Passy Cemetery (French: Cimetière de Passy) is a cemetery in Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.
The current cemetery replaced the old cemetery (l'ancien cimetière communal de Passy##, located on Rue Lekain), which was closed in 1802.
In the early 19th century, on the orders of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, all the cemeteries in Paris were replaced by several large new ones outside the precincts of the capital. Montmartre Cemetery was built in the north, Père Lachaise Cemetery in the east, and Montparnasse Cemetery in the south. Passy Cemetery was a later addition, but has its origins in the same edict.
The current entrance was built in 1934 (designed by René Berger). The retaining wall of the cemetery is adorned with a bas relief (by Louis Janthial) commemorating the soldiers who fell in World War I.
Among its more famous residents are:
Bảo Đại (1913–1997), the last Emperor of Vietnam
Jean-Louis Barrault (1910–1994), actor and director; buried with his wife, the actress Madeleine Renaud
Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841–1905), sculptor
Jeanne Julia Bartet (1854–1941), actress
Marie Bashkirtseff (1858–1884), Russian artist famous for her published journal; her tomb is a recreation of her studio and has been declared a historical monument by the government of France
Maurice Bellonte (1896-1983), pioneering aviator, as is his flight companion Dieudonné Costes
James Gordon Bennett, Jr. (1848–1918), American newspaper publisher, sportsman
Tristan Bernard (1866–1947), playwright and novelist
Henri Bernstein (1876–1953), actor
Princess Brasova (Natalia Sheremetyev-Romanov) (1880–1952), wife of Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov
George, Count Brasov (1910–1931), son of Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov and Princess Brasova (Natalia Sheremetyev-Romanov)
Emmanuel de Las Cases (1766–1842), historian
Dieudonné Costes (1896–1973), pioneering aviator, as is his flight companion Maurice Bellonte
Emmanuelle de Dampierre (1913–2012), first wife of Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia
Marcel Dassault (1892–1986), engineer, founder of Dassault Aviation
Claude Debussy (1862–1918), composer
Maxime Dethomas (1867–1929), artist
Farideh Diba (born Farideh Ghotbi) (1921–2000), mother of the former queen of Iran, Farah Diba
Ghislaine Dommanget (1900–1991), Princess of Monaco
Michel Droit (1923–2000), novelist, member of the Académie française
Henry Farman (1874–1958), champion cyclist and aviator
Edgar Faure (1908–1988), statesman and World War II resistance fighter
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924), composer
Fernandel (Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin) (1903–1971), comedy actor
Maurice Gamelin (1872–1958), supreme commander of French armed forces 1939–1940
Maurice Genevoix (1890–1980), novelist
Rosemonde Gérard (1871–1953), poet and playwright
Virgil Gheorghiu, (1916–1992), novelist
Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944), playwright, soldier, and statesman
Anna Gould (1878–1961), socialite, daughter of financier Jay Gould
Antonio Guzmán Blanco (1829–1899), Venezuelan politician and president
Gabriel Hanotaux (1853–1944), statesman and historian
Paul Hervieu (1857–1915), dramatist and novelist
Gholam Hossein Jahanshahi (1920–2005), economist, Iranian statesman
Jacques Ibert (1890–1962), composer
Paul Landowski (1875–1961), architect and sculptor
Hector Lefuel (1810–1880), architect of significant portions of the Louvre
Joseph Florimond Loubat, bibliophile, antiquarian, sportsman, and philanthropist
Georges Mandel (1885–1944), statesman, French Resistance during World War II
Édouard Manet (1832–1883), realist and impressionist painter
André Messager (1853–1929), composer and conductor
Alexandre Millerand (1859–1943), President of France
Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917), anarchist, art critic, and novelist
Berthe Morisot (1841–1895), impressionist painter
Togrul Narimanbekov (1930-2013), Azerbaijani painter
Joseph O'Kelly (1828–1885), Henri O'Kelly sr. (1859–1938), and Henri O'Kelly jr. (1881–1922), Franco-Irish composers and musicians
Leila Pahlavi (1970–2001), Princess Leila of Iran, daughter of the last Shah of Iran and Farah Diba
Gabrielle Réjane (1856–1920), actress
Madeleine Renaud (1900–1994), actress; buried with her husband, the actor and director Jean-Louis Barrault
Marcel Renault (1872–1903), industrialist, racing driver, co-founder of Renault motor company
Maurice Rostand (1891–1968), playwright
Constantin Rozanoff (1905–1954), colonel, test pilot
Haroun Tazieff (1914–1998), vulcanologist
Renée Vivien (1877–1909), writer, poet
Pearl White (1889–1938), American silent film star, famous for doing her own stunts in her serials The Perils of Pauline
Jean-Pierre Wimille (1908–1949), Grand Prix race driver
Jacques Guerlain (1874-1963), Certainly the greatest perfume creator from the famous House "Guerlain" in Paris.
Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972), Notable author, salonist and lesbian socialite of the Belle Époque.
The entrance of the cemetery is located at 2, Rue du Commandant Schlœsing. The street in which it is situated is named for a Free French pilot, Squadron Leader Jacques-Henri Schlœsing (1919–1944), who flew with the wartime RAF until killed in action, the day that Paris was liberated.
The cemetery is behind the Trocadéro.
