Rock Creek Cemetery

Rock Creek Cemetery (also Rock Creek Church Cemetery) is located at Webster Street and Rock Creek Church Road, NW, Washington, D.C. The Cemetery falls under the governance of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church, seat of Rock Creek parish. It is adjacent to U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery. On August 12, 1977, Rock Creek Cemetery and adjacent church grounds were placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Henry Adams, writer, a descendant of John Quincy Adams and John Adams;
Marion Hooper "Clover" Adams, wife of Henry Adams; Washington, D.C., hostess. Her grave is marked by the Adams Memorial featuring an unnamed sculpture, sometimes referred to as "Grief", designed and cast by Augustus Saint-Gaudens;
James B. Aswell, president of two colleges, state superintendent of education, and member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana from 1913-1931;
Howard Auster, partner of Gore Vidal, American writer
Emile Berliner, inventor of the gramophone.
John Marshall Harlan, former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Patricia Roberts Harris, Ambassador, first African American female to serve in a Presidential Cabinet;
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Republican Party icon, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt;
- Paulina Sturm, daughter of Alice Roosevelt and Nicholas Longworth;
Evalyn Walsh McLean, millionairess and one-time owner of the Hope Diamond and the Washington Post newspaper;
Upton Sinclair, American writer.
Tran Van Chuong, South Vietnam's Ambassador to the United States appointed by Ngo Dinh Diem.
Willis Van Devanter, former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

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