List of burials at Arlington National Cemetery

Coordinates: 38°52′37″N 77°04′23″W / 38.877°N 77.073°W / 38.877; -77.073
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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.

Alan Louis Eggers, Medal of Honor recipient for World War I

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  • George Emerson Albee
    (1845–1918), US Army officer; received for actions during the Indian Wars
  • Beauford T. Anderson (1922–1996), US Army soldier during World War II

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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)[1]
  • 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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  • Frank Albert Young (1876–1941), US Marine Corps Private; received for his actions during the China Relief Expedition
  • Gerald Orren Young
    (1930–1990), US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel; received for his actions in the Vietnam War

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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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  • 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
  • POW
    for over seven years; achieve the rank of admiral before retiring from the Navy; served in the US Senate from Alabama
  • Field Marshal[4]
  • 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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Charles D. Griffin, US Navy 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
  • 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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  • naval attaché
    to Ecuador and Peru

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John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I

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  • Aleutian Islands Campaign
    during World War II

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  • Howard L. Vickery (1892–1946), vice admiral, US Navy and World War II merchant shipbuilder

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Other military burials

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  • Quentin C. Aanenson (1921–2008), World War II veteran fighter pilot and former captain of the 391st Fighter Squadron, 366th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force, US Army Air Corps[8]
  • George Adamski (1891–1965), noted ufologist
  • US Army
  • John B. Anderson (1922–2017), World War II staff sergeant and politician

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Charles Burlingame, pilot killed during September 11 attacks

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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[16]

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  • ISIS insurgents and the first American to be killed in Iraq since November 2011.[17][18]

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Other notable military service members

John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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Medgar Evers, civil rights activist
  • R. Lee Ermey (1944–2018), USMC staff sergeant and actor
  • Civil Rights Movement
    ; assassinated in 1963

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  • Arthur A. Fletcher
    , civil rights advocate
  • James Florio, Governor of New Jersey (1990–1994)[21]
  • Lawrence Freedman, former US Army Special operations soldier with Delta Force; CIA paramilitary operative killed in Somalia in 1992
  • Code Purple
    in World War II

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Edward M. Kennedy
, US Senator

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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),[27] brother to famous comedian and producer Carl Reiner, served in the 9th Division in World War II.[28]
  • orthodontist
    who helped originate the concept of preventive and interceptive orthodontics
  • 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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  • William Howard Taft, Secretary of War, President of the United States, and Chief Justice of the United States
  • Dora E. Thompson, Army Nurse Corps superintendent during World War I, recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal
  • John Tyler Jr. (1819–1896), son of President John Tyler; served as Private Secretary to his father, Confederate Assistant Secretary of War

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John W. Weeks, Secretary of War

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Notable civilians

Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

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  • 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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  • 1998 Capitol shooting attack
  • Eunice Renshaw Geiger (1893-1982) - American First Lady of Guam.[32]
  • Astronaut John Glenn (1921-2016), the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth and his wife Annie (1920–2020)
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and her husband Martin D. (1932-2010), who worked as a law professor

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  • James Parks (1843–1929), freedman, the only person buried at Arlington Cemetery who was born on the grounds
Front face of the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery

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Other

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.

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Edward M. Kennedy and his brother Senator Robert F. Kennedy
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  29. ^ 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: Woodward, Bob (2002). Bush at War. Simon & Schuster. p. 317.
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