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A gravedigger is a cemetery worker who is responsible for digging a grave prior to a funeral service.

Gravedigger, or variants, may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• The Gravediggers, in William Shakespeare's Hamlet
• Gravedigger Jones, in the Harlem Detective novels by Chester Himes
• Grave Digger, in the Gold Digger series of comics
• Gravedigger (comics), several characters in DC comics
• The Grave Digger, in Bones

Music

• Grave Digger (band), a German heavy metal band
  • The Grave Digger, a 2001 album
• The Grave Diggers, an American rockabilly band
• Gravediggaz, an American hip hop group
• "Gravedigger", a song from the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble 1971 album Roll Over.
• "Gravedigger" (song), by Dave Matthews, 2003, also performed by Willie Nelson
• "Gravedigger", a song by Architects from the 2014 album Lost Forever // Lost Together
• "Gravedigger", a song by The Browning from the 2014 album Hypernova
• " The Gravedigger's Song", by Mark Lanegan, 2012

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• "The Gravediggers" (The Avengers), an episode of the 1960s TV series
• "The Grave Digger", a 1952 Arabic poem by Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
• Gravedigger, a 1982 book by Joseph Hansen

Other uses

• Grave Digger (monster truck), a monster truck racing team
• The Gravedigger, a professional wrestler from the United States Wrestling Association
• Grave digger, also known as “4th and 31”, the winning play from the college football rivalry game, Iron Bowl 2023

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Grave digger
• All pages with titles beginning with Gravedigger
• All pages with titles beginning with The Grave
• Grobari (Serbian for 'gravediggers'), fans of FK Partizan Belgrade

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