Green-Wood Cemetery is a cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, United States. 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.
A Gustav Elijah Åhr (1996–2017), American rapperOnly Åhr's gravestone is present. Åhr themselves is not buried in Greewood. Samuel Akerly (1785–1845), co-founder of the New York Institute for the Blind Augustus Chapman Allen (1806–1864), co-founder of the City of Houston Harvey A. Allen (1818?–1882), United States Army officer, was Commander of the Department of Alaska 1871–1873 Albert Anastasia (1903–1957), mobster and contract killer for Murder, Inc. Othniel Boaz Askew (1972–2003; cremated), politician and assassin of New York City Council member James E. Davis, whose remains were relocated to another cemetery
B 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
C 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 OrphansJames, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul S. "Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary", p. 345, Harvard University Press, 1971. . Accessed June 28, 2009. 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 Abraham Bogart Conger (1814–1887), lawyer, farmer, and politician 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 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 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)
D 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 Charles W. Dayton (1846–1910), postmaster of New York City, state assemblyman, New York Supreme Court justice 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 Do-Hum-Me (–1843), daughter of a chief of the Sauk people, performer at Barnum's American Museum 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)
E 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
F 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 Leah Fox (1813–1890), spiritualist James Hillhouse Fuertes (1863–1932), civil and sanitary engineer Isaac Kaufmann Funk (1839–1912), American editor, lexicographer, publisher, and spelling reformer
G 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) Friedrich Gretsch (1856–1895), businessman and founder of Gretsch Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815–1857), literary critic
H 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 WarEicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. . p. 282. 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
I Angelo Ippolito (1922–2001), color field painter Richard Isay (1934–2012), psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, author, gay activist James Merritt Ives (1824–1895), artist ("Currier and Ives")
J 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 JohnsonEllen Tarry, "Grace Nail Johnson: A Remembrance," The Crisis (March 1977): 120-121.