Olmsted's intent was to create a space that would express a harmony between man and the natural setting. In the view of 19th Century English and American Romantics , park-like cemeteries, such as Mountain View, represented the peace of nature, to which man's soul returns. Olmsted, drawing upon the concepts of American Transcendentalism , integrated Paris ian grand monuments and broad avenues.
- Edson Adams , laid out the city of Oakland
- Washington Bartlett , Mayor Of San Francisco 1882–1884, Governor Of California 1887
- Coles Bashford , Governor Of Wisconsin and Arizona Territory politician
- Cloe Annette Buckel , one of the first female doctors in California
- Anthony Chabot , father of Hydraulic Mining and founder of Chabot Observatory
- Moses Chase , believed to be the first American to settle in the East Bay area
- Henry D. Cogswell , Dentist and Temperance Movement crusader
- David D. Colton , namesake of the city of Colton, California
- Ina Coolbrith , California's first Poet Laureate
- Charles Crocker , Railroad Magnate
- General Henry Brevard Davidson of the Confederate States Army
- Frederick Delger , German Shoemaker and multimillionaire
- Alexander Dunsmuir , builder of the Dunsmuir House
- Rev. Henry Durant , first president of the University Of California, Berkeley
- Freda Ehrmann , mother of the California ripe Olive industry
- Joseph Stickney Emery , founder of Emeryville, California
- J. A. Folger , founder of Folgers Coffee
- Peter Folger , American coffee heir, socialite
- Marcus Foster , first victim of the Symbionese Liberation Army
- Domingo Ghirardelli , namesake of the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
- William M. Gwin , one of California's first Senators
- Henry H. Haight , Governor Of California 1867–1871 (and namesake of the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco)
- A.K.P. Harmon , lumber and shipping magnate
- John Coffee Hays , Texas Ranger and first Sheriff of San Francisco
- Anna Head , founder of the Head-Royce School
- David Hewes , who provided the " Golden Spike "
- Andre Hicks (aka Mac Dre), Northern California Rapper
- Thomas Hill , artist
- Henry J. Kaiser , father of modern American Shipbuilding
- Ralph Wilson Kirkham , Union Army general
- Joseph LeConte , co-founder of the Sierra Club
- John Marsh , first American doctor in California, also helped spur transcontinental Wagon travel
- Bernard Maybeck , Architect
- Samuel Merritt , early Mayor Of Oakland
- C.O.G. Miller , head of Pacific Gas Lighting Corporation
- Julia Morgan , architect
- Frank Norris , author
- Rossell O'Brien , American Civil War veteran who started the custom of standing and removing one's hat during the national anthem
- Romualdo Pacheco , Governor Of California 1875
- George Pardee , Governor Of California 1903–1907
- George C. Perkins , Governor Of California 1880–1883
- Isaac Requa , made fortune in the Comstock Lode and railroads
- Jane K. Sather , donor of Sather Gate and Sather Tower to the University Of California, Berkeley
- Joe Shoong , Chinese immigrant and founder of the National Dollar Stores chain
- William T. Shorey , the only African-American Whaling captain on the Pacific coast
- Elizabeth Short , unsolved Hollywood murder victim known as the Black Dahlia
- Francis Marion Smith , the " Borax King"
- Josiah Stanford , older brother of Leland Stanford and ran Stanford Winery
- Jeremiah C. Sullivan , Union Army general and staff member of Ulysses S. Grant
- Douglas Tilden , Sculptor
Source: http://www.mountainviewcemetery.org/famous2.html
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