List of burials at Montparnasse Cemetery

Among those interred at the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris are:

A

 * 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

 * 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
 * Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933–2021), actor
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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

 * 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
 * François Coppée (1842–1908), poet and novelist
 * Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis (1792–1843), mathematician
 * Margaret Cossaceanu-Lavrillier (1893–1980), sculptor
 * Julio Cortázar (1914–1984), Argentinian author
 * 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

 * 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), film director
 * 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
 * Emil Cioran (1911-1995), filosof,scriitor

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
 * Geneviève Joy (1919–2009), French classical and modernist pianist

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

 * 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 (????–1910), a Russian medical student (and allegedly an anarchist). Her grave is famous 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

 * 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
 * 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

 * Stanisław Ulam (1909–1984), Polish mathematician, with his wife Françoise Aron Ulam.

V

 * Carlos Valenti (1888–1912), painter
 * César Vallejo (1892–1938), Peruvian poet
 * Agnès Varda (1928–2019), filmmaker
 * Jacques Vergès (1925–2013), lawyer
 * Louis Veuillot (1813–1883), journalist
 * Paul Vidal de la Blache (1845–1918), geographer
 * Louis Vierne (1870–1937), composer, organist
 * Andrée Viollis (1870–1950), journalist and writer

W

 * Henri-Alexandre Wallon (1812–1904), historian, statesman
 * Adolphe Willette (1857–1926), painter
 * Bronisława Wieniawa-Długoszowska (1886–1953), buried under the name 'Jeanne-Liliane Lalande'. She spied for French military intelligence during the Bolshevik revolution.
 * Georges Wolinski (1934–2015) Political cartoonist; writer; assassinated at Charlie Hebdo January 7, 2015

Z

 * Ossip Zadkine (1890–1967), Russian-born sculptor and artist
 * Sabine Zlatin (1907–1996), Polish-born humanitarian who hid Jewish children during the Holocaust