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 |
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 | |
=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 | |
Major figures in Asian history
=Chinese figures=
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Qin Shi Huang
| Qin dynasty emperor from 221 to 210 BCE | 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 |
Emperor Taizong of Tang
| Tang dynasty emperor from 626 to 649 | Mount Jiuzong, Shaanxi, China |
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 |
Yongle Emperor and 12 succeeding emperors
| Ming dynasty emperors from 1402 to 1644 | 13 km due north of Beijing, China |
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 |
Mao Zedong
| Communist leader of China from 1943 to 1976 | Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China |
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Emperor Shah Jahan and Arjumand Banu Begum (Mumtaz Mahal)
| Wife of Mughal Emperor Shahbuddin Mohammed Shah Jahan |
Nasiruddin Humayun
| 2nd Mughal Emperor, ruled in India from 1530 to 1540 and 1555–1556 |
Emperor Akbar and his wife Mariam-uz-Zamani
| 3rd Mughal Emperor, ruled in India from 11th Feb,1556–27th Oct,1605 |
=Japanese figures=
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Nintoku
| 16th emperor of Japan; world's largest mound tomb |
=Korean figures=
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Dong Shou
| See {{section link|Anak Tomb No. 3#Epitaph and its interpretation}} | Anak County, North Korea (Goguryeo) |
Dangun
| Founder and god-king of Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom | Kangdong County, North Korea |
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) |
Damdin Sükhbaatar
| Revolutionary hero and founder of the modern Mongolian state | Sükhbaatar Square, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (removed in 2005, body cremated) |
Wang Zhaojun
| Wife of a Xiongnu Chanyu (ruler) | Beside a river in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China |
=Myanmar figures=
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U Thant
| The third Secretary-General of the United Nations |
Aung San
| Founder of Myanmar |
=Pakistani figures=
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
| Founder of Pakistan |
Muhammad Iqbal
| Poet, Lawyer, Politician |
Maharaja Ranjit Singh
| Sikh ruler |
Baba Shah Jamal
| Sufi saint |
Qutb ud-Din Aibak
| Founder of the Delhi Sultanate | 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 |
=Other=
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(Timur)
| Conqueror of much of western and central Asia, founder of the Timurid Empire and Timurid dynasty |
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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 |
King Zog
| President, and later King, of interwar Albania |
=British figures=
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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 | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Edward Elgar
| Musician and composer | St Wulstan's Roman Catholic Church, Little Malvern, Worcestershire | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | 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 |
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
| Admiral | St Paul's Cathedral, London | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
William Shakespeare
| Author and playwright | Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | 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 | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
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=French figures=
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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 |
Marie Curie and Pierre Curie
| French–Polish couple who discovered X-rays; Marie won the Nobel Prize twice |
Alexandre Dumas, père
| Author |
Ferdinand Foch
| Marshal of France during World War I | Les Invalides, Paris, France |
Victor Hugo
| Author |
Joseph Louis Lagrange
| Italian–French mathematician and astronomer |
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
| French Army captain and author of Le Marseillaise, the national anthem | Les Invalides, Paris, France |
Gaspard Monge
| French mathematician and inventor of descriptive geometry | Le Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France (since moved to the Panthéon) |
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 |
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (Vauban)
| Military architect for Louis XIV | Les Invalides, Paris, France |
Francois-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
| French philosopher of The Enlightenment |
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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 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
| Author and playwright | Historical Cemetery, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany | |
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) |
Gaius Julius Caesar
| Roman general and dictator assassinated 44 BC | Forum Romanum in Rome, Italy |
Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus (Galerius)
| Roman Emperor from 305 to 311 AD |
Hadrian and family members
| Roman emperor from 117 to 138 AD | Rome, Italy (now the Castel Sant'Angelo; ashes now scattered) |
Theodoric the Great
| 5th–6th century Ostrogothic king, ruler of Italy, and regent of the Visigoths |
=Russian figures=
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
| Russian communist revolutionary and 1st Premier of the Soviet Union | Red Square, Moscow, Russia |
Josef Vissarionovich Stalin
| Soviet dictator from 1920s–1953 | Formerly in Lenin's Mausoleum; reburied outside the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia |
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 |
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 |
Artaxerxes II and Artaxerxes III
| emperors of the Achaemenid dynasty | Persepolis near the city of Shiraz, Iran |
Mausolus
| Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey); the origin of the word "mausoleum" – the tomb is now destroyed |
Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz (d. 644)
| assassin of the second Islamic caliph Umar | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | Shrine of Abu Lu'lu'a |
Yaqub Leith Saffari (840–879)
| ruler of the Saffarid dynasty | Shahabad (ancient Gondishapur) near Dezful, Iran | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Amir Esmail Samani (d. 907)
| ruler of the Samanid dynasty |
Qabus ebn Voshmgir (d. 1012)
| ruler of the Ziyarid dynasty | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Toghril Beg (990–1063)
| ruler of the Seljuk dynasty |
Malekshah (d. 1092)
| ruler of the Seljuk dynasty | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Khwajeh Nezam ol-Molk (1018–1092)
| vizier of Malekshah | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Shah Shoja' (d. 1384)
| ruler of the Mozaffarid dynasty and patron of Hafez | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Gawhar Shad (d. 1457)
| wife of Shah Rukh of the Timurid dynasty and founder of Gowhar Shad Mosque | Herat, Afghanistan | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | Gawhar Shad Mausoleum |
Nader Shah (1688–1747)
| Shah of Iran and the founder of the Afsharid dynasty | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Karim Khan (1705–1779)
| the ruler and de facto Shah of Iran of the Zand dynasty |
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 |
Reza Shah (1878–1944)
| Shah of Iran of the Pahlavi dynasty | Rey, Iran demolished in 1979 after the Iranian Revolution |
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 |
Bayazid Bastami (804–874)
| Persian mystic | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Sheikh Abulhassan Kharaqani (963–1033)
| Persian mystic | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Ali Hujwiri (990–1077)
| Persian mystic |
Khwajeh Abdollah Ansari (1006–1088)
| Persian mystic | Herat, Afghanistan |
Sheikh Ahmad Jami (1048–1141)
| Persian mystic | Torbat-e Jam, Iran | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Abdol-Qader Gilani (1077–1166)
| Persian mystic and founder of the Qaderi Sufi Order | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Qotbeddin Heydar (1137–1221)
| Persian mystic | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Moinoddin Chishti (1141–1230)
| Persian mystic and founder of Chishti Order | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Sheikh Abdolsamad Esfahani (13th century)
| Persian mystic | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Sheikh Mohammad Bakran (d. 1303)
| Persian mystic |
Amu Abdollah (d. 1316)
| Persian mystic |
Sheikh Zahed Gilani (1216–1301)
| Persian mystic and Murshid of Sheikh Safieddin Ardabili | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Sheikh Safieddin Ardabili (1252–1334)
| Persian mystic and eponym of the Safavid dynasty | Ardabil, Iran – Ismail I the founder of the Safavid dynasty is also buried there | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Khwajeh Zeinoddin Shirazi (1302–1370)
| Persian mystic | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Baha ed-Din Naqshband Bukhari (1318–1389)
| Persian mystic and founder of Naqshbandi Order | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Shah Nimatullah Vali (1330–1431)
| Persian mystic and founder of the Nematollahi Sufi Order | Mahan, Iran, Iran |
Sibaveih (760–797)
| Persian linguist | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Imam Bukhari (810–870)
| Persian Sunni scholar | near Samarkand, Uzbekistan | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Ebn-e Babveih (d. 941)
| Persian Shi'ite scholar |
Rabe'eh Balkhi (10th century)
| Persian poet | Balkh, Afghanistan | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Ferdowsi (940–1020)
| Persian poet | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Avicenna (980–1037)
| Persian philosopher and physician | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Baba Taher (11th century)
| Persian mystic and poet | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Asadi Tusi (d. 1072), Anvari (1126–1189), Homam Tabrizi (1238–1315), Khaqani (1121–1190), Qatran Tabrizi (1009–1072) and Shahriar (1906–1988)
| Persian poets |
Abu Hamed Ghazali (1058–1111)
| Persian theologian, philosopher and mystic | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Ahmad Ghazali (1061–1126)
| Persian writer and mystic and brother of Abu Hamed Ghazali | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131)
| Persian poet | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Sanai Ghaznavi (1080–1131)
| Persian poet | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Sheikh Ruzbehan (1129–1209)
| Persian mystic and poet | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Nizami (1141–1209)
| Persian poet | Ganja, Azerbaijan |
Attar (1145–1221)
| Persian mystic and poet | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Mowlavi (Rumi) (1207–1273) and Sultan Walad (d. 1312)
| Persian mystics and poets |
Saadi (1184–1291)
| Persian poet | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Hamdollah Mostowfi (1281–1349)
| Persian historian and geographer | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Khwaju Kermani (1280–1352)
| Persian mystic and poet | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Hafez (1315–1390)
| Persian poet |
Jami (1414–1492)
| Persian mystic and poet | Herat, Afghanistan | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Saib Tabrizi (1601–1677)
| Persian poet | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Mir Emad Qazvini (1553–1614)
| Persian calligrapher | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Sheikh Bahaii (1547–1621)
| Persian architect and poet | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Bidel Dehlavi (1640–1721)
| Persian mystic and poet | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Kamal ol-Molk (1847–1940)
| Iranian painter | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
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 |
Sadeq Hedayat (1903–1951) and Gholam-Hossein Saedi (1936–1985)
| Persian writers |
Salman the Persian
| Persian companion of Muhammad | Salman Pak (ancient Ctesiphon), Iraq | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
| Founder and President of the Republic of Turkey |
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 | 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 |
Ulysses S. Grant
| American Civil War general and 18th President of the United States |
Thomas Jefferson
| Author of the Declaration of Independence, founder of the University of Virginia, and 3rd President of the United States | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Kamehameha and Kalākaua dynasties
| Royal families of Hawaii |
Abraham Lincoln
| 16th President of the United States |
William McKinley
| 25th President of the United States |
Leland Stanford
| Founder of Stanford University | Stanford University campus, Stanford, California |
George Washington
| Revolutionary War general and 1st President of the United States | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
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.) |
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 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 |
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 James the Great
| Apostle and later missionary to Spain | Believed to be beneath the altar of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain |
Saint Thaddeus
| one of the Twelve Apostles |
Saint Bartholomew
| one of the Twelve Apostles |
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 |
Saint Augustine
| Early Christian Bishop and theologian | San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro church in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy |
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) | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
St Francis of Assisi
| Medieval ascetic saint; founder of the Franciscan order | Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi in Assisi, Perugia, Italy |
Abel
| Son of Adam that was slain by his brother Cain |
Noah
| Biblical patriarch | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Leah
| Biblical couples |
Matriarchs |
Reuben
| eldest son of Jacob |
Rachel
| wife of Jacob |
Joseph
| Hebrew patriarch |
David
| second king of Kingdom of Israel |
Ezekiel
| a Prophet in Hebrew Bible |
Daniel
| a Prophet in Hebrew Bible |
Ezra
| a Prophet in Hebrew Bible |
Habakkuk
| a Prophet in Hebrew Bible | Tuyserkan, Iran or Hukok, Israel | bgcolor="#eeeeee" | none |
Zechariah (priest)
| Father of John the Baptist |
John the Baptist
| Prophet in Christianity and Forerunner of Christ |
=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. |
The Báb
| Founder of Bábism, and predecessor of Bahá'u'lláh. | Buried in the Shrine of the Báb on Mt. Carmel in Haifa, Israel. |
`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. |
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] |
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width="12%" bgcolor="#bbccff" | Person(s)
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Muhammad
| Prophet of Islām | Buried in Madīnah, Saudi Arabia |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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. |
Husayn ibn ‘Alī
| Grandson of Muhammad, son of ‘Alī and Fātimah, and Third Twelver Shī‘ah Imām |
Khalid ibn al-Walid
| Brilliant Military General, leader of Muslims Conquest of Syria. |
Abu Ayyub al-Ansari
| Companion of Muhammad. |
‘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 |
‘Alī ar-Ridhā
| Son of Mūsā al-Kādhim and Eighth Twelver Shī‘ah Imām |
Muhammad at-Taqī
| Son of ‘Alī ar-Ridhā and the Ninth Twelver Shī‘ah Imām |
‘Alī an-Naqī
| Son of Muhammad at-Taqī and the Tenth Twelver Shī‘ah Imām |
Hasan al-‘Askarī
| Son of ‘Alī an-Naqī and the Eleventh Twelver Shī‘ah Imām |
Saladdin
| Army General and Leader of Ayyubids State. | Near Umayyad Mosque |
See also
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- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier – about the concept, lists specific tombs by country
- List of papal tombs