Foster, first Black Superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District in Oakland, California, first victim of the Symbionese Liberation Army David Hewes, who provided the "Golden Spike" Bobby Hutton, first treasurer of the Black Panther Party Fred Korematsu, challenged Executive Order 9066 in the landmark Supreme Court case Korematsu v. United States Ike Lassiter, football player Joseph LeConte, co-founder of the Sierra Club Ernie Lombardi, Hall of Fame Major League Baseball player John Norton Pomeroy, law professor at Hastings College of the Law Elizabeth Short, unsolved Hollywood murder victim known as the Black Dahlia There is one British Commonwealth war grave, of Pilot Officer James Raymond Lippi, an American born member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, who died in 1942. Lippi was born in Santa Cruz, California and went to Canada to enlist for World War II Lee Ya-Ching, China's First Lady of Flight, first female pilot graduated from Geneve-Cointrin (Switzerland) and from Boeing School of Aeronautics. Zedekiah Johnson Purnell (1813–1882), was an African-American activist, and businessman In popular culture Mountain View Cemetery is featured prominently in the 2018 film Blindspotting. Daveed Diggs's character is shown going there for morning runs, and an important scene happens in the cemetery where the character imagines Black victims of police brutality standing over the graves. In The Big Wake-Up, a 2009 crime novel by Mark Coggins, the main character in the book, a detective named August Riordan, discovers that Argentine first lady Eva Perón is not at rest in the Duarte family tomb in La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, but is actually buried in Mountain View Cemetery. References External links Mountain View Cemetery web site Chapel of the Chimes Biographies of people buried at Mountain View Cemetery by Michael Colbruno Cemeteries in Alameda County, California 01 Geography of Oakland, California History of Alameda County, California History of the San Francisco Bay Area Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in the United States Landmarks in the San Francisco Bay Area 19th century in Oakland, California 1863 establishments in California Rural cemeteries Tourist attractions in Oakland, California