Since the completion of its first sections in 1866, Cedar Hill Cemetery has been honored to have been chosen as the final resting place of many distinguished and well-known individuals. 

Among them are:

• Jacob Weidenmann, pioneer landscape architect and Cedar Hill's first superintendent.
• Glastonbury native Gideon Welles, editor of The Hartford Times newspaper and Secretary of the Navy under President Abraham Lincoln.
• Samuel Colt, inventor of the famous Colt 45 revolver and founder of Colt Industries.
• Lemuel Custis, member of the first graduating class of the Tuskeegee Airmen.
• Aviation pioneer, Charles K. Hamilton.
• Mark Twain's Nook Farm companions and cohorts:
  • Reverend Joseph Twichell, Pastor of the Asylum Hill Congregational Church and Twain's great friend and walking companion;
  • writer Charles Dudley Warner, who co-authored The Gilded Age with Twain;
  • Isabella Beecher Hooker, half-sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe and 19th century leader of the women's movement; and
  • Joseph Roswell Hawley, Connecticut Governor, U.S. Representative to Congress and U.S. Senator.
• Thomas Gallaudet, founder of The American School for the Deaf.
• Hartford dentist, Horace Wells, the first to prove the use of nitrous oxide as an anesthetic.
• Civil War General Griffin A. Stedman.
• The Right Reverend Thomas Church Brownell, Presiding Episcopal Bishop of the United States and founder of Trinity College.
• Morgan Gardner Bulkeley Connecticut's "Crowbar Governor", State Senator, President of Aetna Life Insurance Company and the first U.S. Commissioner of Baseball.
• J.P. Morgan, Hartford-born financier and philanthropist.
• James G. Batterson, founder of the Travelers Insurance Company and proprietor of the New England Granite Works.
• Yung Wing, Chinese scholar, Yale graduate, and founder, in 1872, of Hartford's Chinese Education Mission.
• the enigmatic, internationally-acclaimed poet, Wallace Stevens.
• the world-famous artist,William Glackens and, most recently,
• the incomparable Katharine Hepburn (see her grave location).