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- 27 former Atlanta mayors, including:
- Ivan Allen, Jr.
- Moses Formwalt (Atlanta's first mayor)
- Maynard Jackson (Atlanta's first African-American mayor)
- S. B. Spencer
- 6 former Georgia governors:
- Joseph E. Brown (1821-04-15 – 1894-11-30)[6]
- Joseph Mackey Brown (1851-12-28 – 1932-03-03)[7]
- John B. Gordon (1832-02-06 – 1904-01-09)[8]
- William J. Northen (1835-06-09 – 1913-03-25)[9]
- John Marshall Slaton (1866-12-25 – 1955-06-11)[10]
- Hoke Smith (1855-11-02 – 1931-11-27)[11]
- Confederate Generals:
- Lucius J. Gartrell
- Clement A. Evans (1833-02-25 – 1911-07-02)
- John B. Gordon
- Alfred Iverson, Jr.
- Other burials
- Orelia Key Bell, poet.
- Franklin Miller Garrett (1906-09-25 – 2000-03-05), Atlanta historian who surveyed cemeteries. He was dubbed "Atlanta's Official Historian"
- Joel Hurt, founder of Inman Park and Druid Hills, two of Atlanta's first planned subdivisions
- Bobby Jones (1902-03-17 – 1971-12-18), professional golfer
- Carrie Steele Logan (c. 1829 – 1900-11-03), founder of the first black orphanage in Georgia
- Eugene Mitchell, lawyer and president of the Atlanta Board of Education
- Margaret Mitchell Marsh, author of Gone with the Wind
- Kenny Rogers (1938–2020), singer, songwriter, musician, actor, record producer
- Ira Yale Sage (1848–1908), Colonel, railroad builder, civil engineer, entrepreneur
- Andrew Steiner, architect and Holocaust survivor saved as many as 7,000 Slovakian Jews
- Maybelle Stephens Mitchell, suffragist and activist
- Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America (temporary interment)
- Annie Fitzgerald Stephens, landowner and businesswoman
- Edward A. Vincent, architect of Atlanta's first passenger depot and publisher of the first official map of the city
- Benjamin Franklin White, singing master, and compiler of the shape note tunebook known as The Sacred Harp.
- Martha Loftin Wilson (1834–1919), missionary worker, journal editor, heroine of the American Civil War
- William Ambrose Wright (1844 – 1929), Confederate lieutenant
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