West Point Cemetery

Notable interments

• Brigadier general Clare Hibbs Armstrong, commanded Anti-Aircraft defense of Antwerp during World War II
• Major General Robert Anderson, Union Army officer in command of Fort Sumter at start of the Civil War
• Earl "Red" Blaik, Army football head coach, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• John Milton Brannan, Union army general
• Major General John Buford, Union cavalry commander who set the stage for the Battle of Gettysburg
• Major General Daniel Butterfield, composer of Taps
• Eugene Asa Carr, Medal of Honor recipient
• General Lucius D. Clay, "Father of the Berlin Airlift"
• Margaret Corbin, Revolutionary War heroine.
• Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Alonzo Cushing, Union artillery officer, killed during Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg; posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 2014
• Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer, Union cavalry commander during the Civil War and the Indian Wars, killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
• Glenn Davis, Heisman Trophy winner for 1946
• Maggie Dixon, women's basketball coach at West Point, 2005–2006
• Major General Halstead Dorey, Commanded 4th Infantry Regiment during World War I; recipient of Distinguished Service Cross
• Major General John M. Devine, commanded 8th Armored Division during World War II;
• Captain Philip Egner, the longtime director of the West Point Band and composer of the West Point fight song "On, Brave Old Army Team."
• Brigadier General John Eisenhower, historian, author, son of Dwight Eisenhower.
• Lieutenant General James Maurice Gavin, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II
• Major General George Washington Goethals, "Builder of the Panama Canal"
• Major General Frederick Dent Grant, son of President Ulysses S. Grant
• Lieutenant General Howard Dwayne Graves, Superintendent, United States Military Academy
• Major General William H. Hay, commander of the 28th Infantry Division in World War I
• Major General Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Mexican–American War veteran, special advisor to the president during the Civil War
• Brigadier General Ranald S. Mackenzie, Civil War veteran, commander of Buffalo Soldiers during the Indian Wars
• Master Sergeant Martin "Marty" Maher, Jr., athletic trainer and central character in the film The Long Gray Line
• Colonel David "Mickey" Marcus, Israel's first general, only American buried here who died fighting under a foreign flag
• Major General Wesley Merritt, Civil War veteran, Military Governor of the Philippines
• Major General Bryant Edward Moore, Korea IX corps, World War II 8th inf div "Timberwolves" and Pacific
• General Alexander M. Patch, commander of U.S. Seventh Army
• 2nd Lieutenant Emily J. T. Perez, KIA IRAQ – 2006, NCAA Award of Valor – 2008.
• Colonel Russell Potter "Red" Reeder, Jr., World War II veteran and author.
• Major General Thomas H. Ruger, Civil War veteran, United States Military Academy Superintendent
• Major General Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf, the first superintendent of the New Jersey State Police.
• General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., commander of coalition forces in the Gulf War.
• Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, longest serving American general, commanded the U.S. Army from 1841 to 1861.
• Major General George Sykes, Civil War commander.
• Brigadier General Sylvanus Thayer, known as "The Father of the U.S. Military Academy" for the strict regimens implemented at his direction
• Brigadier General John T. Thompson, inventor of the Thompson submachine gun
• Brigadier General George H. Torney, Surgeon General of the United States Army
• Ensign Dominick Trant, a native of Cork, Ireland and a soldier in the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment in the Continental Army, died at West Point in 1782. His grave is the oldest in the cemetery.
• Colonel Theodore S. Westhusing, highest-ranking officer to die in Iraq War – 2005, "Multi-national Security Transition Command – Iraq".
• General William Westmoreland, Army Chief of Staff, Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy, Commander of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam from 1964–1968.
• Lieutenant Colonel Ed White, first American to make a spacewalk, killed in the Apollo 1 fire on 27 January 1967.
• Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Eleazer D. Wood, first West Point Graduate to die in battle. Actually a cenotaph; arguable whether he is actually buried there.