List of burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery

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Among those interred at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris are:

A[]

Grave of François Arago
Andranik Ozanian's grave and statue, erected in 1945
  • Peter Abelard – French philosopher
  • Edmond François Valentin About – French novelist and journalist
  • Mikola Abramchyk – Belarusian journalist and emigre politician
  • Agustarello Affre – French operatic tenor
  • Marie d'Agoult – French author who wrote under the nom de plume of Daniel Stern
  • Avetis Aharonyan – Armenian politician, writer and public figure
  • Chantal Akerman – Belgian filmmaker and writer
  • Jehan Alain – French composer and organist
  • Marietta Alboni – Italian opera singer
  • Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand – French civil engineer
  • Émilie Ambre – French opera singer
  • Elena Andreianova – Russian ballerina
  • Andranik – Armenian military commander and statesman; remains transferred to Armenia in 2000.
  • Karel Appel – Dutch painter
  • Guillaume Apollinaire – French poet and art critic
  • François Arago – French scientist and statesman
  • Arman (Armand Fernandez) – French painter
  • Miguel Ángel Asturias – Guatemalan diplomat and author, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967
  • Philip Astley – father of the modern circus[1]
  • Daniel Auber – French composer
  • Hubertine Auclert – French feminist and activist for women's suffrage
  • Pierre Augereau – French military commander and Marshal of France
  • Jean-Pierre Aumont – French actor, father of Tina Aumont and husband of Maria Montez
  • Jane Avril – French dancer

B[]

Grave of Sarah Bernhardt
  • Salvador Bacarisse – Spanish composer
  • Honoré de Balzac – French novelist of the 19th century
  • Joseph Barbanègre – French general
  • Henri Barbusse – French novelist
  • Paul Barras – French statesman
  • Antoine-Louis Barye – French sculptor
  • Alain Bashung – French singer
  • Stiv Bators – ashes sprinkled on the grave of Jim Morrison
  • Jean-Dominique Bauby – French journalist
  • Jean-Louis Baudelocque – French obstetrician
  • Pierre-Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais – French playwright
  • Félix de Beaujour – French diplomat, politician and historian
  • Gilbert Bécaud – French singer
  • Pierre Augustin Béclard – French anatomist
  • Vincenzo Bellini – Italian composer; remains later transferred to Italy
  • Hans Bellmer – German (French) surrealist photographer, sculptor, draughtsman
  • Judah P. Benjamin – American lawyer and statesman
  • Pierre-Jean de Béranger – French lyricist
  • Claude Bernard – French physiologist, known for several advances in medicine, as the introduction of the scientific method to the study of medicine, and the study of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • Bernardin de Saint Pierre – French writer
  • Sarah Bernhardt – French stage and film actress
  • Alphonse Bertillon – French anthropologist and father of anthropometry
  • Julien Bessières – French scientist, diplomat and politician
  • Ramón Emeterio Betances – Puerto Rican nationalist; remains returned to Puerto Rico in 1920.
  • Bruno Bianchi – French animator, co-creator of Inspector Gadget[2]
  • Xavier Bichat – French anatomist and pathologist
  • Fulgence Bienvenüe – French civil engineer remembered as the Father of the Paris Métro
  • Anne Bignan – French poet and translator
  • Samuel Bing – German art dealer
  • Georges Bizet – French composer and conductor
  • Louis Blanc – French historian and statesman
  • Sophie Blanchard – first professional female balloonist and the first woman to die in an aviation accident
  • Auguste Blanqui – French revolutionary socialist.
  • François-Adrien Boieldieu – French composer
  • Rosa Bonheur – French painter
  • Ludwig Börne – German political writer and satirist
  • Paul Boucherot – French electrical engineer
  • Louis of Bourbon-Two Sicilies – Italian count
  • Pierre Bourdieu – French sociologist
  • Jean-Pierre Boyer – Second President of Haiti
  • Brada - French writer
  • Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu – French opera singer
  • Édouard Branly – French scientist
  • Pierre Brasseur – French comedian
  • Yvonne de Bray – French actress
  • Januária of Brazil – Brazilian princess
  • Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin – French lawyer, politician, epicure, and gastronome
  • Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart – French architect, best known for designing the layout of the Pėre Lachaise Cemetery
  • Pierre Brossolette – French journalist, politician and Résistance leader
  • Jean de Brunhoff – French author of Babar the Elephant
  • Auguste-Laurent Burdeau – French politician and plaintiff in the Drumont-Burdeau trial

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Grave of Jean-François Champollion

D[]

Cremated remains of Isadora Duncan in the Columbarium
  • Jarosław Dąbrowski – exiled Polish revolutionary Nationalist and last Commander-in-Chief of the Paris Commune of 1871; cenotaphs on Federated Wall in northeast corner of the Père Lachaise Cemetery and outside the wall in the Square Samuel de Champlain
  • Pierre Dac – French humorist
  • Édouard Daladier – French Radical-Socialist politician of the 1930s, signatory of the Munich Agreement in 1938 and Prime Minister of France at the outbreak of the Second World War
  • Alexandre Darracq – French automobile manufacturer
  • Alphonse Daudet – French author who is known for his literary works, such as Letters from My Windmill
  • Honoré Daumier – French caricaturist
  • Jacques-Louis David – Napoleon's court painter was exiled as a revolutionary after the Bourbons returned to the throne of France. His body was not allowed into the country even in death, so the tomb contains only his heart.
  • David d'Angers – French sculptor
  • Louis-Nicolas Davout – Napoleon's "Iron Marshal"
  • Marpessa Dawn – African American and French actress, singer and dancer
  • Gérard Debreu – French economist, won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1983
  • Jean-Gaspard Deburau – Czech-born French actor and mime
  • Denis Decrès – French admiral and Naval Minister under Napoleon
  • Cino Del Duca – Italian-born French publishing magnate, film producer and philanthropist
  • Simone Del Duca – French businesswoman and philanthropist, wife of Cino Del Duca
  • Élie-Miriam Delaborde – French virtuoso pianist and composer
  • Eugène Delacroix – French Romantic artist
  • Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre – French mathematician
  • Michel Delpech – French singer
  • Pierre Dervaux – French conductor
  • Pierre Desproges – French humorist
  • Henry Edward Detmold – English painter and illustrator
  • Gustave Doré – French artist and engraver
  • Michel Drach – French film director
  • Marie Dubas – French singer
  • Jacques Duclos – French communist politician
  • Léon Dufourny – French architect
  • Paul Dukas – French composer
  • Isadora Duncan – American / Soviet dancer
  • Henri Duparc – French composer
  • Éléonore Duplay – Friend of French Revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre
  • Guillaume Dupuytren – French surgeon
  • Rosalie Duthé – French courtesan

E[]

Grave of Paul Éluard

F[]

Grave of Joseph Fourier
  • Alexandre Falguière – French sculptor
  • Félix Faure – President of France
  • Mehdi Favéris-Essadi – French DJ and musician
  • Laurent Fignon – French cyclist, who won the Tour de France twice
  • Horace Finaly – French banker, director general of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas (Paribas)
  • Seymour Fleming – British noblewoman
  • Robert de Flers – French playwright and journalist
  • Suzanne Flon – actress
  • Pierre François Léonard Fontaine – French Neo-classical Architect
  • Jean de La Fontaine – French litterateur best known for fairy tales
  • Thierry Fortineau – French actor
  • Joseph Fourier – French mathematician and physicist
  • Jean Françaix – French composer
  • Pierre Frank – French Trotskyist politician
  • William Temple Franklin – grandson of Benjamin Franklin
  • Augustin-Jean Fresnel – French inventor of Fresnel Lens
  • Loie Fuller – French dancer
  • Marie-Madeleine Fourcade – also known as Madeline of the Resistance, leader of the French Resistance network "Alliance" during WWII

G[]

Grave of Théodore Géricault
  • Antonio de La Gandara – French painter
  • Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès – French statesman
  • Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac – French chemist and physicist
  • Pierre Georges – French Resistance leader better known as Colonel Fabien
  • Théodore Géricault – French Romantic painter, whose major work The Raft of the Medusa is reproduced on his tomb by sculptor Antoine Étex.
  • Sophie Germain – early French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher
  • Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou – leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
  • John Gilchrist (linguist) – linguist, surgeon, and Indologist from Scotland
  • André Gill – French caricaturist
  • Annie Girardot – French actress
  • Piero Gobetti – Italian activist and journalist
  • Manuel de Godoy – Spanish prime minister and court favorite
  • Yvan Goll – French-German poet and his wife Claire Goll
  • Enrique Gómez Carrillo – Guatemalan novelist, journalist, war correspondent, chronicler and diplomat
  • François-Joseph Gossec — French composer
  • Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr – French military commander and Marshal of France
  • Zénobe Gramme – inventor of the Direct Current (DC) Dynamo. There is a statue on the grave of Zénobe sitting and looking at a dynamo rotor.
  • Stéphane Grappelli – French jazz violinist and member of the Quintette du Hot Club de France
  • Eileen Gray – Irish architect and furniture designer
  • André Grétry – Belgian-born French composer
  • Maurice Grimaud – French Prefecture of Police during May 1968[4]
  • Giulia Grisi – Italian opera singer. Her grave is marked under her married name Giulia de Candia.
  • Jean-Jacques Grunenwald – French musician
  • Félix Guattari – French militant, institutional psychotherapist and philosopher
  • Jules Guesde – French statesman
  • Yvette Guilbert – actress and singer
  • Joseph-Ignace Guillotin – proposed the guillotine as the official method of execution in France
  • Jean Guillou – French musician
  • Ernest Guiraud – French musician
  • Yılmaz Güney – Kurdish/Turkish actor, film director, scenarist and novelist

H[]

Samuel Hahnemann's mausoleum
  • Melanie Hahnemann – French homeopathist, the first female doctor in homeopathy
  • Samuel Hahnemann – German physician, founder of homeopathy
  • Georges-Eugène Haussmann – French civil engineer and town planner
  • Jeanne Hébuterne – French artist and common-law wife of the artist Amedeo Modigliani
  • Sadeq Hedayat – Iran's foremost modern writer of prose fiction and short stories
  • Héloïse – French abbess and scholar, best known for her love affair with Peter Abelard
  • Juliette Heuzey - French writer
  • Jacques Higelin – French singer
  • Klementyna Hoffmanowa – Polish prose writer, popularizer, translator and editor
  • Ticky Holgado – French actor
  • Jean-Nicolas Huyot – French architect best known for his work on the Arc de Triomphe

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J[]

K[]

Grave of François Kellermann

L[]

M[]

Grave of Jim Morrison
Grave of Joachim Murat
Grave of Alfred de Musset
  • Jacques MacDonald – French military commander and Marshal of France
  • William Madocks – English landowner and statesman
  • Miłosz Magin – Polish composer
  • Nestor Makhno – Ukrainian Anarchist revolutionary
  • Jacques-Antoine Manuel – French lawyer and statesman
  • Auguste Maquet – French author
  • Marcellin Marbot – French general
  • Marcel Marceau – French mime artist
  • Angelo Mariani – French chemist
  • Célestine Marié – French opera singer
  • André Masséna – French military commander and Marshal of France
  • Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès – French chemist and inventor of margarine
  • Étienne Méhul – French composer
  • Georges Méliès – French filmmaker; produced A Trip to the Moon
  • Émile-Justin Menier – French chocolatier
  • Henri Menier – French chocolatier
  • Antoine Brutus Menier – French chocolatier
  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty – French philosopher
  • Stuart Merrill – American symbolist poet
  • Cléo de Mérode – French dancer
  • Danielle Messia – French singer
  • Charles Messier – French astronomer, publisher of Messier's catalogue
  • Mezz Mezzrow – American Jazz clarinettist and saxophone player
  • Teresa Milanollo – Italian violinist and composer, sister of Maria
  • Maria Milanollo – Italian violinist; sister of Teresa
  • Jules Michelet – French historian
  • Borrah Minevitch – American harmonica player
  • Amedeo Modigliani – Italian painter and sculptor. Famous for his intense rivalry with Pablo Picasso.
  • Molière – French playwright
  • Gustave de Molinari – Belgian-born economist associated with French laissez-faire liberal economists.
  • Silvia Monfort – French comedian
  • Gaspard Monge – French mathematician; remains later moved to the Panthéon
  • Édouard Monnais – French journalist, theater director, playwright and librettist
  • Yves Montand – film actor
  • Charles Antoine Morand – French Napoleonic general
  • Jim Morrison – American singer-songwriter and lead singer of The Doors, author, and poet. Permanent crowds and occasional vandalism surrounding this tomb have caused tensions with the families of other, less famous, interred individuals.[7] Contrary to rumor, the lease of the gravesite was upgraded from thirty year to perpetual by Morrison's parents; the site is regularly guarded (due to graffiti and other nuisances).[8]
  • René Mouchotte – Battle of Britain fighter pilot and Free French Air Force wing commander
  • Léon Moussinac �� French film critic and theorist
  • Jean Moulin – leader of the French Resistance during World War II who went missing after his arrest with several other Resistants at Caluire, Lyon in June 1943. Understood to have died on a train not far from Metz station in July that year, ashes 'presumed' to be his were interred at Père Lachaise after the war and then transferred to the Panthéon in December 1964.
  • Marcel Mouloudji – French singer
  • Georges Moustaki – French singer-songwriter
  • Joachim Murat – King of Naples, French Napoleonic general and Marshal of France.
  • Alfred de Musset – French poet, novelist, dramatist; love affair with George Sand is told from his point of view in his autobiographical novel, La Confession d'un Enfant du Siècle

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Grave of Michel Ney
  • Félix Nadar – a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist
  • Étienne de Nansouty – General of Division, commander of the Guard cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars.
  • Auguste Nélaton – Personal physician to Napoleon III
  • Gérard de Nerval – French poet
  • Michel Ney – Marshal of France, Prince of the Moskowa, who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars
  • Alwin Nikolais – American choreographer
  • Anna de Noailles – French poet
  • Charles Nodier – French writer
  • Victor Noir – journalist killed by Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte in a dispute over a duel with Paschal Grousset. The tomb, designed by Jules Dalou, is notable for the realistic portrayal of the dead Noir.
  • Cyprian Norwid – Polish poet
  • Boghos Nubar – Armenian statesman and diplomat

O[]

  • Krikor Odian – Armenian diplomat and statesman
  • Pascale Ogier – French actress
  • Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione – Italian noblewoman and socialite
  • Max Ophüls – German film director
  • Philippe Antoine d'Ornano – French soldier and political figure who rose to the rank of Marshal of France
  • Louis-Guillaume Otto – French diplomat
  • Gholam Ali Oveissi – Iranian military commander and statesman

P[]

Grave of Édith Piaf

Q[]

R[]

Grave of Georges Rodenbach
Le Silence (1842) by Antoine-Augustin Préault

S[]

Grave of Louis Suchet
Graves of Fattah Abdoli, Dr.Sadegh Sharafkandi et Homayoun Ardalan, three victims of the Mykonos assassination attempt.

T[]

Grave of Pavel Tchelitchew
  • Eugenia Tadolini – Italian opera singer
  • François-Joseph Talma – French actor
  • Pierre Alexandre Tardieu – French engraver
  • Gerda Taro – German war photographer and the great love of Robert Capa, also one of the iconographers of the Spanish Civil War. The monument is by Alberto Giacometti.
  • J. R. D. Tata – Indian aviation pioneer and former head of Tata Group; Bharat Ratna and Legion of Honour
  • Pavel Tchelitchew – Russian artist and painter
  • Tapa Tchermoeff – First Prime Minister of the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus
  • Thomas Tellefsen – Norwegian pianist and composer
  • Ruben Ter-Minasian – Armenian politician and a revolutionary, member of Armenian Revolutionary Federation ARF Tashnag
  • Adolphe Thiers – French historian and statesman
  • Maurice Thorez – French Communist politician
  • Isaac Titsingh – Dutch surgeon, scholar, VOC trader, ambassador to Qing China and Tokugawa Japan
  • Alice B. Toklas – American author, partner of Gertrude Stein, Toklas' name and information is etched on the other side of Stein's gravestone in the same sparse style and font.
  • Daniel Toscan du Plantier – French film producer
  • Lise Tréhot – French art model notable for Pierre Auguste-Renoir's early Salon period
  • Marie Trintignant – French actress
  • Maurice Tourneur – French film director
  • Rafael Trujillo – former dictator of the Dominican Republic

U[]

  • Gaspard Ulliel – French actor

V[]

Grave of Louis Visconti
  • Paul Vaillant-Couturier – French political journalist
  • Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes – French painter
  • Jules Vallès – French writer
  • Bernard Verlhac (Tignous) – French cartoonist killed in the Charlie Hebdo shooting
  • Louis Verneuil – French playwright
  • Claude Victor-Perrin – French military commander and Marshal of France
  • Louis Visconti – French architect best known for designing the modern Louvre and Napoleon's tomb at Les Invalides
  • Dominique Vivant, Baron de Denon – French artist, writer, diplomat and archaeologist. Located close to Chopin's grave.
  • Louis Vivin – French naive painter.
  • Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney – French enlightenment philosopher and author of Meditations On The Ruins of Empires, translated by Thomas Jefferson.

W[]

  • Émile Waldteufel – French composer
  • Countess Marie Walewska – Napoleon's mistress, credited for pressing Napoleon to take important pro-Polish decisions during the Napoleonic Wars. Only her heart is entombed here, in the tomb of the d'Ornano family; her other remains were returned to her native Poland.
  • Sir Richard Wallace – English art collector and philanthropist
  • Herbert Ward – English sculptor and explorer
  • Eduard Wiiralt – Estonian artist
  • Oscar Wilde – Irish novelist, poet and playwright. By tradition, Wilde's admirers kiss the Art Deco monument while wearing red lipstick, though this practice will no longer be allowed because of the damage it has caused to his tomb, which had to be repaired and encased in a glass screen.[10] Wilde died in 1900 and was initially buried in the Cimetière de Bagneux. His remains were transferred in 1909 to Père Lachaise. The tomb is also the resting place of the ashes of Robert Ross, who commissioned the monument.
  • Helen Maria Williams—English poet, translator, and political writer, who became an expatriate in Paris and chronicled the French Revolution for English readers.
  • Jeanette Wohl – French literary editor, longtime friend and correspondent of Ludwig Börne
  • Richard Wright – American author, wrote Native Son and other American classics

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See also[]

Main category: Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery

References[]

  1. ^ "Who is Philip Astley".
  2. ^ "French TV Animator Bruno Bianchi Passes Away". Animation Magazine. 2 December 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
  3. ^ http://www.appl-lachaise.net/appl/article.php3?id_article=2740
  4. ^ "Maurice Grimaud dies at 95; former Paris police chief". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. 24 July 2009. Retrieved 29 July 2009.
  5. ^ Fishman, Margie (2 May 2014). "Designer Patrick Kelly celebrated in Philly exhibition". delawareonline. News Journal Media Group. Retrieved 2 September 2014. His headstone in the famous Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris reads: "Nothing is impossible."
  6. ^ Gillispie, C. C. (1997). Pierre Simon Laplace 1749–1827: A Life in Exact Science. Princeton University Press. p. 278. ISBN 0-691-01185-0.
  7. ^ Riding, Alan (9 December 1993). "Jim Morrison's Fans Keep His Fire Alight". New York Times.
  8. ^ Jim Morrison at findadeath.com
  9. ^ The Rothschilds on the Ramat HaNadiv website
  10. ^ "Oscar Wilde's Tomb Will Allow No More Kisses (PHOTOS, VIDEO)". Huffington Post. 28 November 2011.

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