Buried in Flushing
See also: Flushing Cemetery- John Bowne, Quaker advocate
- Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, mob boss
- Alan King, comedian
- Louis Armstrong, jazz musician
- Bernard Baruch, financier
- Eugene Bullard, the first Black military pilot
- Ellis Parker Butler, author noted for the story Pigs is Pigs
- Dr. Adam Clayton Powell, Sr.
- Blossom Dearie, singer and pianist
- Jack Gilford, comedian and actor.
- Waxey Gordon, notable American gangster
- Dizzy Gillespie, one of the greatest jazz trumpeters
- Hermann Grab, Bohemian writer
- Thomas Birdsall Jackson, United States Congressman
- Bert Lahr, actor
- Molly Picon, Yiddish stage and film star
- Lemuel E. Quigg, United States Representative from New York
- May Robson, actress
- Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, celebrated husband and wife, Yiddish theatre stars
- Aris San, acclaimed Greek-Israeli singer
- Henny Youngman, comedian
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