List of burials at Montparnasse Cemetery

• 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==

. monument. 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==

'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. • 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 • Nicolas-Jacques Conté (1755 - 1805), inventor of the modern pencil. • 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==

, 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 • Lionel Jospin (1937–2026), Prime Minister of France ==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==

at the grave of Symon Petliura '' • 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 (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==

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==