Famous Graves

Harry Post Godwin

1857–1900 (age 43)

Rock Creek Cemetery

Chief editor of the National Republican and Washington Star.

Mary Gordon

1882–1963 (age 81)

Rose Hills Memorial Park

Scottish-American actress best known for playing Mrs. Hudson in Sherlock Holmes films.

Katharine Graham

1917–2001 (age 84)

Oak Hill Cemetery

Publisher of The Washington Post who led the newspaper through the Pentagon Papers and Watergate.

Lawrence Otis Graham

1961–2021 (age 60)

Ferncliff Cemetery

American lawyer and author known for his books on race and society.

Katherine Grant

1904–1937 (age 33)

Evergreen Cemetery

Silent film actress.

Gus Greenlee

1893–1952 (age 59)

Allegheny Cemetery

Major League Baseball team owner.

Bryan Gregory

1951–2001 (age 50)

Rose Hills Memorial Park

American guitarist and founding member of the punk band The Cramps.

John Strother Griffin

1816–1898 (age 82)

Evergreen Cemetery

Pioneer physician and founder of East Los Angeles.

Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor

1875–1966 (age 91)

Rock Creek Cemetery

President of the National Geographic Society.

Ernst Gräfenberg

1881–1957 (age 76)

Ferncliff Cemetery

German-American physician and namesake for the G-spot.

Johnny Gunther

1929–1947 (age 18)

Ferncliff Cemetery

Son of author John Gunther and subject of the book Death Be Not Proud.

George W. Guthrie

1848–1917 (age 69)

Allegheny Cemetery

Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1906 to 1909.

John B. Guthrie

1807–1885 (age 78)

Allegheny Cemetery

Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1851 to 1853.

Lizzie M. Guthrie

1838–1880 (age 42)

Allegheny Cemetery

Missionary.

Harry P. Guy

1870–1950 (age 80)

Elmwood Cemetery

Ragtime composer.

William Gwin

Mountain View Cemetery

One of California's first U.S. Senators.

Henry Haight

Mountain View Cemetery

Governor of California from 1867 to 1871.

John Hudson Hall

d. 1894

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

Highly successful paper manufacturer and developer of New York's elevated railroad system who commissioned Augustus Sain...

Alexander Hamilton

1755–1804 (age 49)

Trinity Church Cemetery

American revolutionary patriot and first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, signer of the United States Constitution.

Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton

1757–1854 (age 97)

Trinity Church Cemetery

Co-founder and deputy director of New York's first private orphanage, now Graham Windham.

Oscar Hammerstein II

1895–1960 (age 65)

Ferncliff Cemetery

American librettist and lyricist known for his Broadway musicals.

Moses Hampton

1803–1878 (age 75)

Allegheny Cemetery

United States Congressman.

Mary Berri Chapman Hansbrough

1872–1951 (age 79)

Rock Creek Cemetery

Poet and painter in early 20th century America.

Annette Hanshaw

1901–1985 (age 84)

Ferncliff Cemetery

American jazz and popular singer known for her recordings in the 1920s-1930s.

John Marshall Harlan

1833–1911 (age 78)

Rock Creek Cemetery

Supreme Court associate justice known as the 'Great Dissenter' for his dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson.

Patricia Roberts Harris

1924–1985 (age 61)

Rock Creek Cemetery

Ambassador and first African-American woman to serve in a presidential cabinet.

George L. Harrison

1887–1958 (age 71)

Rock Creek Cemetery

Banker, insurance executive, and political advisor during World War II.

Kitty Carlisle Hart

1910–2007 (age 97)

Ferncliff Cemetery

American actress and singer known for her work in theater and television.

Moss Hart

1904–1961 (age 57)

Ferncliff Cemetery

American playwright and director known for his Broadway productions.

Pearl Hart

1871–1955 (age 84)

Rose Hills Memorial Park

American outlaw and stagecoach robber of the Old West.

Frank Hatton

1846–1894 (age 48)

Rock Creek Cemetery

U.S. postmaster general and editor of the Washington Post.

Patricia McMahon Hawkins

1949–2021 (age 72)

Rock Creek Cemetery

Diplomat in late 20th century America.

Alexander Hay

1806–1882 (age 76)

Allegheny Cemetery

Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1842 to 1845.

Alexander Hays

1819–1864 (age 45)

Allegheny Cemetery

General during the American Civil War.

John Hays

Mountain View Cemetery

Texas Ranger and first sheriff of San Francisco.

William B. Hays

1844–1912 (age 68)

Allegheny Cemetery

Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1903 to 1906.

Joseph Henry

1797–1878 (age 81)

Oak Hill Cemetery

First Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and pioneering physicist.

Christian Heurich

1842–1945 (age 103)

Rock Creek Cemetery

German-born American founder of Heurich Brewery.

Andre Hicks

Mountain View Cemetery

Bay Area rapper, record label owner, and producer known as Mac Dre.

Samuel Billingsley Hill

1875–1958 (age 83)

Rock Creek Cemetery

U.S. representative from Washington and member of the United States Board of Tax Appeals.

Lemon G. Hine

1832–1914 (age 82)

Rock Creek Cemetery

Member of the D.C. board of commissioners.

Herman Hollerith

1860–1929 (age 69)

Oak Hill Cemetery

Inventor of the electric tabulating machine that revolutionized census data processing.

William Henry Holmes

1846–1933 (age 87)

Rock Creek Cemetery

Scientist known for contributions to American anthropology and archaeology.

Winslow Homer

1836–1910 (age 74)

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America, best known for his marine subjects.

William Hopper

1915–1970 (age 55)

Rose Hills Memorial Park

American actor and son of actress DeWolfe, best known for Perry Mason television series.

Joseph Horne

1826–1891 (age 65)

Allegheny Cemetery

Founder of Pittsburgh department store Horne's.

Karen Horney

1885–1952 (age 67)

Ferncliff Cemetery

German-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst known for her theories on psychology.

Douglass Houghton

1809–1845 (age 36)

Elmwood Cemetery

Geologist and Mayor of Detroit in 1842.

Jacob M. Howard

1805–1871 (age 66)

Elmwood Cemetery

U.S. Senator from Michigan who helped draft the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments.

Thomas Marshall Howe

1808–1877 (age 69)

Allegheny Cemetery

United States Congressman.