Alta Mesa Memorial Park
Alta Mesa Memorial Park is a non-denominational burial ground located in Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California. It was established in 1904 as a 72-acre cemetery. It includes traditional burial plots, a mausoleum and a columbarium.
Notable burials
- Thomas A. Bailey, American historian
- Larry Wu-Tai Chin, spy for the People's Republic of China
- Arthur Bridgman Clark, architect, professor, first Mayor of Mayfield
- Birge Clark, architect
- Tennessee Ernie Ford, musician
- Wilhelmina Harper, successful children's author in the 1930s and 1940s, and published more than 40 compilations of children and young adult stories
- Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc.
- Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, keyboardist, harmonica player and lead vocalist, founding member of the Grateful Dead
- Kathleen Thompson Norris, American novelist
- David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard and U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
- Herold Ruel, major-league American baseball player
- William Shockley, developed transistor and won Nobel Prize for Physics
- Frederick Terman, considered the father of Silicon Valley
- Shirley Temple, American film and television actress, singer, dancer, and public servant
- Y.A. Tittle, football player
- Stephen Timoshenko, Professor of Applied Mechanics, Stanford University and namesake of the Timoshenko Medal
- Sidney Dean Townley, Professor of Astronomy, Stanford University
- Ray Lyman Wilbur, physician, third president of Stanford University and 31st U.S. Secretary of the Interior
- Bertha Wright, founder of the Children's Hospital Oakland
