List of burials at Arlington National Cemetery explained
This is a list of notable individuals buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, United States.
Military
Medal of Honor recipients
As of May 2006, there were 367 Medal of Honor recipients buried in Arlington National Cemetery, nine of whom are Canadians.
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- Absalom Baird (1824–1905), US Army Brevet Major General, commanded a Division in the Army of the Cumberland; received for his actions at Battle of Jonesborough
- William E. Barber (1919–2002), US Marine Corps Colonel; received for his actions in the Battle of Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War
- John Basilone (1916–1945), US Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant, killed at Iwo Jima; portrayed in the HBO mini-series The Pacific
- Randolph C. Berkeley (1875–1960), US Marine Corps Major General; received for his actions during the United States occupation of Veracruz
- Andrew E. K. Benham (1832–1905), US Navy rear admiral; serving in the Union Navy during the Civil War[1]
- Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (1912–1988), World War II US Marine Corps fighter ace and commander of VMF-214, the "Black Sheep Squadron" (basis for the 1970s TV series Baa Baa Black Sheep)
- Ron Brown, (1942-1996), served as the United States Secretary of Commerce, former chairman of the DNC, died in a plane crash
- John D. Bulkeley (1911–1996), US Navy Admiral, received for his actions in the Pacific Theater during WWII.
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- James Alexander Campbell (1844–1904), US Army Private, Company A, 2nd New York Cavalry. Received while his command was retreating before superior numbers at Woodstock, Virginia, he voluntarily rushed back with one companion and rescued his commanding officer, who had been unhorsed and left behind. At Amelia courthouse he captured two battle flags. Civil War
- Albertus W. Catlin (1868–1933), US Marine Corps Brigadier General; received for his actions during the intervention at Veracruz, Mexico
- Jon R. Cavaiani (1943–2014), US Army Command Sergeant Major. Received for his actions while serving as platoon leader providing security for an isolated radio relay site located within enemy-held territory that came under attack. Prisoner of war during the Vietnam War (1971–1973)[2]
- Justice M. Chambers (1908–1982), US Marine Corps officer; received for his actions in during the Battle of Iwo Jima
- Donald Cook (1934–1967) cenotaph, US Marine Corps officer. Received for his actions while a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. His body was never recovered.
- Edwin Hyland Cooper (1881-1948), U.S. Signal Corps photographic officer in World War I, awarded two medals for bravery while covering the attack of the 26th Division, A.E.F, at Chateau-Thierry in July 1918
- Louis Cukela (1888–1956), US Marine Corps Major, awarded two Medals of Honor for same act in World War I
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- William Joseph "Wild Bill" Donovan (1883–1959), US Army Major General, commanded the 165th Infantry Regiment (federalized designation of the 69th New York Infantry, the "Fighting Irish") during World War I, and was Chief of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II; also awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, and National Security Medal, making him the only person to hold all four of the United States' highest awards
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- James A. Graham (1940–1967), US Marine Corps Officer; received for his actions during the Vietnam War
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- Christian F. Schilt (1895–1987), US Marine Corps aviator, for using his actions during the United States occupation of Nicaragua
- John Schofield (1831–1906), commanding officer of the second Army of the Ohio during 1864 and 1865; Secretary of War under President Andrew Johnson; superintendent of the United States Military Academy 1876–1881; commanding general of the US Army 1888–1895; received for his actions at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in 1861
- David M. Shoup (1904–1983), 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps; received for his actions during the Battle of Tarawa during World War II
- Ronald J. Shurer (1978–2020), US Army Special Forces Medical Sergeant; received for his actions in the Battle of Shok Valley during the War in Afghanistan.
- Daniel Sickles (1819–1914), major general, III Corps, Army of the Potomac, Union Army, Civil War; served as US Minister to Spain and as US Representative from New York
- Franklin E. Sigler (1924–1995), US Marine Corps private first class; received for his actions in the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II
- Carl L. Sitter (1922–2000), US Marine Corps officer; received for his actions during the Korean War
- Luther Skaggs Jr. (1923–1976), US Marine Corps corporal; received for his actions in the Battle of Guam during World War II
- Sherrod E. Skinner Jr. (1929–1952), US Marine Corps officer; received for his actions during the Korean War
- Larry E. Smedley (1949–1967), US Marine Corps corporal; received for his actions during the Vietnam War
- John Lucian Smith (1914–1972), US Marine Corps aviator; received for his actions as a squadron commanding officer during Solomon Islands campaign in World War II
- Paul Ray Smith (1969–2003), US Army Sergeant First Class; received for his actions during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
- Clarence E. Sutton (1871–1916), US Marine Corps sergeant; received for his actions during the Boxer Rebellion
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- Jay Zeamer Jr. (1918–2007), US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel; received for action during World War II with the Army Air Force
Flag officers
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- David E. Baker (1946–2009), US Air Force Brigadier General; holds distinction of being the only former prisoner of war of the Vietnam War to later fly combat missions during Operation Desert Storm
- Warner B. Bayley (1845–1928), US Navy Rear Admiral
- Gordon Beecher (1904–1973), US Navy Vice Admiral and composer
- Reginald R. Belknap (1871–1959), US Navy Rear Admiral
- Charles F. Blair Jr. (1909–1978), US Air Force Brigadier General; buried with wife Maureen O'Hara
- Vicente T. Blaz (1928–2014), US Marine Corps Brigadier General and Delegate to Congress from Guam
- Claude C. Bloch (1878–1967), US Navy Admiral
- Jeremy Michael Boorda (1939–1996), US Navy Admiral and Chief of Naval Operations
- Donald Prentice Booth (1902–1993), US Army lieutenant general, high commissioner of the Ryukyu Islands 1958–1961
- Omar Nelson Bradley (1893–1981), commanded the 12th Army Group in Europe during World War II, first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and last living five-star General
- Miles Browning (1897–1954), rear admiral, World War I and World War II Navy Officer and hero of the Battle of Midway
- Omar Bundy (1861–1940), World War I major general who commanded the 1st Brigade, 1st Expeditionary Division in France, awarded the French Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre
- Edward Burke (1907–1967), US Navy rear admiral and World War II officer, Navy Cross recipient[4]
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- John Allen Campbell (1835–1880), brevet brigadier general; Civil War, first governor of Wyoming Territory in 1869 and Third Assistant Secretary of State
- Marion E. Carl (1915–1998), World War II US Marine Corps major general, fighter ace and record-setting test pilot
- Claire Lee Chennault (1893–1958), lieutenant general, military aviator who commanded the "Flying Tigers" during World War II
- John Clem (1851–1937), major general, aka Johnny Shiloh, arguably the youngest Non-Commissioned Officer ever to serve in the US Armed Forces; was the last living Civil War veteran on active duty at the time of his retirement
- John M. B. Clitz (1821–1897), US Navy Rear Admiral
- Edmund R. Colhoun (1821–1897), US Navy Rear Admiral
- Charles M. "Savvy" Cooke Jr. (1886–1970), US Navy Admiral
- Charles Austin Coolidge (1844–1926), brigadier general, served in Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, Philippine–American War and the China Relief Expedition
- Ernest T. Cragg (1922–2006), US Air Force Major General
- George Crook (1828–1890), US Army Major General during the Civil War and campaigns against the Native Americans; one of his subordinates during the Civil War was future President Rutherford B. Hayes
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- Arthur C. Davis (1893–1965), US Navy Admiral, pioneer of dive bombing
- Benjamin O. Davis Sr. (1880–1970), United States Army General; first African-American General Officer in the US Army and in the US military
- Benjamin O. Davis Jr. (1912–2002), World War II pilot, first African-American US Air Force General
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr. (1924–2014), US Navy pilot shot down over Vietnam and held as a POW for over seven years; achieve the rank of admiral before retiring from the Navy; served in the US Senate from Alabama
- Sir John Dill (1881–1944), British diplomat and Field Marshal[5]
- Abner Doubleday (1819–1893), Civil War General, erroneously credited with inventing baseball
- Franklin J. Drake (1846–1929), US Navy Rear Admiral
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- Francis L. Garrett (1919–1992), US Navy Rear Admiral, Chief of Chaplains of the US Navy
- John Gibbon (1827–1896), brigadier general, Union Army, Civil War, most notably commander of 2nd Division, US II Corps that repelled Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg
- William A. Glassford (1886–1958), US Navy Vice Admiral
- Harold J. Greene (1959-2014), US Army Major General
- Charles D. Griffin (1906–1996), US Navy Admiral
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- Eugene E. Habiger (1939-2022), US Air Force general
- William "Bull" Halsey (1882–1959), World War II Navy Fleet Admiral
- John Spencer Hardy (1913–2012), Chief of Operations in the Mediterranean of US Army Air Corps during World War II; later lieutenant general in US Air Force[6]
- William Babcock Hazen (1830–1887), major general, served in the Western Union Armies during the Civil War. Served as Chief Signal Officer after the war
- James Meredith Helm (1855–1927), US Navy rear admiral[7]
- Francis J. Higginson (1843–1931), US Navy rear admiral
- Jeanne M. Holm (1921–2010), US Air Force major general; first woman promoted to brigadier general in the Air Force; first woman promoted to major general in the US armed forces[8]
- Grace Hopper (1906–1992), US Navy rear admiral, pioneering computer scientist who coined the term "bug"
- Olaf M. Hustvedt (1886–1978), US Navy Vice Admiral
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- Rae Landy (1885–1952), Army Nurse Corps Lieutenant Colonel who served in World War I and World War II
- Henry Louis Larsen (1890–1962), US Marine Corps Lieutenant General; commanded the first deployed American troops in both World Wars; Governor of Guam and American Samoa
- John Marshall Lee (1914–2003), US Navy Vice Admiral, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, NATO, S.A.L.T Talks; Navy Cross, DSM, Legion of Merit; son of Lieutenant Colonel Alva Lee
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- Arthur MacArthur Jr. (1845–1912), US Army lieutenant general and father of General Douglas MacArthur
- Newton E. Mason (1850–1945), US Navy rear admiral
- Henry Pinckney McCain (1861–1941), US Army major general and Adjutant General of the US Army; uncle of Admiral John S. McCain Sr., granduncle of Admiral John S. McCain Jr., great-granduncle of US Senator John S. McCain III
- John S. McCain Jr. (1911–1981), US Navy admiral, grandnephew of Major General Henry Pinckney McCain, son of Admiral John S. McCain Sr., father of US Senator John S. McCain III
- John S. McCain Sr. (1884–1945), US Navy admiral, nephew of Major General Henry Pinckney McCain, father of Admiral John S. McCain Jr., grandfather of US Senator John S. McCain III
- William Alexander McCain (1878–1960), US Army brigadier general, brother of John McCain Sr., uncle of John McCain Jr.
- Bowman H. McCalla (1844–1910), US Navy rear admiral
- Stewart L. McKenney (1917–2012), brigadier general, mayor of American Vienna Occupation
- Montgomery C. Meigs (1816–1892), brigadier general; Arlington National Cemetery was established by Meigs, who commanded the garrison at Arlington House and appropriated the grounds on June 15, 1864, for use as a military cemetery
- Nelson A. Miles (1839–1925), US Army lieutenant general; served in the Civil War, Indian Wars, and the Spanish–American War; noted for accepting the surrender of Geronimo and his band of Apache
- Joseph Mower (1827–1870), major general, served in the western Union Armies during the Civil War
- Dennis J. Murphy (1932–2023), U.S. Marine Corps major general, served in the Vietnam War and later commanded the 2nd Marine Division
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- John Aaron Rawlins (1831–1869), Civil War general, chief of staff and later Secretary of War to Ulysses S. Grant
- Alfred C. Richmond (1902–1984), admiral, 11th Commandant of the Coast Guard
- Hyman G. Rickover (1900–1986), admiral, father of the Nuclear Navy and the longest-serving member of the US Military with 63 years of service (1918-1982).
- Matthew Ridgway (1895–1993), World War II and Korean War general, Chief of Staff of the Army
- William S. Rosecrans (1819–1898), major general, Army of the Cumberland, Union Army, Civil War
- William T. Ryder (1913–1992), brigadier general; first American paratrooper
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- Thomas R. Sargent III (1914–2010), vice admiral, Vice Commandant of the Coast Guard
- August Schomburg (1908–1972), lieutenant general, Commander US Army Ordnance and Missile Command; commander, Industrial College of the Armed Forces
- Gustavus H. Scott (1812–1882), US Navy rear admiral, exhumed in 1896 from Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C., and reburied at Arlington National Cemetery
- Benedict J. Semmes Jr. (1913–1994), US Navy vice admiral[9]
- John Shalikashvili (1936–2011), general, Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1992–1993), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1993–1997)
- Philip Sheridan (1831–1888), general, Union Army, Civil War and commanding general, US Army, 1883–88
- Robert F. Sink (1905–1965), US Army lieutenant general and former regimental commander of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division; a close friend of Easy Company commander Major Richard Winters, he is portrayed by Vietnam veteran and retired US Marine Corps captain Dale Dye in the HBO/BBC miniseries Band of Brothers
- Joseph S. Skerrett (1833–1897), US Navy rear admiral
- Walter Bedell Smith (1895–1961), general, US Army, World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower's Chief of Staff during Eisenhower's tenure at SHAEF and Director of the CIA 1950–1953; served as US Ambassador to the Soviet Union 1946–1948
- Harold I. Small (1932–2015), US Army Major General, Commanding General US Army Transportation Command, 1980–1985, Commanding General Fort Eustis, 1978–1985, Korean War, Vietnam War.
- Charles Stillman Sperry (1847–1911), US Navy rear admiral, commander of the Great White Fleet, namesake of
- Robert Francis Anthony Studds (1896–1962), United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps admiral and engineer, fourth Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
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- Howard L. Vickery (1892–1946), vice admiral, US Navy and World War II merchant shipbuilder
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- Donald M. Weller (1908–1985), major general, pioneer of Naval gunfire support; served during World War II
- Joseph Wheeler (1836–1906), served as a major general of the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and the US Army during the Spanish–American War and Philippine–American War
- Orde Charles Wingate (1903–1944), British major general, creator and commander of the Chindits
- Spencer S. Wood (1861–1940), US Navy rear admiral
- Clark H. Woodward (1877–1968), vice admiral, served in five wars: the Spanish–American War, Philippine–American War, Boxer Rebellion and both World Wars
- Horatio Wright (1820–1899), major general; commanded VI Corps of the Army of the Potomac from the Overland Campaign to the end of the Civil War; then served as the Chief of Engineers for the US Army Corps of Engineers; worked on projects such as the Brooklyn Bridge and the completion of the Washington Monument
Other military burials
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- Alan Bean (1932–2018), astronaut, fourth person to walk on the Moon (Apollo 12)
- Van D. Bell Jr. (1918–2009), US Marine Corps colonel, recipient of two Navy Crosses
- Albert Blithe (1923–1967), US Army paratrooper; one of several Easy Company soldiers depicted in Band of Brothers.
- Ruby G. Bradley (1907–2002), colonel; with 34 medals, one of the most decorated women in US military history
- Alfred Winsor Brown (1885–1938), US Navy Captain who served as 31st Naval Governor of Guam
- Frank Buckles (1901–2011), last known American veteran of World War I[11]
- Charles Burlingame (1949–2001), US Navy Captain, pilot of hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 during September 11 attacks
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- Roger Chaffee (1935–1967), astronaut killed in the Apollo 1 fire
- Samuel-Edmour St. Onge Chapleau (1839–1921), US Army major in the Civil War; Clerk of the Senate of Canada and Clerk of the Parliaments of Canada, 1900–1917[12]
- Willis Carto (1926–2015), American political activist
- William Christman (1843–1864), first soldier buried at Arlington
- Bertram Tracy Clayton (1862–1918), Congressman from New York, killed in action in 1918
- William Colby (1920–1996) Member of the Office of Strategic Services, Director of Central Intelligence.
- Michael Collins (astronaut) (1930-2021), US Air Force officer, NASA Astronaut; Command Module Pilot for Apollo 11.
- Truman W. Crawford (1934–2003), US Marine Corps colonel (1966–1996); commander of the United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps; oldest active duty Marine at the time of his retirement; formerly US Air Force master sergeant (1953–1963); musical director of the US Air Force Drum and Bugle Corps
- William P. Cronan (1879–1929), US Navy officer and 19th Naval Governor of Guam
- Scott Crossfield (1921–2006), US Naval aviator and test pilot; first to fly at twice the speed of sound; played a major role in the design and development of the North American X-15
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- Rene Gagnon (1925–1979), one of the six US Marines immortalized in Joe Rosenthal's iconic photo Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
- John Glenn (1921–2016), first American to orbit the Earth; US Senator; fighter pilot in World War II and Korea
- Mike Gravel (1930–2021), first lieutenant in the US Army, US Senator
- Gus Grissom (1926–1967), astronaut killed in the Apollo 1 fire
- Jerry Don Glover (1936-2020), 20-year Air-Force military career, he was a Navigator in Vietnam and retired as a Lt. Colonel with honors and a Purple Heart
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- David Haskell Hackworth (1930–2005), colonel and highly decorated soldier
- Ira Hayes (1923–1955), one of the six US marines immortalized in Joe Rosenthal's iconic photo Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
- Nicholas H. Heck (1882–1953), United States Coast and Geodetic Survey captain, geophysicist, seismologist, oceanographer, and hydrographic surveyor
- Anton Hilberath (1898–1946), one of at least 830 German Prisoners of War, who died and were buried in the United States.[13] His is the only grave of a German POW at Arlington National Cemetery.[14]
- Kara Spears Hultgreen (1965–1994), the first female naval carrier-based fighter pilot
- Alexander Hunter (1843-1914), Confederate private and author of the Civil War memoir Johnny Reb & Billy Yank[15]
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- Benjamin R. Jacobs (1879–1963), served as a US Army captain in both World War I and World War II, with his wife, Margaret Ann Connell Jacobs (1890–1973)
- James Jabara (1923–1966), first American jet ace in history, credited with shooting down 15 enemy aircraft
- George Juskalian (1914–2010), US Army veteran, three decades and fought in three wars – World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War
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- Francis Gary Powers (1929–1977), U-2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960
- Colin Powell (1937–2021), U.S. National Security Advisor, 1987-89, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1989-93, 65th U.S. Secretary of State, 2001-05.
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- William Cooper Talley (1831–1901), brevet brigadier general for the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War
- Larry Thorne (born as Lauri Törni, 1919–1965), Finnish soldier who served in the US special forces and was a World War II veteran; called "soldier who fought under three flags" (Finland, Germany, and US); also, the only former member of the Waffen SS to be interred in Arlington
- Thomas Tipton Thornburgh (1843–1879), soldier for the Union Army and died at the Battle of Milk Creek
- R. Ewell Thornton (1865–1928), major in World War I, Virginia state senator[18]
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Other notable military service members
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- William B. Bader, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
- Joseph J. Bartlett (1834–1893), Union Brigadier General during the Civil War, New York attorney, and U.S. diplomat
- Sosthenes Behn (1882–1957), businessman and founder of ITT Corporation
- William W. Belknap, Army general, secretary of war
- Ludwig Bemelmans, author of the Madeline children's series.
- Hugo Black, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- William J. Brennan Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Al Brodax, animator
- Ron Brown, Secretary of Commerce
- William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State, three-time presidential candidate, orator
- William Francis Buckley, CIA station chief, murdered in Beirut
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- Frank Carlucci (1930–2018), Secretary of Defense
- Jacob Chestnut (1940–1998), United States Capitol Police officer killed in the 1998 Capitol shooting attack
- Purnell W. Choppin (1929–2021), virologist and physician
- Clark Clifford (1906–1998), Secretary of Defense, advisor to four presidents
- Winifred Collins (1911–1999), a World War II WAVES
- Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. (1930–1999), Apollo astronaut, third man to walk on the Moon
- Jackie Cooper (1922–2011), actor, television director, producer and executive
- James C. Corman (1920–2000), California politician
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- Dwight F. Davis, Secretary of War; established the Davis Cup
- Michael E. DeBakey, famous cardiovascular physician; US Army soldier during World War II
- John Dingell, World War II veteran and politician
- Bob Dole (1923-2021),[21] [22] served in World War II as a second lieutenant in the US Army's 10th Mountain Division, was seriously wounded by a German shell that struck his upper back and right arm while engaging in combat near Castel d'Aiano in the Apennine mountains southwest of Bologna, Italy. Later became a member of Kansas state House of Representatives, County Attorney of Russell County, Kansas, represented his home state of Kansas as a member of US House of Representatives and as a US Senator, and was the Republican nominee in the 1996 United States Presidential election. Awarded Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
- John Foster Dulles, secretary of state
- Charles Durning, Army veteran and actor
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- R. Lee Ermey (1944–2018), USMC staff sergeant and actor
- Medgar Evers (1925–1963), NAACP field secretary in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement; assassinated in 1963
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- Peter Hackes, Navy Captain and correspondent
- Alexander Haig, secretary of state, 1981–82
- Robert Halperin, competitive Star-class sailor, and Olympic bronze medalist and Pan American Games gold medalist
- Dashiell Hammett, author
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, wounded three times in the Civil War, "The Great Dissenter"[24]
- Kara Spears Hultgreen (1965–1994), US Navy officer and naval aviator; first American woman fighter pilot in the US Navy; first female fighter pilot killed after the Department of Defense Risk Rule
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- Kenneth Keating (1900–1975), brigadier general, US Senator from New York (1959–1965)
- Edward Stanley Kellogg (1870–1948), US Navy Captain, 16th Governor of American Samoa (1923–1925)
- Burt Kennedy (1922–2001), US Army Lieutenant during World War II, film director and screenwriter
- Edward M. Kennedy (1932–2009), US Army veteran (1951–1953), US Senator from Massachusetts (1962–2009)
- John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), US Navy officer during World War II, US Representative (1947–1953) and US Senator (1953–1961) from Massachusetts, President of the United States (1961–1963)
- Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968), Attorney General of the United States (1961–1964), US Senator from New York (1965–1968)
- Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan (1987–2007), Iraq War
- Humayun Khan, US Army captain
- Frank Kowalski, US Army veteran of World War II; US Representative from Connecticut
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- Frank Lautenberg, World War II veteran and US Senator from New Jersey[26]
- Paul Laxalt, World War II medic and Governor of and US Senator from Nevada[27]
- Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French military engineer, architect, and urban planner; designed the city of Washington
- Henry Balding Lewis, US Army major general, Veterans Administration
- Robert Todd Lincoln, Secretary of War, son of former US President Abraham Lincoln
- Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion
- Allard Lowenstein, US Congressman from New York
- Richard Lugar, US Senator from Indiana
- John R. Lynch, freedman, US Army major, and member of Congress
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- Arthur MacArthur III (1876–1923), US Navy captain, brother of General Douglas MacArthur
- Crandal Mackey (1865–1957), Lawyer and commonwealth attorney of Arlington, Virginia[28]
- Mike Mansfield (1903–2001), Navy veteran of World War I, Army private, Marine Corps private; longest-serving Senate Majority Leader; longest-serving Ambassador to Japan
- George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the Army, General of the Army, Emissary to China, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense; instrumental in developing the European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan) after World War II
- Richard Jaquelin Marshall (1895–1973), Major General US Army; brother to St. Julien Ravenel Marshall and cousin to George C. Marshall
- St. Julien Ravenel Marshall (1904–1989), Brigadier General USMC brother to Richard Jaquelin Marshall and cousin to George C. Marshall
- Lee Marvin (1924–1987), Marine Corps veteran and actor. Purple Heart, Presidential Unit Citation, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, and Combat Action Ribbon. 56 motion picture acting appearances resulting in 18 Award nominations with 11 awards. 212 Television credits resulting in 1 Emmy nomination. Father of 4.
- Bill Mauldin, editorial cartoonist; noted for World War II-era work satirizing military life in Stars and Stripes
- George B. McClellan Jr. (1865–1940), Mayor of New York (1904–1909), son of Union Army major general George B. McClellan
- Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire (1893–1950), plant pathologist
- John C. Metzler, World War II sergeant, former superintendent of Arlington National Cemetery (1951–1972); his son John C. Metzler Jr. was also the superintendent 1991–2010
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, US Senator from New York
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- William Rehnquist, US Army Air Forces Sergeant (World War II), Chief Justice of the United States
- Charles Herschel "Charlie" Reiner (1918-2001),[29] brother to famous comedian and producer Carl Reiner, served in the 9th Division in World War II.[30]
- Earl W. Renfroe, US Army Colonel (World War II), orthodontist who helped originate the concept of preventive and interceptive orthodontics
- Frank Reynolds, US Army Staff Sergeant (World War II), ABC television anchorman
- John Raymond Rice, US Army Sergeant First Class (Korean Conflict), who was denied a burial in Sioux City, Iowa because of him being Native American (Ho-Chunk)
- Henry Richardson, US Army Major (World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War), first African American state legislator in New Hampshire
- Bradbury Robinson, US Army Captain (World War I); threw the first forward pass in American football history; physician; nutritionist; conservationist; and local politician
- Lewis C. Rockwell, US Army aviator killed in a flying accident in 1912
- William P. Rogers, US Navy Lieutenant Commander (World War II); politician; Secretary of State
- Malcolm Ross, US Navy Captain (World War II), an atmospheric scientist and balloonist who set several records for altitude and scientific inquiry. In 1960, set the altitude record for manned balloon flight.
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- Brian Sicknick (1978–2021), United States Capitol Police officer died of natural causes after the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.
- Samuel W. Small, journalist, evangelist, prohibitionist
- Helmut Sonnenfeldt (1926–2012), foreign policy expert for Henry Kissinger
- Johnny Micheal Spann, CIA officer and former US Marine Corps captain; first American killed in Afghanistan[31]
- Cordwainer Smith (1913-1966), Army officer involved in the creation of the Office of War Information and the Operation Planning and Intelligence Board, science fiction author
- Siegmund Spiegel (1919–2016), architect, activist, and Holocaust lecturer; Master Sergeant in World War II[32]
- John Paul Stevens (1920–2019), Navy intelligence officer in the Pacific Theater, Lieutenant commander, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Ted Stevens (1923–2010), US Senator from Alaska
- Potter Stewart, World War II sailor and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Cecil W. Stoughton (1920–2008), White House photographer for President Kennedy
- Samuel S. Stratton, 15-term US Representative from New York
- Anthony Sydes (1941–2015), actor
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- Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States
- John W. Weeks, Secretary of War, US Senator and US Representative
- Joseph F. Weis Jr., World War II veteran and federal judge
- George Westinghouse, Civil War veteran, Westinghouse Electric founder
- Harvey W. Wiley, first Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration; "father" of the Pure Food and Drug Act
- Charles Willeford, World War II veteran and author
- George M. Williamson, architect
- Charles Wilson, Texas congressman who aided in the success of Operation Cyclone during the Soviet–Afghan War
- Theodore Jonathan Wint, brigadier general, veteran of the Civil War, Indian Wars, Boxer Rebellion, and Spanish-American War.
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Notable civilians
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- Fay Bainter, Oscar-winning Hollywood film actress. Buried with her husband, U.S. Navy officer Reginald Venable.
- Gretta Bader, sculptor, buried with her husband, William B. Bader
- Constance Bennett, Hollywood film actress, buried with her husband, Brigadier General Theron John Coulter
- Charles W. Berry (1871–1941), New York City Comptroller; also a soldier
- Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- William Jennings Bryan, politician and lawyer
- Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States
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- William O. Douglas, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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- Joe Engle, American astronaut
- Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist, Mississippi's field secretary for the NAACP, and a World War II veteran who had served in the United States Army
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Remains of the Space Shuttle Challenger's crew are interred in Section 46, including four civilians and three military members. Challenger Astronaut Judith Resnik is memorialized with a cenotaph.
Five state funerals have been held at Arlington: those of U.S. presidents William Howard Taft and John F. Kennedy, that of General of the Armies John J. Pershing, that of U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy and his brother Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
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Notes and References
- Web site: Benham, Andrew E. K. . Naval History and Heritage Command . 2024-05-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240526165035/https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-people/b/benham-andrew-e-k.html . 2024-05-26 . live.
- http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jon-cavaiani-20140803-story.html Los Angeles Times
- News: Mass. Medal of Honor recipient Tom Hudner buried in Arlington National Cemetery . Henry . Schwan . metrowestdailynews.com . April 5, 2018 . April 5, 2018.
- News: Rear Adm. Edward Burke, All-America at Navy, Dies . 1967-08-19 . . A13 . . 2023-01-16.
- http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2720066/DILL,%20Sir%20JOHN%20GREER CWGC: John Dill
- John Spencer Hardy obituary, Baton Rouge Morning Advocate, May 3, 2012
- News: Helm . 1927-10-30 . The Sunday Star . 7 . . 2024-05-22.
- Web site: Jeanne Holm Obituary (2010) - Washington, DC - The Washington Post. Legacy.com.
- http://navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=510200 TogetherWeServed – VADM Benedict Semmes
- Sec. 64, grave 6992, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA., Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 247-248). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.
- News: Frank Buckles, last US veteran of World War I, laid to rest at Arlington . Paul. Duggan. The Washington Post . March 15, 2011 . March 16, 2011 .
- https://books.google.com/books?id=WTNEAQAAMAAJ&dq=Samuel-Edmour+St.+Onge+Chapleau&pg=PA1139 1917–1918, Who's Who and Why in Canada, Vol. 13, p. 1139
- http://www.gentracer.org/powdeathindex.html Records of the National Archive
- Listing of the graves of foreign nationals
- Book: Confederate Veteran Magazine Vol. XXII. Cunningham. 1914. 468.
- News: . Jack Koehler AP correspondent, 82 . October 1, 2012 . The Philadelphia Inquirer . Associated Press . October 5, 2019.
- News: Knipp . Steven . Mystery of Chinese major buried in US war hero cemetery . 15 December 2019 . South China Morning Post . 7 June 2005.
- News: R. E. Thornton Dies at Home in Fairfax . 1928-03-28 . The Richmond News Leader . 28 . . 2023-04-16.
- Web site: Pentagon Identifies First KIA in Fight against Islamic State. Military.com. Military.com. McGarry, Brendan. October 23, 2015. November 4, 2020.
- Web site: Dan. Lamothe. In quiet ceremony, Delta Force soldier killed in Iraq buried at Arlington. washingtonpost.com. November 18, 2015. November 4, 2020.
- News: Bob Dole hailed as war hero and 'Kansas' favorite son' at Washington funeral service. Ledyard. King. Rebecca. Morin. Ella. Lee. USA Today. 10 December 2021. 10 December 2021.
- News: Bob Dole's final resting place. Daniel. Desrochers. Wichita Eagle. 9 December 2021. 10 December 2021.
- News: Lucinda Coleman Florio . Tribute Archive . 2022-11-16 . 2023-07-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230723025448/https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/26837524/lucinda-coleman-florio . 2023-07-23 . live.
- New York Times Obituary, March 6, 1935
- News: Henry S. Julian Dies . 1939-08-26 . . 8 . . 2022-11-04.
- Web site: Senator Frank Lautenberg laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. WABC TV. 8 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130609024808/http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news&id=9130439. 9 June 2013. dead.
- https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=paul-laxalt&pid=190055697&preview=false&referrer=0 Paul Laxalt Notice
- News: Crandal Mackey, Arlington Crime Fighter Fighter, Succumbs . 1957-04-02 . 20 . . 2022-01-31.
- Web site: Reiner, Charles. ANC Explorer. 25 January 2022.
- Web site: Ed McMahon heads for Times Square. April 25, 2001. December 10, 2021. Variety.
- Spann had served in the USMC, but was not in the military, when killed. Because he had received the CIA's Intelligence Star, considered the equivalent of the US Military's Silver Star, his burial in Arlington was authorized. See: Book: Woodward, Bob. Bob Woodward. Bush at War. Simon & Schuster. 2002. 317. en.
- Web site: Siegmund Spiegel Obituary (1919 - 2016) - Aventura, FL - Newsday . 2024-03-16 . Legacy.com.
- News: David. Rapp. Roll Call Founder Sid Yudain Dies at 90 . . 2013-10-21 . 2013-11-17.
- Web site: Eunice Geiger (Renshaw) . geni.com . November 11, 2021.
- https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/24/news/24iht-subjackie.html New York Times
- Web site: HOOPER S. MILES, 1895-1964 . Maryland Manual On-Line . . 1999-05-18 . 2022-12-27.
