# List of burials at Montparnasse Cemetery

* 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

* 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 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

* 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.
* 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

* 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
* Emil Cioran (1911-1995), filosof,scriitor

## 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
* 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

* 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.
* 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

* 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

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

## R

* Tania Rachevskaia (????–1910), a Russian medical student (and allegedly an anarchist). Her grave is famous 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

* 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
* 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