Farkasréti Cemetery, Budapest, Hungary

Farkasréti Cemetery or Farkasrét Cemetery (Hungarian: Farkasréti temető) is one of the most famous cemeteries in Budapest. It opened in 1894 and is noted for its spectacular view of the city (several people wanted it more to be a resort area than a cemetery).

It comprises tombs of numerous Hungarian notables and it is the most preferred place for actors and actresses and other artists (opera singers, musicians, painters, sculptors, architects, writers, poets). It also includes the tombs of several scientists, academicians and sports-people.

Graves are often decorated with noteworthy sculptures. It was provided with parks in the 1950s, when it took on its present appearance and extent. The mortuary hall and the new chapel were built in the 1980s to the plans of Imre Makovecz.

In the Communist era, church funerals were forbidden in Kerepesi Cemetery, so it became the only place for those who wanted a religious funeral.

It is located in Buda (the Western part of Budapest), approximately 3 km away from the downtown.

The oldest grave that is still located in its original place is that of the mechanical engineer Ferenc Cathry Szaléz, the designer of the Rack railway in Budapest and the original Mária Valéria bridge in Esztergom.

Notable interments

• Vilmos Aba Novák, painter
• Aladár Árkai, architect
• Péter Bacsó, film director and screenwriter
• Ervin Baktay, orientalist
• Donát Bánki, inventor
• Gusztáv Bárczi, remedial teacher
• Béla Bartók, composer, the sculpture made by Miklós Borsos
• Dénes Berinkey, Prime Minister
• Aurél Bernáth, painter and poet
• Tivadar Bilicsi, actor
• Sándor Bíró, footballer
• Miklós Borsos, sculptor
• József Bozsik, footballer, member of the Golden Team
• Csinszka, Endre Ady's wife
• Tamás Cseh, singer and songwriter
• Zsuzsa Cserháti, a very popular singer
• János Csonka, inventor
• Béla Czóbel, painter
• Ferenc Deák, footballer
• József C. Dobos, inventor of the Dobos Cake, a Hungarian speciality
• Edit Domján, a very popular actress
• Béla Egresi, footballer
• Pál Engel, historian
• Zoltán Fábri, director
• Sári Fedák, actress
• István Fekete, writer
• János Ferencsik, conductor
• Miklós Gábor, actor
• Aladár Gerevich, seven-times olympic champion fencer
• Gyula Germanus, orientalist
• Hilda Gobbi, actress
• Lajos Gulácsi, painter
• Lajos Hatvany, Maecenas of the arts
• András Hegedűs, Socialist Prime Minister
• Éva Janikovszky, writer of children's books
• Pál Jávor, a very popular actor
• Gyula Kabos, a very popular actor
• Katalin Karády, actress, singer
• Lajos Kassák, poet and painter
• Manyi Kiss, a very popular actress
• Károly Kernstok, painter
• Kálmán Kittenberger, Africa researcher, naturalist
• Zoltán Kodály, composer, the sculpture made by Pál Pátzai
• János Kodolányi, writer
• György Kolonics, olympic champion sprint canoeist
• Ilona Kolonits, documentary film director, war correspondent
• Béla Kondor, painter
• Margit Kovács, ceramicist and sculptor
• László Lajtha, composer
• Kálmán Latabár, a very popular actor
• Imre Makovecz, architect
• Istvan Medgyaszay, architect
• Miklós Mészöly, writer
• Pál C. Molnár, painter
• László Nagy, poet
• Ágnes Nemes Nagy, poet
• László Németh, writer
• István Örkény, writer
• László Papp, three-times olympic champion boxer
• János Pilinszky, poet
• Mátyás Rákosi, Communist leader; now only his initials are visible to avoid vandalism
• Zsigmond Reményik, writer
• Éva Ruttkai, actress
• Ferenc Sánta, writer
• Sándor Simonyi-Semadam, Prime Minister
• Árpád Szakasits, Socialist leader
• Zsigmond Széchenyi, Africa researcher, hunter, writer
• Pál Szécsi, an extremely popular singer (his fans kept bringing articles for his tomb for years and some wanted to spend the night beside it)
• Gyula Szekfü, historian
• Georg Solti, conductor
• Zoltán Tildy, President
• Béla Volentik, footballer
• Sándor Weöres, poet
• József Zakariás, footballer, member of the Golden Team
• Zoltán Zelk, poet
• Károly Zipernovszky, inventor

Note: This list is very far from complete: the number of notables buried here exceeds 10,000.