Notable Persons Interred At Forest Hills
- Rufus Anderson, missionary and author
- Charles Hiller Innes, Massachusetts Politician
- Hugh Bancroft, president of The Wall Street Journal
- Clarence W. Barron, president of Dow Jones & Company
- Andrew Carney, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
- James Freeman Clarke, author
- Channing H. Cox, Governor of Massachusetts (1921–1925)
- E. E. Cummings, poet and artist
- Rev. Edgar J. Helms, Founder of Goodwill Industries
- Fanny Davenport, actress
- William Dawes (possible), tanner and American colonial minuteman
- William Dwight (1831–1888), general in American Civil War
- Eugene N. Foss, Governor of Massachusetts (1911–1914)
- William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist
- William Gaston, Governor of Massachusetts (1875–1876)
- Kahlil Gibran (1922–2008), Sculptor
- Adoniram Judson Gordon (1836–1895), preacher, writer, composer, and founder of Gordon College
- Curtis Guild, Governor of Massachusetts (1906–1909)
- Edward Everett Hale, author
- William Heath, general in American Revolutionary War
- Karl Heinzen, author
- Faik Konica, Albanian thinker, writer, journalist, politician
- Reggie Lewis, basketball player for Boston Celtics
- Francis Cabot Lowell, after whom Lowell, Massachusetts is named
- John Lowell, Federal judge
- Martin Milmore, sculptor
- Theofan S. Noli, Bishop, Prime Minister of Albania
- Eugene O'Neill, playwright
- Anne Sexton, poet
- Lysander Spooner, early American libertarian, abolitionist, writer, anarchist
- Lucy Stone, suffragist
- Joseph Warren, physician and patriot, killed at Battle of Bunker Hill
- John A. Winslow, admiral in American Civil War
- Jacob Wirth, restaurateur
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