Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York, is the cemetery of numerous famous figures, including Washington Irving, whose story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set in the adjacent Old Dutch Burying Ground. Incorporated in 1849 as Tarrytown Cemetery, it posthumously honored Irving's request that it change its name to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
The cemetery is a non-profit, non-sectarian burying ground of about 90 acres (360,000 m2). It is contiguous with, but separate from, the church yard of the colonial-era church that was a setting for "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". The Rockefeller family estate (see Kykuit), whose grounds abut Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, contains the private Rockefeller cemetery.
Several outdoor scenes from the 1970 feature film House of Dark Shadows were filmed at the cemetery's receiving vault. The cemetery also served as a location for the Ramones' music video "Pet Sematary".
Viola Allen (1869–1948), actressJohn Dustin Archbold (1848–1916), a director of the Standard Oil CompanyElizabeth Arden (1878–1966), businesswoman who built a cosmetics empireBrooke Astor (1902–2007), philanthropist and socialiteVincent Astor (1891–1959), philanthropist; member of the Astor familyLeo Baekeland (1863–1944), the father of plastic; Bakelite is named for him. The murder of his grandson's wife Barbara by his great-grandson, Tony, is told in the book Savage GraceRobert Livingston Beeckman (1866–1935), American politician and Governor of Rhode IslandHolbrook Blinn (1872–1928), American actorHenry E. Bliss (1870–1955), devised the Bliss library classification systemArtur Bodanzky (1877–1939), conductor at New York Metropolitan OperaMajor Edward Bowes (1874–1946), early radio star, he hosted Major Bowes' Amateur HourAlice Brady (1892–1939), American actressAndrew Carnegie (1835–1919), businessman and philanthropist. Monument by the eminent Scots sculptor George Henry Paulin.Louise Whitfield Carnegie (1857–1946), wife of Andrew CarnegieWalter Chrysler (1875–1940), businessman, commissioned the Chrysler Building and founded the Chrysler CorporationFrancis Pharcellus Church (1839–1906), editor at the New York Sun who penned the editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus"William Conant Church (1836–1917), co-founder of Armed Forces Journal and the National Rifle AssociationHenry Sloane Coffin (1877–1954), teacher, minister, and authorWilliam Sloane Coffin, Sr. (1879-1933)Kent Cooper (1880–1965), influential head of the Associated Press from 1925 to 1948Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900), landscape painter and architect; designed the now-demolished New York City Sixth Avenue elevated railroad stationsGeraldine Rockefeller Dodge, heiress and patron of the artsWilliam H. Douglas (1853–1944), U.S. Representative from New YorkMaud Earl (1864–1943), British-American painter of caninesParker Fennelly (1891–1988), American actorMalcolm Webster Ford (1862–1902), champion amateur athlete and journalist; brother of Paul, he took his own life after slaying his brother.Paul Leicester Ford (1865–1902), editor, bibliographer, novelist, and biographer; brother of Malcolm Webster Ford by whose hand he diedHerman Frasch (1851-1914), engineer, the Sulphur KingSamuel Gompers (1850–1924), founder of the American Federation of LaborMadison Grant (1865–1937), eugenicist and conservationist, author of The Passing of the Great RaceMoses Hicks Grinnell (1803–1877), congressman and Central Park CommissionerWalter S. Gurnee (1805–1903), mayor of ChicagoRobert Havell, Jr. (1793–1878), British-American engraver who printed and colored John James Audubon’s monumental Birds of America series, also painter in the style of the Hudson River SchoolMark Hellinger (1903–1947), primarily known as a journalist of New York theatre. The Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City is named for him; produced The Naked City, a 1948 film noirHarry Helmsley (1909–1997), real estate mogul who built a company that became one of the biggest property holders in the United States, and his wife Leona Helmsley (1920–2007), in a mausoleum with a stained-glass panorama of the Manhattan skyline. Leona famously bequeathed $12 million to her dog.Raymond Mathewson Hood (1881–1934), architectWilliam Howard Hoople (1868–1922), a leader of the nineteenth-century American Holiness movement; the co-founder of the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America, and one of the early leaders of the Church of the NazareneWashington Irving (1783–1859), author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle"William Irving (1766–1821), U.S. Congressman from New YorkGeorge Jones (1811–1891), one of the founders of the New York TimesAlbert Lasker (1880–1952), pioneer of the American advertising industry, part owner of baseball team the Chicago Cubs, and wife Mary Lasker (1900–1994), an American health activist and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold MedalWalter W. Law, Jr. (1871–1958), lawyer and politician, son of Briarcliff Manor founder Walter W. LawLewis Edward Lawes (1883–1947), Reformist warden of Sing Sing prisonWilliam E. Le Roy (1818–1888), United States Navy rear admiralAnn Lohman (1812–1878) a.k.a. Madame Restell, 19th century purveyor of patent medicine and abortionsCharles D. Millard (1873–1944), member of U.S. House of Representatives from New YorkDarius Ogden Mills (1825–1910), made a fortune during California's gold rush and expanded his wealth further through New York City real estateBelle Moskowitz (1877–1933), political advisor and social activistRobertson Kirtland Mygatt (1861–1919), noted American Landscape painter, part of the Tonalist movement in ImpressionismN. Holmes Odell (1828–1904), U.S. Representative from New YorkWilliam Orton (1826 - 1878), President of Western UnionWhitelaw Reid (1837–1912), journalist and editor of the New York Tribune, Vice Presidential candidate with Benjamin Harrison in 1892, defeated by Adlai E. Stevenson I; son-in-law of D.O. MillsWilliam Rockefeller (1841–1922), New York head of the Standard Oil CompanyEdgar Evertson Saltus (1855–1921), American novelistFrancis Saltus Saltus (1849–1889), American decadent poet & bohemianCarl Schurz (1820–1906), senator, secretary of the interior under Rutherford B. Hayes. Carl Schurz Park in New York City bears his nameCharles Sheeler (1883–1965), painter and photographerWilliam G. Stahlnecker (1849–1902), U.S. Representative from New YorkWilliam Boyce Thompson (1869–1930), founder of Newmont Mining and financierJoseph Urban (1872–1933), architect and theatre set designerHenry Villard (1835–1900), railroad baron whose monument was created by Karl Bitter.Oswald Garrison Villard (1872–1949), son of Henry Villard and grandson of William Lloyd Garrison; one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeopleWilliam A. Walker (1805–1861), U.S. Representative from New YorkPaul Warburg (1868–1932), German-American banker and early advocate of the U.S Federal Reserve system.Worcester Reed Warner (1846–1929), mechanical engineer and manufacturer of telescopesThomas J. Watson (1874–1956), transformed a small manufacturer of adding machines into IBMEgerton Swartwout (1870-1943), New York architectHans Zinsser (1878–1940), microbiologist and a prolific author
