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Domingo Ghirardelli
Mountain View Cemetery
Namesake of the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company.
Charles Goodall
Mountain View Cemetery
Co-Founder of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company.
Henry Kaiser
1882–1967 (age 85)
Mountain View Cemetery
Father of modern American shipbuilding.
Ingemar Lundquist
Mountain View Cemetery
Mechanical engineer and inventor of over the wire balloon angioplasty.
Zedekiah Purnell
1813–1882 (age 69)
Mountain View Cemetery
African-American activist and businessman.
Joe Shoong
Mountain View Cemetery
Chinese immigrant and founder of the National Dollar Stores chain.
Francis Smith
Mountain View Cemetery
The Borax King.
Henry Davidson
Mountain View Cemetery
Brigadier General of the Confederate States Army.
John Hays
Mountain View Cemetery
Texas Ranger and first sheriff of San Francisco.
Eli Huggins
Mountain View Cemetery
Indian Wars soldier and Medal of Honor recipient.
Henry Johns
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American Civil War soldier and Medal of Honor recipient.
Oscar Long
Mountain View Cemetery
Indian Wars soldier and Medal of Honor recipient.
Jeremiah Sullivan
Mountain View Cemetery
Union Army general and staff member of Ulysses S. Grant.
Obediah Summers
Mountain View Cemetery
Formerly enslaved soldier in the 18th United States Colored Infantry Regiment.
Adam Weissel
Mountain View Cemetery
United States Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient.
Leandro Campanari
Mountain View Cemetery
Italian-American violinist, conductor, composer and music teacher.
Angus Cloud
1998–2023 (age 25)
Mountain View Cemetery
American actor.
Herbert Collins
Mountain View Cemetery
Landscape and portrait artist.
Ina Coolbrith
1841–1928 (age 87)
Mountain View Cemetery
California's first poet laureate.
Margaret Gillin
1833–1915 (age 82)
Mountain View Cemetery
Painter.
Andre Hicks
Mountain View Cemetery
Bay Area rapper, record label owner, and producer known as Mac Dre.
Thomas Hill
Mountain View Cemetery
Artist.
William Keith
1838–1911 (age 73)
Mountain View Cemetery
California landscape artist.
Bernard Maybeck
Mountain View Cemetery
Architect.
Julia Morgan
1872–1957 (age 85)
Mountain View Cemetery
Architect.
Frank Norris
1870–1902 (age 32)
Mountain View Cemetery
Author.
Irving Pichel
1891–1954 (age 63)
Mountain View Cemetery
American actor and film director.
Floyd Salas
1931–2021 (age 90)
Mountain View Cemetery
Author.
Margaret Singer
1921–2003 (age 82)
Mountain View Cemetery
Researcher.
Bella Swisher
1837–1893 (age 56)
Mountain View Cemetery
Writer.
Douglas Tilden
1860–1935 (age 75)
Mountain View Cemetery
Sculptor.
David Colton
Mountain View Cemetery
Vice president of the Southern Pacific Railroad and namesake of Colton, California.
Henry Durant
Mountain View Cemetery
First president of the University of California, Berkeley.
Nannie Kramer
1883–1953 (age 70)
Mountain View Cemetery
Organizer, president and membership director of the Oakland Women's City Club.
Virginia Prentiss
Mountain View Cemetery
African-American midwife and nanny to Jack London.
Jane Sather
Mountain View Cemetery
Donor of Sather Gate and Sather Tower to the University of California, Berkeley.
Francis Shattuck
Mountain View Cemetery
Prominent in the politics and early development of Alameda County, Oakland and Berkeley.
William Shorey
Mountain View Cemetery
African-American whaling captain and Oakland civic leader.
John Swett
Mountain View Cemetery
Founder of the California Public School System.
Charles Tilden
Mountain View Cemetery
Namesake of Tilden Regional Park.
Volney Ashford
Mountain View Cemetery
Exiled revolutionary.
Cloe Buckel
Mountain View Cemetery
One of the first female doctors in California.
Glenn Burke
1952–1995 (age 43)
Mountain View Cemetery
First openly gay player in Major League Baseball.
Henry Cogswell
Mountain View Cemetery
Dentist and temperance movement crusader.
Marcus Foster
Mountain View Cemetery
First Black Superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District and first victim of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Eliza Fryer
Mountain View Cemetery
Educator and missionary.
David Hewes
Mountain View Cemetery
Provided the Golden Spike.
Bobby Hutton
1950–1968 (age 18)
Mountain View Cemetery
First treasurer of the Black Panther Party.
Fred Korematsu
1919–2005 (age 86)
Mountain View Cemetery
Challenged Executive Order 9066 in the landmark Supreme Court case Korematsu v. United States.
Ike Lassiter
Mountain View Cemetery
Football player.