Notable people interred there include:

• Irving Berlin
• Nellie Bly
• Ralph Bunche
• George M. Cohan
• Celia Cruz
• Miles Davis
• Clarence Day
• Duke Ellington
• David Farragut
• Frankie Frisch
• Antoinette Perry Frueauff - The Tony Award is named after her
• Jay Gould
• Archibald Gracie
• Oscar Hammerstein, Sr
• Lionel Hampton
• W.C. Handy
• Victor Herbert
• Barbara Hutton, Woolworth heiress, America's "poor little rich girl"
• Charles Evans Hughes
• Collis P. Huntington
• Augustus D. Juilliard
• Fiorello LaGuardia
• Roland Macy
• Bat Masterson, US Marshall
• George McManus
• Herman Melville
• Marilyn Miller
• Robert Moses
• Thomas Nast
• James Cash Penny
• Otto Preminger, actor and director
• Joseph Pulitzer
• Damon Runyon
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Joseph Stella
• John William Sterling, one of Yale's largest benefactors
• Olive Thomas, actress and wife of Jack Pickford
• C. J. Walker, she was the first African-American millionaire
• Frank Woolworth, chain store founder