Notable Interments
- Endre Ady (poet)
- Ignác Alpár (architect)
- József Antall (Prime Minister, historian)
- János Arany (poet)
- Mihály Babits (poet)
- Béla Balázs (writer, film aesthete)
- Miklós Barabás (painter)
- Jenő Barcsay (painter)
- István Bethlen (Prime Minister)
- Lujza Blaha (actress, "the nightingale of the nation")
- Ottó Bláthy (electrical engineer)
- Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (painter)
- Gergely Czuczor (linguist, poet)
- Béni Egressy (composer)
- Loránd Eötvös (physicist)
- Ferenc Erkel (composer)
- János Fadrusz (sculptor)
- György Faludy (writer, poet, translator)
- Ferenc Fejtő (journalist, political scientist)
- Károly Ferenczy (painter, along with Béni Ferenczy and Noémi Ferenczy, his brother and sister)
- János Garay (poet)
- Artúr Görgey (general)
- Alajos Hauszmann (architect)
- Jenő Heltai (writer)
- George de Hevesy (Nobel Prize winner chemist)
- Miklós Izsó (sculptor)
- Mari Jászai (actress)
- Mór Jókai (writer, 1904)
- Attila József (poet)
- János Kádár (Socialist leader)
- Pál Kadosa (composer)
- Kálmán Kandó (inventor, engineer)
- Mihály Károlyi (President)
- Karl-Maria Kertbeny (writer, translator)
- Károly Kisfaludy (poet, dramatist, painter)
- Dezső Kosztolányi (poet, writer)
- Gyula Krúdy (writer)
- Ödön Lechner (architect)
- Lipót Fejér (mathematician)
- Károly Lotz (painter)
- Georg Lukács (philosopher)
- Viktor Madarász (painter)
- Ferenc Mádl (President, jurist)
- Ignác Martinovics (Franciscan, leader of the Hungarian Jacobin movement)
- Ferenc Medgyessy (sculptor)
- László Mednyánszky (painter)
- Kálmán Mikszáth (writer)
- Zsigmond Móricz (writer)
- Mihály Munkácsy (painter)
- Karl Polanyi (economist)
- Tivadar Puskás (engineer, inventor)
- Miklós Radnóti (poet)
- Frigyes Riesz (mathematician)
- Ignaz Semmelweis (doctor, "Saviour of Mothers")
- Imre Steindl (architect)
- Alajos Stróbl (sculptor)
- Antal Szerb (writer)
- Leó Szilárd (physicist)
- Mihály Táncsics (writer, politician)
- Ármin Vámbéry (linguist)
- Mihály Vörösmarty (poet) – his tomb is one of the oldest extant tombs: he was interred in 1855
- Leó Weiner (composer)
- Sándor Wekerle (Prime Minister three times)
- Miklós Ybl (architect)
- György Zala (sculptor)
- Mihály Zichy (painter, graphic artist)
- Note: This list is very far from complete. The full list of notable persons would include about 700 names. Their complete listing is available in a free booklet available at the cemetery.
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