List of burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery explained
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- 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
- Paul Baudry – French painter
- 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[2]
- Xavier Bichat – French anatomist and pathologist
- Fulgence Bienvenüe – French civil engineer remembered as the Father of the Paris Métro
- Anne Bignan – French poet and translator
- 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
- Louis of Bourbon-Two Sicilies – Italian count
- Pierre Bourdieu – French sociologist
- Jean-Pierre Boyer – Second President of Haiti
- Brada - French writer
- Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu – French opera singer
- Édouard Branly – French scientist
- Pierre Brasseur – French comedian
- Yvonne de Bray – French actress
- Januária of Brazil – Brazilian princess
- 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
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- Emmanuel Cabut (Mano Solo) – French singer
- Marcel Cachin – French Communist politician
- 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.
- Lucienne Calvet, née Calmettes – Heroine of WWII, killed just before the Liberation of Paris in August 1944 when hanging a homemade tricolor flag from her window[3]
- Sebastián Calvo de la Puerta y O'Farrill – governor of Spanish Louisiana
- 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.
- Jean-Baptiste Clément – French songwriter and communard
- 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
- Guy Crescent - French businessman
- Régine Crespin – French opera singer
- Rufino José Cuervo – Colombian writer and philologue
- Nancy Cunard – English poet and activist
- Henri Curiel – Egyptian politician
- Georges Cuvier – the founder of paleontology
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- 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
- John Gilchrist (linguist) – linguist, surgeon, and Indologist from Scotland
- André Gill – French caricaturist
- Annie Girardot – French actress
- Piero Gobetti – Italian activist and journalist
- 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
- Hélène Gordon-Lazareff – Russian-born French journalist, founder of Elle magazine[4]
- François-Joseph Gossec – French composer
- Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr – French military commander and Marshal of France
- Zénobe Gramme – inventor of the Direct Current (DC) Dynamo. A statue on the grave of Zénobe sits and looks 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[5]
- Giulia Grisi – Italian opera singer. Her grave is marked under her married name, Giulia de Candia.
- Jean-Jacques Grunenwald – French musician
- 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
- Jean Guillou – French musician
- Ernest Guiraud – French musician
- Yılmaz Güney – Kurdish/Turkish actor, film director, scenarist and novelist
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- Jacques MacDonald – French military commander and Marshal of France
- William Madocks – English landowner and statesman
- Miłosz Magin – Polish composer
- Abdol Majid Majidi – Iranian politician
- Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix – French couturier
- Nestor Makhno – Ukrainian Anarchist revolutionary
- Jacques-Antoine Manuel – French lawyer and statesman
- Auguste Maquet – French author
- Marcellin Marbot – French general
- 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
- Danielle Messia – French singer
- Charles Messier – French astronomer, publisher of Messier's catalogue
- Mezz Mezzrow – American Jazz clarinettist and saxophone 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
- 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
- Charles Antoine Morand – French Napoleonic general
- Jim Morrison – American singer-songwriter and lead singer of 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.[9] Contrary to rumor, the lease of the gravesite was upgraded from thirty year to perpetual by Morrison's parents; the site is regularly guarded (due to graffiti and other nuisances).[10]
- René Mouchotte – Battle of Britain fighter pilot and Free French Air Force wing commander
- Léon Moussinac – French film critic and theorist
- 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 – King of Naples, 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
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- Camille Alfred Pabst – French painter
- Émile Henry Fauré Le Page – French gunsmith and former owner of Fauré Le Page
- Jean Le Page – French gunsmith and former owner of Fauré Le Page, then known as Le Page
- Trinidad Pardo de Tavera — Filipino physician, historian, and revolutionary
- Antoine Parmentier – French agronomist
- 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
- Ignaz 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
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- 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 a glass screen.[13] 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.
- Helen Maria Williams—English poet, translator, and political writer, who became an expatriate in Paris and chronicled the French Revolution for English readers.
- Jeanette Wohl – French literary editor, longtime friend and correspondent of Ludwig Börne
- Richard Wright – American author, wrote Native Son and other American classics
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Notes and References
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- News: French TV Animator Bruno Bianchi Passes Away . . 2 December 2011 . 2011-12-20.
- Web site: CALVET Lucienne, née CALMETTES (1926-1944) . www.appl-lachaise.net . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150504014833/http://www.appl-lachaise.net/appl/article.php3?id_article=2740 . 2015-05-04.
- News: 18 February 1988 . La disparition d'Hélène Gordon-Lazareff La 'tsarine' de la presse féminine . The disappearance of Hélène Gordon-Lazareff The 'tsarina' of the women's press . live . fr . . https://archive.today/20231216230519/https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1988/02/18/la-disparition-d-helene-gordon-lazareff-la-tsarine-de-la-presse-feminine_4066822_1819218.html . 16 December 2023 . 29 December 2023 . subscription.
- News: Maurice Grimaud dies at 95; former Paris police chief . Associated Press. Los Angeles Times. 24 July 2009. 29 July 2009.
- News: How Bolivia's ruthless tin baron saved thousands of Jewish refugees . Dan . Collyns . . 2022-08-11 . 2022-08-11.
- News: Fishman. Margie. Designer Patrick Kelly celebrated in Philly exhibition. 2 September 2014. delawareonline. News Journal Media Group. 2 May 2014. His headstone in the famous Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris reads: "Nothing is impossible.".
- Book: Gillispie, C. C. . Pierre Simon Laplace 1749–1827: A Life in Exact Science. registration . Princeton University Press. 1997 . 278. 0-691-01185-0 .
- News: Jim Morrison's Fans Keep His Fire Alight . . 9 December 1993 . Alan . Riding.
- http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/m/Jim%20Morrison/jim_morrison.htm Jim Morrison
- http://www.ramat-hanadiv.org.il/lobby.aspx?boneId=323 The Rothschilds on the Ramat HaNadiv website
- Book: Avrich. Paul. Paul Avrich. V. M. Eikhenbaum (Volin): The Man and His Book . Anarchist Portraits. 134. 1988. 978-0-691-04753-9. Princeton University Press. Princeton. 17727270. Anarchist Portraits.
- News: Oscar Wilde's Tomb Will Allow No More Kisses (PHOTOS, VIDEO) . Huffington Post . 28 November 2011.
