List of tombs and mausoleums#Chinese figures

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: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=

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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

=Songhai figures=

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Askia Mohammad I

| Songhai Empire king and dyanastic founder, reigned 1493–1528 CE

| Gao, Mali

| Tomb of Askia

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=Ugandan figures=

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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

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Major figures in Asian history

=Chinese figures=

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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=

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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

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Nintoku

| 16th emperor of Japan; world's largest mound tomb

| Sakai, Osaka, Japan

| Nintoku Mausoleum

=Korean figures=

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Dong Shou

| See {{section link|Anak Tomb No. 3#Epitaph and its interpretation}}

| 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

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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

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

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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=

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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{{Cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1453149|title=History: The Heritage of the Slave Sultan|last=Shah|first=Dr Syed Talha|date=2018-12-23|publisher=Dawn|language=en|access-date=2019-09-24}}

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Ho Chi Minh

| Vietnamese Revolutionary Leader

| Hanoi, Vietnam

| Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum

=Other=

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(Timur)

| Conqueror of much of western and central Asia, founder of the Timurid Empire and Timurid dynasty

| Samarkand

| Gur-e Amir

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| Sayyed Bahram Mausoleum

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Major figures in European history

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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

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

| Soldier, author and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

| St Martin's Church, Bladon, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire

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Edward Elgar

| Musician and composer

| St Wulstan's Roman Catholic Church, Little Malvern, Worcestershire

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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

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William Shakespeare

| Author and playwright

| Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

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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

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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, {{ISBN|9047433750}}, 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.{{cite book |title=Електронно издание "История на България"|last=Бакалов|first=Георги|author2=Милен Куманов|publisher=Труд, Сирма|location=София|language=bg|year=2003|isbn=954528613X}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.istorijskabiblioteka.com/art:hrelja-ohmucevic|title = Хреља Охмућевић - ИСТОРИЈСКА БИБЛИОТЕКА}}{{cite book |title=Югозападните български земи през XIV век ("The southwestern Bulgarian lands in the 14th century")|url=http://www.promacedonia.org/hm2/hm_1_3.html|last=Матанов|first=Христо|publisher=Наука и изкуство|location=София|pages=33–34|year=1986|access-date=31 January 2009|oclc=64494357}}

| 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.{{cite book |editor= Buchan, John|editor-link=John Buchan |chapter= Bulgaria |chapter-url= https://archive.org/details/nationsoftodayne12buch/page/n17/mode/2up|title= Bulgaria and Romania: The Nations of Today; A New History of the World |place= Boston and New York |publisher= Houghton Mifflin Company |year= 1924 |url= https://archive.org/details/nationsoftodayne12buch/page/n5/mode/2up |page=[https://archive.org/details/nationsoftodayne12buch/page/30/mode/2up 30] |accessdate= 21 June 2021 |via= Internet Archive}}

| 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

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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

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Ludwig van Beethoven

| Musician and composer

| Vienna Central Cemetery, Vienna, Austria

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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

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William I

| German Emperor from 1871 to 1888

| Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, Germany

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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

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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

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Cyrus the Great

| the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty

| Pasargadae near the city of Shiraz, Iran

| Tomb of Cyrus the Great

Darius I, Xerxes I, Artaxerxes I, Darius II and Darius III

| emperors of the Achaemenid dynasty

| Naqsh-e Rustam near the city of Shiraz, Iran

| Naqsh-e Rustam

Artaxerxes II and Artaxerxes III

| emperors of the Achaemenid dynasty

| Persepolis near the city of Shiraz, Iran

| Persepolis

Mausolus

| Persian satrap of Caria

| Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey); the origin of the word "mausoleum" – the tomb is now destroyed

| Mausoleum of Maussollos

Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz (d. 644)

| assassin of the second Islamic caliph Umar

| Kashan, Iran

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Yaqub Leith Saffari (840–879)

| ruler of the Saffarid dynasty

| Shahabad (ancient Gondishapur) near Dezful, Iran

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Amir Esmail Samani (d. 907)

| ruler of the Samanid dynasty

| Bukhara, Uzbekistan

| Samanid Mausoleum

Qabus ebn Voshmgir (d. 1012)

| ruler of the Ziyarid dynasty

| Gonbad, Iran

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Toghril Beg (990–1063)

| ruler of the Seljuk dynasty

| Rey, Iran

| Tughrul Tower

Malekshah (d. 1092)

| ruler of the Seljuk dynasty

| Isfahan, Iran

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Khwajeh Nezam ol-Molk (1018–1092)

| vizier of Malekshah

| Isfahan, Iran

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Shah Shoja' (d. 1384)

| ruler of the Mozaffarid dynasty and patron of Hafez

| Shiraz, Iran

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Gawhar Shad (d. 1457)

| wife of Shah Rukh of the Timurid dynasty and founder of Gowhar Shad Mosque

| Herat, Afghanistan

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Nader Shah (1688–1747)

| Shah of Iran and the founder of the Afsharid dynasty

| Mashhad, Iran

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Karim Khan (1705–1779)

| the ruler and de facto Shah of Iran of the Zand dynasty

| Shiraz, Iran

| Pars Museum of Shiraz

Naser ed-Din Shah (1831–1896) and Sattar Khan (1868–1914)

| shah of Iran the Qajar dynasty that assassinated in the same shrine on May 1, 1896, and Persian freedom fighter of Constitutional Revolution

| Rey, Iran

| Shah-Abdol-Azim shrine

Reza Shah (1878–1944)

| Shah of Iran of the Pahlavi dynasty

| Rey, Iran demolished in 1979 after the Iranian Revolution

| Reza Shah's mausoleum

Ruhollah Khomeini

| Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution

| South of Tehran, Iran, near Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery

| Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini

Bayazid Bastami (804–874)

| Persian mystic

| Bastam, Iran

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Sheikh Abulhassan Kharaqani (963–1033)

| Persian mystic

| Kharaqan near Bastam, Iran

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Ali Hujwiri (990–1077)

| Persian mystic

| Lahore, Pakistan

| Data Durbar Complex

Khwajeh Abdollah Ansari (1006–1088)

| Persian mystic

| Herat, Afghanistan

| Khwaja 'Abd Allah Ansari shrine

Sheikh Ahmad Jami (1048–1141)

| Persian mystic

| Torbat-e Jam, Iran

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Abdol-Qader Gilani (1077–1166)

| Persian mystic and founder of the Qaderi Sufi Order

| Baghdad, Iraq

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Qotbeddin Heydar (1137–1221)

| Persian mystic

| Torbat-e Heydarieh, Iran

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Moinoddin Chishti (1141–1230)

| Persian mystic and founder of Chishti Order

| Ajmer, India

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Sheikh Abdolsamad Esfahani (13th century)

| Persian mystic

| Natanz, Iran

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Sheikh Mohammad Bakran (d. 1303)

| Persian mystic

| near Isfahan, Iran

| Pir-i Bakran

Amu Abdollah (d. 1316)

| Persian mystic

| near Isfahan, Iran

| Manar Jonban

Sheikh Zahed Gilani (1216–1301)

| Persian mystic and Murshid of Sheikh Safieddin Ardabili

| Lahijan, Iran

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Sheikh Safieddin Ardabili (1252–1334)

| Persian mystic and eponym of the Safavid dynasty

| Ardabil, IranIsmail I the founder of the Safavid dynasty is also buried there

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Khwajeh Zeinoddin Shirazi (1302–1370)

| Persian mystic

| Khuldabad, India

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Baha ed-Din Naqshband Bukhari (1318–1389)

| Persian mystic and founder of Naqshbandi Order

| Bukhara, Uzbekistan

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Shah Nimatullah Vali (1330–1431)

| Persian mystic and founder of the Nematollahi Sufi Order

| Mahan, Iran, Iran

| Shah Nematollah Vali Shrine

Sibaveih (760–797)

| Persian linguist

| Shiraz, Iran

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Imam Bukhari (810–870)

| Persian Sunni scholar

| near Samarkand, Uzbekistan

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Ebn-e Babveih (d. 941)

| Persian Shi'ite scholar

| Rey, Iran

| Ebn-e Babveih

Rabe'eh Balkhi (10th century)

| Persian poet

| Balkh, Afghanistan

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Ferdowsi (940–1020)

| Persian poet

| Tus, Iran

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Avicenna (980–1037)

| Persian philosopher and physician

| Hamedan, Iran

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Baba Taher (11th century)

| Persian mystic and poet

| Hamedan, Iran

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Asadi Tusi (d. 1072), Anvari (1126–1189), Homam Tabrizi (1238–1315), Khaqani (1121–1190), Qatran Tabrizi (1009–1072) and Shahriar (1906–1988)

| Persian poets

| Tabriz, Iran

| Maqbarat ol-Shoara

Abu Hamed Ghazali (1058–1111)

| Persian theologian, philosopher and mystic

| Tus, Iran

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Ahmad Ghazali (1061–1126)

| Persian writer and mystic and brother of Abu Hamed Ghazali

| Qazvin, Iran

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Omar Khayyám (1048–1131)

| Persian poet

| Nishapur, Iran

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Sanai Ghaznavi (1080–1131)

| Persian poet

| Ghazni, Afghanistan

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Sheikh Ruzbehan (1129–1209)

| Persian mystic and poet

| Shiraz, Iran

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Nizami (1141–1209)

| Persian poet

| Ganja, Azerbaijan

| Nezami Mausoleum

Attar (1145–1221)

| Persian mystic and poet

| Nishapur, Iran

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Mowlavi (Rumi) (1207–1273) and Sultan Walad (d. 1312)

| Persian mystics and poets

| Konya, Turkey

| Mevlana Museum

Saadi (1184–1291)

| Persian poet

| Shiraz, Iran

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Hamdollah Mostowfi (1281–1349)

| Persian historian and geographer

| Qazvin, Iran

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Khwaju Kermani (1280–1352)

| Persian mystic and poet

| Shiraz, Iran

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Hafez (1315–1390)

| Persian poet

| Shiraz, Iran

| Tomb of Hafez

Jami (1414–1492)

| Persian mystic and poet

| Herat, Afghanistan

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Saib Tabrizi (1601–1677)

| Persian poet

| Isfahan, Iran

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Mir Emad Qazvini (1553–1614)

| Persian calligrapher

| Isfahan, Iran

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Sheikh Bahaii (1547–1621)

| Persian architect and poet

| Mashhad, Iran

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Bidel Dehlavi (1640–1721)

| Persian mystic and poet

| Delhi, India

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Kamal ol-Molk (1847–1940)

| Iranian painter

| Nishapur, Iran

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Iraj Mirza (1874–1926), Bahar (1884–1951), Forugh Farrokhzad (1935–1967), Rahi Moayyeri (1909–1968), Darvish Khan (1872–1926), Ruhollah Khaleqi (1906–1965), Abolhasan Saba (1902–1957) and Qamar ol-Moluk Vaziri (1905–1959)

| Persian poets, musicians and singers

| Tehran, Iran

| Zahir-od-dowleh cemetery

Sadeq Hedayat (1903–1951) and Gholam-Hossein Saedi (1936–1985)

| Persian writers

| Paris, France

| Père Lachaise Cemetery

Salman the Persian

| Persian companion of Muhammad

| Salman Pak (ancient Ctesiphon), Iraq

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=Turkish figures=

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

| Founder and President of the Republic of Turkey

| Anittepe quarter of Ankara, Turkey

| Anıtkabir

Major figures in North American history

=Mesoamerican figures=

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K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo'

| Maya ruler (ruled 426 – c. 437) – named in Maya inscriptions as the founder and first ruler of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization polity centered at Copán

| Copán in Mexico

| Hunal tomb inside of Temple 16 in the Copán acropolis;[http://www.famsi.org/reports/02098/02098Ramos01.pdf FAMSI 2004, Research on Temple 16]

=Figures from the United States of America=

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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

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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

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Major religious figures

=Judeo-Christian figures=

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Mary

| Mother of Jesus

| Believed to be in the Kidron Valley at the foot of the Mount of Olives or at Ephesus. (Catholic and Orthodox traditions profess that her body was taken into Heaven.)

| Mary's Tomb, House of the Virgin Mary

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 the Apostle

| Apostle and later missionary to India and the first Catholicose of the East

| Directly below the altar of San Thome Basilica in Mylapore near Chennai, India

| Thomas the Apostle, St. Thomas Mount, San Thome Basilica

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 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 Thaddeus

| one of the Twelve Apostles

| near Maku, Iran

| Saint Thaddeus Monastery

Saint Bartholomew

| one of the Twelve Apostles

| near Başkale (Albayrak)Turkey

| Saint Bartholomew Monastery

Saint John the Apostle

| Apostle and author of the Gospel of John and Revelation

| 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

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)

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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

Abel

| Son of Adam that was slain by his brother Cain

| Buried near the Zabadani Valley in Syria

| Nabi Habeel Mosque

Noah

| Biblical patriarch

| Nakhijevan

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Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Leah

| Biblical couples

| Hebron, Palestine

| Cave of the Patriarchs

Matriarchs

| Zilpah, Bilhah, Jochebed, Zipporah, Elisheva and Avigail

| Tiberias, Israel

| Tomb of the Matriarchs

Reuben

| eldest son of Jacob

| Palmachim, Israel

| Nabi Rubin

Rachel

| wife of Jacob

| Bethlehem, Palestine

| Rachel's Tomb

Joseph

| Hebrew patriarch

| Nablus, Palestine

| Joseph's Tomb

David

| second king of Kingdom of Israel

| Jerusalem, Israel

| David's Tomb

Ezekiel

| a Prophet in Hebrew Bible

| Al Kifl, Iraq or Dezful, Iran

| Ezekiel's Tomb

Daniel

| a Prophet in Hebrew Bible

| Susa, Iran

| Tomb of Daniel

Ezra

| a Prophet in Hebrew Bible

| Al-Uzair near Basra, Iraq

| Ezra's Tomb

Habakkuk

| a Prophet in Hebrew Bible

| Tuyserkan, Iran or Hukok, Israel

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Zechariah (priest)

| Father of John the Baptist

| Buried in Aleppo, Syria

| Great Mosque of Aleppo

John the Baptist

| Prophet in Christianity and Forerunner of Christ

| His head is buried in Damascus, Syria

| Umayyad Mosque

=Baháʼí figures=

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Bahá'u'lláh

| Founder of the Baháʼí Faith; considered by Baháʼís 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 Baháʼí 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, [https://web.archive.org/web/20081219145743/http://www.bahai.org.uk/shoghi/index.htm Directions to the burial site of the Guardian]

=Muslim figures=

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Muhammad

| Prophet of Islām

| Buried in Madīnah, Saudi Arabia

| Masjidun Nabawi

Abu Bakr

| First Companion, father in law of Muhammad, and first of the 4 Rashidun-Caliphs.

| Buried in Madīnah To the Right side of Muhammad, Saudi Arabia

| Masjidun Nabawi

Umar ibn al-Khattab

| Second Companion, father in law of Muhammad, and second of the 4 Rashidun-Caliphs.

| Buried in Madīnah To the Right side of Abu-Bakr, Saudi Arabia

| Masjidun Nabawi

Uthman Ibn Affan

| Third Companion, son in law of Muhammad, and third of the 4 Rashidun-Caliphs.

| Buried within the former Mausolea of Jannatul Baqī‘ in Madīnah, Saudi Arabia

| Jannatul Baqī‘

Fātimah

| Sunni Muslims believe that she is the youngest of 4 daughters and the wife of ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib. The only daughter of Muhammad to outlive her father. The head of the only remaining seed of Muhammad till this day. Believed by Shia'a to be Muhammad's only daughter; while others are step-daughters.

| Either buried within the former Mausolea of Jannatul Baqī‘, or within Masjidun Nabawi in Madīnah, Saudi Arabia

| none

‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib

| Cousin of Muhammad, First Shī‘ah Imām and the only successor of Muhammad as accepted by Shī‘ah's

| Exact location under dispute. Shia'a Records report Buried in Najaf, Iraq.

Sunni Records claim exact location unknown somewhere in Kufa, Iraq.

|

Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib

| Uncle of Muhammad. One of the first converts and important figures in Early Islam.

| Buried outside Madina Munawwara, Saudi Arabia. Unmarked grave, however, location is known in folk-tradition, and surrounded by security.

| Near Archer's Hill, field of Battle of Uhud

Hasan ibn ‘Alī

| Grandson of Muhammad, son of ‘Alī and Fātimah, and Second Twelver Shī‘ah Imām

| Buried within the former Mausolea of Jannatul Baqī‘ in Madīnah, Saudi Arabia. Graves are unmarked, however, locations are known in folk tradition.

| Jannatul Baqī‘

Husayn ibn ‘Alī

| Grandson of Muhammad, son of ‘Alī and Fātimah, and Third Twelver Shī‘ah Imām

| Buried in Karbalā, Iraq

| Imām Husayn Mosque

Khalid ibn al-Walid

| Brilliant Military General, leader of Muslims Conquest of Syria.

| Buried in Hims, Syria

| Khaled Bin Al-Walid Mosque

Abu Ayyub al-Ansari

| Companion of Muhammad.

| Buried in Istanbul, Turkey

| Eyüp Sultan Mosque

‘Alī Zaynul ‘Ābidīn

| Son of Husayn ibn ‘Alī and the Fourth Twelver Shī‘ah Imām

| Buried within the former Mausolea of Jannatul Baqī‘ in Madīnah, Saudi Arabia. Graves are unmarked, however, locations are known in folk tradition.

Muhammad al-Bāqir

| Son of ‘Alī Zaynul ‘Ābidīn and the Fifth Twelver Shī‘ah Imām

| Buried within the former Mausolea of Jannatul Baqī‘ in Madīnah, Saudi Arabia. Graves are unmarked, however, locations are known in folk tradition.

Ja‘far as-Sādiq

| Son of Muhammad al-Bāqir and the Sixth Twelver Shī‘ah Imām

| Buried within the former Mausolea of Jannatul Baqī‘ in Madīnah, Saudi Arabia. Graves are unmarked, however, locations are known in folk tradition.

Mūsā al-Kādhim

| Son of Ja‘far as-Sādiq and the Seventh Twelver Shī‘ah Imām

| Buried in Kadhimayn, Iraq

| Al-Kadhimiya Mosque

‘Alī ar-Ridhā

| Son of Mūsā al-Kādhim and Eighth Twelver Shī‘ah Imām

| Buried in Mashhad, Iran

| Imām Ridhā Mosque

Muhammad at-Taqī

| Son of ‘Alī ar-Ridhā and the Ninth Twelver Shī‘ah Imām

| Buried in Kadhimayn, Iraq

| Al-Kadhimiya Mosque

‘Alī an-Naqī

| Son of Muhammad at-Taqī and the Tenth Twelver Shī‘ah Imām

| Buried in Sāmarrā', Iraq

| Al-Askari Mosque

Hasan al-‘Askarī

| Son of ‘Alī an-Naqī and the Eleventh Twelver Shī‘ah Imām

| Buried in Sāmarrā', Iraq

| Al-Askari Mosque

Saladdin

| Army General and Leader of Ayyubids State.

| Buried in Damascus, Syria

| Near Umayyad Mosque

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