Notable interments at Graceland Cemetery
290 notable figures are documented at Graceland Cemetery in Wikidata's burial records, each with a Wikipedia article and a recorded place of burial. Listed alphabetically.
- Adolph Schoeninger (1883–1900), businessperson
- Agnes Lee (1862–1939), poet, translator
- Albert Keep (1826–1907), businessperson
- Alexander C. McClurg (1832–1901), businessperson
- Alfred Cowles, Jr. (1865–1939), lawyer
- Alfred Juergens (1866–1934), painter
- Alice Higinbotham Patterson (1878–1966)
- Allan C. Durborow (1857–1908), politician
- Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884), writer, cooper, businessperson
- Amabel Anderson Arnold (1883–1936), lawyer
- Amelia Gere Mason (1831–1923), writer
- Andrew Constantinides Zenos (1855–1942), writer, dean, Christian minister
- Andrew McNally (1836–1904), map publisher
- Andrew Rebori (1886–1966), architect
- Anita McCormick Blaine (1866–1954)
- Anna Morgan (1851–1936), educator
- Annie Swan Coburn (1856–1932), art collector
- Art Wilson (1885–1960), baseball player
- Arthur M. Beaupre (1853–1919), lawyer, diplomat
- Arthur Meeker, Jr. (1902–1971), novelist
- Arthur S. Siegel (1913–1978), photographer
- Augustus Dickens (1827–1866), writer
- Benjamin Wright Raymond (1801–1883), politician
- Bernhard Ziehn (1845–1912), composer, music educator, musicologist
- Bertha Palmer (1849–1918), entrepreneur, socialite, art collector
- Bill Phillips (1857–1900), baseball player
- Bill Reinhardt (1908–2001), clarinetist
- Bob Caruthers (1864–1911), baseball player
- Bob Fitzsimmons (1863–1917), actor, boxer
- Bolivar G. Gill (1821–1907), politician
- Brooks McCormick (1917–2006), businessperson
- Bruce Goff (1904–1982), architect, painter, university teacher
- Bruce Graham (1925–2010), architect
- Bryan Lathrop (1844–1916), businessperson
- Bud Freeman (1906–1991), conductor, musician, bandleader
- C. K. G. Billings (1861–1937), industrialist, equestrian
- Carl L. Hamilton (1888–1946), businessperson
- Carter Harrison III (1825–1893), mayor, lawyer, politician
- Carter Harrison IV (1860–1953), lawyer, politician, civil servant
- Charles Abel Corwin (1857–1938), artist, painter, graphic artist
- Charles Abel Corwin (1857–1938), artist, painter, graphic artist
- Charles C. Bonney (1831–1903), judge, lawyer, orator
- Charles Deering (1852–1927), businessperson, entrepreneur, art collector
- Charles H. Wacker (1856–1929), architect, urban planner, landscape architect
- Charles L. Billings (1856–1938), lawyer, politician, suffragist
- Charles L. Hutchinson (1854–1924), businessperson
- Charles McNeill Gray (1807–1885), politician
- Christian Fenger (1840–1902), surgeon, university teacher, pathologist
- Cissy Patterson (1881–1948), editor, journalist, novelist
- Clara E. Laughlin (1873–1941), actor, writer, author
- Clement Walker Andrews (1858–1930), librarian
- Cornelius Krieghoff (1815–1872), artist, painter, portraitist
- Cyrus Hall McCormick II (1859–1936), businessperson
- Cyrus McCormick (1809–1884), businessperson, engineer, farmer
- Daniel Brainard (1812–1866), surgeon
- Daniel Burnham (1846–1912), writer, architect, urban planner
- Daniel Burnham Jr. (1886–1961), architect, urban planner
- Daniel Hale Williams (1858–1931), surgeon, cardiologist
- Daniel Hale Williams (1858–1931), surgeon, cardiologist
- Daniel W. Mills (1838–1904), politician
- David Adler (1882–1949), architect, deltiologist
- David J. Powers (1814–1909), politician
- Dawn Clark Netsch (1926–2013), lawyer, politician, school teacher
- Dick Cusack (1925–2003), screenwriter, actor
- Doug Buffone (1944–2015), American football player
- Ed Paschke (1939–2004), painter, illustrator, university teacher
- Edith Farnsworth (1903–1977), physician
- Edith Franklin Wyatt (1873–1958), writer, poet, short story writer
- Edith Rockefeller McCormick (1872–1932), socialite, collector
- Edmund Andrews (1824–1904), surgeon
- Edward J. Burling (1819–1892), architect
- Edward J. Burling (1819–1892), architect
- Edwin Hartley Pratt (1849–1930), homeopath
- Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford (1826–1914), industrialist
- Elizabeth Norton (1887–1985), painter, artist, sculptor
- Elliott Anthony (1827–1898), judge, lawyer
- Ellis S. Chesbrough (1813–1886), engineer, civil engineer
- Emil Gross (1858–1921), baseball player
- Erland Carlsson (1822–1893), theologian, Lutheran pastor
- Ernest R. Graham (1868–1936), architect
- Ernie Banks (1931–2015), baseball player
- Fanny Hatton (1875–1939), screenwriter, actor, playwright
- Fanny Hatton (1875–1939), screenwriter, actor, playwright
- Fazlur Khan (1929–1982), architect, engineer, structural engineer
- Florence McLandburgh (1850–1934), poet, author, science fiction writer
- Francis Boggs (1870–1911), screenwriter, actor, stage actor
- Francis Boggs (1870–1911), screenwriter, actor, stage actor
- Francis Cornwall Sherman (1805–1870), politician
- Francis Wayland Palmer (1827–1907), politician, journalist, editor
- Frank D. Arms (1872–1913), architect, American football coach
- Frank Orren Lowden (1861–1943), lawyer, politician, jurist
- Franklin Henry Martin (1857–1935), surgeon, event producer, editor
- Franklin Henry Martin (1857–1935), surgeon, event producer, editor
- Franklin MacVeagh (1837–1934), lawyer, politician
- Fred A. Busse (1866–1914), politician
- Fred Cone (1848–1909), baseball player
- Frederic Clay Bartlett (1873–1953), painter, art collector
- Frederick B. Moorehead (1875–1944), dentist
- Frederick Hampden Winston (1830–1904), lawyer, diplomat
- Frederick Warren Freer (1849–1908), painter
- Genevieve Foster (1893–1979), writer, illustrator, children's writer
- Genevieve Foster (1893–1979), writer, illustrator, children's writer
- George Armour (1812–1881), businessperson
- George Edmund Foss (1863–1936), lawyer, politician
- George F. Cram (1842–1928), publisher
- George Grant Elmslie (1869–1952), architect
- George Greenleaf (1874–1936), American football player
- George John Hamlin (1869–1923), singer, opera singer
- George Pullman (1831–1897), entrepreneur, inventor, factory owner
- George W. Taylor (1855–1931), politician
- Granville Bates (1882–1940), actor
- Hans Balatka (1827–1899), composer, conductor, musician
- Harlow N. Higinbotham (1838–1919), businessperson, merchant, soldier
- Harold Fowler McCormick (1872–1941), entrepreneur, tennis player
- Harriet Hubbard Ayer (1852–1903), writer, businessperson, entrepreneur
- Harriet Hubbard Ayer (1852–1903), writer, businessperson, entrepreneur
- Harry Cashman (1869–1912), actor
- Harry Foote Hodges (1860–1929), military personnel
- Hempstead Washburne (1851–1918), lawyer, politician
- Henry Boardman Conover (1892–1950), zoologist, ornithologist
- Henry Eduard Legler (1861–1917), politician, librarian, journalist
- Henry Field (1841–1890), businessperson, art collector
- Henry Honoré (1824–1916), businessperson
- Herbert Edwin Bradley (1871–1961), lawyer, zoo director, big game hunter
- Hermann Raster (1827–1891), journalist, revolutionary, editor
- Hope Baldwin McCormick (1919–1993), politician
- Horace Holmes Thomas (1831–1904), politician
- Horace White (1834–1916), writer, businessperson, journalist
- Howard Van Doren Shaw (1869–1926), architect
- Hugh Talbot Patrick (1860–1939), neurologist
- Isaac Newton Arnold (1815–1884), lawyer, writer, politician
- Isadore G. Jeffery (1840–1919), poet, lyricist
- J. Roderick MacArthur (1920–1984), businessperson
- Jack Johnson (1878–1946), boxer
- Jacob Manz (1837–1916), engraver
- James Deering (1859–1925), businessperson, entrepreneur, socialite
- James H. Eckels (1858–1907), accountant
- James Simpson, Jr. (1905–1960), lawyer, politician, military officer
- Janet Ayer Fairbank (1878–1951), writer, novelist, suffragist
- Jedediah Hyde Lathrop (1806–1889), merchant
- Jessie De Priest (1870–1961)
- Joachim Gotsche Giæver (1856–1925), architect, civil engineer
- John Calhoun (1808–1859), politician, journalist, editor
- John Henry Raap (1840–1897), businessperson
- John J. Mitchell (1853–1927), banker
- John Jacob Esher (1823–1901), Protestant theologian
- John Jones (1817–1879), businessperson
- John Kinzie (1763–1828), goldsmith, shopkeeper, fur trader
- John Kinzie (1763–1828), goldsmith, shopkeeper, fur trader
- John Kinzie (1763–1828), goldsmith, shopkeeper, fur trader
- John Kinzie (1763–1828), goldsmith, shopkeeper, fur trader
- John Ott (1909–2000), photographer, cinematograph, inventor
- John Ott (1909–2000), photographer, cinematograph, inventor
- John Peter Altgeld (1847–1902), judge, lawyer, jurist
- John Putnam Chapin (1810–1864), politician
- John T. McCutcheon (1870–1949), writer, journalist
- John Wellborn Root (1850–1891), architect
- John Wellborn Root Jr. (1887–1963), architect
- Jonathan Ogden Armour (1863–1927), businessperson
- Joseph H. Jackson (1905–1990), priest, politician, pastor
- Joseph H. Jackson (1905–1990), priest, politician, pastor
- Joseph H. Tucker (1819–1894), military officer, banker
- Joseph Medill (1823–1899), politician, editor, journalist
- Joseph Russell Jones (1823–1909), politician, diplomat, envoy
- Julia Holmes Smith (1839–1930), physician, suffragist
- Julian Sidney Rumsey (1823–1886), politician
- Julius Goldzier (1854–1925), lawyer, politician
- Jun Fujita (1888–1963), photographer, actor, poet
- Justin Butterfield (1790–1855), lawyer
- Karl Menger (1902–1985), mathematician, university teacher, philosopher
- Kate Warne (1833–1868), detective
- Katharine Dexter McCormick (1875–1967), biologist, suffragist, feminist
- Kenneth Sawyer Goodman (1883–1918), writer
- Lambert Tree (1832–1910), judge, lawyer, diplomat
- László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), photographer, teacher, architect
- Lawrence O. Lawson (1842–1912), military personnel
- Leander J. McCormick (1819–1900), inventor
- Leda Richberg-Hornsby (1886–1939), aircraft pilot
- Lee Sandlin (1956–2014), writer, journalist
- Lena Sadler (1875–1939), physician, surgeon, obstetrician
- Leopold Ehrmann (1887–1951), architect
- Leopold Ehrmann (1887–1951), architect
- Li Fu Lee (1904–1985), electrical engineer
- Lizzie Aiken (1817–1906)
- Lorenzo Brentano (1813–1891), politician, diplomat, jurist
- Louis Sullivan (1856–1924), architect, designer
- Louise DeKoven Bowen (1859–1953), philanthropist, suffragist
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), teacher, architect, designer
- Lydia Avery Coonley Ward (1845–1924), poet
- Lynden Evans (1858–1926), lawyer, politician
- M. Edward Fawcett (1865–1935), cleric
- Margaret Horton Potter (1881–1911), author, novelist
- Marie J. Mergler (1851–1901), physician, physician writer, surgeon
- Marion Mahony Griffin (1871–1961), architect, artist
- Marshall Field (1834–1906), entrepreneur, merchant
- Marshall Field III (1893–1956), banker, opinion journalist, philanthropist
- Marshall Field IV (1916–1965), businessperson
- Martin A. Ryerson (1856–1932), businessperson, entrepreneur, art collector
- Mary Hastings Bradley (1882–1976), war correspondent, journalist, novelist
- Mary Jane Richardson Jones (1819–1909), activist, abolitionist, suffragist
- Mary Virginia McCormick (1861–1941), philanthropist
- Melville Fuller (1833–1910), judge, lawyer, politician
- Melvin Alvah Traylor (1878–1934), politician, banker
- Michael Waller Robinson (1837–1912), politician
- Minnie Miñoso (1925–2015), baseball player
- N. K. Fairbank (1829–1903), businessperson
- Nancy Fowler McCormick (1835–1923)
- Nelson Ludington (1818–1883), businessperson
- Nicholas Senn (1844–1908), surgeon
- Norman B. Judd (1815–1878), lawyer, politician, diplomat
- Orsemus Morrison (1807–1864), politician
- Oscar Stanton De Priest (1871–1951), businessperson, politician, jurist
- Perry H. Smith (1828–1885), judge, businessperson, lawyer
- Philip Danforth Armour (1832–1901), entrepreneur
- Phyllis Hoyt (1887–1964), composer
- Potter Palmer (1826–1902), businessperson
- Q1047825 (1825–1885), writer, politician, editing staff
- Q14623649 (1825–1905), military officer
- Q17308743 (1824–1893), dentist
- Q17308900 (1821–1877), politician
- Q23017078 (1876–1957), politician
- Q302747 (1802–1886), businessperson, politician
- Q3104388 (1879–1960), actor
- Q5077785 (1844–1920), businessperson
- Q5088246 (1884–1954), entrepreneur, art collector
- Q5660620 (1890–1918), athlete
- Q5732816 (1865–1897), American football coach
- Q6219724 (1886–1945), architect
- Q6252303 (1883–1935), sculptor
- Q7186010 (1805–1886), pharmacist
- Richard McPherren Cabeen (1887–1969), writer, text editor, philatelist
- Richard Nickel (1928–1972), photographer, architectural photographer
- Richard Theodore Greener (1844–1922), lawyer, librarian, diplomat
- Robert Henry Lawrence (1935–1967), astronaut, military officer, aircraft pilot
- Robert Sanderson McCormick (1849–1919), diplomat
- Robert Wilson Patterson (1850–1910), editor
- Roger Ebert (1942–2013), screenwriter, writer, reporter
- Ronald Coase (1910–2013), writer, economist, historian
- Rudolph Ganz (1877–1972), composer, conductor, pianist
- Ruth Page (1899–1991), choreographer, ballet dancer, dancer
- Samuel Eddy Barrett (1834–1912), industrialist
- Samuel W. Allerton (1828–1914), businessperson
- Sanger Brown (1852–1928), physician, neurologist
- Sarah E. Goode (1855–1905), entrepreneur, inventor
- Seth Scott Bishop (1852–1923), laryngologist
- Shobal Vail Clevenger, Jr. (1843–1920), psychiatrist, neurologist, anatomist
- Silas B. Cobb (1812–1900), businessperson
- Spencer F. Eddy (1873–1939), diplomat
- Stanley Tigerman (1930–2019), architect
- Stewart Johnson (1880–1926), diplomat
- Sylvia Shaw Judson (1897–1978), sculptor
- Theodore Brentano (1854–1940), judge, lawyer, diplomat
- Thomas Dent (1831–1924), lawyer, politician
- Thomas Drummond (1809–1890), judge, lawyer, politician
- Thomas Dyer (1805–1862), politician
- Thomas Mears Eddy (1823–1874), writer
- Thomas Tallmadge (1876–1940), architect
- Ulysses Sherman Grant (1867–1932), geologist, paleontologist, malacologist
- Victor Lawson (1850–1925), publisher
- Vincent Hugo Bendix (1882–1945), engineer, inventor
- Vincent Hugo Bendix (1882–1945), engineer, inventor
- Vincent Starrett (1886–1974), writer, screenwriter, literary critic
- Walter C. Newberry (1835–1912), politician, military officer
- Walter Dyett (1901–1969), violinist, jazz musician, music educator
- Walter Loomis Newberry (1804–1868), investor
- Walter Netsch (1920–2008), architect
- Wilhelm Rapp (1827–1907), author, editor, journalist
- William Ambrose Hulbert (1832–1882), baseball player
- William Bradshaw Egan (1808–1860), politician
- William C. Goudy (1824–1893), politician
- William Deering (1826–1913), industrialist
- William Emerson Strong (1840–1891), military officer
- William Grigsby McCormick (1851–1941), stockbroker
- William Heath Byford (1817–1890), gynecologist
- William Henry Bush (1849–1931), businessperson
- William Henry Powell (1825–1904)
- William Holabird (1854–1923), architect
- William J. Calhoun (1848–1916), politician
- William Johnson (1895–1981), teacher, military personnel, editor
- William Johnston (1871–1929), editor, journalist, novelist
- William Josiah MacDonald (1873–1946), lawyer, politician
- William Le Baron Jenney (1832–1907), architect, engineer
- William McEntyre Dye (1831–1899), politician, colonel, military officer
- William P. Black (1842–1916), lawyer, soldier
- William Toomer (1831–1901)
- William Vaughn Moody (1869–1910), writer, poet, playwright
- William Wagner (1825–1872), physician
- William Wallace Kimball (1828–1904), businessperson
- Winifred Ward (1884–1975), drama teacher
- Wirt Dexter Walker (1860–1899), lawyer