West Laurel Hill Cemetery

Notable burials

• Timothee Adamowski, composer, violinist and first conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra
• Green Adams, represented from 1847–1849 and from 1859-1861.
• David Hayes Agnew, noted surgeon. Attended President James Garfield's gunshot wound.
• Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in the United States.
• Hobey Baker, namesake of U.S. college hockey's outstanding player award and only member of both the College Football and Hockey Halls of Fame.
• Frank Bettger, Major League baseball infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals.
• Richard Binder US Marine Corps sergeant on the during the Civil War and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Caroline G. Boughton, educator and philanthropist.
• Catherine Drinker Bowen, biographer.
• Benjamin Markley Boyer, represented from 1865 to 1869.
• Edward G. Budd, founder of the Budd Company.
• Alan Calvert, weightlifter, bodybuilder, founder Milo Bar-bell Company
• Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, founder of the Curtis Publishing Company, publisher of the Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post.
• Loren Eiseley, anthropologist.
• Otto Eisenlohr, cigar manufacturer
• Dave Garroway American television personality, founding host and anchor of NBC's "Today" from 1952 to 1961
• Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer, represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district from 1889 to 1895.
• Robert Cooper Grier Associate Justice of The United States Supreme Court.
• Alfred C. Harmer, represented from 1871 to 1875, and from 1877 until his death in 1900.
• Herman Haupt, Union Army General and engineer.
• Chevalier Jackson, famed physician, teacher, and "father of endoscopy"
• Anna Jarvis, originator of Mother's Day who then spent most of her life fighting its commercialization.
• Eldridge R. Johnson, Founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company.
• John Ernst Worrell Keely - fraudulent inventor who claimed to have invented a new motive power
• John Lawrence LeConte, 19th century American naturalist and entomologist after whom two birds are named.
• Hy Lit , legendary Philadelphia radio & TV broadcaster.
• William H. Luden, developer of the menthol throat lozenge
• Harry Lyons, professional baseball player
• Frank M. Mayo famed 19th century stage actor
• Robert M. McBride publisher and defendant in the obscenity prosecution of novelist James Branch Cabell
• Samuel K. McConnell, Jr., represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives from 1944 to 1957.
• Charles O'Neill, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district, Pennsylvania State Representative, Pennsylvania State Senator
• Daniel Pabst, cabinetmaker
• Teddy Pendergrass, soul and R&B singer
• Al Reach, professional baseball player, sporting good manufacturer; his name was on American League baseballs until 1976
• John Reilly, represented from 1875 to 1877.
• Jack Rose, American musician noted for his exploration of experimental and traditional acoustic guitar styles.
• Dennis Sandole, jazz guitarist, composer and music educator
• William I. Schaffer, Pennsylvania State Supreme Court Justice
• Coleman Sellers II, prominent engineer and inventor.
• Ben Shibe, sportsman, sporting goods salesman, namesake of Shibe Park at 21st & Lehigh
• Rachel H. Shoemaker, founder of the National School of Elocution and Oratory in Philadelphia.
• Matthew Simpson, a notable Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
• David Smyrl, actor and writer, known for his role of Mr. Handford on Sesame Street
• John Batterson Stetson, famous American hat manufacturer and founder of the John B. Stetson Company; namesake of Stetson University in Florida.
• Edwin Sydney Stuart, Mayor of Philadelphia from 1891 to 1895 and Governor of Pennsylvania from 1907 to 1911.
• Frederick Winslow Taylor, mechanical and industrial engineer, management consultant, and "father of scientific management".
• Joseph Earlston Thropp, member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
• Ellwood J. Turner, Pennsylvania State Representative for Delaware County, Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
• Flora M. Vare, Pennsylvania State Senator from 1925 to 1928
• William Scott Vare, U.S. Senator-elect, U.S. Congressman, Pennsylvania State Senator, Republican political boss and construction contractor
• William Wagner, founder of the Wagner Free Institute of Science
• Charles F. Warwick, mayor of Philadelphia.
• Grover Washington, Jr., musician
• George Austin Welsh, represented from 1923 to 1932.
• Harry Wright, pioneer of professional baseball, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
• Charlotte Wardle Cardeza , wealthy socialite and survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking.

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