Person(s) |
Significance |
Location of Tomb |
Article |
Dae Hungmu and 11 other family members |
Royalty of the Balhae Kingdom |
Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin, China |
Ancient Tombs at Longtou Mountain, Mausoleum of Princess Zhenxiao |
Mao Zedong |
Communist ruler of China from 1943-1976 |
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China |
Mausoleum of Mao Zedong |
Qín Shǐ Huáng Líng |
1st Qin emperor |
Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China (site of the famous terracotta soldiers) |
Terracotta Army |
Sun Yat-sen |
Chinese revolutionary, founder of the Kuomintang, and 1st President of the Republic of China |
At the foot of the second peak of Mount Zijin in Nanjing, China |
Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum |
Taizong of Tang |
Tang Dynasty emperor from 599-649 |
Jiuzong mountain, Shaanxi, China |
Zhao Mausoleum |
Yongle and 12 succeeding emperors |
Ming Dynasty emperors from 1402-1644 |
13 km due north of Beijing, China |
Ming Dynasty Tombs |
Person(s) |
Significance |
Location of Tomb |
Article |
Napoleon Bonaparte and family members |
Corsican soldier and French emperor |
Massive multi-layered sarcophagus under the dome of Les Invalides, Paris, France |
Les Invalides |
Marie Curie and Pierre Curie |
French-Polish couple who discovered X-rays; Marie won the Nobel Prize twice |
The Panthéon in Paris, France |
Panthéon, Paris |
Alexandre Dumas, père |
Author |
The Panthéon in Paris, France |
Panthéon, Paris |
Ferdinand Foch |
Marshal of France during World War I |
Les Invalides, Paris, France |
Les Invalides |
Victor Hugo |
Author |
The Panthéon in Paris, France |
Panthéon, Paris |
Joseph Louis Lagrange |
Italian-French mathematician and astronomer |
The Panthéon in Paris, France |
Panthéon, Paris |
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle |
French Army captain and author of Le Marseillaise, the national anthem |
Les Invalides, Paris, France |
Les Invalides |
Gaspard Monge |
French mathematician and inventor of descriptive geometry |
Le Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France (since moved to the Panthéon) |
Gaspard Monge's mausoleum |
Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne |
Viscount of Turenne and Marshal of France under Louis XIV; one of France's greatest military leaders |
Les Invalides, Paris, France |
Les Invalides |
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (Vauban) |
Military architect for Louis XIV |
Les Invalides, Paris, France |
Les Invalides |
Francois-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) |
French philosopher of The Enlightenment |
The Panthéon in Paris, France |
Panthéon, Paris |
Person(s) |
Significance |
Location of Tomb |
Article |
Benjamin Franklin |
Early American printer, inventor, and statesman |
Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Christ Church Burial Ground |
Ulysses S. Grant |
American Civil War general and 18th President of the United States |
Riverside Park in Manhattan, New York, New York |
Grant's Tomb |
Thomas Jefferson |
Author of the Declaration of Independence, founder of the University of Virginia, and 3rd President of the United States |
Monticello, Virginia |
none |
Kamehameha and Kalakaua dynasties |
Royal families of Hawaii |
2261 Nuuanu Avenue in Honolulu, Hawaii |
Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii |
Abraham Lincoln |
16th President of the United States |
Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois |
Lincoln's Tomb |
William McKinley |
25th President of the United States |
Canton, Ohio |
McKinley Memorial Mausoleum |
Leland Stanford |
Founder of Stanford University |
Stanford University campus, Stanford, California |
Stanford Mausoleum |
George Washington |
Revolutionary War general and 1st President of the United States |
Mount Vernon, Virginia |
none |
Person(s) |
Significance |
Location of Tomb |
Article |
Saint Andrew |
Apostle, first bishop of Byzantium, and patron saint of Scotland, Greece, Russia, and Romania |
Once in Patras, Achaea, Greece, now disputed; his body is said to be in both the cathedral of Amalfi, Campania, Italy, and in St Andrews, Scotland |
Saint Andrew |
Saint Augustine |
Early Christian bishop and theologian |
San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro church in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy |
San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro |
St Clare of Assisi |
Follower of St Francis; medieval ascetic saint and founder of the Order of Poor Ladies |
Santa Chiara church in Assisi, Perugia, Italy (her body is said to be uncorrupted) |
none |
St Francis of Assisi |
Medieval ascetic saint; founder of the Franciscan order |
Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi in Assisi, Perugia, Italy |
Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi |
Saint James the Great |
Apostle and later missionary to Spain |
Believed to be beneath the altar of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain |
Santiago de Compostela |
Saint John the Apostle |
Apostle and author of the Gospel of John and Revelations |
Disputed; may be either on the island of Patmos, Greece, or at Selçuk, a small town in the vicinity of Ephesus in what is now Turkey |
John the Apostle |
Joseph |
Hebrew patriarch |
Believed to be in Nablus, in the West Bank, Israel |
Joseph's Tomb |
Mary |
Mother of Jesus |
Believed to be in the Kedron Valley at the foot of the Mount of Olives |
Mary's Tomb |
Saint Peter |
Apostle, first bishop of Rome and co-founder of the Christian church |
Directly below the altar of St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City |
Saint Peter's tomb |
Saint Thomas |
Apostle and later missionary to India and first Catholicos of the East |
Believed to be in San Thome Basilica in Madras (now Chennai), India |
Thomas (apostle), St. Thomas Mount, San Thome Basilica |
many |
various |
Tiberias, Israel |
Tomb of the Matriarchs |