List of burials at Montparnasse Cemetery

Contents: 

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

Among those interred at the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris are:

A

• Henri Alekan (1909–2001), cinematographer
• Alexander Alekhine (1892–1946), Russian-born chess world champion
• Grace Alekhine (1876–1956), artist and chess master
• Michèle Arnaud (1919–1998), singer
• Henry Aron (1842–1885), journalist and political essayist
• Raymond Aron (1905–1983), philosopher, sociologist and political scientist
• Jean-Michel Atlan (1913–1960), poet and painter
• Tina Aumont (1946–2006), actress, daughter of Jean-Pierre Aumont and Maria Montez
• Georges Auric (1899–1983), composer, member of Les Six

B

Tomb of Charles Baudelaire.

Charles Baudelaire monument.

Tomb of Kate Barry and Jane Birkin

• Shapour Bakhtiar (1914–1991), last prime minister of the constitutional monarchy in Iran
• César Baldaccini (1921–1988), sculptor
• Théodore de Banville (1823–1891), poet, writer
• Frédéric Bartholdi (1834–1904), sculptor of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World)
• Maryse Bastié (1898–1952), pioneer aviator
• Pierre Batcheff (1901–1932), actor
• Jane Bathori (1877–1970), opera singer
• Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), poet
• Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer
• Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), feminist philosopher and author
• Jacques Becker (1906–1960), filmmaker
• Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish author, playwright and poet
• Eugène Belgrand (1810–1878), civil engineer
• Paul Belmondo (1898–1982), French sculptor
• Jean Béraud (1849–1935), painter
• Emmanuel Berl (1892–1976), writer
• Aloysius Bertrand (1807–1841), poet
• Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (1847–1907), geologist, one of the founders of modern tectonics
• Jean-Marie Beurel (1813–1872), catholic priest
• Gaston Billotte (1875-1940), general, killed in the Battle of France
• Louis Gustave Binger (1856–1936), explorer
• Jane Birkin (1946–2023), English-French actress and singer
• Lucien Bodard (1914–1998), journalist
• Marc Boegner (1881–1970), theologist and academician
• Jean-Marie Bonnassieux (1810–1892), sculptor
• Aristide Boucicaut (1810–1877), entrepreneur and creator of Le Bon Marché chain of department stores
• William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905), artist (painter in realist style)
• Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph, comte Boulay de la Meurthe (1761–1840), statesman
• Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1921), sculptor and teacher
• Paul Bourget (1852–1935), writer
• Marcel Bozzuffi (1928–1988), actor
• Gérard Brach (1927–2006), screenwriter
• Constantin Brâncuși (1876–1957), Romanian sculptor
• Brassaï (born Gyula Halász) (1899–1984), photographer
• Michel Bréal (1832–1915), linguist, coiner of "semantics," inventor of the marathon
• Paul Broca (1824–1880), physician and anatomist
• Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (1817–1894), physician
• Jean Bruller (1902–1991), author who wrote under the nom de plume of Vercors

C

Julio Cortázar's grave.

• René Capitant (1901–1970), lawyer and statesman
• Roger Caillois (1913–1978), author
• Jean Carmet (1920–1994), actor
• Isabelle Caro (1982–2010), model
• Eugène Carrière (1849–1906), Symbolist painter
• Rene Cassin (1887–1976), jurist, Nobel Laureate. His remains were later transferred to the Panthéon.
• Sergio de Castro (artist) (1922–2012), Argentinian painter, musician and poet
• Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997), Greek philosopher with French citizenship
• Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811–1899), organ builder
• Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894), composer
• René de Chambrun (1906–2002), lawyer, businessman. ^[1]
• Honoré Champion (1846–1913), publisher
• Claude François Chauveau-Lagarde (1756–1841), lawyer, defender of Marie-Antoinette
• Marie-Dominique Chenu (1895–1990), Catholic theologian
• Jacques Chirac (1932–2019), politician, Prime Minister of France, Mayor of Paris, President of France, Co-Prince of Andorra
• Emil Cioran (1911–1995), Romanian philosopher
• André Citroën (1878–1935), founded France's Citroën automobile factory
• Antoni Clavé (1913–2005), artist
• Yves Congar (1904–1995), Catholic theologian
• François Coppée (1842–1908), poet and novelist
• Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis (1792–1843), mathematician
• Margaret Cossaceanu-Lavrillier (1893–1980), sculptor
• Julio Cortázar (1914–1984), Argentine writer
• Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801–1877), economist
• Maurice Couve de Murville (1907–1999), former Prime Minister of France
• Bruno Cremer (1929–2010), actor
• Adolphe Crémieux (1796–1880), lawyer and statesman
• Charles Cros (1842–1888), poet and inventor

D

Tomb of Porfirio Díaz at Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris

• Jules Dalou (1838–1902), sculptor
• Mireille Darc (1938–2017), model and actress
• Gabriel Davioud (1824–1881), architect
• Pierre David-Weill (1900–1975), banker, Chairman of Lazard Frères
• Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil (1900–1989), lover and, later, wife of Samuel Beckett
• Jos De Cock (1934–2010), Belgian-French painter, watercolorist, etcher and sculptor and, later, wife of Pierre Restany
• Jacques Demy (1931–1990), filmmaker
• Édouard Deperthes (1833–1898), architect
• Paul Deschanel (1855–1922), former President of France
• Robert Desnos (1900–1945), Surrealist poet
• Porfirio Díaz (1830–1915), longest serving Mexican President, Dictator, General
• Marie Dorval (1798–1849), actress
• Alfred Dreyfus (1859–1935), Jewish military officer falsely accused of treason (the Dreyfus affair)
• Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790–1842), explorer of South Pacific & discoverer of Venus de Milo
• Marguerite Duras (1914–1996), author and movie director
• Émile Durkheim (1858–1917), sociologist
• Henri Dutilleux (1916–2013), composer
• Roland Dyens (1955–2016), guitarist and composer

E

• Émile Egger (1813–1885), philologist
• Robert Enrico (1931–2001), film director
• Antoine Étex (1808–1888), sculptor

F

• Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904), artist
• Léon-Paul Fargue (1876–1947), poet and essayist
• Paul Foucher (1810–1875), dramatist and journalist
• César Franck (1822–1890), composer and organist
• Othon Friesz (1879–1949), painter
• Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012), Mexican writer

G

• Serge Gainsbourg (1928–1991), singer and composer
• Évariste Galois (1811–1832), mathematician and revolutionary
• Charles Garnier (1825–1898), designed the original Paris Opera House for Napoleon III
• Henry Gauthier-Villars (1859–1931), writer and first husband of Colette
• François Gérard (1770–1837), artist
• Jean Giraud (1938–2012), illustrator, comic artist, also known as Moebius
• Alexandre Guilmant (1837–1911), organist and composer
• Mavis Gallant (1922–2014), author

H

• Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette (1769–1834), mathematician
• Clara Haskil (1895–1960), Romanian pianist
• Swan Hennessy (1866–1929), Irish-American composer, and his son Patrice Hennessy (1910–1973), French man of letters
• Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1814–1886), publisher and literary editor
• Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828), famous sculptor of notable men
• Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848–1907), author

I

• Vincent d'Indy (1851–1931), composer
• Eugène Ionesco (1909–1994), Romanian playwright
• Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy (1920–2006), French sculptor
• Joris Ivens (1898–1989), Dutch filmmaker

J

• Jean Bernard Jauréguiberry (1815–1887), admiral and statesman
• Joëlle (1953–1982), American-born French singer
• Yves Jouffa (1953–1982), Holocaust survivor
• Geneviève Joy (1919–2009), French classical and modernist pianist

K

• Gustave Kahn, (1859–1936), poet and art critic
• Joseph Kessel (1898–1979), writer
• Kiki (1901–1953), singer, actress, painter, "Queen of Montparnasse" (although she was probably buried in Thiais)
• Adamantios Korais (1748–1833), Greek writer and philosopher
• Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997), Greek writer and philosopher

L

Grave of Urbain Le Verrier

• Bernard Lacoste (1931–2006), president of Lacoste apparel company, son of René Lacoste
• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829), naturalist and zoologist (unearthed in 1834, lost body)
• Paul-Gilbert Langevin (1933–1986), musicologist
• Henri Langlois (1914–1977), film preservationist
• Pierre Larousse (1817–1875), author of encyclopedia Larousse Gastronomique
• Henri Laurens (1885–1954), sculptor, engraver
• Pierre Laval (1883–1945), Prime Minister. ^[2]
• Alphonse Laveran (1845–1922), physician, parasitologist
• Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941), creator of Arsène Lupin, novelist
• Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (1818–1894), poet
• Alexandre Lenoir (1761–1839), archaeologist
• Philippe Léotard (1940–2001), teacher, actor, poet, singer
• Urbain Le Verrier (1811–1877), astronomer and mathematician
• André Lhote (1885–1962), painter and sculptor
• Jacques Lisfranc (1790–1847), gynecologist and surgeon
• Émile Littré (1801–1881) lexicographer, philosopher
• Baltasar Lobo (1910–1993), Spanish sculptor
• Sylvia Lopez (1931–1959), actress
• Herbert Lottman (1927–2014), American biographer
• Louis Loucheur (1872–1931), statesman
• Pierre Louÿs (1870–1925), poet, romance novelist

M

• Ambrose Dudley Mann (1801–1889), Commissioner of the Confederate States of America for Belgium and the Vatican
• René Maran (1887–1960), intellectual, author
• Chris Marker (1921–2012), filmmaker, writer, photographer
• Gaston Maspero (1846–1916), Egyptologist
• Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893), author
• Rosita Mauri (1849–1923), principal ballerina at the Paris Opera
• Claude Mauriac (1914–1996), author
• René Mayer (1895–1972), former Prime Minister of France
• Catulle Mendès (1841–1909), poet, man of letters
• Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–1868), actress, poet
• Ricardo Menon (1952–1989), artist, assistant and friend of Niki de Saint Phalle (who designed the tomb: Chat de Ricardo , one of the most notable sculptures in the cemetery).
• André Meyer (1898–1979), French/American financier
• Charles-Joseph Minard (1781–1870), French data visualization pioneer
• Mireille (1906–1996), singer, composer
• Eliane Montel (1898–1992), physicist and Paul Langevin's partner
• Maria Montez (1912–1951), actress
• Vincent de Moro-Giafferi (1878–1956), lawyer and statesman
• Michèle Morgan (1920–2016), actress
• Jean Mounet-Sully (1841–1916), actor
• Philippe Muray (1945–2006), essayist and novelist

N

• Philippe Noiret (1930–2006), actor
• Max Nordau (1849–1923), Zionist leader, physician, author

O

• Mathieu Orfila (1787–1853), toxicologist, chemist
• Gérard Oury (1919–2006), director

P

Viktor Yushchenko at the grave of Symon Petliura

Grave of François Pouqueville

• Pan Yuliang (1895–1977), Chinese painter
• Jean-Claude Pascal (1927–1992), singer and actor
• Adolphe Pégoud (1889–1915), aviator
• Auguste Perret (1874–1954), architect
• Bénédicte Pesle (1927–2018), arts patron
• Symon Petliura (1879–1926), Ukrainian leader
• Maurice Pialat (1925–2003), film director
• Pierre Piérade (1884–1937), comedian, music hall performer and actor
• Charles Pigeon (1838–1915), engineer, inventor and manufacturer
• Jules Henri Poincaré, (1854–1912), mathematician and physicist
• Jean Poiret (1926–1992), actor, film director
• Nicos Poulantzas (1936–1979), sociologist
• François Charles Henri Laurent Pouqueville (1770–1838), diplomat, writer, historian, archaeologist, physician
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, (1809–1865), philosopher and statesman
• Visarion Puiu (1879–1964), Romanian metropolitan bishop

Q

Grave of Edgar Quinet

• Valérie Quennessen (1957–1989), theatre and film actress
• Edgar Quinet (1803–1875), historian

R

• Tania Rachevskaia (1887–1910), Russian medical student and alleged anarchist. Her grave is renowned because it is adorned with The Kiss by Constantin Brâncuși.
• Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (1804–1860), painter
• Jean-Pierre Rampal (1922–2000), flautist
• Fanny Raoul (1771–1833), feminist writer, journalist, philosopher and essayist
• Man Ray (1890–1976), American-born Dada and Surrealist artist and photographer, with his wife Juliet
• Serge Reggiani (1922–2004), singer, actor
• Jean-Marc Reiser (1941–1983), comic artist
• Rosalie Rendu (1786–1856), daughter of charity
• Pierre Restany (1930–2003), art critic
• Paul Reynaud (1878–1966), lawyer and statesman
• Moune de Rivel (1918-2014), singer-songwriter, musician and actress
• Yves Robert (1920–2002), actor, director
• Yves Rocard (1903–1992), physicist
• Éric Rohmer (1920–2010), film director
• Nicolae Rosetti-Bălănescu (1827–1884), Romanian politician
• Frédéric Rossif (1922–1990), filmmaker
• Gustave Roussy (1874–1948), Swiss-born neuropathologist and oncologist
• François Rude (1784–1855), sculptor
• Julio Ruelas (1870–1907), Mexican painter
• Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803–1877), German inventor

S

Grave of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir

• Jean Sablon (1906–1994), singer
• Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804–1869), literary critic, author
• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921), composer & performer of Romantic classical music
• Jules Sandeau (1811–1883), novelist
• Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980), French philosopher & novelist
• Claude Sautet (1924–2000), film director
• Georges Schehadé (1905–1989), Lebanese poet and playwright
• Pierre Schoendoerffer (1928-2012), writer and filmmaker
• Jean Seberg (1938–1979), American actress and civil rights activist
• Pierre Seghers (1906–1987), poet and editor
• Delphine Seyrig (1932–1990), actress
• Susan Sontag (1933–2004), American author and philosopher
• Jesús Rafael Soto (1923–2005), Venezuelan kinetic sculptor and painter
• Chaïm Soutine (1893–1943), painter of the School of Paris

T

• Boris Taslitzky (1911–2005), painter
• Blanka Teleki (1806-1862), Hungarian noblewoman
• Augustin Thierry (1795–1856), historian
• Roland Topor (1938–1997), writer, illustrator
• Henri Troyat (1911–2007), author
• Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), Romanian Dadaist poet and essayist

U

• Stanisław Ulam (1909–1984), Polish mathematician, with his wife Françoise Aron Ulam.

V

• Carlos Valenti (1888–1912), painter
• César Vallejo (1892–1938), Peruvian poet
• Agnès Varda (1928–2019), filmmaker
• Jacques Vergès (1925–2013), lawyer
• Louis Veuillot (1813–1883), journalist
• Paul Vidal de la Blache (1845–1918), geographer
• Louis Vierne (1870–1937), composer, organist
• Andrée Viollis (1870–1950), journalist and writer

W

• Henri-Alexandre Wallon (1812–1904), historian, statesman
• Adolphe Willette (1857–1926), painter
• Bronisława Wieniawa-Długoszowska (1886–1953), buried under the name 'Jeanne-Liliane Lalande'. She spied for French military intelligence during the Bolshevik revolution.
• Georges Wolinski (1934–2015) Political cartoonist; writer; assassinated at Charlie Hebdo January 7, 2015

Z

• Ossip Zadkine (1890–1967), Russian-born sculptor and artist
• Sabine Zlatin (1907–1996), Polish-born humanitarian who hid Jewish children during the Holocaust

References

1. Demonpion, Denis (May 31, 2002). "La vie mondaine des collabos". Le Point. Archived from the original on May 2, 2018. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
2. "Laval's Body Taken To Family Mausoleum" . Lubbock Morning Avalanche. Lubbock, Texas. November 16, 1945. p. 3. Retrieved August 2, 2016– via Newspapers.com. The bullet-pierced body of Pierre Laval was moved today to the mausoleum of the Chambrun family in Montparnasse cemetery from an unmarked grave in Thiais cemetery, where it had lain since the former premier was executed as a traitor a month ago.

External links

• A list of many buried at the cemetery
• Cimetière de Montparnasse at Find A Grave
• Information and help in touring Montparnasse cemetery In English