List of tombs and mausoleums

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This is a list of tombs and mausoleums that are either notable in themselves, or contain the remains of a notable person/people. Tombs are organized by the person buried in them, sorted according to origin of the person.

Contents 1 Major figures in African history 1.1 Egyptian figures 2 Major figures in Asian history 2.1 Chinese figures 2.2 Indian figures 2.3 Japanese figures 2.4 Korean figures 2.5 Mongolian figures 2.6 Pakistani figures 2.7 Other 3 Major figures in European history 3.1 British figures 3.2 Bulgarian figures 3.3 French figures 3.4 Italian figures 3.5 Russian figures 4 Major figures in Middle-Eastern history 4.1 Persian/Iranian figures 4.2 Turkish figures 5 Major figures in North American history 5.1 American figures 6 Major religious figures 6.1 Judeo-Christian figures 6.2 Baha'i figures 7 Other figures

[edit] Major figures in African history

[edit] Egyptian figures

Person(s)	Significance	Location of Tomb	Article
Khufu	Fourth dynasty pharaoh, reigned 2589-2566 BCE	Great Pyramid in Giza, the only surviving wonder of the world	Great Pyramid
Tutankhamun	Eighteenth dynasty "boy king" of Egypt, reigned 1334-1325 BCE	Valley of the Kings; tomb famously excavated by Howard Carter	KV62

[edit] Major figures in Asian history

[edit] Chinese figures

Person(s)	Significance	Location of Tomb	Article
Emperor Gaozong of Tang, Empress Wu Zetian, and 17 others	Emperor and Empress of the Tang Dynasty	Mount Liang, Qian County, Shaanxi province, China	Qianling Mausoleum
Mao Zedong	Communist ruler of China from 1943-1976	Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China	Mausoleum of Mao Zedong
Qín Shǐ Huáng Líng	1st Qin Dynasty 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 626-649	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

[edit] Indian figures

Person(s)	Significance	Location of Tomb	Article
Emperor Shah Jahan and Arjumand Banu Begum (Mumtaz Mahal)	Wife of Mughal Emperor Shahbuddin Mohammed Shah Jahan	Agra, India	Taj Mahal
Nasiruddin Humayun	2nd Mughal Emperor, ruled in India from 1530–1540 and 1555–1556	Delhi, India	Humayun's Tomb

[edit] Japanese figures

Person(s)	Significance	Location of Tomb	Article
Nintoku	16th emperor of Japan	Sakai, Osaka, Japan (the biggest tomb in the world)	Nintoku Mausoleum

[edit] Korean figures

Person(s)	Significance	Location of Tomb	Article
Complex of Goguryeo Tombs, Anak Tomb No.3
Mausoleum of Dangun
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

[edit] Mongolian figures

Person(s)	Significance	Location of Tomb	Article
Genghis Khan	Mongol military leader and founder of the Mongol Empire	Beside a river near Kandehuo Enclosure, Xinjie Town, Inner Mongolia, China; Khan's body is not there (it has never been found)	Mausoleum of Genghis Khan
Damdin Sükhbaatar	Revolutionary hero and founder of the modern Mongolian state	Sükhbaatar Square, Ulan Bator, Mongolia (removed in 2005, body cremated)	Sükhbaatar's mausoleum
Wang Zhaojun	Wife of a Xiongnu Chanyu (ruler)	Beside a river in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China	Zhaojun Tomb

[edit] Pakistani figures

Person(s)	Significance	Location of Tomb	Article
Maharaja Ranjit Singh	Sikh ruler	Lahore, Pakistan	Samadhi of Ranjit Singh
Baba Shah Jamal	Sufi saint	Ichhrah, Lahore, Pakistan	Tomb of Shah Jamal

[edit] Other

Person(s)	Significance	Location of Tomb	Article
Gur-e Amir (Timur)
Sayyed Bahram Mausoleum

[edit] Major figures in European history

[edit] British figures

Person(s)	Significance	Location of Tomb	Article
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom	St Martin's Church, Bladon, near Woodstock, England	none
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert	Longest reigning Queen of England and her husband	Frogmore Mausoleum, on the private grounds of the Home Park, Windsor Castle, England	Frogmore

[edit] Bulgarian figures

Person(s)	Significance	Location of Tomb	Article
Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak

[edit] French figures

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

[edit] Italian figures

Person(s)	Significance	Location of Tomb	Article
Caesar Augustus and other emperors of his family	First Roman emperor 27 BC-14 AD	Campus Martius (now the Piazza Augusto Imperatore) in Rome, Italy (ashes now scattered)	Mausoleum of Augustus
Gaius Julius Caesar	Roman general and dictator assassinated 44 BC	Forum Romanum in Rome, Italy	Roman Forum
Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus (Galerius)	Roman Emperor from 305-311 AD	Thessaloniki, Greece	Arch and Tomb of Galerius
Hadrian and family members	Roman emperor from 117-138 AD	Rome, Italy (now the Castel Sant'Angelo; ashes now scattered)	Castel Sant'Angelo
Theodoric the Great	5th-6th century Ostrogothic king, ruler of Italy, and regent of the Visigoths	Just outside Ravenna, Italy	Mausoleum of Theodoric

[edit] Russian figures

Person(s)	Significance	Location of Tomb	Article
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin	Russian communist revolutionary and 1st Premier of the Soviet Union	Red Square, Moscow, Russia	Lenin's Mausoleum
Josef Vissarionovich Stalin	Soviet dictator from 1920s-1953	Formerly in Lenin's Mausoleum; reburied outside the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia	none

[edit] Major figures in Middle-Eastern history

[edit] Persian/Iranian figures

Person(s)	Significance	Location of Tomb	Article
Mausolus	Persian satrap of Caria	Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey); the origin of the word "mausoleum", the tomb is now destroyed	Mausoleum of Maussollos
Jamal al-Din Ilyas Ibn Yusif Nizami Ganjavi (Nezami)	Persian poet	Ganja, Azerbaijan	Nezami Mausoleum

[edit] Turkish figures

Person(s)	Significance	Location of Tomb	Article
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk	Founder and President of the Republic of Turkey	Anittepe quarter of Ankara, Turkey	Anitkabir

[edit] Major figures in North American history

[edit] American figures

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 Kalākaua 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

[edit] Major religious figures

[edit] Judeo-Christian figures

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

[edit] Baha'i figures

Person(s)	Significance	Location of Tomb	Article
Bahá'u'lláh	Founder of the Bahá'í Faith; considered by Baha'is to be the most recent messenger of God.	Buried in the Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh outside of Akka, Israel.	Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh, Bahá'u'lláh, Qiblih
The Báb	Founder of Bábism, and predecessor of Bahá'u'lláh.	Buried in the Shrine of the Báb on Mt. Carmel in Haifa, Israel.	Báb, Shrine of the Báb
`Abdu'l-Bahá	Son of Bahá'u'lláh and leader of the Bahá'í Faith	Buried in a chamber within the Shrine of the Báb on Mt. Carmel in Haifa, Israel.	`Abdu'l-Bahá, Shrine of the Báb, Shrine of `Abdu'l-Bahá
Shoghi Effendi	Great-grandson of Bahá'u'lláh; Under the title of Guardian, he served as last singular head of the faith.	Buried in New Southgate Cemetery in London, U.K.	Shoghi Effendi, | Directions to the burial site of the Guardian

[edit] Other figures

• Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (article about the concept, lists specific tombs by country)