The Ixelles Cemetery (French: Cimetière d'Ixelles, Dutch: begraafplaats van Elsene), located in Ixelles in the southern part of Brussels, is one of the major cemeteries in Belgium.
The Ixelles Cemetery also refers to a neighbourhood with a lot of bars and restaurants for students, north of the actual cemetery. It is in fact located between the two main campuses of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Solbosch and La Plaine).
Personalities buried here include:
Luigi Bigiarelli, (1876–1908), athlete, founder of the S.S. LazioAnna Boch (1848–1936), painterJules Bordet (1870–1961), Nobel Prize in medicineGeorges Boulanger (1837–1891), French Minister of War and exile in Belgium, who committed suicide here in September 1891Victor Bourgeois (1897–1962), architect and urban plannerMarcel Broodthaers (1924–1976), artistFernand Brouez (1861–1900), editor La Société NouvelleCharles De Coster (1827–1879), novelistNeel Doff (1858–1942), artists' model and writerJean Isaac Effront (1856–1931), inventorÉdouard Louis Geerts (1846–1889), sculptor, whose tomb was designed by architect Victor Horta and sculptor Charles van der StappenLucette Heuseux (1913–2010), painterVictor Horta (1861–1947), architectLouis Hymans (1829–1884), journalist and politicianPaul Hymans (1865–1941), statesmanJoseph Jacquet (1857–1917), Army general during the First World WarCamille Lemonnier (1844–1913), writerConstantin Meunier (1831–1905), painter and sculptorJean-Baptiste Moëns (1833–1908), philatelistFrederic Neuhaus (1846–1912), pharmacist, inventor of chocolate pralinesPaul Saintenoy (1862–1952), architectJacques Saintenoy (1845-1947), architectErnest Solvay (1838–1922), chemist and industrialist, tomb designed by Victor HortaCarl Sternheim (1878–1942), German writerJoseph Wieniawski (1837–1912), composerAntoine Wiertz (1806–1865), painterEugène Ysaÿe (1858–1931), violinistMarc Van Bever (1974–2010), film producerAntonio Deinde Fernandez (1936–2015), African diplomat and business tycoonIn the "pelouse d'honneur" in Block A are buried First World War soldiers from Belgium, France, Italy, Russia and Great Britain (twelve identified soldiers) who died mainly as prisoners-of-war.
