Among those interred at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris are:

A

Peter Abelard – French philosopher Edmond François Valentin About – French novelist and journalist Mikola Abramchyk – Belarusian journalist and emigre politician 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 Chantal Akerman – Belgian filmmaker and writer Jehan Alain – French composer and organist Marietta Alboni – Italian opera singer Jean-Charles Adolphe 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 Arman (Armand Fernandez) – French painter Miguel Ángel Asturias – Guatemalan diplomat and author, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967 Philip Astley – father of the modern circus 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

B

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 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 Stéphanie Louise de Bourbon-Conti – memoirist of the French Revolution 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 actor 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

C

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 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, Peru 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 Pierre Auguste Cot – French painter 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

D

Jarosław Dąbrowski – exiled Polish revolutionary Nationalist and last Commander-in-Chief of the Paris Commune of 1871; cenotaphs on Federated Wall in northeast corner of the Père Lachaise Cemetery and 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 – French author who is known for his literary works, such as Letters from My Windmill 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" Marpessa Dawn – African American and French actress, singer and dancer 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 Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke – French neuroscientist Cino Del Duca – Italian-born French publishing magnate, film producer and philanthropist Simone Del Duca – French businesswoman and philanthropist, wife of Cino Del Duca Élie-Miriam Delaborde – French virtuoso pianist and composer 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 – English painter and illustrator Gustave Doré – French artist and printmaker Michel Drach – French film director Marie Dubas – French singer Jacques Duclos – French communist 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

E

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 Lucy Escott - American soprano

F

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) Hippolyte Flandrin, French painter Seymour Fleming – British noblewoman 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

G

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 Jean-Luc Godard - French/Swiss Film Director, screenwriter, and critic 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 Natalya Gorbanevskaya – Russian poet, a translator of Polish literature and a civil-rights activist Hélène Gordon-Lazareff – Russian-born French journalist, founder of Elle magazine François-Joseph Gossec – French composer Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr – French military commander and Marshal of France