Princeton Cemetery
Princeton Cemetery is located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. It is owned by the Presbyterian Church">Presbyterianism">Presbyterian Church. In his 1878 history of Princeton, New Jersey, John F. Hageman refers to the cemetery as "The Westminster Abbey of the United States."
Notable burials
- Archibald Alexander, Presbyterian theologian
- James Waddel Alexander, Presbyterian theologian and eldest son of Archibald Alexander
- Joseph Addison Alexander, Presbyterian biblical scholar and third son of Archibald Alexander
- William Cowper Alexander, politician, businessman and second son of Archibald Alexander
- Frank Anscombe, statistician, known for Anscombe's quartet
- John N. Bahcall, astrophysicist
- George Wildman Ball, diplomat
- George Dashiell Bayard, Civil War general
- Sylvia Beach, bookshop owner
- Harold H. Bender, philologist
- John Berrien, New Jersey Supreme Court Justice and owner of Rockingham, Washington's headquarters
- William G. Bowen,, president of Princeton University
- Aaron Burr, controversial Revolutionary War hero and politician, third vice president of [the United States], killer of Alexander Hamilton, adventurer who was eventually tried and acquitted of treason
- Aaron Burr Sr., Presbyterian minister, second president of Princeton University and father of Aaron Burr
- Brendan Byrne, 47th governor of New Jersey
- Alonzo Church, mathematician
- Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th president of the United States
- Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston, wife of Grover Cleveland and First Lady of the United States
- Ruth Cleveland, first child of Grover and Frances Cleveland and supposed name sake of the Baby Ruth candy bar
- Edward Samuel Corwin, author and professor of law
- Samuel Davies, president of Princeton University
- Erling Dorf, renowned paleobotanist, professor of Geology at Princeton University
- Jonathan Edwards, president of Princeton University and Calvinist theologian
- Richard Stockton Field, US senator and New Jersey Attorney General
- John Huston Finley, author, president of Knox College and University of the State of New York
- Donald B. Fullerton, missionary and founder of the Princeton Christian Fellowship
- Harold Furth, physicist
- George Horace Gallup, pollster
- William Francis Gibbs, naval architect
- Kurt Gödel, mathematician
- Michael Graves, architect and product designer
- Peter Charles Harris, adjutant general of the U.S. Army
- Charles Hodge, Calvinist theologian
- David Hunter, Civil War General
- Louis "Lajos" Jambor, Hungarian-born American painter, illustrator and muralist.
- William Hallock Johnson, president of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania
- Joseph Kargé, Civil War General and Princeton University professor
- George Frost Kennan, diplomat
- Alan Krueger, economist
- Frank Lewin, composer
- David Kellogg Lewis, philosopher
- Edward Parke Custis Lewis, diplomat
- John Maclean Jr., president of Princeton University
- Robert McNutt McElroy, historian and professor of history at Princeton University, Oxford University, and Cambridge University
- José Menendez and Mary Louise Menendez, murder victims of their sons, Lyle and Erik Menendez
- John O'Hara, author of Appointment in Samarra, BUtterfield 8, and many short stories
- Moses Taylor Pyne, financier, philanthropist and owner of Drumthwacket Estate
- Roger Atkinson Pryor, Special US Minister to Greece, US congressman from Virginia, Confederate congressman and general, journalist, New York Supreme Court justice
- William Drew Robeson, father of singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson
- Henry Norris Russell, astronomer
- William Milligan Sloane, first US Olympic Committee president
- Howard Alexander Smith, US senator from New Jersey
- John P. Stockton, New Jersey attorney general and U.S. senator
- Richard Stockton, U.S. senator from New Jersey
- Robert Field Stockton, naval officer
- Lyman Spitzer, astronomer
- John Renshaw Thomson, U.S. senator from New Jersey
- William G. Thompson, mayor of Detroit
- Augustus Trowbridge, professor and dean at Princeton University
- John W. Tukey, statistician
- Paul Tulane, Tulane University benefactor
- John von Neumann, mathematician
- Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Presbyterian theologian
- Andrew Fleming West, classicist, Giger Professor of Latin and first dean of the Princeton University Graduate School
- Canvass White, engineer and inventor
- Eugene Paul Wigner, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
- John Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration of Independence
- William Willet, portraitist and stained glass designer