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The cemetery epitomizes the artsy, quixotic, gentle, almost whimsical Paris that every romantic visitor secretly cherishes. A popular tourist destination, it is the final resting place for many famous artists who lived and worked in the Montmartre area.
A few of the famous buried in the Montmartre Cemetery are :
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- Adolphe Adam (1803-1856), composer
- Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888), composer
- André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836), physicist (electrical unit ampere named for him)
- Édouard François André (1840-1911), landscape architect
B
- Michel Berger (1947-1992), composer, singer
- Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), composer
- Mélanie "Mel" Bonis (1858-1937), composer
- Lili Boulanger (1893-1918), composer
- Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979), composer
- Marcel Boussac (1889-1980), entrepreneur
- Victor Brauner (1903-1966), painter
- Václav Brožík (1851-1901), Czech painter
- Alfred Arthur Brunel de Neuville (1852-1941), painter
C
- Moïse de Camondo (1860-1935), banker
- Nissim de Camondo (1892-1917), banker, WW I pilot
- Antoine Carême (1784-1883), famed inventor of classical cuisine
- Fanny Cerrito (1817-1909), Italian ballerina
- Jacques Charon (1920-1975), actor
- Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856), painter
- Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977) director and screenwriter
- Véra Clouzot (1913-1960}, actress
D
- Dalida (1933-1987), Egyptian-born singer/actress
- Edgar Degas (1834-1917), famous painter, sculptor
- Léo Delibes (1836-1891), composer of Romantic music
- Maria Deraismes (1828-1894), social reformer, feminist
- Narcisse Virgilio Diaz (1808-1876), painter
- Maxime Du Camp (1822-1894), author
- Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824-1895), novelist, playwright
- Marie Duplessis (1824-1847), French courtesan
F
- Johann Maria Farina (1785-1864), manufacturer of Eau-de-Cologne.
- Georges Feydeau (1862-1921), playwright of La Belle Époque
- Jean Foucault (1819-1868), scientist
- Charles Fourier (1772-1837), utopian socialist.
- Carole Fredericks (1952-2001), African-American singer
G
- Pauline Garcia-Viardot (1821-1910), opera singer, composer
- Théophile Gautier (1811-1872), poet, novelist
- Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), painter
- Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896), author/publisher (patron of the Prix Goncourt)
- Jules de Goncourt (1830-1870), author/publisher
- Amédée Gordini (1899-1979), Gordini sports car manufacturer
- La Goulue (Louise Weber) (1866-1929), Can-can dancer
- Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805), artist
- Lucien Guitry (1860-1925), actor
- Sacha Guitry (1885-1957), actor/director
H
- Fromental Halévy (1799-1862), composer
- Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German poet
- Fanny Heldy (1888-1973), Belgian soprano
- Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792-1867), architect
J
- Maurice Jaubert (1900-1940), composer, conductor
- André Jolivet (1905-1974), composer
- Marcel Jouhandeau (1888-1979), author
- Louis Jouvet (1887-1951), actor
- Anna Judic (1850-1911), actress, chanteuse
K
- Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1784-1849), pianist, composer
- Marie Pierre Koenig (1898-1970), Free French Field Marshal
- Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948-1989), playwright, director
- Joseph Kosma (1905-1969), composer
L
- Eugène Labiche (1815-1888), dramatist
- Dominique Laffin (1952-1985), actress
- Charles Lamoureux (1834-1899), violinist
- Jean Lannes (1769-1809), Marshal of France
- Pierre Leonard Laurecisque (1797-1880), architect
- Frédérick Lemaître (1800-1876), actor
- Emma Livry (1842-1863), ballet dancer
M
- Aimé Maillart (1817-1871), composer
- Henri Meilhac (1831-1897), dramatist
- Mary Marquet (1895-1979), actress
- Victor Massé (1822-1884), composer
- Auguste de Montferrand (1786-1858), architect
- Gustave Moreau (1826-1898), symbolist painter
- Henri Murger (1822-1861), novelist
- Musidora (Jeanne Roques) (1889-1957), silent film actress, film director
N
- Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), Russian ballet dancer
- Adolphe Nourrit (1802-1839), tenor
O
- Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), French composer of German descent
- Georges Ohnet (1848-1919), writer
P
- Théophile-Jules Pelouze (1807-1867), chemist
- Emile Péreire (1800-1875), financier
- Isaac Péreire (1806-1880), financier
- Jacob Rodrigues Péreire (1715-1780), educator
- Francis Picabia (1879-1953), painter
- Alphonsine Plessis (1824-1847), "La Dame aux Camélias"
- Patrick Pons (1952-1980), mortorcycle racer
- Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (1829-1871), novelist
- Jean Le Poulain (1924-1988), actor
- Francisque Poulbot (1879-1946), painter & illustrator
- Olga Preobrajenska (1871-1962), ballet dancer
R
- Juliette Récamier (1777-1849), French socialite and woman of letters
- Salomon Reinach (1858-1932), archaeologist
- Ernest Renan (1823-1892), writer
- Jacques Rigaut (1898-1929), poet
- Henri Rivière (1827-1883), French naval officer and a writer
S
- Henri Sauguet (1901-1989), composer
- Adolphe Sax (1814-1894), musical instrument artisan (inventor of saxophone)
- Ary Scheffer (1795-1858), painter
- Philippe Paul, comte de Ségur (1780-1873), historian
- Juliusz Słowacki (1803-1849), Polish poet
- Fernando Sor (1778-1839), guitarist
- Alexandre Soumet (1788-1845), poet
- Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) (1783-1842), writer
- Claude Simon
T
- Marie Taglioni (1804-1884), ballerina
- Ludmilla Tcherina (1924-2004), dancer, actress and painter
- Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896), opera composer
- Constant Troyon (1810-1865), painter
- François Truffaut (1932-1984), film-maker in French New Wave
V
- Pierre-Jean Vaillard (1918-1988), actor
- Horace Vernet (1789-1863), painter
- Auguste Vestris (1760-1842), dancer
- Gaëtan Vestris (1729-1808), dancer
- Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863), poet, playwright, novelist
- Jean Baptiste Vuillaume (1798-1875), luthier
W
- René Waldeck-Rousseau (1846-1904), politician
- Georges Fernand Isidore Widal (1862-1929), bacteriologist
Z
- Émile Zola (1840-1902), author (original site,moved to the Panthéon in 1908) |
