Peter Abelard – French philosopher
Edmond François Valentin About – French novelist and journalist
Agustarello Affre – French operatic tenor
Marie d'Agoult – French author who wrote under the nom de plume of Daniel Stern
Avetis Aharonyan – Armenian politician, writer and public figure
Jehan Alain – French composer and organist
Marietta Alboni – Italian opera singer
Jean-Charles Alphand – French civil engineer
Émilie Ambre – French opera singer
Elena Andreianova – Russian ballerina
Andranik – Armenian military commander and statesman; remains transferred to Armenia in 2000.
Karel Appel – Dutch painter
Guillaume Apollinaire – French poet and art critic
François Arago – French scientist and statesman
Armand Pierre Fernandez – French painter
Miguel Ángel Asturias – Guatemalan diplomat and author, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967
Daniel Auber – French composer
Hubertine Auclert – French feminist and activist for women's suffrage
Pierre Augereau – French military commander and Marshal of France
Jean-Pierre Aumont – French actor, father of Tina Aumont and husband of Maria Montez
Jane Avril – French dancer
Salvador Bacarisse – Spanish composer
Honoré de Balzac – French novelist of the 19th century
Joseph Barbanègre – French general
Henri Barbusse – French novelist
Paul Barras – French statesman
Antoine-Louis Barye – French sculptor
Alain Bashung – French singer
Stiv Bators – ashes sprinkled on the grave of Jim Morrison
Jean-Dominique Bauby – French journalist
Jean-Louis Baudelocque – French obstetrician
Pierre-Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais – French playwright
Félix de Beaujour – French diplomat, politician and historian
Gilbert Bécaud – French singer
Pierre Augustin Béclard – French anatomist
Vincenzo Bellini – Italian composer; remains later transferred to Italy
Hans Bellmer – German (French) surrealist photographer, sculptor, draughtsman
Judah P. Benjamin – American lawyer and statesman
Pierre-Jean de Béranger – French lyricist
Claude Bernard – French physiologist, known for several advances in medicine, as the introduction of the scientific method to the study of medicine, and the study of the sympathetic nervous system.
Bernardin de Saint Pierre – French writer
Sarah Bernhardt – French stage and film actress
Alphonse Bertillon – French anthropologist and father of anthropometry
Julien Bessières – French scientist, diplomat and politician
Ramón Emeterio Betances – Puerto Rican nationalist; remains returned to Puerto Rico in 1920.
Bruno Bianchi – French animator, co-creator of Inspector Gadget
Marie François Xavier Bichat – French anatomist and physiologist
Fulgence Bienvenüe – French civil engineer remembered as the Father of the Paris Métro
Samuel Bing – German art dealer
Georges Bizet – French composer and conductor
Louis Blanc – French historian and statesman
Sophie Blanchard – first professional female balloonist and the first woman to die in an aviation accident
Auguste Blanqui – French revolutionary socialist.
François-Adrien Boieldieu – French composer
Rosa Bonheur – French painter
Ludwig Börne – German political writer and satirist
Paul Boucherot – French electrical engineer
Pierre Bourdieu – French sociologist
Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu – French opera singer
Édouard Branly – French scientist
Pierre Brasseur – French comedian
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin – French Lawyer, Politician, Epicure, and Gastronome
Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart – French architect, best known for designing the layout of the Pėre Lachaise Cemetery
Pierre Brossolette – French journalist, politician and Résistance leader
Jean de Brunhoff – French author of Babar the Elephant
Auguste-Laurent Burdeau – French politician and plaintiff in the Drumont-Burdeau trial
Emmanuel Cabut (Mano Solo) – French singer
Joseph Caillaux – French statesman
Gustave Caillebotte – French Impressionist painter
Maria Callas – The opera singer's ashes were originally buried in the cemetery. After being stolen and later recovered, they were scattered into the Aegean Sea, off the coast of Greece. The empty urn remains in Père Lachaise.
Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès – French lawyer and politician
Giulia Grisi de Candia – Italian opera singer, well known as "Giulia Grisi", her grave is marked Giullia de Candia.
Jean-Joseph Carriès – French sculptor, ceramist, and miniaturist
Pierre Cartellier – French sculptor
Claude Chabrol – French film director
Albert Champion – French road racing cyclist
Jean-François Champollion – French decipherer of the hieroglyphs and father of Egyptology
Claude Chappe – French pioneer of the telegraph
Gustave Charpentier – French composer
Ernest Chausson – French composer
Jorge Chávez – Peruvian aviator . His remains were here from 1 October 1910 to September 1957, when they were transferred to Lima, Perú
Richard Chenevix – Irish chemist
Luigi Cherubini – Italian composer
Claude de Choiseul-Francières – Marshal of France
Frédéric Chopin – Polish composer. His heart is entombed within a pillar at the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw.
Auguste Clésinger – French painter and sculptor
France Clidat – French pianist
Émile Cohl – French cartoonist
Colette – French novelist
Count Alexandre Joseph Colonna-Walewski – French statesman (illegitimate son of Napoleon)
Édouard Colonne – French conductor
Auguste Comte – French thinker; father of Positivism
Benjamin Constant – Swiss-born liberal philosopher
Bruno Coquatrix – French lyricist and music impresario
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – French painter
Ramón Corral – Mexican Politician, Vice-president from 1904 until 1911 under President Porfirio Díaz administration
Jean-Pierre Cortot – French sculptor
Benoît Costaz – French bishop
Georges Courteline – French playwright
Thomas Couture – French painter
Rufino José Cuervo – Colombian writer and philologue
Nancy Cunard – English poet and activist
Henri Curiel – Egyptian politician
Georges Cuvier – the founder of paleontology
Jarosław Dąbrowski – exiled Polish revolutionary Nationalist and last Commander-in-Chief of the Paris Commune of 1871; body never found, memory honored on Federated Wall in northeast corner of the Père Lachaise Cemetery and on monument erected outside the wall in the Square Samuel de Champlain
Pierre Dac – French humorist
Édouard Daladier – French Radical-Socialist politician of the 1930s, signatory of the Munich Agreement in 1938 and Prime Minister of France at the outbreak of the Second World War
Alexandre Darracq – French automobile manufacturer
Alphonse Daudet – Famous French author who is known for his literary works, such as, "Lettres de mon Moulin".
Honoré Daumier – French caricaturist
Jacques-Louis David – Napoleon's court painter was exiled as a revolutionary after the Bourbons returned to the throne of France. His body was not allowed into the country even in death, so the tomb contains only his heart.
David d'Angers – French sculptor
Louis-Nicolas Davout – Napoleon's "Iron Marshal"
Gérard Debreu – French economist, won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1983
Jean-Gaspard Deburau – Czech-born French actor and mime
Denis Decrès – French admiral and Naval Minister under Napoleon
Cino Del Duca – Italian-born French publishing magnate, film producer and philanthropist
Simone Del Duca – French businesswoman and philanthropist, wife of Cino Del Duca
Eugène Delacroix – French Romantic artist
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre – French mathematician
Michel Delpech – French singer
Pierre Dervaux – French conductor
Pierre Desproges – French humorist
Henry Edward Detmold (1854-1924), English painter and illustrator
Porfirio Díaz – Mexican President
Gustave Doré – French artist and engraver
Michel Drach – French film director
Marie Dubas – French singer
Kavasjee Hormasjee Dubash – Indian ship chandler magnat
Jacques Duclos – French politician
Léon Dufourny – French architect
Paul Dukas – French composer
Isadora Duncan – American / Soviet dancer
Henri Duparc – French composer
Éléonore Duplay – Friend of French Revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre
Guillaume Dupuytren – French surgeon
Rosalie Duthé – French courtesan
Suzanne Eisendieck – German painter
Paul Éluard – French surrealist poet
George Enescu – Romanian composer, pianist, violinist and conductor
Gérard Encausse (Papus) – French physician, hypnotist, and popularizer of occultism, founder of the Martinist Order
Camille Erlanger – French composer
Max Ernst – German artist
Alexandre Falguière – French sculptor
Félix Faure – President of France
Mehdi Favéris-Essadi – French DJ and musician
Laurent Fignon – French cyclist, who won the Tour de France twice
Horace Finaly – French banker, director general of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas (Paribas)
Robert de Flers – French playwright and journalist
Suzanne Flon – actress
Pierre François Léonard Fontaine – French Neo-classical Architect
Jean de La Fontaine – French litterateur best known for fairy tales
Thierry Fortineau – French actor
Joseph Fourier – French mathematician and physicist
Jean Françaix – French composer
Pierre Frank – French Trotskyist politician
William Temple Franklin – grandson of Benjamin Franklin
Augustin-Jean Fresnel – French inventor of Fresnel Lens
Loie Fuller – French dancer
Marie-Madeleine Fourcade – also known as Madeline of the Resistance, leader of the French Resistance network "Alliance" during WWII
Antonio de La Gandara – French painter
Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès – French statesman
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac – French chemist and physicist
Pierre Georges – French Resistance leader better known as Colonel Fabien
Théodore Géricault – French Romantic painter, whose major work The Raft of the Medusa is reproduced on his tomb by sculptor Antoine Étex.
Sophie Germain – Early French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher
Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou – leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
André Gill – French caricaturist
Annie Girardot – French actress
Manuel de Godoy – Spanish prime minister and court favorite
Yvan Goll – French-German poet and his wife Claire Goll
Enrique Gómez Carrillo – Guatemalan novelist, journalist, war correspondent, chronicler and diplomat, lived most of his life in Europe; he was the correspondent to important newspapers in Spain and Argentina; published 86 books between novels and chronicles of his journeys to faraway places.
Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr – French military commander and Marshal of France
Zénobe Gramme – Inventor of the Direct Current (DC) Dynamo. There is a statue on the grave of Zénobe sitting and looking at a dynamo rotor.
Stéphane Grappelli – French jazz violinist and member of the Quintette du Hot Club de France
Eileen Gray – Irish architect and furniture designer
André Grétry – Belgian-born French composer
Maurice Grimaud – French Prefecture of Police during May 1968
Giulia Grisi – Italian opera singer. Her grave is marked under her married name Giulia de Candia.
Félix Guattari – French militant, institutional psychotherapist and philosopher
Jules Guesde – French statesman
Yvette Guilbert – actress and singer
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin – proposed the guillotine as the official method of execution in France
Ernest Guiraud – French musician
Yılmaz Güney – Kurdish/Turkish actor, film director, scenarist and novelist
Melanie Hahnemann – French homeopathist, the first female doctor in homeopathy
Samuel Hahnemann – German physician, founder of homeopathy
Georges Haussmann – French civil engineer and town planner
Jeanne Hébuterne – French artist and common-law wife of the artist Amedeo Modigliani
Sadeq Hedayat – Iran's foremost modern writer of prose fiction and short stories
Heloïse – French abbess and scholar, best known for her love affair with Peter Abelard
Klementyna Hoffmanowa – Polish prose writer, popularizer, translator and editor
Ticky Holgado – French actor
Jean-Nicolas Huyot – French architect best known for his work on the Arc de Triomphe
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – French painter
Jean-Baptiste Isabey – French painter
Claude Jade – French actress
Edmond Jabès – French-Egyptian-Jewish writer and poet
Léon Jouhaux – French trade union leader, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951
Emil Jungfleisch – French biochemist
Božidar Kantušer – American and Slovenian composer
Bojidar Karageorgevitch – Serbian prince
Allan Kardec – born Hippolyte Leon Denizard Rivail, founder of Spiritism
Caroline Kauffmann – French feminist
Ahmet Kaya – Turkish/Kurdish singer and songwriter and political exile
François Christophe de Kellermann – French military commander and Marshal of France
Patrick Kelly – American fashion designer
Thomas Read Kemp – English property developer and statesman
Alexander Khatisian – Prime Minister of Armenia
Henri Krasucki – French trade unionist
Rodolphe Kreutzer – French violinist and composer
Jean de La Fontaine – French fabulist
Jérôme Lalande – French astronomer and writer
René Lalique – French glass designer
Édouard Lalo – French composer
Pierre-Simon Laplace – French mathematician and astronomer (remains moved to Saint Julien de Mailloc in 1888)
Theophanis Lamboukas – French actor and singer, husband of Édith Piaf
Francisco Largo Caballero – Former president of the Spanish II Republic.
Dominique Jean Larrey – French military surgeon
Clarence John Laughlin – American Surrealist photographer from New Orleans, Louisiana. His most famous published work was Ghosts Along the Mississippi.
Marie Laurencin – French painter
William Lawless – Irish revolutionary and General in French Army
Charles-François Lebrun – French statesman
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin – French politician
Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély – French organist and composer
François Joseph Lefebvre – French military commander and Marshal of France
Edith Lefel – French singer
Marie Anne Lenormand – French cartomancer
Ferdinand de Lesseps – French architect, designed the Suez Canal
Pierre Levegh – French racing driver killed in the 1955 Le Mans disaster
Jean-François Lyotard – French philosopher
Jacques MacDonald – French military commander and Marshal of France
William Madocks – English landowner and statesman
Miłosz Magin – Polish composer
Nestor Makhno – Ukrainian Anarchist revolutionary
Jacques-Antoine Manuel – French lawyer and statesman
Auguste Maquet – French author
Marcel Marceau – French mime artist
Angelo Mariani – French chemist
Célestine Marié – French opera singer
André Masséna – French military commander and Marshal of France
Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès – French chemist and inventor of margarine
Étienne Méhul – French composer
Georges Méliès – French filmmaker; produced A Trip to the Moon
Émile-Justin Menier – French chocolatier
Henri Menier – French chocolatier
Antoine Brutus Menier – French chocolatier
Maurice Merleau-Ponty – French philosopher
Stuart Merrill – American symbolist poet
Cléo de Mérode – French dancer
Charles Messier – French astronomer, publisher of Messier's catalogue
Mezz Mezzrow – American Jazz clarinettist and saxaphone player
Teresa Milanollo – Italian violinist and composer, sister of Maria
Maria Milanollo – Italian violinist; sister of Teresa
Jules Michelet – French historian
Borrah Minevitch – American harmonica player
Amedeo Modigliani – Italian painter and sculptor. Famous for his intense rivalry with Pablo Picasso.
Molière – French playwright
Gustave de Molinari – Belgian-born economist associated with French laissez-faire liberal economists.
Silvia Monfort – French comedian
Gaspard Monge – French mathematician; remains later moved to the Panthéon
Édouard Monnais – French journalist, theater director, playwright and librettist
Yves Montand – film actor
Jim Morrison – American singer and songwriter with The Doors, author, and poet. Permanent crowds and occasional vandalism surrounding this tomb have caused tensions with the families of other, less famous, interred individuals. Contrary to rumor, the lease of the gravesite was upgraded from 30 year to perpetual by Morrison's parents; the site is regularly guarded (due to graffiti and other nuisances).
René Mouchotte – Battle of Britain fighter pilot and Free French Air Force wing commander
Jean Moulin – leader of the French Resistance during World War II who went missing after his arrest with several other Resistants at Caluire, Lyon in June 1943. Understood to have died on a train not far from Metz station in July that year, ashes 'presumed' to be his were interred at Père Lachaise after the war and then transferred to the Panthéon in December 1964.
Marcel Mouloudji – French singer
Georges Moustaki – French singer-songwriter
Joachim Murat – French Napoleonic general and Marshal of France.
Alfred de Musset – French poet, novelist, dramatist; love affair with George Sand is told from his point of view in his autobiographical novel, La Confession d'un Enfant du Siècle
Félix Nadar – a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist
Étienne de Nansouty – General of Division, commander of the Guard cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars.
Francine Navarro – crown princess of Montenegro, wife of prince Nikola II. Petrović-Njegoš
Auguste Nélaton – Personal physician to Napoleon III
Gérard de Nerval – French poet
Michel Ney – Marshal of France, Prince of the Moskowa, who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars
Alwin Nikolais – American choreographer
Anna de Noailles – French poet
Charles Nodier – French writer
Victor Noir – journalist killed by Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte in a dispute over a duel with Paschal Grousset. The tomb, designed by Jules Dalou, is notable for the realistic portrayal of the dead Noir.
Cyprian Norwid – Polish poet
Boghos Nubar – Armenian statesman and diplomat
Krikor Odian – Armenian diplomat and statesman
Pascale Ogier – French actress
Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione – famous Italian noblewoman and socialite
Max Ophüls – German film director
Philippe Antoine d'Ornano – French soldier and political figure who rose to the rank of Marshal of France
Louis-Guillaume Otto – French diplomat
Gholam Ali Oveissi – Iranian military commander and statesman
Émile Henry Fauré Le Page – French small-arms manufacturer
Jean Le Page – arquebusier et fourbisseur du Roi et de l'Empereur
Antoine Parmentier – French agronomist known for enunciating the dietary value of potatoes
Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes – French admiral
François-Auguste Parseval-Grandmaison – French poet, uncle of the above
Christine Pascal – French actress
Adelina Patti – Spanish-born opera singer
Robert Herbert, 12th Earl of Pembroke – English aristocrat
Charles Percier – French Neo-classical architect
Georges Perec – French author
Casimir Pierre Périer – French statesman
Michel Petrucciani – French Jazz pianist
Édith Piaf – French singer
Georges Picquart, French general, involved in the Dreyfus affair
Christian Pineau – French statesman
Roland Piquepaille – French technology writer
Camille Pissarro – French Impressionist painter
Ignace Pleyel – pianist, composer, and piano builder
Eugène Pottier – French revolutionary socialist and poet, composed "The Internationale"
Elvira Popescu – Romanian actress
Francis Poulenc – French composer
Antoine-Augustin Préault – French sculptor
Marcel Proust – French novelist, essayist and critic
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon – French painter
Yvonne Marie Elise Toussaint de Quiévrecourt
Mademoiselle Rachel – French actress
François-Vincent Raspail – French scientist and statesman; remains later moved to the Panthéon
Pierre-Joseph Redouté – Belgian botanic illustrator
Michel-Louis-Étienne Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély – French politician
Laure Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély – his wife and Lady of Court
Henri de Régnier – French poet
Grace Renzi – American painter
Norbert Rillieux – American engineer, invented the multiple-effect evaporator
Étienne-Gaspard Robert – Belgian magician who performed under the stage name of Robertson
Jacob Roblès – Famous grave for the medallion Silence (1842) by Antoine-Augustin Préault
Georges Rodenbach – Belgian poet
Jean Rollin – French director and novelist
Jules Romains – French writer
Gioachino Rossini – Italian composer. In 1887, Rossini's remains were moved back to Florence, but the crypt that once housed them (now dedicated to his memory) still stands in Perè Lachaise.
Edmond James de Rothschild – Baron of the Rothschild family (in the family vault), moved to Ramat HaNadiv later
James Mayer de Rothschild – (in the family vault in Division 7)
Salomon James de Rothschild – son of James Mayer de Rothschild (in the family vault)
Raymond Roussel – writer
Alphonse Royer – French poet and dramatist
Dr.Sadegh Sharafkandi Kurdish politician & Former Leader of Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi – Iranian socialist novelist and playwright
Countess Consuelo de Saint Exupéry – Salvadoran writer, wife of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire – French naturalist
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon – French sociologist who founded the "Saint-Simonian" movement
Henri Salvador – French singer
Yuliya Samoylova – Russian aristocrat
Jean-Baptiste Say – French economist
Victor Schoelcher – French statesman known for the abolition of slavery, Schoelcher's remains were transferred to the Panthéon on 20 May 1949
Eugène Scribe – French librettist and playwright
Raymond Adolphe Séré de Rivières – French general and military engineer
Georges-Pierre Seurat – French painter of A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, and father of neo-impressionism
Shahan Shahnour – Armenian writer and novelist
Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès – French clergyman, philosopher and statesman
Simone Signoret – Academy-award winning French actress.
Sidney Smith – British admiral, of whom Napoleon Bonaparte said "That man made me miss my destiny".
Paul Signac – French painter
Albert Soboul – French historian
Joseph Spiess – French inventor of the rigid airship
Eugène Spuller – French politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Education
Serge Alexandre Stavisky – French financier
Gertrude Stein – American author
Elisabeta Alexandrovna Stroganova – Francophile Russian aristocrat
Louis Gabriel Suchet – French military commander and Marshal of France
Feliks Sypniewski – Polish painter and exiled Restoration of Poland advocate
Eugenia Tadolini – Italian opera singer
François-Joseph Talma – French actor
Pierre Alexandre Tardieu – French engraver
Gerda Taro – German war photographer and the great love of Robert Capa, also one of the iconographers of the Spanish Civil War. The monument is by Alberto Giacometti.
J. R. D. Tata – Indian aviation pioneer and former head of Tata Group; Bharat Ratna and Legion of Honour
Pavel Tchelitchew – Russian artist and painter
Tapa Tchermoeff – First Prime Minister of the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus
Thomas Tellefsen – Norwegian pianist and composer
Ruben Ter-Minasian – Armenian politician and a revolutionary, member of Armenian Revolutionary Federation ARF Tashnag
Adolphe Thiers – French historian and statesman
Maurice Thorez – French Communist politician
Isaac Titsingh – Dutch surgeon, scholar, VOC trader, ambassador to Qing China and Tokugawa Japan
Alice B. Toklas – American author, partner of Gertrude Stein, Toklas' name and information is etched on the other side of Stein's gravestone in the same sparse style and font.
Daniel Toscan du Plantier – French film producer
Lise Tréhot – French art model notable for Pierre Auguste-Renroir's early Salon period
Marie Trintignant – French actress
Maurice Tourneur – French film director
Rafael Trujillo – former dictator of the Dominican Republic
Paul Vaillant-Couturier – French political journalist
Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes – French painter
Jules Vallès – French writer
Bernard Verlhac (Tignous) – French cartoonist killed in the Charlie Hebdo shooting
Louis Verneuil – French playwright
Claude Victor-Perrin – French military commander and Marshal of France
Louis Visconti – French architect best known for designing the modern Louvre and Napoleon's tomb at Les Invalides
Dominique Vivant, Baron de Denon – French artist, writer, diplomat and archaeologist. Located close to Chopin's grave.
Louis Vivin – French naive painter.
Émile Waldteufel – French composer
Countess Marie Walewska – Napoleon's mistress, credited for pressing Napoleon to take important pro-Polish decisions during the Napoleonic Wars. Only her heart is entombed here, in the tomb of the d'Ornano family ; her other remains were returned to her native Poland.
Sir Richard Wallace – English art collector and philanthropist
Herbert Ward – English sculptor and explorer
Eduard Wiiralt – Estonian artist
Oscar Wilde – Irish novelist, poet and playwright. By tradition, Wilde's admirers kiss the Art Deco monument while wearing red lipstick, though this practice will no longer be allowed because of the damage it has caused to his tomb, which had to be repaired and encased in glass. Wilde died in 1900 and was initially buried in the Cimetière de Bagneux. His remains were transferred in 1909 to Père Lachaise. The tomb is also the resting place of the ashes of Robert Ross, who commissioned the monument.
Jeanette Wohl – French literary editor, longtime friend and correspondent of Ludwig Börne
Richard Wright – American author, wrote Native Son and other American classics
Claude-Alexandre Ysabeau – French revolutionary
Achille Zavatta – French comedian
Félix Ziem – French painter
List of burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
