Bruce and Brandon Lee’s Graves — Seattle
Kirk McLean (Brandon’s memorial) · 1995 · Lake View Cemetery, Seattle
Photo: Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0), the photo used in the Street Art Utopia post. Full photograph shown.
Bruce Lee and his son Brandon are buried side by side at Seattle’s Lake View Cemetery. Visitors leave flowers, notes, money and other offerings at their graves, and Bruce’s friend Taky Kimura, and later his son Andy, have tended the stones. Source Source Source Reported
Seen Jun 2026 — a visitor’s account published on June 29, 2026, describes both headstones and the flowers, coins and notes left there. Source Reported
💡 4 things to know
- Father and son togetherThe Bruce Lee Foundation says Brandon was buried next to his father at Lake View Cemetery in 1993. Source Checked
- Flowers and messagesThe Seattle Globalist reported that visitors blanket the graves with figurines, crystals, candles, flowers, oranges, notes and money from around the world. Source Reported
- A sculptor’s memorialKirk McLean’s portfolio lists his Brandon Lee Memorial as a 1995 black granite work at Lakeview Cemetery, Seattle. Source Checked
- An annual act of careA 2023 Seattle Times story republished by the Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute says Taky Kimura cleaned the gravestones every July 20 for 48 years, and his son Andy has continued the work. Source Reported
📍 Where it is
Lake View Cemetery, 1554 15th Ave E, Seattle, Washington, United States. Source Checked
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🗓️ Sightings
- 201510 Apr
The Seattle Globalist described offerings at the graves
- 201830 Apr
Andy Li photographed the gravesite with flowers and coins
- 202023 Nov
Fotoeins photographed the graves and named Kirk McLean as designer of Brandon’s stone
- 202320 Jul
The Seattle Times described the gravestones as gleaming and adorned with flowers and coins
- 202629 Jun
Charles Einarson describes both headstones and the flowers, coins and notes left there
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✅ The facts
🔗 Related
All sources & image credits
- Lake View Cemetery — Bruce Lee — undated
- Bruce Lee Foundation via Google Arts & Culture — The Gravesite of Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee — undated
- Seattle Globalist — Bruce Lee’s grave: Seattle landmark, global attraction — 2015-04-10
- Seattle Times via Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute — 50 years after Bruce Lee’s death, torchbearers reflect — 2023-07-20
- Wikimedia Commons — Bruce and Brandon Lee's gravesite 2018, Andy Li — 2018-04-30
- Kirk McLean — Sculpture portfolio — undated
- Fotoeins — Seattle Lake View: Bruce & Brandon Lee — 2020-11-23
- Charles Einarson (Substack) — Lake View Cemetery: Bruce Lee, His Son, and the Hill — 2026-06-29
- Hero image: Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0), the photo used in the Street Art Utopia post; the 16:9 share image is made from it.
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