•
Jacques MacDonald – French military commander and
Marshal of France •
William Madocks – English landowner and statesman •
Miłosz Magin – Polish composer •
Abdol Majid Majidi – Iranian politician •
Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix – French couturier •
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 •
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. 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). •
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'' ==N==