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Located in The Bronx, the Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City.
Notable people interred there include:
- Irving Berlin
- Nellie Bly
- Ralph Bunche
- George M. Cohan
- Celia Cruz
- Miles Davis
- Clarence Day
- Duke Ellington
- David Farragut
- Frankie Frisch
- Antoinette Perry Frueauff - The Tony Award is named after her
- Jay Gould
- Archibald Gracie
- Oscar Hammerstein, Sr
- Lionel Hampton
- W.C. Handy
- Victor Herbert
- Barbara Hutton, Woolworth heiress, America's "poor little rich girl"
- Charles Evans Hughes
- Collis P. Huntington
- Augustus D. Juilliard
- Fiorello LaGuardia
- Roland Macy
- Bat Masterson, US Marshall
- George McManus
- Herman Melville
- Marilyn Miller
- Robert Moses
- Thomas Nast
- James Cash Penny
- Otto Preminger, actor and director
- Joseph Pulitzer
- Damon Runyon
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Joseph Stella
- John William Sterling, one of Yale's largest benefactors
- Olive Thomas, actress and wife of Jack Pickford
- C. J. Walker, she was the first African-American millionaire
- Frank Woolworth, chain store founder
