Notable Burials
- 25 former Atlanta mayors, including Moses Formwalt (Atlanta's first mayor), S.B. Spencer and Maynard Jackson (Atlanta's first African-American mayor)
- 6 former Georgia governors: John B. Gordon (1832-02-06 – 1904-01-09), Joseph E. Brown (1821-04-15 – 1894-11-30), Joseph Mackey Brown (1851-12-28 – 1932-03-03), William J. Northen (1835-06-09 – 1913-03-25), John Marshall Slaton (1866-12-25 – 1955-06-11) and Hoke Smith (1855-11-02 – 1931-11-27)
- Martha Atalanta Lumpkin Compton (1827-08-28 – 1917-02-13), daughter of Governor Wilson Lumpkin and namesake of Marthasville, Atlanta's name from 1843 until approximately 1845
- Clement A. Evans (1833-02-25 – 1911-07-02), John B. Gordon, Lucius J. Gartrell, Alfred Iverson, Jr., and William Wright (c. 1822 – c. 1899), Confederate Generals
- William Fuller and Anthony Murphy, Western & Atlantic Railroad employees involved in the Great Locomotive Chase
- Bishop Wesley John Gaines (1840-10-04 – 1912-01-12), Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and founder of Morris Brown College.
- Franklin Miller Garrett (1906-09-25 – 2000-03-05), Atlanta historian notable for his extensive survey of Atlanta cemeteries. He was dubbed "Atlanta's Official Historian" and is buried on commons ground on a plot donated by the City of Atlanta.
- Joel Hurt, founder of Inman Park and Druid Hills, two of Atlanta's first planned subdivisions
- Dr. Joseph Jacobs, owner of the pharmacy where John Pemberton first sold Coca-Cola as a soft drink
- Bobby Jones (1902-03-17 – 1971-12-18), the only golfer to win the Grand Slam, the U.S. Amateur, U.S. Open, British Amateur and The Open Championship in the same year
- Carrie Steele Logan (c. 1829 – 1900-11-03), founder of the first black orphanage in Georgia, now known as the Carrie Steele-Pitts Home. Kept orphans in a boxcar in the rail yard where she worked and brought them home with her at night.
- Margaret Mitchell Marsh, author of Gone with the Wind
- Reverend Frank Quarles, key figure in establishing Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, which later became Spelman College
- Morris and Emanuel Rich, founders of Rich's department store.
- Edward A. Vincent, architect of Atlanta's first passenger depot and publisher of the first official map of the city (unmarked grave).
- Benjamin Franklin White, shape note "singing master", and compiler of the shape note tunebook known as The Sacred Harp.
- Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America, was interred for a time at Oakland before being moved to his estate near Crawfordville.
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