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What’s the grave of the most famous person in the world?
That was the question that found my Cemetery Travel blog via a Google search. It’s not a question I’ve answered yet, so I turn to the vast hivemind of the internet for the answer.
Leave your vote for the most famous person’s grave in the comments below before May 6, 2012 — and you could win a copy of the Cemetery Travels Notebook. Illustrated with photos from this blog to inspire your own cemetery explorations, the perfect-bound notebook has plenty of room for your own notes and ruminations.
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So tell me: what is the most famous person’s grave in the world?
ETA: The contest is closed. The books came today and I contact the winners shortly.
Please feel free to continue to suggest the most famous person’s grave, though. I am loving the responses.
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IMHO Jim Morrison! The book looks great thamx for the chance to win!
Elvis Presley
Leonardo da Vinci
So many choices – I think it’s Tutenkhamen in the Valley of the Kings. Fingers crossed.
Jesus Christ at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (technically a cenotaph)
Currently i’d have to say the unattainable Michael Jackson’s grave site. Although there are a couple really good ones before my answer.
How about the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem? or John F. Kennedy’s at Arlington National Cemetery?
Elvis Presley gets 600,000 visitors a year, so although there are some up and comers, I vote for Elvis. Stuart Schneider, author of “Ghosts In The Cemetery” and “Ghosts In The Cemetery II”.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I am thinking either Elvis Prestley, or Marilyn Manroe? Heck I cant choose Maybe Marilyns grave would be the most famous? Alot of men and women loved her and her movies!
Elvis Presley
The first person that came to mind for me was Jim Morrison (even though I live about 15 miles away from Memphis, TN, home of EP).
John F Kennedy
Arlington National Cemetery
Jim Morrison (Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, Ile-de-France Region, France)
I was going to say Michael Jackson, but that was already said. Maybe William Shakespeare.
Until they open Micheal Jackson’s crypt to the public,Marilyn Monroe,hands down.
Grant’s Tomb, New York City
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
More recently, Michael Jackson before him Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde or Marilyn Monroe.
Francis Howell, St. Charles Mo. Was a teacher in his time and now has many schools named after him.
marie laveau, new orleans
Lenin’s Tomb.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau at the Pantheon in Paris. (Or any of the ‘greats’ at the Pantheon, including Victor Hugo, Alexander Dumas, and Marie Curie.)