List of burials at Montparnasse Cemetery

A

• Henri Alekan, cinematographer
• Alexander Alekhine, Russian-born chess world champion
• Grace Alekhine, artist and chess master
• Michèle Arnaud, singer
• Henry Aron, journalist and political essayist
• Raymond Aron, philosopher, sociologist and political scientist
• Jean-Michel Atlan, poet and painter
• Tina Aumont, actress, daughter of Jean-Pierre Aumont and Maria Montez
• Georges Auric, composer, member of Les Six

  B

• Shapour Bakhtiar, last prime minister of the constitutional monarchy in Iran
• César Baldaccini, sculptor
• Théodore de Banville, poet, writer
• Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor of the Statue of Liberty
• Maryse Bastié, pioneer aviator
• Pierre Batcheff, actor
• Jane Bathori, opera singer
• Charles Baudelaire, poet
• Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer
• Simone de Beauvoir, feminist philosopher & author
• Jacques Becker, filmmaker
• Samuel Beckett, Irish author, playwright & poet
• Eugène Belgrand, civil engineer
• Paul Belmondo, French sculptor
• Jean Béraud, painter
• Emmanuel Berl, writer
• Aloysius Bertrand, poet
• Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, geologist, one of the founders of modern tectonics
• Jean-Marie Beurel, catholic priest
• Louis Gustave Binger, explorer
• Lucien Bodard, journalist
• Marc Boegner, theologist and academician
• Jean-Marie Bonnassieux, sculptor
• Aristide Boucicaut, entrepreneur and creator of Le Bon Marché chain of department stores
• William-Adolphe Bouguereau, artist
• Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph, comte Boulay de la Meurthe, statesman
• Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor & teacher
• Paul Bourget, writer
• Marcel Bozzuffi, actor
• Gérard Brach, screenwriter
• Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian sculptor
• Brassaï , photographer
• Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, physician
• Jean Bruller, author who wrote under the nom de plume of Vercors

  C

• René Capitant, lawyer and statesman
• Roger Caillois, author
• Jean Carmet, actor
• Isabelle Caro, model
• Eugène Carrière, Symbolist painter
• Rene Cassin, jurist, Nobel Laureate. His remains were later transferred to the Panthéon.
• Sergio de Castro , Argentinian painter, musician and poet
• Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek philosopher with French citizenship
• Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, organ builder
• Emmanuel Chabrier, composer
• René de Chambrun, lawyer, businessman.
• Honoré Champion, publisher
• Claude François Chauveau-Lagarde, lawyer, defender of Marie-Antoinette
• Marie-Dominique Chenu, Catholic theologian
• Jacques Chirac, politician, Prime Minister of France, Mayor of Paris, President of France, Co-Prince of Andorra
• Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher
• André Citroën, founded France's Citroën automobile factory
• Antoni Clavé, artist
• Yves Congar, Catholic theologian
• François Coppée, poet and novelist
• Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, mathematician
• Margaret Cossaceanu-Lavrillier, sculptor
• Julio Cortázar, Argentinian author
• Antoine Augustin Cournot, economist
• Maurice Couve de Murville, former Prime Minister of France
• Adolphe Crémieux, lawyer and statesman
• Charles Cros, poet and inventor

  D

• Jules Dalou, sculptor
• Mireille Darc, model and actress
• Gabriel Davioud, architect
• Pierre David-Weill, banker, Chairman of Lazard Frères
• Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, lover and, later, wife of Samuel Beckett
• Jacques Demy, film director
• Édouard Deperthes, architect
• Paul Deschanel, former President of France
• Robert Desnos, Surrealist poet
• Porfirio Díaz, longest serving Mexican President, Dictator, General
• Marie Dorval, actress
• Alfred Dreyfus, Jewish military officer falsely accused of treason
• Jules Dumont d'Urville, explorer of South Pacific & discoverer of Venus de Milo
• Marguerite Duras, author & movie director
• Émile Durkheim, sociologist
• Henri Dutilleux, composer
• Roland Dyens, guitarist and composer

  E

• Émile Egger, philologist
• Robert Enrico, film director
• Antoine Étex, sculptor

  F

• Henri Fantin-Latour, artist
• Léon-Paul Fargue, poet and essayist
• Paul Foucher, dramatist and journalist
• César Franck, composer & organist
• Othon Friesz, painter
• Carlos Fuentes, writer

  G

• Serge Gainsbourg, singer and composer
• Évariste Galois, mathematician and revolutionary
• Charles Garnier, designed the original Paris Opera House for Napoleon III
• Henry Gauthier-Villars, writer and first husband of Colette
• François Gérard, artist
• Jean Giraud, illustrator, comic artist, also known as Moebius
• Alexandre Guilmant, organist and composer
• Mavis Gallant, author

  H

• Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, mathematician
• Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist
• Swan Hennessy, Irish-American composer, and his son Patrice Hennessy, French man of letters
• Pierre-Jules Hetzel, publisher and literary editor
• Jean-Antoine Houdon, famous sculptor of notable men
• Joris-Karl Huysmans, author

  I

• Vincent d'Indy, composer
• Eugène Ionesco, Romanian playwright
• Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy, French sculptor
• Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker

  J

• Jean Bernard Jauréguiberry, admiral and statesman
• Joëlle, American-born French singer
• Jean Giraud, artist, cartoonist, and writer
• Geneviève Joy, French classical and modernist pianist

  K

• Gustave Kahn,, poet and art critic
• Joseph Kessel, writer
• Kiki, singer, actress, painter, "Queen of Montparnasse"
• Adamantios Korais, Greek writer and philosopher
• Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek writer and philosopher

  L

• Bernard Lacoste, president of Lacoste apparel company, son of René Lacoste
• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, naturalist and zoologist
• Paul-Gilbert Langevin, musicologist
• Henri Langlois, film preservationist
• Pierre Larousse, author of encyclopedia Larousse Gastronomique
• Henri Laurens, sculptor, engraver
• Pierre Laval, Prime Minister.
• Alphonse Laveran, physician, parasitologist
• Maurice Leblanc, creator of Arsène Lupin, novelist
• Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle, poet
• Alexandre Lenoir, archaeologist
• Philippe Léotard, teacher, actor, poet, singer
• Urbain Le Verrier, astronomer and mathematician
• André Lhote, painter and sculptor
• Jacques Lisfranc, gynecologist and surgeon
• Émile Littré lexicographer, philosopher
• Baltasar Lobo, Spanish sculptor
• Sylvia Lopez, actress
• Herbert Lottman, American biographer
• Louis Loucheur, statesman
• Pierre Louÿs, poet, romance novelist

  M

• Ambrose Dudley Mann, Commissioner of the Confederate States of America for Belgium and the Vatican
• René Maran, intellectual, author
• Chris Marker, filmmaker, writer, photographer
• Gaston Maspero, Egyptologist
• Guy de Maupassant, author
• Rosita Mauri, principal ballerina at the Paris Opera
• Claude Mauriac, author
• René Mayer, former Prime Minister of France
• Catulle Mendès, poet, man of letters
• Adah Isaacs Menken, actress, poet
• Ricardo Menon, artist, assistant and friend of Niki de Saint Phalle.
• André Meyer, French/American financier
• Charles-Joseph Minard, French data visualization pioneer
• Mireille, singer, composer
• Eliane Montel, physicist and Paul Langevin's partner
• Maria Montez, actress
• Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, lawyer and statesman
• Michèle Morgan, actress
• Jean Mounet-Sully, actor
• Philippe Muray, essayist and novelist

  N

• Francine Navarro, Crown Princess of Montenegro
• Philippe Noiret, actor
• Max Nordau, Zionist leader, physician, author

  O

• Mathieu Orfila, toxicologist, chemist
• Gérard Oury, director

  P

• Pan Yuliang, Chinese painter
• Jean-Claude Pascal, singer and actor
• Adolphe Pégoud, aviator
• Auguste Perret, architect
• Bénédicte Pesle, arts patron.
• Symon Petliura, Ukrainian leader
• Maurice Pialat, film director
• Charles Pigeon, engineer, inventor and manufacturer
• Jules Henri Poincaré,, mathematician and physicist
• Jean Poiret, actor, film director
• François Charles Henri Laurent Pouqueville, diplomat, writer, historian, archaeologist, physician
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon,, philosopher and statesman
• Visarion Puiu, Romanian metropolitan bishop

  Q

• Edgar Quinet, historian

  R

• Tania Rachevskaia, a Russian medical student. Her grave is famous because it is adorned with The Kiss by Constantin Brâncuși
• Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, painter
• Jean-Pierre Rampal, flautist
• Man Ray, American-born Dada & Surrealist artist and photographer, with his wife Juliet
• Serge Reggiani, singer, actor
• Jean-Marc Reiser, comic artist
• Rosalie Rendu, daughter of charity
• Pierre Restany, art critic
• Paul Reynaud, lawyer and statesman
• Yves Robert, actor, director
• Yves Rocard, physicist
• Éric Rohmer, film director
• Nicolae Rosetti-Bălănescu, Romanian politician
• Frédéric Rossif, filmmaker
• Gustave Roussy, Swiss-born neuropathologist and oncologist
• François Rude, sculptor
• Julio Ruelas, Mexican painter
• Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, German inventor

  S

• Jean Sablon, singer
• Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, literary critic, author
• Camille Saint-Saëns, composer & performer of Romantic classical music
• Jules Sandeau, novelist
• Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher & novelist
• Claude Sautet, film director
• Georges Schehadé, Lebanese poet and playwright
• Jean Seberg, American actress & civil rights activist
• Pierre Seghers, poet and editor
• Delphine Seyrig, actress
• Susan Sontag, American author & philosopher
• Jesús Rafael Soto, Venezuelan kinetic sculptor and painter
• Chaim Soutine, painter of the School of Paris

  T

• Boris Taslitzky, painter
• Augustin Thierry, historian
• Roland Topor, writer, illustrator
• Henri Troyat, author
• Tristan Tzara, Romanian Dadaist poet and essayist

  V

• Carlos Valenti, painter
• César Vallejo, Peruvian poet
• Agnès Varda -, filmmaker
• Jacques Vergès, lawyer
• Louis Veuillot, journalist
• Paul Vidal de la Blache, geographer
• Louis Vierne, composer, organist
• Andrée Viollis, journalist and writer

  W

• Henri-Alexandre Wallon, historian, statesman
• Adolphe Willette, painter
• Bronisława Wieniawa-Długoszowska, buried under the name 'Jeanne-Liliane Lalande'. She spied for French military intelligence during the Bolshevik revolution.
• Georges Wolinski Political cartoonist; writer; Assassinated at Charlie Hebdo January 7, 2015

  Z

• Ossip Zadkine, Russian-born sculptor & artist
• Sabine Zlatin, Polish-born humanitarian who hid Jewish children during the Holocaust