List of burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery

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

A

Grave of François Arago
Andranik Ozanian's grave and statue, erected in 1945
  • 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[1]
  • 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

Grave of Sarah Bernhardt

C

Grave of Jean-François Champollion

D

Cremated remains of Isadora Duncan in the Columbarium

E

Grave of Paul Éluard

F

Grave of Joseph Fourier

G

Grave of Théodore Géricault

H

Samuel Hahnemann's mausoleum

I

J

K

Grave of François Kellermann

L

M

Grave of Jim Morrison
Grave of Joachim Murat
Grave of Alfred de Musset

N

Grave of Michel Ney

O

P

Grave of Édith Piaf

Q

R

Grave of Georges Rodenbach
Le Silence (1842) by Antoine-Augustin Préault

S

Grave of Louis Suchet
Graves of Fattah Abdoli, Dr.Sadegh Sharafkandi et Homayoun Ardalan, three victims of the Mykonos assassination attempt.

T

Grave of Pavel Tchelitchew

U

V

Grave of Louis Visconti

W

  • 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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Z

See also

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References

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