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List of burials at Arlington National Cemetery

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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  • James Alexander Campbell (1844–1904), US Army Private, Company A, 2nd New York Cavalry. Received during the Civil War 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.
  • 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)
  • 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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  • Merritt A. Edson (1897–1955), US Marine Corps major general; received for his actions as commanding officer of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion
  • Nelson E. Edwards (1887–1954), newsreel cameraman and war photographer, sergeant with the 152nd Depot Brigade at Camp Upton, New York, during World War I (1917–1919)
  • Alan Louis Eggers (1895–1968), World War I
  • Henry T. Elrod (1905–1941), US Marine Corps aviator; received for his heroism in the defense of Wake Island during World War II

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  • Robert D. Reem (1925–1950), US Marine Corps officer; received for his actions during the Korean War
  • George Croghan Reid (1876–1961), US Marine Corps brigadier general; received for his actions during the United States occupation of Veracruz
  • Edmund Rice (1842–1906), US Army brigadier general; received for his actions in repelling Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettsyburg
  • Robert G. Robinson (1896–1974), US Marine Corps officer; received for his actions, as a Gunnery Sergeant, during World War I

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  • Frank Monroe Upton (1896–1962), US Navy Sailor; received for action during World War I
  • Matt Urban (1919–1995), US Army Lieutenant Colonel; received seven Purple Hearts for service in World War II
  • Micheal E. Urell (1844–1910) US Army Soldier; received for action during the American Civil 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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  • John Irwin (1832–1901), US Navy Rear 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
  • Eugene Michael Lynch (1923–2003), US Army Brigadier General, Distinguished Service Cross recipient

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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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  • Willis Carto (1926–2015), American political activist
  • 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
  • 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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  • 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
  • Milton C. Portmann (1888-1967) Major 89th Division World War I. Professional football player. Attorney. (Cenotaph)
  • 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
  • John Almy Tompkins (1837-1916), Lieutenant Colonel in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War
  • James C. Toy (died 1914), captain of the Union Army during the Civil War

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  • Joshua Wheeler (1975–2015), US Army Delta Force operator. Silver Star recipient. The first American to be killed fighting ISIS insurgents and the first American to be killed in Iraq since November 2011.

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Other notable military service members

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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), 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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  • William Rehnquist, US Army Air Forces Sergeant (World War II), Chief Justice of the United States
  • Charles Herschel "Charlie" Reiner (1918–2001), brother to famous comedian and producer Carl Reiner, served in the 9th Division in World War II.
  • 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; Attorney General, 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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Notable civilians

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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 served in the United States Army

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  • Priscilla Lane (1915–1995), film actress. Interred alongside her husband Colonel Joseph A. Howard. He served in the US Air Force and later the Air Force Reserves.
  • Mary Harlan Lincoln (1846–1937), wife of Robert Todd Lincoln, daughter of Senator James Harlan

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  • Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
  • Roberta McCain (1912–2020), wife of John S. McCain Jr.
  • Anita Newcomb McGee (1864–1940), woman doctor, founder of Army Nurse Corps
  • Robert McNamara (1916–2009), Secretary of Defense 1961–1968
  • Hooper S. Miles (1895–1964), politician and lawyer from Maryland
  • Edmund Muskie (1914–1996), politician; Secretary of State 1980–1981
  • Jane Muskie (1927–2004), First Lady of Maine

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  • Maureen O'Hara (1920–2015), actress, interred as Maureen FitzSimons Blair alongside her husband, Brigadier General Charles F. Blair Jr. US Air Force Reserve.

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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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