Among those interred at the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris are:
A
- Henri Alekan (1909âÂÂ2001), cinematographer
- Alexander Alekhine (1892âÂÂ1946), Russian-born chess world champion
- Grace Alekhine (1876âÂÂ1956), artist and chess master
- Michèle Arnaud (1919âÂÂ1998), singer
- Henry Aron (1842âÂÂ1885), journalist and political essayist
- Raymond Aron (1905âÂÂ1983), philosopher, sociologist and political scientist
- Jean-Michel Atlan (1913âÂÂ1960), poet and painter
- Tina Aumont (1946âÂÂ2006), actress, daughter of Jean-Pierre Aumont and Maria Montez
- Georges Auric (1899âÂÂ1983), composer, member of Les Six
B
- Shapour Bakhtiar (1914âÂÂ1991), last prime minister of the constitutional monarchy in Iran
- César Baldaccini (1921âÂÂ1988), sculptor
- Théodore de Banville (1823âÂÂ1891), poet, writer
- Frédéric Bartholdi (1834âÂÂ1904), sculptor of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World)
- Maryse Bastié (1898âÂÂ1952), pioneer aviator
- Pierre Batcheff (1901âÂÂ1932), actor
- Jane Bathori (1877âÂÂ1970), opera singer
- Charles Baudelaire (1821âÂÂ1867), poet
- Jean Baudrillard (1929âÂÂ2007), French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908âÂÂ1986), feminist philosopher and author
- Jacques Becker (1906âÂÂ1960), filmmaker
- Samuel Beckett (1906âÂÂ1989), Irish author, playwright and poet
- Eugène Belgrand (1810âÂÂ1878), civil engineer
- Paul Belmondo (1898âÂÂ1982), French sculptor
- Jean Béraud (1849âÂÂ1935), painter
- Emmanuel Berl (1892âÂÂ1976), writer
- Aloysius Bertrand (1807âÂÂ1841), poet
- Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (1847âÂÂ1907), geologist, one of the founders of modern tectonics
- Jean-Marie Beurel (1813âÂÂ1872), catholic priest
- Gaston Billotte (1875-1940), general, killed in the Battle of France
- Louis Gustave Binger (1856âÂÂ1936), explorer
- Jane Birkin (1946âÂÂ2023), English-French actress and singer
- Lucien Bodard (1914âÂÂ1998), journalist
- Marc Boegner (1881âÂÂ1970), theologist and academician
- Jean-Marie Bonnassieux (1810âÂÂ1892), sculptor
- Aristide Boucicaut (1810âÂÂ1877), entrepreneur and creator of Le Bon Marché chain of department stores
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825âÂÂ1905), artist (painter in realist style)
- Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph, comte Boulay de la Meurthe (1761âÂÂ1840), statesman
- Antoine Bourdelle (1861âÂÂ1921), sculptor and teacher
- Paul Bourget (1852âÂÂ1935), writer
- Marcel Bozzuffi (1928âÂÂ1988), actor
- Gérard Brach (1927âÂÂ2006), screenwriter
- Constantin BrâncuÃÂi (1876âÂÂ1957), Romanian sculptor
- Brassaï (born Gyula Halász) (1899âÂÂ1984), photographer
- Michel Bréal (1832âÂÂ1915), linguist, coiner of "semantics," inventor of the marathon
- Paul Broca (1824âÂÂ1880), physician and anatomist
- Charles-ÃÂdouard Brown-Séquard (1817âÂÂ1894), physician
- Jean Bruller (1902âÂÂ1991), author who wrote under the nom de plume of Vercors
C
- René Capitant (1901âÂÂ1970), lawyer and statesman
- Roger Caillois (1913âÂÂ1978), author
- Jean Carmet (1920âÂÂ1994), actor
- Isabelle Caro (1982âÂÂ2010), model
- Eugène Carrière (1849âÂÂ1906), Symbolist painter
- Rene Cassin (1887âÂÂ1976), jurist, Nobel Laureate. His remains were later transferred to the Panthéon.
- Sergio de Castro (artist) (1922âÂÂ2012), Argentinian painter, musician and poet
- Cornelius Castoriadis (1922âÂÂ1997), Greek philosopher with French citizenship
- Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811âÂÂ1899), organ builder
- Emmanuel Chabrier (1841âÂÂ1894), composer
- René de Chambrun (1906âÂÂ2002), lawyer, businessman.
- Honoré Champion (1846âÂÂ1913), publisher
- Claude François Chauveau-Lagarde (1756âÂÂ1841), lawyer, defender of Marie-Antoinette
- Marie-Dominique Chenu (1895âÂÂ1990), Catholic theologian
- Jacques Chirac (1932âÂÂ2019), politician, Prime Minister of France, Mayor of Paris, President of France, Co-Prince of Andorra
- Emil Cioran (1911âÂÂ1995), Romanian philosopher
- André Citroën (1878âÂÂ1935), founded France's Citroën automobile factory
- Antoni Clavé (1913âÂÂ2005), artist
- Yves Congar (1904âÂÂ1995), Catholic theologian
- François Coppée (1842âÂÂ1908), poet and novelist
- Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis (1792âÂÂ1843), mathematician
- Margaret Cossaceanu-Lavrillier (1893âÂÂ1980), sculptor
- Julio Cortázar (1914âÂÂ1984), Argentine writer
- Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801âÂÂ1877), economist
- Maurice Couve de Murville (1907âÂÂ1999), former Prime Minister of France
- Bruno Cremer (1929âÂÂ2010), actor
- Adolphe Crémieux (1796âÂÂ1880), lawyer and statesman
- Charles Cros (1842âÂÂ1888), poet and inventor
D
- Jules Dalou (1838âÂÂ1902), sculptor
- Mireille Darc (1938âÂÂ2017), model and actress
- Gabriel Davioud (1824âÂÂ1881), architect
- Pierre David-Weill (1900âÂÂ1975), banker, Chairman of Lazard Frères
- Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil (1900âÂÂ1989), lover and, later, wife of Samuel Beckett
- Jos De Cock (1934âÂÂ2010), Belgian-French painter, watercolorist, etcher and sculptor and, later, wife of Pierre Restany
- Jacques Demy (1931âÂÂ1990), filmmaker
- ÃÂdouard Deperthes (1833âÂÂ1898), architect
- Paul Deschanel (1855âÂÂ1922), former President of France
- Robert Desnos (1900âÂÂ1945), Surrealist poet
- Porfirio DÃÂaz (1830âÂÂ1915), longest serving Mexican President, Dictator, General
- Marie Dorval (1798âÂÂ1849), actress
- Alfred Dreyfus (1859âÂÂ1935), Jewish military officer falsely accused of treason (the Dreyfus affair)
- Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790âÂÂ1842), explorer of South Pacific & discoverer of Venus de Milo
- Marguerite Duras (1914âÂÂ1996), author and movie director
- ÃÂmile Durkheim (1858âÂÂ1917), sociologist
- Henri Dutilleux (1916âÂÂ2013), composer
- Roland Dyens (1955âÂÂ2016), guitarist and composer
E
F
G
- Serge Gainsbourg (1928âÂÂ1991), singer and composer
- ÃÂvariste Galois (1811âÂÂ1832), mathematician and revolutionary
- Charles Garnier (1825âÂÂ1898), designed the original Paris Opera House for Napoleon III
- Henry Gauthier-Villars (1859âÂÂ1931), writer and first husband of Colette
- François Gérard (1770âÂÂ1837), artist
- Jean Giraud (1938âÂÂ2012), illustrator, comic artist, also known as Moebius
- Alexandre Guilmant (1837âÂÂ1911), organist and composer
- Mavis Gallant (1922âÂÂ2014), author
H
I
J
K
L
- Bernard Lacoste (1931âÂÂ2006), president of Lacoste apparel company, son of René Lacoste
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744âÂÂ1829), naturalist and zoologist (unearthed in 1834, lost body)
- Paul-Gilbert Langevin (1933âÂÂ1986), musicologist
- Henri Langlois (1914âÂÂ1977), film preservationist
- Pierre Larousse (1817âÂÂ1875), author of encyclopedia Larousse Gastronomique
- Henri Laurens (1885âÂÂ1954), sculptor, engraver
- Pierre Laval (1883âÂÂ1945), Prime Minister.
- Alphonse Laveran (1845âÂÂ1922), physician, parasitologist
- Maurice Leblanc (1864âÂÂ1941), creator of Arsène Lupin, novelist
- Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (1818âÂÂ1894), poet
- Alexandre Lenoir (1761âÂÂ1839), archaeologist
- Philippe Léotard (1940âÂÂ2001), teacher, actor, poet, singer
- Urbain Le Verrier (1811âÂÂ1877), astronomer and mathematician
- André Lhote (1885âÂÂ1962), painter and sculptor
- Jacques Lisfranc (1790âÂÂ1847), gynecologist and surgeon
- ÃÂmile Littré (1801âÂÂ1881) lexicographer, philosopher
- Baltasar Lobo (1910âÂÂ1993), Spanish sculptor
- Sylvia Lopez (1931âÂÂ1959), actress
- Herbert Lottman (1927âÂÂ2014), American biographer
- Louis Loucheur (1872âÂÂ1931), statesman
- Pierre Louÿs (1870âÂÂ1925), poet, romance novelist
M
- Ambrose Dudley Mann (1801âÂÂ1889), Commissioner of the Confederate States of America for Belgium and the Vatican
- René Maran (1887âÂÂ1960), intellectual, author
- Chris Marker (1921âÂÂ2012), filmmaker, writer, photographer
- Gaston Maspero (1846âÂÂ1916), Egyptologist
- Guy de Maupassant (1850âÂÂ1893), author
- Rosita Mauri (1849âÂÂ1923), principal ballerina at the Paris Opera
- Claude Mauriac (1914âÂÂ1996), author
- René Mayer (1895âÂÂ1972), former Prime Minister of France
- Catulle Mendès (1841âÂÂ1909), poet, man of letters
- Adah Isaacs Menken (1835âÂÂ1868), actress, poet
- Ricardo Menon (1952âÂÂ1989), 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 (1898âÂÂ1979), French/American financier
- Charles-Joseph Minard (1781âÂÂ1870), French data visualization pioneer
- Mireille (1906âÂÂ1996), singer, composer
- Eliane Montel (1898âÂÂ1992), physicist and Paul Langevin's partner
- Maria Montez (1912âÂÂ1951), actress
- Vincent de Moro-Giafferi (1878âÂÂ1956), lawyer and statesman
- Michèle Morgan (1920âÂÂ2016), actress
- Jean Mounet-Sully (1841âÂÂ1916), actor
- Philippe Muray (1945âÂÂ2006), essayist and novelist
N
O
P
- Pan Yuliang (1895âÂÂ1977), Chinese painter
- Jean-Claude Pascal (1927âÂÂ1992), singer and actor
- Adolphe Pégoud (1889âÂÂ1915), aviator
- Auguste Perret (1874âÂÂ1954), architect
- Bénédicte Pesle (1927âÂÂ2018), arts patron
- Symon Petliura (1879âÂÂ1926), Ukrainian leader
- Maurice Pialat (1925âÂÂ2003), film director
- Pierre Piérade (1884âÂÂ1937), comedian, music hall performer and actor
- Charles Pigeon (1838âÂÂ1915), engineer, inventor and manufacturer
- Jules Henri Poincaré, (1854âÂÂ1912), mathematician and physicist
- Jean Poiret (1926âÂÂ1992), actor, film director
- Nicos Poulantzas (1936âÂÂ1979), sociologist
- François Charles Henri Laurent Pouqueville (1770âÂÂ1838), diplomat, writer, historian, archaeologist, physician
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, (1809âÂÂ1865), philosopher and statesman
- Visarion Puiu (1879âÂÂ1964), Romanian metropolitan bishop
Q
R
- Tania Rachevskaia (1887âÂÂ1910), Russian medical student and alleged anarchist. Her grave is renowned because it is adorned with The Kiss by Constantin BrâncuÃÂi.
- Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (1804âÂÂ1860), painter
- Jean-Pierre Rampal (1922âÂÂ2000), flautist
- Fanny Raoul (1771âÂÂ1833), feminist writer, journalist, philosopher and essayist
- Man Ray (1890âÂÂ1976), American-born Dada and Surrealist artist and photographer, with his wife Juliet
- Serge Reggiani (1922âÂÂ2004), singer, actor
- Jean-Marc Reiser (1941âÂÂ1983), comic artist
- Rosalie Rendu (1786âÂÂ1856), daughter of charity
- Pierre Restany (1930âÂÂ2003), art critic
- Paul Reynaud (1878âÂÂ1966), lawyer and statesman
- Moune de Rivel (1918-2014), singer-songwriter, musician and actress
- Yves Robert (1920âÂÂ2002), actor, director
- Yves Rocard (1903âÂÂ1992), physicist
- ÃÂric Rohmer (1920âÂÂ2010), film director
- Nicolae Rosetti-BÃÂlÃÂnescu (1827âÂÂ1884), Romanian politician
- Frédéric Rossif (1922âÂÂ1990), filmmaker
- Gustave Roussy (1874âÂÂ1948), Swiss-born neuropathologist and oncologist
- François Rude (1784âÂÂ1855), sculptor
- Julio Ruelas (1870âÂÂ1907), Mexican painter
- Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803âÂÂ1877), German inventor
S
- Jean Sablon (1906âÂÂ1994), singer
- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804âÂÂ1869), literary critic, author
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835âÂÂ1921), composer & performer of Romantic classical music
- Jules Sandeau (1811âÂÂ1883), novelist
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905âÂÂ1980), French philosopher & novelist
- Claude Sautet (1924âÂÂ2000), film director
- Georges Schehadé (1905âÂÂ1989), Lebanese poet and playwright
- Pierre Schoendoerffer (1928-2012), writer and filmmaker
- Jean Seberg (1938âÂÂ1979), American actress and civil rights activist
- Pierre Seghers (1906âÂÂ1987), poet and editor
- Delphine Seyrig (1932âÂÂ1990), actress
- Susan Sontag (1933âÂÂ2004), American author and philosopher
- Jesús Rafael Soto (1923âÂÂ2005), Venezuelan kinetic sculptor and painter
- Chaïm Soutine (1893âÂÂ1943), painter of the School of Paris
T
U
V
W
Z
- Ossip Zadkine (1890âÂÂ1967), Russian-born sculptor and artist
- Sabine Zlatin (1907âÂÂ1996), Polish-born humanitarian who hid Jewish children during the Holocaust
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