You might need to give another clue.
Is animal, vegarable or mineral?
Tom Thumb?
cemetery = tomb, sounds like tom
waning = small
A famous actual person
Peter (petering out) Graves
Making better, physically, via sound and emotion.
What am I named? [Also famous person, dead, in this case. Those are the ground rules, right?]
Update for easier:
The two riddles still up are pretty hard to solve. If no one objects I’ll throw another one out there:
I’m gambling but I’m pretty average at it.
Betty White?
bet + white=bland=pretty average
Close, but no. 
OK, it’s no fun if it’s too hard…
I was actually waiting if Peter Graves was really right
Like the answer to this clue so far, she was never found after she died, although they still claim every now and then they think they found where she crashed. She probably saw a lot of clouds, from both sides…
Bette Midler
Amelia Earhart
ameliorate + ear + heart
Yippers.
That sounds right too.
WAM, you’re up to give a clue.
Yes!
Movie about someone getting past second base. What is it called?
Everest?
Yes