Prominent People Buried in The Island Cemetery
- Hugh D. Auchincloss, Stepfather of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- August Belmont, Jr., Developer of the IRT Subway in New York City and the Cape Cod Canal
- August Belmont, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee 1860 to 1872 and founder of the Belmont Stakes
- Perry Belmont, United States Congressman and Army Officer
- Sara Swan Whiting Belmont Rives, 1st wife of Oliver H.P. Belmont 2nd wife George L. Rives
- Brevet Brigadier General Henry Brewerton, Superintendent of West Point Military Academy
- Melville Bull, United States Representative, 1895 - 1903
- George Henry Calvert, Writer and Mayor of Newport
- William Cole Cozzens, Governor of Rhode Island, 1863
- Henry Y. Cranston, United States Representative from Rhode Island
- Robert B. Cranston, United States Representative from Rhode Island
- Lieutenant Thomas Eadie, USN, Medal of Honor recipient (buried in Island Cemetery Annex)
- William Channing Gibbs, Governor of Rhode Island, 1821 - 1824
- George Washington Greene, Historian
- Richard Morris Hunt, architect of Gilded Age
- Clarence King, Geologist
- George Gordon King, Congressman
- Lewis Cass Ledyard Lawyer, socialite and Commodore of the New York Yacht Club
- Janet Lee Bouvier Auchincloss Morris, Mother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Commodore Matthew C. Perry, Commander of Black Ships expedition to Japan in 1853
- Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, Hero of the Battle of Lake Erie in War of 1812
- Lieutenant Colonel John Hare Powel, Union Army officer, Mayor of Newport and commander of the Artillery Company of Newport.
- George L. Rives, Assistant Secretary of State
- William Paine Sheffield, Sr., Congressman and United States Senator 1884 - 1885
- William Paine Sheffield, Jr., Congressman.
- Brevet Major General Thomas W. Sherman, Civil War general.
- William Watts Sherman (1842-1912), Socialite and treasurer of the Newport Casino.
- Brevet Brigadier Hazard Stevens, Medal of Honor recipient and son of Isaac Stevens.
- Major General Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Civil War general who was killed in action at Chantilly, Virginia.
- Frank K. Sturgis, President of the New York Stock Exchange
- Brevet Brigadier General George W. Tew, Civil War officer. Lieutenant Colonel of 5th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery. Commander of the Artillery Company of Newport.
- Charles C. Van Zandt, Governor of Rhode Island 1877 - 1880
- Major General Gouverneur K. Warren, Civil War General, Commander of the 5th Corps at the Battle of Gettysburg
- George Peabody Wetmore, Governor of Rhode Island and United States Senator
- Katherine Prescott Wormeley, Literary translator, founder of the United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War
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