List of burials at Montparnasse Cemetery

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
• Louis Gustave Binger (1856–1936), explorer
• 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
• 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.^[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), Argentinian author
• 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[]

, France

• 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
• Jacques Demy (1931–1990), film director
• 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
• 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.^[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[]

• 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
• 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[]

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

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

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Montparnasse Cemetery.

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