See also :Category:Monuments and memorials, cenotaph, monument, catacombs, cemetery, pyramid, list of Cemeteries, list of mausoleums, list of Memorials, list of pyramid mausoleums in North America.
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.
Major figures in African history
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 pharaoh of Egypt, reigned 1334–1325 BCE Valley of the Kings; tomb famously excavated by Howard Carter KV62
Songhai figures Person(s) Significance Location of Tomb Article Askia Mohammad I Songhai Empire king and dyanastic founder, reigned 1493–1528 CE Gao, Mali Tomb of Askia
Ugandan figures Person(s) Significance Location of Tomb Article Members of the Baganda royal family Muteesa I (1835–1884), Mwanga II (1867–1903), Daudi Chwa II (1896–1939), and Sir Edward Muteesa II (1924–1969), Kabakas of Buganda Kampala, Uganda Kasubi Tombs
Major figures in Asian history
Chinese figures Person(s) Significance Location of Tomb Article Qin Shi Huang Qin dynasty emperor from 221 to 210 BCE Xi'an, Shaanxi, China Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, including the Terracotta Army Cao Cao Eastern Han dynasty warlord and politician, lived 155–220 CE Xigaoxue Village, Anfeng Township, Anyang County, Anyang, Henan, China Cao Cao Mausoleum Emperor Taizong of Tang Tang dynasty emperor from 626 to 649 Mount Jiuzong, Shaanxi, China Zhao Mausoleum Emperor Gaozong of Tang; Empress Wu Zetian; 17 others Tang dynasty emperor from 649 to 683; Chinese sovereign ruler from 690 to 705 Mount Liang, Qian County, Shaanxi, China Qianling Mausoleum Yongle Emperor and 12 succeeding emperors Ming dynasty emperors from 1402 to 1644 13 km due north of Beijing, China Ming tombs 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 the Purple Mountain, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum Mao Zedong Communist leader of China from 1943 to 1976 Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China Mausoleum of Mao Zedong
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 to 1540 and 1555–1556 Delhi, India Humayun's Tomb Emperor Akbar and his wife Mariam-uz-Zamani 3rd Mughal Emperor, ruled in India from 11th Feb,1556–27th Oct,1605 Sikandra, Agra, India Akbar's tomb, Mariam's Tomb
Japanese figures Person(s) Significance Location of Tomb Article Nintoku 16th emperor of Japan; world's largest mound tomb Sakai, Osaka, Japan Nintoku Mausoleum
Korean figures Person(s) Significance Location of Tomb Article Dong Shou See Anak County, North Korea (Goguryeo) Anak Tomb No. 3, Goguryeo tombs Dangun Founder and god-king of Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom Kangdong County, North Korea Mausoleum of Tangun Dae Heum-mu 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
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, Ejin Horo Banner, Inner Mongolia, China; Khan's body is not there (it has never been found) Mausoleum of Genghis Khan and Burial place of Genghis Khan Damdin Sükhbaatar Revolutionary hero and founder of the modern Mongolian state Sükhbaatar Square, Ulaanbaatar, 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
Myanmar figures Person(s) Significance Location of Tomb Article U Thant The third Secretary-General of the United Nations Yangon, Myanmar Kandawmin Garden Mausolea Aung San Founder of Myanmar Yangon, Myanmar Martyrs' Mausoleum
Pakistani figures Person(s) Significance Location of Tomb Article Muhammad Ali Jinnah Founder of Pakistan Karachi, Pakistan Mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah Muhammad Iqbal Poet, Lawyer, Politician Badshahi Mosque, Lahore, Pakistan Tomb of Muhammad Iqbal Maharaja Ranjit Singh Sikh ruler Lahore, Pakistan Samadhi of Ranjit Singh Baba Shah Jamal Sufi saint Lahore, Pakistan Tomb of Shah Jamal Qutb ud-Din Aibak Founder of the Delhi Sultanate Lahore, Pakistan Anarkali Bazaar
Vietnamese figures Person(s) Significance Location of Tomb Article Ho Chi Minh Vietnamese Revolutionary Leader Hanoi, Vietnam Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum
Other Person(s) Significance Location of Tomb Article (Timur) Conqueror of much of western and central Asia, founder of the Timurid Empire and Timurid dynasty Samarkand Gur-e Amir Sayyed Bahram Mausoleum
Major figures in European history
Albanian figures Person(s) Significance Location of Tomb Article Enver Hoxha First Secretary-General of the Party of Labour and premier of the Socialist People's Republic of Albania Tirana, Albania Enver Hoxha Mausoleum King Zog President, and later King, of interwar Albania Tirana, Albania Mausoleum of the Albanian Royal Family
British figures Person(s) Significance Location of Tomb Article Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill Soldier, author and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom St Martin's Church, Bladon, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire none Edward Elgar Musician and composer St Wulstan's Roman Catholic Church, Little Malvern, Worcestershire none Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Long-reigning Queen of the United Kingdom and her husband St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, Berkshire King George VI Memorial Chapel Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson Admiral St Paul's Cathedral, London none William Shakespeare Author and playwright Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire none Queen Victoria and Prince Albert Long-reigning Queen of the United Kingdom and her husband Frogmore Mausoleum, on the private grounds of the Home Park, Windsor Castle, Berkshire Frogmore Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Soldier and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom St Paul's Cathedral, London none
Bulgarian and Ancient Thracian figures Person(s) Significance Location of Tomb Article Seuthes III (first half of the 4th century BC) Thracian king of the Odrysian kingdom (securely attested between 324 and 312 BC) Shipka (town), Kazanlak, Stara Zagora Province, Bulgaria Tomb of Seuthes III built in the second half of the 5th century BC, previously to the burial. unknown (4th century BC) Thracian king, probably of the Odrysian kingdom Kazanlak, Bulgaria Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak Dromichaetes (c. 300 – c. 280 BC) Thracian king of the Getae Sveshtari, Razgrad Province, Bulgaria Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari Kubrat (c. 632 – c. 650/665?Kiril Petkov, The Voices of Medieval Bulgaria, Seventh-Fifteenth Century: The Records of a Bygone Culture East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450, BRILL, 2008, , p. 1.) Kubrat was the founder and ruler of Old Great Bulgaria. Village of Mala Pereshchepina (20 km from Poltava, Ukraine) Pereshchepina Tomb Kaloyan (c. 1170 – October 1207) Tsar of Bulgaria from 1196 to 1207, younger brother of Theodor and Asen who led the anti-Byzantine uprising of the Bulgarians in 1185. Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria Holy Forty Martyrs Church (1230) Hreljo (13th century – 1342) 14th-century semi-independent feudal lord in the region of northeastern Macedonia and the Rila mountains. Rila Monastery, Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria Rila Monastery Neofit Rilski (1793–1881) 19th-century Bulgarian monk, teacher and artist, and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival. Rila Monastery, Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria Rila Monastery Alexander I (1857–1893) First prince (knyaz) of the Principality of Bulgaria from 1879 until his abdication in 1886 Sofia, Bulgaria Battenberg Mausoleum Georgi Dimitrov (1882–1949) The first communist leader of Bulgaria from 1946 to 1949 who led the Communist International from 1935 to 1943. Sofia, Bulgaria Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum
French figures Person(s) Significance Location of Tomb Article Napoleon I 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
German figures Person(s) Significance Location of Tomb Article Ludwig van Beethoven Musician and composer Vienna Central Cemetery, Vienna, Austria Otto von Bismarck First Chancellor of Germany Bismarck Mausoleum near Friedrichsruhe, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Bismarck Mausoleum Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Author and playwright Historical Cemetery, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany William I German Emperor from 1871 to 1888 Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, GermanyKarl Marx (and his wife and other members of Marx's family)Economist and philosopherThe Eastern cemetery of Highgate Cemetery, North London, England.Tomb of Karl Marx
Greek and Macedonian figures Person(s) Significance Location of Tomb Article Alexander the Great King of Macedon, conqueror of the Persian Empire Tomb lost; ancient sources mention Memphis and Alexandria, both in Egypt Tomb of Alexander the Great
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 to 311 AD Thessaloniki, Greece Arch and Tomb of Galerius Hadrian and family members Roman emperor from 117 to 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
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 Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Major figures in Middle-Eastern history
Persian/Iranian figures