Notable interments at Forest Hills Cemetery

226 notable figures are documented at Forest Hills Cemetery in Wikidata's burial records, each with a Wikipedia article and a recorded place of burial. Listed alphabetically.

• Abigail Williams May (1829–1888), social reformer
• Adoniram Judson Gordon (1836–1895), missionary, theologian, hymnwriter
• Adoniram Judson Gordon (1836–1895), missionary, theologian, hymnwriter
• Alan Dawson (1929–1996), composer, musician, university teacher
• Alanson W. Beard (1825–1900), politician
• Albert Augustus Pope (1843–1909), entrepreneur
• Albert C. Burrage (1859–1931), industrialist
• Albert F Hayden (1865–1962), judge
• Albert W. Nickerson (1840–1893), manager
• Alexander Emanuel Agassiz (1835–1910), naturalist, writer, engineer
• Alexander H. Rice (1818–1895), politician
• Alice Stone Blackwell (1857–1950), writer, poet, translator
• Alonzo Ames Miner (1814–1895), Christian minister
• Ambrose Ranney (1821–1899), lawyer, politician
• Amy Beach (1867–1944), composer, pianist
• Andrew Carney (1794–1864), businessperson
• Andrew James Peters (1872–1938), lawyer, politician
• Andrew James Peters (1872–1938), lawyer, politician
• Anne Sexton (1928–1974), writer, poet, children's writer
• Annie Haven Thwing (1851–1940), writer, historian, children's writer
• Austin Flint I (1812–1886), physician
• Austin Flint II (1836–1915), physician, physiologist
• Austin Flint II (1836–1915), physician, physiologist
• Benjamin Thomas (1813–1878), judge, lawyer, politician
• Bob Hall (1878–1950), baseball player
• Carlotta Monterey (1888–1970), actor, stage actor, film actor
• Caroline Snowden Whitmarsh (1827–1898), writer
• Channing H. Cox (1879–1968), lawyer, politician, governor
• Charles Callahan Perkins (1823–1886), writer, painter, art historian
• Charles Edward Faxon (1846–1918), botanical collector, botanist, botanical illustrator
• Charles Franklin Dunbar (1830–1900), economist, university teacher
• Charles H. Taylor (1846–1921), politician, editor, publisher
• Charles Hiller Innes (1870–1939), lawyer, politician
• Charles James Sprague (1823–1903), botanical collector, botanist, scientific collector
• Charles R. Codman (1893–1956), writer
• Charles Russell Codman (1829–1918), politician
• Charles Sedgwick Minot (1852–1914), physician, botanist, histologist
• Charles Sumner Hamlin (1861–1938), lawyer, politician, economist
• Clarence W. Barron (1855–1928), businessperson, journalist
• Curtis Guild (1860–1915), lawyer, politician, ambassador
• Cyrus Augustus Bartol (1813–1900), writer, theologian
• Daisy Yen Wu (1902–1993), biochemist
• E. E. Cummings (1894–1962), writer, poet, playwright
• Eben Dyer Jordan (1822–1895), businessperson
• Edmund Dwight (1780–1849), businessperson, entrepreneur, manager
• Edward Cummings (1861–1926), Christian minister, sociologist
• Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909), writer, theologian, Christian minister
• Edward Loomis Davenport (1816–1877), actor, stage actor
• Edwin Curtis Bailey (1816–1890), newspaper editor
• Edwin Curtis Bailey (1816–1890), newspaper editor
• Edwin Curtis Bailey (1816–1890), newspaper editor
• Edwin Curtis Bailey (1816–1890), newspaper editor
• Edwin Upton Curtis (1861–1922), politician
• Elizabeth Glendower Evans (1856–1937), suffragist
• Elizabeth Howard Bartol (1842–1927), artist, painter, sculptor
• Elizabeth Putnam Sohier (1847–1926), philanthropist
• Ellen Battelle Dietrick (1847–1895), writer, suffragist
• Ellery Harding Clark (1874–1949), screenwriter, athletics competitor
• Elma Lewis (1921–2004), educator, art educator
• Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961), writer, economist, pedagogue
• Ephraim W. Bouvé (1817–1897), engraver
• Ernst Perabo (1845–1920), composer, pianist, music teacher
• Eugene Foss (1858–1939), politician
• Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953), screenwriter, writer, playwright
• Fanny Davenport (1850–1898), actor, writer, stage actor
• Fanny Vining (1829–1891), actor, stage actor
• Fanny Vining (1829–1891), actor, stage actor
• Frank Thayer Merrill (1848–1936), artist, painter
• Frank Welch (1835–1878), politician
• Franklin S. Nickerson (1826–1917), lawyer, military officer
• Franz Kneisel (1865–1926), violinist
• Frederick Lewis Allen (1890–1954), screenwriter, writer, historian
• Gardiner Greene (1753–1832), businessperson
• George B. Seitz (1888–1944), screenwriter, actor, playwright
• George H. Nee (1876–1952), military personnel
• George H. Perkins (1836–1899), military officer
• George Heyliger (1919–1942), military personnel
• George Holden Tinkham (1870–1956), lawyer, politician, jurist
• George Kennedy (1925–2016), actor, military officer, stage actor
• George Minot (1885–1950), physician, internist
• George Ticknor (1791–1871), writer, historian, translator
• George W. Kittredge (1805–1881), politician, banker
• Godfrey Morse (1846–1911), lawyer
• Gustavus Hindman Miller (1857–1959), businessperson
• Gustavus Hindman Miller (1857–1959), businessperson
• Halsey J. Boardman (1834–1900), lawyer, politician
• Harris M. Stephenson (1845–1909), architect
• Harrison Henry Atwood (1863–1954), politician, architect
• Helen Eliza Garrison (1811–1876)
• Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn (1783–1851), lawyer, politician
• Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn (1783–1851), lawyer, politician
• Henry Browne Blackwell (1825–1909), lawyer, jurist, human rights defender
• Henry Dearborn (1751–1829), physician, politician, military officer
• Henry Jackson (1747–1809), military leader
• Henry Martyn Dexter (1821–1890), writer, cleric
• Henry Melville Whitney (1839–1923), businessperson
• Henry Morton Dexter (1846–1910), historian
• Henry O. Fairbanks (1852–1928), politician
• Henry Thatcher (1806–1880), military officer
• Henry Thielberg (1833–1890)
• Henry Thielberg (1833–1890)
• Horace Bumstead (1841–1919)
• Horatio Storer (1830–1922), physician, gynecologist
• Howard Armstrong (1909–2003), musician, mandolinist
• Hugh Bancroft (1879–1933), lawyer, publisher
• Hy Zaret (1907–2007), composer, songwriter, lyricist
• Jacob Merrill Manning (1824–1882), cleric
• James Barr Ames (1846–1910), professor, jurist, tutor
• James Freeman Clarke (1810–1888), writer, historian, theologian
• James Scollay Whitney (1811–1878), businessperson, politician
• Jennie Kimball (1851–1896), actor, singer, theatre manager
• Jimmy Slyde (1927–2008), dancer, television actor
• John Amory Lowell (1798–1881), jurist, anthropologist
• John Ancrum Winslow (1811–1873), military officer
• John Codman Hurd (1816–1892), writer
• John Codman Ropes (1836–1899), writer, lawyer, jurist
• John D. O'Bryant (1931–1992), educator
• John D'Wolf (1779–1872), ship captain, seafarer, fur trader
• John Gibbs Gilbert (1810–1889), actor, stage actor
• John Hubbard Sturgis (1834–1888), architect
• John I. Taylor (1875–1938), baseball player
• John J. Smith (1820–1906), politician
• John Leslie Breck (1860–1899), painter
• John Leslie Breck (1860–1899), painter
• John Lowell (1743–1802), judge, lawyer, politician
• John Lowell (1824–1897), judge, lawyer, politician
• John Silber (1926–2012), author, educator, university teacher
• John Sullivan Dwight (1813–1893), writer, translator, music critic
• John W. Wagner (1837–1896)
• John Warren (1753–1815), physician, surgeon
• Jonas H. French (1829–1903), politician
• Jonathan Mason Warren (1811–1867), surgeon
• Joseph DeCamp (1858–1923), painter
• Joseph Grew (1880–1965), writer, ambassador, diplomat
• Joseph L. Walcott (1897–1998)
• Joseph Warren (1741–1775), physician, politician, major general
• Jotham Bradbury Sewall (1825–1913), university teacher, classical philologist
• Julian Codman (1870–1932), military personnel
• Karl Heinzen (1809–1880), writer, poet, journalist
• Leslie Ronald Jones (1886–1967), photographer
• Lewis A. Horton (1842–1916)
• Lewis Waterman (1836–1901), businessperson, engineer, inventor
• Linda Richards (1841–1930), nurse
• Linus B. Comins (1817–1892), politician
• Lorin F. Deland (1855–1917), American football coach
• Louis Prang (1824–1909), publisher, lithographer
• Louisa Drew (1851–1889)
• Lucy Stone (1818–1893), writer, journalist, editor
• Lucy Stone (1818–1893), writer, journalist, editor
• Ludvig Sandöe Ipsen (1840–1920), architect, illustrator, designer
• Lysander Spooner (1808–1887), lawyer, entrepreneur, businessperson
• Margaret Deland (1857–1945), writer, poet, university teacher
• Maria Louise Baldwin (1856–1922), academic, suffragist
• Maria Parloa (1843–1909), writer
• Marianne Dwight Orvis (1816–1901), painter, correspondent
• Marie Zakrzewska (1829–1902), physician, gynecologist, obstetrician
• Mary Hunt (1830–1906), writer
• Mary Mildred Williams (1847–1921)
• Mary Mildred Williams (1847–1921)
• Melbourne Brindle (1904–1995), illustrator
• Nathaniel Ruggles (1761–1819), judge, lawyer, politician
• Oliver Ditson (1811–1888), publisher
• Oliver Ditson (1811–1888), publisher
• Peleg Tallman (1764–1840), politician
• Percy Langdon Wendell (1889–1932), basketball coach, American football player
• Percy Stickney Grant (1860–1927), writer
• Philip Hale (1854–1934), jurist, organist, journalist
• Phoebe Foster (1895–1975), stage actor, film actor
• Q103431461 (1826–1911), architect
• Q105477152 (1817–1898), politician, publisher
• Q105992541 (1916–1916)
• Q106561642 (1831–1905), banker, botanical collector
• Q106650423 (1850–1924), lawyer, politician
• Q137258578 (1875–1935), nurse, cookbook writer
• Q5078066 (1857–1911), physician, art collector
• Q5361816 (1757–1821), banker
• Q6217548 (1809–1878), politician
• Q65554998 (?–1954), pianist, music teacher
• Quincy Adams Shaw (1825–1908), businessperson, art collector
• Quincy Shaw (1869–1960), tennis player
• Reggie Lewis (1965–1993), basketball player
• Reginald Heber Fitz (1843–1913), physician
• Robert Gould Shaw II (1872–1930), socialite, land owner
• Ruby Foo (1904–1950), restaurateur
• Rufus Anderson (1796–1880), missionary, theologian
• Russell S. Codman Jr. (1896–1992), military personnel, real estate agent, business executive
• Russell S. Codman Jr. (1896–1992), military personnel, real estate agent, business executive
• Samuel C. Cobb (1826–1891), politician
• Samuel C. Pomeroy (1816–1891), politician
• Samuel Gregory (1813–1872), writer
• Samuel Langley (1834–1906), astronomer, physicist, inventor
• Samuel Wright Sr. (1812–1877), cricketer
• Stephen Minot Weld (1806–1867)
• Sumner Paine (1868–1904), sport shooter
• Thomas C. Peebles (1921–2010), virologist, military officer
• Thomas J.C. Amory (1828–1864), military officer
• Thomas N. Hart (1829–1927), politician
• Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr. (1836–1924), military officer, naval officer
• Thomas Ridgeway Gould (1818–1881), sculptor
• Thomas W. Ross (1875–1959), actor
• Tom McNeeley (1937–2011), boxer
• Tommy Bond (1856–1941), baseball player
• Walbridge A. Field (1833–1899), judge, lawyer, politician
• William A. Gaston (1859–1927), manager
• William Cooper Nell (1816–1874), writer, historian, civil servant
• William D. Sohier (1858–1938), politician
• William Dawes (1745–1799), tanner
• William Dwight (1831–1888), military officer
• William Fletcher Weld (1800–1881), businessperson
• William Fogg Osgood (1864–1943), mathematician
• William Gaston (1820–1894), lawyer, politician, governor
• William Halsall (1841–1919), painter
• William Heath (1737–1814), politician, military officer, painter
• William Henry Baldwin Jr. (1863–1905), businessperson
• William Henry Porter (1817–1861), writer
• William L. Grout (1833–1908), businessperson
• William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879), writer, editor, journalist
• William M. Butler (1861–1937), lawyer, politician
• William O. Taylor (1871–1955), publisher
• William Raymond Lee (1807–1891), military officer
• William S. Damrell (1809–1860), politician
• William S. Soule (1836–1908), photographer
• William Schouler (1814–1872), politician, journalist
• William Sterling King (1818–1882), politician, editing staff
• Yin Zizhong (1909–1985), musician
• Yin Zizhong (1909–1985), musician