List of cemeteries in California

Alameda County

Cathedral of Christ the Light Mausoleum, Oakland

Cedar Lawn Memorial Park, Fremont

Centerville Pioneer Cemetery (also known as Centerville Presbyterian Cemetery), Fremont

Chapel of Memories Columbarium, Oakland – Ernest O. Lawrence, Joseph R. Knowland

Chapel of the Chimes, Hayward – Spade Cooley, Daniel Sakai

Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland – John Lee Hooker

County Cemetery (a "Potter's field"), San Leandro

Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Cemetery, Fremont

Dublin Pioneer Cemetery, Dublin

Evergreen Cemetery, Oakland – Huey P. Newton, Earl "Fatha" Hines, memorial to the Jonestown victims

Holy Ghost Cemetery, Fremont

Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Hayward – Tony Lema, Fran Ryan

Home of Peace Cemetery, Oakland

IOOF Memory Gardens Cemetery, Livermore

Irvington Memorial Cemetery, also known as Fremont Memorial Park, Fremont – Rosalina Abejo

Lone Tree Cemetery, Fairview – William Dutton Hayward (namesake of the adjacent city of Hayward), Pete Knight (rodeo star), Bob Sweikert (Indy 500 winner), Charlie Becker (the "Mayor of Munchkinland" in The Wizard of Oz)

Mission San Jose Cemetery, Fremont – Ygnacio Martínez

Mount Calvary Cemetery, San Leandro

Mount Eden Cemetery, Hayward

Mount Saint Joseph Cemetery (aka All Saints or Portuguese Cemetery), Hayward

Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland – Henry J. Kaiser, Julia Morgan, Elizabeth Short

Oak Knoll Pioneer Memorial Park, former cemetery, now a park (all gravestones removed), Livermore

Pleasanton Memorial Gardens Cemetery, also known as IOOF Cemetery, Pleasanton Pioneer Cemetery, Pleasanton

Roselawn Cemetery, also known as Masonic Cemetery, Livermore

San Lorenzo Pioneer Memorial Park, also known as San Lorenzo Pioneer Cemetery, San Lorenzo (managed by the Hayward Area Historical Society)

Saint Augustines Cemetery, Pleasanton

Saint Josephs Cemetery, Fremont

Saint Mary Cemetery, Oakland – Juan Bautista Alvarado, John Walter Ehle, Slip Madigan

Saint Michael's Cemetery, Livermore

Alpine County

Fredericksburg Cemetery, Fredericksburg

Amador County

Pine Grove Cemetery, Pine Grove

Sutter Creek City Cemetery, Sutter Creek

Sutter Creek Catholic Cemetery, Sutter Creek

Plymouth Memorial Cemetery, Plymouth

Jackson City Cemetery, Jackson City

Ione Public Cemetery, Ione

Fiddletown Cemetery, Fiddletown

Butte County

Bangor Cemetery, Bangor

Gridley-Biggs Cemetery, Gridley

Cherokee Cemetery, Oroville

Chico Cemetery, Chico – Ted W. Lawson

Calaveras County

Altaville Catholic Cemetery, Angels Camp

Peoples Cemetery, San Andreas – Diana Adams

Colusa County

Colusa Cemetery, Colusa

College City Cemetery, College City

Contra Costa County

Memory Gardens Cemetery, Concord

Oakmont Memorial Park, Pleasant Hill – Leonard Michaels, Brent Mydland

Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Contra Costa

Rolling Hills Memorial Park, Richmond – Vada Pinson, Major League Baseball player

Rose Hill Cemetery, Nortonville

St. Joseph Cemetery, San Pablo

Sunset Mausoleum-Columbarium, El Cerrito

Sunset View Cemetery, Kensington

Gan Shalom Cemetery, Briones

Pacheco Cemetery & Crematory, Martinez

St. Catherine of Siena Cemetery, Martinez

Alhambra Pioneer Cemetery, Martinez

St. Joseph Cemetery, Richmond

Del Norte County

IOOF Cemetery, Crescent City

Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Crescent City

Smith River Cemetery, Smith River

Saint Josephs Catholic Cemetery, Del Norte County

El Dorado County

Green Valley Cemetery, Cameron Park

Happy Homestead Cemetery, South Lake Tahoe

Mormon Island Relocation Cemetery, El Dorado Hills

Placerville Union Cemetery, Placerville

Saint Patrick Cemetery, Placerville

Westwood Hills Memorial Park, Placerville

Fresno County

Belmont Memorial Park, Fresno – Walter Huston

Glenn County

Graves Cemetery, Orland

IOOF Cemetery, Orland

Orland Masonic Cemetery, Orland

Willows Cemetery, Willows

Humboldt County

Saint Bernards Cemetery, Eureka

Masons and IOOF Cemetery, Rohnerville

Imperial County

Evergreen Cemetery, El Centro – Ira Aten

Inyo County

Big Pine Cemetery, Big Pine

Camp Independence Cemetery, Independence

Darwin Cemetery, Darwin

Death Valley Junction Cemetery, Death Valley

East Line Street Cemetery, Bishop

Independence Cemetery, Independence

Keeler Cemetery, Keeler

Manzanar Cemetery, Manzanar

Mount Tom Cemetery, Inyo

Mount Whitney Cemetery, Lone Pine

Pioneer Cemetery, Lone Pine

Shoshone Cemetery, Shoshone

Sunland Cemetery, Bishop

Tecopa Cemetery, Tecopa

West Line Street Cemetery, Bishop

Woodman Cemetery, Big Pine

Kern County

Bakersfield National Cemetery, Arvin

Greenlawn Cemeteries, Bakersfield

Kings County

Corcoran Memorial Park, Corcoran

Grangeville Cemetery, Armona

Hanford Cemetery, Hanford

Lemoore Cemetery, Lemoore

Lake County

Lower Lake Cemetery, Lower Lake

Lassen County

Janesville Cemetery, Janesville

Susanville Cemetery, Susanville – John Edward Raker

Westwood Cemetery, Westwood

Los Angeles County

All Souls Cemetery, Long Beach – Frank Zamboni, Jack Snow, Jenni Rivera

Angeles Abbey Cemetery, Compton

Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles – George Alexander, Phineas Banning, Jessie Benton Frémont, Louise Glaum, Hattie McDaniel, Anna May Wong, Frederic T. Woodman

Artesia Cemetery, Cerritos

Avalon Cemetery, Avalon – Doodles Weaver

Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles – King Baggot, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Dolores Costello, Lou Costello, Irene Dunne, John Hodiak, Mabel Normand

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Mausoleum (first new combined cathedral and burial place in the US in over 30 years), Downtown Los Angeles – Gregory Peck

Chapel of the Pines Crematory, Los Angeles – Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., Edmund Gwenn, Alan Napier, Stephen Stucker

Chinese Cemetery of Los Angeles

Eden Memorial Park Cemetery, Mission Hills, Los Angeles – Lenny Bruce, Harvey Lembeck, Groucho Marx, Catya Sassoon, Roy Stuart

El Campo Santo Cemetery, City of Industry

Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles

Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale – Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, Clara Bow, George Burns, Sammy Davis Jr., Walt Disney, Larry Fine, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Michael Jackson, Carole Lombard, Mary Pickford, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Taylor, Robert Young, and many others; satirized in Evelyn Waugh's novel, The Loved One

Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery, Los Angeles – Bette Davis, Sandra Dee, Andy Gibb, Buster Keaton, Dorothy Lamour, Charles Laughton, Stan Laurel, Liberace, Brittany Murphy, Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, Ricky Nelson, George Raft, John Ritter, Telly Savalas, Paul Walker,; (Lucille Ball was originally interred here, but was removed to Jamestown, New York in 2002)

Forest Lawn – Covina Hills in Covina

Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Long Beach) in Long Beach

Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale – Leo G. Carroll, Edna Purviance, Chill Wills

Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Culver City – Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Nell Carter, Moe Howard, Al Jolson

Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood – Don Adams, Mel Blanc, Marion Davies, Cecil B. DeMille, Douglas Fairbanks, Janet Gaynor, John Huston, Peter Lorre, Eleanor Powell, Tyrone Power, Bugsy Siegel, William Desmond Taylor, Rudolph Valentino, Clifton Webb, Fay Wray

Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City – John Candy, Bing Crosby, Bela Lugosi, Sharon Tate, Lawrence Welk

Home of Peace Cemetery, East Los Angeles – Curly Howard and Shemp Howard (from Three Stooges), Louis B. Mayer, Jack L. Warner

Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood – Edgar Bergen, Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, Betty Grable, Gypsy Rose Lee, Sugar Ray Robinson, Cesar Romero

Little Lake Cemetery. Santa Fe Springs, California

Los Angeles National Cemetery, West Los Angeles

Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles – Lee J. Cobb, Cass Elliott, Norman Fell, Phil Silvers

Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena – Octavia Butler, Eldridge Cleaver, Richard Feynman

Oak Park Cemetery, Claremont

Oakdale Memorial Park and Mortuary, Glendora

Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Chatsworth – Adele Astaire, Fred Astaire, Gloria Grahame, Ginger Rogers

Odd Fellows Cemetery, Los Angeles

Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation, Burbank

Pascual Marquez Family Cemetery in the Santa Monica Canyon portion of Los Angeles.

Resurrection Cemetery, Montebello

Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier (the largest cemetery in the United States) – Alvin Ailey, Jr., William Hopper, Haing S. Ngor

San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills – William Bendix, Walter Brennan, Evelyn Brent, Betty Compson, Chuck Connors, William Frawley, Bob Hope, Ritchie Valens, Jane Wyatt

San Fernando Pioneer Memorial Cemetery

San Gabriel Cemetery

Sawtelle Veterans Home, Sawtelle

Serbian Cemetery, East Los Angeles

Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, North Hollywood – Bea Benaderet, Lita Grey, Oliver Hardy, Bob Mizer, Mae Murray

Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Westwood – Eddie Albert, Eve Arden, Fanny Brice, Bob Crane, Farrah Fawcett, Eva Gabor, Gene Kelly, Walter Matthau, Marilyn Monroe, Billy Wilder, Carl Wilson, Natalie Wood, Frank Zappa

Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica – Charles Bickford, Glenn Ford, Paul Henreid, Doug McClure, Irene Ryan

Marin County

Fernwood Cemetery, Mill Valley, now Fernwood Forever, a natural burial cemetery

Mount Tamalpais Cemetery, San Rafael – Bessie Barriscale, Howard C. Hickman, Ernie Nevers, Diane Varsi

Mariposa County

District Cemetery, Mariposa – William "Billy" Costello

Merced County

San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery, Santa Nella

Modoc County

Eagleville Cemetery, Eagleville – Arky Vaughan

Monterey County

Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, Carmel – Junípero Serra

Napa County

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Saint Helena

Napa Valley Memorial Park & Mortuary, Napa

Saint Helena Public Cemetery, Saint Helena Public

Tulocay Cemetery, Napa

Veterans Memorial Grove Cemetery, Yountville

Nevada County

Greenwood Memorial Cemetery, Grass Valley - John Rollin Ridge

Orange County

Forest Lawn – Cypress, Cypress

Yorba Hacienda, Yorba Linda, a California Historical Landmark

Santa Ana Cemetery, Santa Ana

El Toro Memorial Park, Lake Forest

Anaheim Cemetery, Anaheim

Pacific View Memorial Park, Corona Del Mar – Jeff Hanneman, John Wayne

Magnolia Memorial Park, Garden Grove

Westminster Memorial Park, Westminster

Melrose Abbey Memorial Park, Anaheim

Loma Vista Memorial Park, Fullerton

Memory Garden Memorial Park, Brea

Fairhaven Memorial Park, Santa Ana

Ascension Cemetery & Guardian Angel Mausoleum, Lake Forest

Good Shepherd Cemetery, Huntington Beach

Holy Sepulcher Cemetery, Orange

Cathedral Memorial Gardens, Garden Grove

Holy Cross Cemetery, Anaheim

Harbor Lawn-Mount Olive Memorial Park, Costa Mesa

Mission (Campos Santos) Cemetery, San Juan Capistrano

Saint John's Lutheran Cemetery, Orande

Sacramento County

Barton Family Cemetery

Bellview Cemetery, Sacramento

Calvary Catholic Cemetery & Mausoleum, Sacramento

Camellia Memorial Lawn

Chung Wah Cemetery, Folsom, on the National Register of Historic Places

Eagles & Knights of Pythias Cemetery

East Lawn Elk Grove Memorial Park & Mortuary, Elk Grove

East Lawn Memorial Park, Sacramento – Newton Earp

Elder Creek Cemetery

Elk Grove Cemetery, Elk Grove

Fair Oaks Cemetery

Folsom Prison Burial Grounds Cemetery

Franklin Cemetery, Elk Grove

Galt Cemetery

Hicksville Cemetery

Hilltop Cemetery

Home of Peace Cemetery, Sacramento

Lakeside Memorial Lawn Cemetery

Masonic Lawn Cemetery

Matthew Kilgore Cemetery, Rancho Cordova

Michigan Bar Cemetery

Miser Family Cemetery

Mormon Island Relocation Cemetery

Mt. Vernon Memorial Park

Muslim Cemetery of Greater Sacramento

Odd Fellows Lawn Cemetery

Pleasant Grove Cemetery

Point Pleasant

Quiet Haven Cemetery

Rancho Murieta North

Rancho Murieta South

Russian Orthodox Cemetery

Sacramento County Cemetery

Sacramento County Veterans Cemetery

Sacramento Historic City Cemetery (aka Old City Cemetery), Sacramento

Sacramento Memorial Lawn, Sacramento

San Joaquin Cemetery, Elk Grove

Sharp/Salisbury Cemetery

Sierra Hills Memorial Park & East Lawn Mortuary, Sacramento

Sloughhouse (Pioneer) Cemetery

South East Lawn Memorial Park-Elk Grove

St. John's Catholic Church Cemetery

St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery, Sacramento

St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Sacramento

St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Cemetery

Sunset Lawn Chapel of the Chimes, Sacramento

Sylvan Cemetery

Union Cemetery

Van Vleck Family Cemetery

Wilson (George A.) Family Cemetery

Young Wo Chinese Cemetery

San Francisco County

Grace Cathedral Columbarium

Neptune Society Columbarium, San Francisco

San Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco

World War II West Coast Memorial

San Joaquin County

Stockton State Hospital Cemetery, Stockton – William Troy

San Joaquin Catholic Cemetery, Stockton

Burwood Cemetery (Escalon Cemetery District), Escalon

San Mateo County

Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno

St. John's Cemetery, San Mateo

Skylawn Memorial Park, San Mateo – Wilbur Bestwick, Bobby Lee Bonds, Chub Feeney, Glenn Morris, Willard Lewis Waterman

Union Cemetery, Redwood City, on the National Register of Historic Places

Colma

Colma, known as San Francisco's "City of the Dead", with numerous separate cemeteries:

Chinese Cemetery

Cypress Lawn Memorial Park – Gertrude Atherton, Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Randolph Hearst, Hiram W. Johnson, Frederick Low

Eternal Home Cemetery

Golden Hill Memorial Park

Greek Orthodox Memorial Park

Greenlawn Cemetery

Hills of Eternity Cemetery – Wyatt Earp, Saveliy Kramarov

Holy Cross Cemetery – Pat Brown, Joe DiMaggio, Abigail Folger, Amadeo Giannini, Vince Guaraldi, George Moscone

Holy Sun Memorial Cemetery

Home of Peace Cemetery

Hoy Sun Memorial Cemetery

Hoy Sun Ning Yung Cemetery

Italian Cemetery

Japanese Cemetery

Olivet Memorial Park

Russian Sectarian Cemetery

Salem Memorial Park and Garden

Serbian Cemetery

Tung Sen Cemetery

Woodlawn Cemetery

Santa Barbara County

Goleta Cemetery, Goleta

Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery, Lompoc

Oak Hill Cemetery, Ballard – John Forsythe, Edie Sedgwick

Santa Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara – Ronald Coleman, Jeanne Crain, Laurence Harvey, Byron Haskin, Fess Parker, Kenneth Rexroth, Jane Russell

Santa Maria Cemetery, Santa Maria

Santa Clara County

Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Los Altos – Iris Chang

Stanford Mausoleum, Stanford University – Leland Stanford, Jr. and his parents, Leland and Jane Stanford

Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto – Tennessee Ernie Ford, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, David Packard

Calvary Catholic Cemetery, San Jose

Gavilan Hills Memorial Park and Catholic Cemetery, Gilroy

Los Gatos Memorial Park, San Jose – William Hewlett

Madronia Cemetery, Saratoga – Mark Bingham, Frank Dorsa

Mission City Memorial Park, Santa Clara – Harry Love

Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose – Brooke Hart, Paul Masson

Santa Clara Mission Cemetery, Santa Clara – Peter H. Burnett, Tiburcio Vásquez

Santa Cruz County

Day Family Cemetery, Aptos

Evergreen Cemetery, Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Memorial Park, Santa Cruz

Oakwood Memorial Park, Santa Cruz – William Vincent Lucas

Our Lady of Carmel, Aptos

Pioneer Cemetery, Watsonville – Charley Parkhurst

Soquel Cemetery, Soquel

Solano County

Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, near Dixon

All Souls Cemetery, Vallejo

Benicia Arsenal Military Cemetery

Benicia City Cemetery

Carquinez Cemetery, Vallejo

Fairfield Cemetery

Rockville Cemetery

St. Dominic's Cemetery, Benicia

St. Vincent's Cemetery. Vallejo

Skyview Memorial Park, Vallejo

Sunrise Cemetery, Vallejo

Vacaville Cemetery, Vacaville

Binghampton Cemetery (formerly Valley Home Cemetery), Dixon

Sonoma County

Beeson Cemetery, Geyserville

Bennett Valley Cemetery, Santa Rosa

B'nai Israel Cemetery, Petaluma

Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Santa Rosa

Cooper Cemetery, Stewarts Point

Cypress Hill Memorial Park, Petaluma

Druids Occidental Cemetery

Fulton Cemetery, Fulton

Gilliam Cemetery, Sebastopol

Green Valley Cemetery, Sebastopol

Oak Mound Cemetery, Healdsburg

Redwood Memorial Gardens, Guerneville – Randy Shilts

Riverside Cemetery, Cloverdale

Santa Rosa Memorial Park Cemetery

Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery

Saint Francis Solano Catholic Cemetery, Sonoma

Sonoma Mountain Cemetery

Stanislaus County

Acacia Memorial Park, Modesto – James Carson Needham

Valley Home Memorial Park, Oakdale

Lakewood Memorial Park, Hughson

Wood Colony Cemetery, Salida

Sutter County

Sutter Cemetery, Sutter – Dolly Gray

Tehama County

Tehama Cemetery, Tehama

Oak Hill Cemetery, Red Bluff

Los Molinos Cemetery, Los Molinos

Tulare County

Smith Mountain Cemetery, Dinuba

Tulare Cemetery, Tulare

Ventura County

Assumption Cemetery, Simi Valley

Bardsdale Cemetery, Bardsdale

Conejo Mountain Funeral Home, Memorial Park and Crematory, Camarillo – Frank McDonald

El Rancho Simi Pioneer Cemetery, also known as Simi Valley Public Cemetery, Simi Valley

Hueneme Masonic Cemetery, Oxnard

Ivy Lawn Memorial Park, Ventura – Saint Francis Dam disaster mass grave

Mt. Sinai Memorial Park, Simi Valley

Nordhoff Cemetery, Ojai

Oxnard Japanese Cemetery, Oxnard

Santa Paula Cemetery, Santa Paula

Yolo County

Capay Cemetery

Cottonwood Cemetery

Davis Cemetery and Arboretum

Marys Cemetery

Winters Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery

Yuba County

Smartville Cemetery