List of burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery

Laurel Hill Cemetery is a historic garden or rural cemetery established in 1836 in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 74-acre grounds contain over 11,000 family lots and more than 33,000 graves, including many notable burials., Aaron V. Wunsch, National Park Service, 1998.

A Robert Adams Jr. (1849–1906), U.S. Congressman Sara Gwendolen Foulke Andrews (1863-1936), zoologist, marine biologist and poet Francis Ayer (1848–1923) advertising businessman, founder N. W. Ayer & Son

B Franklin Bache (1792–1864), great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, chemist, physician Hilary Baker (1746–1798), mayor of Philadelphia Matthias W. Baldwin (1795–1866), founder of Baldwin Locomotive Works John Barker (1746-1818), served in the Revolutionary War, eventually retiring as Major General; three-time mayor of Philadelphia James Nelson Barker (1784-1858), playwright, military officer in War of 1812, one-term mayor of Philadelphia, Assistant Comptroller of U.S. Treasury under Martin Van Buren Wharton Barker (1846–1921), 1900 Candidate for U.S. President with Populist Party Albert Barnes (1798-1870), theologian, clergyman, abolitionist, temperance advocate, and author John Rhea Barton (1794–1871), surgeon, namesake of Barton's fracture Charles Ezra Beury (1879–1953), banker, 2nd president of Temple University, namesake for Beury Building Alexander Biddle (1819–1899), Union Army officer in the U.S. Civil War Henry H. Bingham (1841–1912), brevet brigadier general, Medal of Honor recipient Robert Montgomery Bird (1803–1854), novelist, playwright, and physician David Bispham (1857–1921), opera singer George A.H. Blake (1810–1884), cavalry officer in the U.S. Army Charles E. Bohlen (1904–1974), U.S. diplomat Francis Bohlen (1868–1942), legal scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Henry Bohlen (1810–1862), Civil War Union brigadier general George Henry Boker (1823–1890), poet, playwright, and diplomat Joseph Bonnell (1802–1840), West Point graduate, hero of the Texas Revolution Adolph E. Borie (1809–1880), Secretary of the Navy John Bouvier (1781–1851), jurist and legal lexicographer Charles Brown (1797–1883), U.S. Congressman George Bryan (1731–1791), colonial Pennsylvania businessman and politician

C Hampton L. Carson (1852–1929), influential legal scholar and historian Lewis C. Cassidy (1829–1889), Pennsylvania State Attorney General John Cassin (1813–1869), ornithologist George William Childs (1829–1894), newspaper publisher Thomas Clyde (1812–1885), founder of the Clyde Line of steamers William P. Clyde (1839–1923), shipping magnate Meredith Colket (1878–1947), Silver Medal winner pole vault, 1900 Summer Olympics Walter Colton (1797–1851), Chaplain, Alcalde of Monterey, author, publisher of California's first newspaper David Conner (1792–1856), U.S. naval officer Robert T. Conrad (1810–1858), mayor of Philadelphia Joel Cook (1842–1910), U.S. Congressman Robert Cornelius (1809–1893), pioneering photographer, took first selfie in 1839 Martha Coston (1826–1904), inventor of Coston flare and businesswoman Thomas Jefferson Cram (1804–1883), engineer in the U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers Samuel W. Crawford (1829–1892), Civil War Union army general Alexander Cummings (1810–1879), third Governor of the Territory of Colorado Louisa Knapp Curtis (1851–1910), journalist, editor Ladies' Home Journal, wife of Cyrus H. K. Curtis George Hewitt Cushman (1814-1876), engraver and painter of miniature paintings

D John A. Dahlgren (1809–1870), U.S. naval officer, inventor of the Dahlgren gun Ulric Dahlgren (1842–1864), Union Army Captain during the Civil War, namesake of The Dahlgren Affair Richard Dale (1756–1826), Revolutionary War naval officer Henry Deringer (1786–1868), gunsmith Franklin Archibald Dick (1823–1885), attorney, politician and military officer Hamilton Disston (1844–1896), industrialist and real-estate developer Henry Disston (1819–1878), businessman, Disston Saw Works Eleanor Widener Dixon (1891-1966), socialite and philanthropist Ida Dixon (1854–1916), socialite, first female golf course architect in the United States Percival Drayton (1812–1865), U.S. Navy officer William Drayton (1776–1846), politician, banker and writer William Duane (1760–1835), journalist William Duane (1872–1935), physicist William J. Duane (1780–1865), politician, lawyer, United States Secretary of the Treasury in 1833 Louis Adolphus Duhring (1845–1913), professor of dermatology at University of Pennsylvania, first described dermatitis herpetiformis (Duhring's disease) Frank Dumont (1848–1919), minstrel performer and entrepreneur, wrote "The Witmark Amateur Minstrel Guide and Burnt Cork Encyclopedia" Stephen Duncan (1787–1867), Mississippi planter and banker Robley Dunglison, (1798–1869), "Father of American Physiology", personal physician to Thomas Jefferson Nathan Dunn (1782–1844), businessman, philanthropist and sinology pioneer Elias Durand (1794-1873), French-born pharmacist and botanist, first person to bottle mineral waters in United States John Price Durbin (1800–1876), Chaplain of the United States Senate, president of Dickinson College

E George Meade Easby (1918–2005), great-grandson of General George Meade and a celebrity figure; owner of haunted Baleroy Mansion George Nicholas Eckert (1802–1865), U.S. Congressman William Lukens Elkins (1832–1903), businessman, inventor, art collector Charles Ellet Jr. (1810–1862), civil engineer Charles Rivers Ellet (1843–1863), Colonel in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War Alfred L. Elwyn (1804–1884), physician and pioneer in the education of the mentally disabled; namesake of Elwyn, Pennsylvania Jehu Eyre (1738–1781), businessman, veteran of the French and Indian War and American Revolutionary War

F Wes Fisler (1841–1922), professional baseball player, nickname "The Icicle" Edwin Henry Fitler (1825–1896), 75th mayor of Philadelphia Wilmot E. Fleming (1916–1978), Pennsylvania State Representative and Senator Robert H. Foerderer (1860–1903), U.S. Congressman Stanley Hamer Ford (1877–1961), U.S. Army general, recipient Distinguished Service Medal Adam Forepaugh (1831–1890), entrepreneur, businessman, and circus owner William Parker Foulke (1816–1865), discovered first full dinosaur skeleton in North America, called Hadrosaurus foulkii in 1858 Anne Francine (1917–1999), actress and cabaret singer John Fries Frazer (1812–1872), Vice Provost of the University of Pennsylvania Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880–1980), sculptor A.B. Frost (1851–1928), illustrator, graphic artist and comics writer Frank Furness (1839–1912), architect, Medal of Honor recipient Horace Howard Furness (1833–1912), Shakespearean scholar William Henry Furness (1802–1896), clergyman, theologian, Transcendentalist, abolitionist, and reformer William Henry Furness III (1866–1920), physician, ethnographer and author

G Margaret Ralston Gest (1900-1965), painter, member of Philadelphia Ten William Evans Garrett Gilmore (1895–1969), Olympic rower 1924 Summer Olympics, 1932 Summer Olympics Charles Gilpin (1809–1891), Mayor of Philadelphia, 1851 to 1854 Henry D. Gilpin (1801–1860), U.S. Attorney General (1840-1841), presented U.S. government's side in the Amistad case Joshua Gilpin (1765–1840), paper manufacturer George Gliddon (1809–1857), English-born American Egyptologist Louis Antoine Godey (1804–1878), editor and publisher Godey's Lady's Book Thomas Godfrey (1704–1749), optician and inventor of the octant Sylvanus William Godon (1809–1879), U.S. Naval officer (1819-1871) Frederick Graff (1775–1847), hydraulic engineer, designer of the Fairmount Water Works George Rex Graham (1813–1894), Magazine editor and publisher Graham's Magazine Frederick Gutekunst (1831–1917), "Dean of American Photographers"

H Henry Schell Hagert (1826–1885), Philadelphia district attorney

Sarah Josepha Hale (1788–1879), writer, poet (Mary Had a Little Lamb), instigator of Thanksgiving as a national holiday Anna Hallowell (1831-1905), abolitionist, education reformer Frederick Halterman (1831–1907), U.S. Congressman James Harper (1780–1873), U.S. Congressman Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler (1770–1843), first superintendent of the United States Coast Survey A. G. Heaton (1844–1930), artist, author and leading numismatist Joseph Hemphill (1770–1842), U.S. Congressman Alexander Henry (1823–1883), mayor of Philadelphia from 1858 to 1865 Henry Beck Hirst (1813–1874), poet, companion of Edgar Allan Poe Henry Wilson Hodge (1865–1919), civil engineer Woolworth Building, bridge designer Holger Hoiriis (1901-1942), Denmark-born barnstorming pilot, nickname "Hold Your Horses" Emily Elizabeth Holman (1854–1925), better known by her professional name of E.E. Holman, she was one of the first female architects in Pennsylvania Lucy Hamilton Hooper (1835–1893), poet, journalist, editor and playwright Hub (1958–2021), Leonard Nelson Hubbard, bass player for The Roots Isaac Hull (1773–1843), Commodore, USN, captained USS Constitution to victory over HMS Guerriere

J Caroline Furness Jayne (1873–1909), ethnologist, expert in children's game cat's cradle Horace Jayne (1859–1913), zoologist and educator; the Horace Jayne House is on the National Register of Historic Places Owen Jones (1819–1878), U.S. Congressman James Juvenal (1874–1942), Olympic rower, 1900 Summer Olympics, 1904 Summer Olympics

K Harry Kalas (1936–2009), Philadelphia Phillies Hall of Fame broadcaster Elisha Kent Kane (1820–1857), physician, polar explorer, lover or husband of spiritualist Margaretta "Maggie" Fox John K. Kane (1795–1858), U.S. District Judge, Attorney General of Pennsylvania Ida Augusta Keller (1866-1932), botanist and plant physiologist; organized Science Department at Bryn Mawr College William D. Kelley (1814–1890), U.S. Congressman Florence Kelley (1859–1932), social and political reformer Samuel George King (1816–1899), 73rd mayor of Philadelphia Thomas Story Kirkbride (1809-1883), pioneering psychiatrist, first superintendent Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital James Kitchenman (1825–1909), carpet manufacturer Lon Knight (1853–1932), professional baseball player

L Elie A. F. La Vallette (1790–1862), U.S. Navy, one of first rear admirals appointed in 1862 Henry Charles Lea (1825–1909), historian Isaac Lea (1792–1886), conchologist, geologist and publisher Langdon "Biffy" Lea (1874-1937), member College Football Hall of Fame Mathew Carey Lea (1823–1897), chemist and lawyer, father of mechanochemistry Napoleon LeBrun (1821–1901), architect Academy of Music (Philadelphia), many others Mary Ann Lee (1823–1899), professional ballerina Michael Leib (1760–1822), U.S. Congressman Thomas Leiper (1745–1825), American Revolutionary War veteran, first American to construct a permanent working railway Lewis Charles Levin (1808–1860), U.S. Congressman Joshua Ballinger Lippincott (1813-1886), publisher and founder of J.B. Lippincott & Co. publishing house Rachel Lloyd (1839–1900), first U.S. woman to receive Ph.D. in chemistry George Horace Lorimer (1868–1937), editor-in-chief of The Saturday Evening Post Harry Luff (1856–1916), Major League Baseball player Anna Lukens (1844–1917), physician

M Charles Macalester (1798–1873), businessman, banker, philanthropist and namesake of Macalester College Edward Yorke Macauley (1827–1894), U.S. naval officer George McClellan, M.D. (1796-1847), founder, Jefferson Medical College Alexander Kelly McClure (1828–1909), Pennsylvania State Senator George Deardorff McCreary (1846–1915), U.S. Congressman Jack McFetridge (1869–1917), Major League Pitcher with Philadelphia Phillies Thomas McKean (1734–1817), lawyer and politician, signer of the Declaration of Independence Morton McMichael (1807–1879), editor The Saturday Evening Post, publisher The North American, veteran American Civil War, Mayor of Philadelphia (1866–1869)