Notable Interments
- Major General Robert Anderson, Union Army officer in command of Fort Sumter at start of the Civil War
- Earl "Red" Blaik, Army football head coach (1941–1958), member of the College Football Hall of Fame
- John Milton Brannan, Union army general
- Major General John Buford, Union cavalry commander who set the stage for the Battle of Gettysburg
- Major General Daniel Butterfield, composer of Taps
- General Lucius D. Clay, "Father of the Berlin Airlift"
- Margaret Corbin, Revolutionary War heroine.
- Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Alonzo Cushing, Union artillery officer, killed during Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg; posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 2014
- Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer, Union cavalry commander during the Civil War and the Indian Wars, killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
- Glenn Davis (halfback), Heisman Trophy winner for 1946
- Maggie Dixon, women's basketball coach at West Point, 2005–2006
- Captain Philip Egner, the longtime director of the West Point Band and composer of the West Point fight song "On, Brave Old Army Team."
- Brigadier General John Eisenhower, historian, author, son of Dwight Eisenhower.
- Lieutenant General James Maurice Gavin, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II
- Major General George Washington Goethals, "Builder of the Panama Canal"
- Major General Frederick Dent Grant, son of President Ulysses S. Grant
- Lieutenant General Howard Dwayne Graves, Superintendent, United States Military Academy
- Major General William H. Hay, commander of the 28th Infantry Division in World War I
- Major General Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Mexican–American War veteran, special advisor to the president during the Civil War
- Brigadier General Ranald S. Mackenzie, Civil War veteran, commander of Buffalo Soldiers during the Indian Wars
- Master Sergeant Martin "Marty" Maher, Jr., athletic trainer and central character in the film The Long Gray Line
- Colonel David "Mickey" Marcus, Israel's first general, only American buried here who died fighting under a foreign flag
- Major General Wesley Merritt, Civil War veteran, Military Governor of the Philippines
- Major General Bryant Edward Moore, Korea IX corps, World War II 8th inf div "Timberwolves" and Pacific
- General Alexander M. Patch, commander of U.S. Seventh Army
- 2nd Lieutenant Emily J. T. Perez, KIA IRAQ – 2006, NCAA Award of Valor – 2008.
- Lieutenant Colonel Henry A. Phillips, Sr., Soldier's Medal Recipient, 1960 Graduate
- Major General Thomas H. Ruger, Civil War veteran, United States Military Academy Superintendent
- Major General wikipedia:Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf, the first superintendent of the New Jersey State Police.
- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., commander of coalition forces in the Gulf War.
- Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, longest serving American general (1813–1861), commanded the U.S. Army from 1841 to 1861.
- Major General George Sykes, Civil War commander.
- Brigadier General Sylvanus Thayer, known as "The Father of the U.S. Military Academy" for the strict regimens implemented at his direction
- Brigadier General John T. Thompson, inventor of the Thompson submachine gun
- Ensign Dominick Trant, a native of Cork, Ireland and a soldier in the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment in the Continental Army, died at West Point in 1782. His grave is the oldest in the cemetery.
- Colonel Theodore S. Westhusing, highest-ranking officer to die in Iraq War – 2005, "Multi-national Security Transition Command – Iraq".
- General William Westmoreland, Army Chief of Staff, Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy, Commander of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam from 1964–1968.
- Lieutenant Colonel Ed White, first American to make a spacewalk, killed in the Apollo 1 fire on 27 January 1967.
- Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Eleazer D. Wood, first West Point Graduate to die in battle. Actually a monument; arguable whether he is actually buried there.
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