Saint-Ouen Cemetery



The Saint-Ouen Cemetery (Cimetière Parisien de Saint-Ouen) is located just north of Montmartre at Saint-Ouen, near Paris. The cemetery consists of two parts. The first, located on Rue Adrien Lesesne opened in 1860 and the second at 2 Avenue Michelet was opened on 1 September 1872.

Notable burials

 * Alphonse Allais (1854–1905), writer
 * Amer Alwan (1957–2023), film director and actor
 * Yvette Andréyor (1891–1962), actress
 * Mireille Balin (1909–1968), film actress
 * Roland Charmy (1908–1987), violinist, husband of harpist Lily Laskine
 * Carmen Damedoz, née Marie Élise Provost (1819–1964), artists model, dancer and aviator
 * Eugène Godard (1827–1890), aeronaut
 * Lily Laskine (1893–1988), harpist
 * Mona Goya (1909–1961), actress
 * Suzanne Lenglen (1899–1938), tennis champion
 * Alfred Manessier (1911–1993), painter
 * Jules Pascin (1885–1930), artist (later re-interred)
 * Henri Quittard (1864–1919), composer, musicologist
 * Émile-Alexandre Taskin, (1853–1897), opera singer
 * Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938), painter

The cemetery contains one British Commonwealth war grave, of a Royal Marines officer of World War I.