San Francisco National Cemetery, Military cemetery in Presidio, San Francisco, United States.

San Francisco National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery in the Presidio of San Francisco, designated on December 12, 1884 on 9 acres (3.6 ha) that included the old post cemetery. Rows of upright white marble headstones with rounded tops stand on a green lawn, receding toward a road and a white building. A stone wall encloses the grounds, which slope down a hill framing a view of the Golden Gate Bridge; tall eucalyptus trees further enclose it, and the lodge and rostrum date to the 1920s in Spanish Revival styling.

The cemetery was established in 1884 as the first national military burial ground on the West Coast of the United States. It was created to consolidate remains from earlier military posts scattered throughout the Pacific region.

The cemetery holds three British Commonwealth war graves: a Canadian soldier of World War I and a Royal Navy and a Merchant Navy sailor of World War II. Its monuments include a Grand Army of the Republic Memorial (1893) and a monument to the Marines who died at the Tartar Wall in Beijing (1900).

The cemetery is enclosed by a stone wall and lies on a hillside sloping down toward a view of the Golden Gate Bridge. Its original ornamental cast-iron entrance gates still stand but have been unused since the entrance was relocated. Tall eucalyptus trees further enclose the grounds, and the lodge and rostrum date to the 1920s.

Among those buried here are Medal of Honor recipients alongside individuals with extraordinary stories, including Pauline Cushman, a Civil War spy, and Sarah Bowman, a woman who provided care to soldiers during the Mexican-American War. Their graves reveal less familiar chapters of American military history.