1944), preservationist, founder of today's Acadia National Park Mildred Dresselhaus (1930–2017), physicist Julia Knowlton Dyer (1829–1907), philanthropist

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Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910), religious leader Harold "Doc" Edgerton (1903–1990), engineer, scientist Charles William Eliot (1834–1926), Harvard University president Martha May Eliot (1891–1978), foremost pediatrician and specialist in public health Abraham Eustis (1786–1843), lawyer and U.S. Army officer, first commander of Fort Monroe. Elizabeth M. Eustis (1858-1936), Titanic survivor Edward Everett (1794–1865), 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 (1839–1910), congressman

F Nina Fagnani (1856–1928), American-born French painter of portrait miniatures Achilles Fang (1910–1995), sinologist, comparatist, and friend of Ezra Pound Fannie Farmer (1857–1915), cookbook author Cornelius Conway Felton (1807–1862), American educator Fanny Fern (1811–1872), feminist author Annie Adams Fields (1834–1915), author and hostess; wife of James Thomas Fields James T. Fields (1817–1881), writer and publisher Williamina Fleming (1857−1911), astronomer William M. Folger (1844–1928), United States Navy rear admiral and grandson of Mayhew Folger George L. Fox (1825–1877), comedian Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965), United States Supreme Court Justice Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), architect Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), 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 (1840–1924), art collector, museum founder Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944), illustrator Charles Hammond Gibson Jr (1874–1954), philanthropist and art collector Albert Gilman (d. 1989), Shakespeare scholar and professor of English at Boston University, buried together with his partner Roger Brown Archibald R. Giroux (1897–1968), president of the Boston Stock Exchange and chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party Augustus Addison Gould (1805–1866), conchologist and malacologistWyman J. (1903). Biographical memoir of Augustus Addison Gould 1805–1866. 91–113. Read before The National Academy of Sciences, April 22, 1903. Curt Gowdy (1919–2006), sportscaster Asa Gray (1810–1888), 19th century American botanist Horace Gray (1828–1902), United States Supreme Court justice James Monroe Gregory (1849–1915), Howard University Dean Ludlow Griscom (1890–1959), field ornithologist Horatio Greenough (1805–1852), sculptor

H Charles Hale (1831–1882), journalist, statesman Mary Whitwell Hale (1810–1862), teacher hymnwriter Morris Halle (1923–2018), linguist Benjamin F. Hallett (1797–1862), American lawyer and politician, (first) Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (1848–1852) Edward Needles Hallowell (1836–1871), Union Army officer George W. Hammond (1833–1908), businessman Charles Hayden (1870–1937), financier and philanthropist George Hayward (1791–1863), surgeon and Harvard professor George Stillman Hillard (1808–1879), author, lawyer, legislator Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894), physician/author Winslow Homer (1836–1910), artist Harriet Hosmer (1830–1908), first female professional sculptor Albion P. Howe (1818–1897), Union army general George Howe (1886–1955), architect Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910), activist, poet, and author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" Samuel Gridley Howe (1801–1876), physician, abolitionist, and advocate of education for the blind Horatio Hollis Hunnewell (1810–1902), banker, railroad financier, philanthropist, amateur botanist Harriot Kezia Hunt (1805–1875), early female physician; her monument, a statue of Hygieia, was carved by Edmonia Lewis

J Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813–1897), escaped slave and author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Sarah S. Jacobs (1813–1902), writer and civic worker Roman Jakobson (1896–1982), Russian linguist Melvin Johnson (1909–1965), lawyer, Marine officer, and firearms designer Edward F. Jones (1828–1913), New York lieutenant governor 1886–1891

K Michael Kelly (1957–2003), journalist, writer, columnist, and editor Edward Kent (1802–1877), governor of Maine György Kepes (1906–2001), painter, photographer, designer, educator, and art theorist Juliet Kepes (1919–1999), illustrator, painter and sculptor

L Edwin H. Land (1909–1991), scientistand inventor of the Polaroid Land Camera Christopher Columbus Langdell (1826–1906), legal educator Abbott Lawrence (1792–1855), politician, philanthropist Missy LeHand (1896–1944), private secretary to Franklin Roosevelt Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924), politician Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902–1985), politician Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), poet Charles Greely Loring III (1881–1966), architect based in Boston, son of the Civil War general Charles Greely Loring Jr. (1828–1902), Union Army general during the Civil War, later director of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts Charles Greely Loring Sr. (1794–1867), lawyer and politician based in Boston, father of the Civil War general Katharine Peabody Loring (1849–1943), educator and long-time companion of Alice James A. Lawrence Lowell (1856–1943), Harvard University president Amy Lowell (1874–1925), poet Charles Russell Lowell (1835–1864), Civil War general and casualty of the Battle of Cedar Creek Francis Cabot Lowell (1855–1911), U.S. congressman and Federal judge James Russell Lowell (1819–1891), poet and foreign diplomat Josephine Shaw Lowell (1843–1905), wife of Gen. Charles Russell Lowell, sister of Col. Robert Gould Shaw Maria White Lowell (1821–1853), poet and wife of James Russell Lowell

M Tom Magliozzi (1935–2014), auto mechanic and radio personality Bernard Malamud (1914–1986), writer Abby Adeline Manning (1836–1906), artist, buried together with her companion, Anne Whitney Jules Marcou (1824–1898), geologist Brian G. Marsden (1937–2010), astronomer Abraham Maslow (1908–1970), psychologist who created Maslow's hierarchy of needs Fanny Peabody Mason (1864–1948), heiress, philanthropist of the arts Jonathan Mason (politician) (1756–1831), politician, United States senator Augustus P. Martin (1835–1902), American politician and Union artillerist during the Civil War Isaac McLellan (1806–1899), author and poet William McMasters (1874–1968), journalist and publicist who exposed Charles Ponzi as a fraudster Susan Minns (1839—1938), American biologist, philanthropist, and collector Stewart Mitchell (1892–1957), American poet, editor, and professor of English literature, buried together with his partner, Richard David Cowan Franklin B. Morse (1873–1929), football player and journalist Leopold Morse (1831–1893), United States House of Representatives (five terms) William T.G. Morton (1819–1868), demonstrator of ether anesthesia & his son William J. Morton, a noted doctor Stephen P. Mugar (1901–1982), Armenian-American philanthropist and founder of the Star Market chain of supermarkets; father of David Mugar