Answer: died in Paris but was buried finally in Berlin, was Marlene Dietrich. To have an exhaustive list, you would have to go from cimetery to cimetery. Let’s start with the most famous of them: the ‘Pere Lachaise’, where are buried Abelard and Eloise, whose house -of Eloise- is still to be seen in Ile de la cité: coming from Ile Saint Louis, crossing the bridge, a little to the right.
north east from Gare de Lyon
Pedro Abelardo (1079–1142), filósofo, y su esposa Eloísa (división 7)
Montparnasse Cemetery
east from Gare Montparnasse
Among those interred here are:
- Alexandre Alekhine (1892-1946), Russian-born chess world champion
- Jean-Michel Atlan (1913-1960), poet and painter
- Michele Arnaud (1919-1998), singer.
- Raymond Aron (1905-1983), philosopher, sociologist and political scientist.
- Tina Aumont (1946-2006), actress, daughter of Jean-Pierre Aumont and Maria Montez
- Georges Auric (1899-1983), composer, member of Les Six
- Théodore de Banville (1823-1891), poet, writer
- Frédéric Bartholdi (1834-1904), sculptor of the Statue of Liberty
- Maryse Bastié (1898-1952), pioneer aviatrix
- Jane Bathori (1877-1970), opera singer
- Shapour Bakhtiar (1914-1991), last prime minister of the constitutional monarchy in Iran
- Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), famous poet
- Jean Baudrillard (July 29, 1929 – March 6, 2007), French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer.
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), feminist philosopher & author
- Jacques Becker (1906-1960), filmmaker
- Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish author, playwright & poet
- Jean Béraud (1849-1935), painter
- Emmanuel Berl (1892-1976), writer
- Louis Gustave Binger (1856-1936), explorer
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905), artist (painter in realist style)
- Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1921), sculptor & teacher
- Gérard Brach (1927-2006), screenwriter
- Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), Romanian sculptor
- Brassaï (born Gyula Halász) (1899-1984), photographer
- Roger Caillois (1913-1978), author
- Jean Carmet (1920-1994), actor
- Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811–1899), organ builder
- Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894), composer
- Honoré Champion (1846-1913), librarian and editor
- Emil Cioran (1911-1995), Romanian philosopher
- André Citroën (1878-1935), founded France’s Citroën automobile factory
- Antoni Clavé (1913-2005), artist
- Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis (1792-1843), mathematician
- Julio Cortázar (1914-1984), Argentinian author
- Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801-1877), economist
- Jules Dalou (1838-1902), sculptor
- Pierre David-Weill (1900-1975), banker, Chairman of Lazard Frères
- Jacques Demy (1931-1990), film director
- Robert Desnos (1900-1945), Surrealist poet
- Porfirio Díaz (1830-1915), longest serving Mexican President
- Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), Jewish military officer falsely accused of treason (the Dreyfus affair)
- Jules Dumont d’Urville (1790-1842), explorer of South Pacific & discoverer of Venus de Milo
- Marguerite Duras (1914-1996), author & movie director
- Émile Durkheim (1858-1917), sociologist
- Robert Enrico (1931-2001), film director
- Antoine Étex (1808-1888), sculptor
- Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), artist
- Léon-Paul Fargue (1876-1947), poet and essayist
- Ernest Flammarion (1846-1936), publisher
- César Franck (1822-1890), composer & organist
- Othon Friesz (1879-1949), painter
- Charles Garnier (1825-1898), designed the original Paris Opera House for Napoleon III
- Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991), poet and singer
- Henry Gauthier-Villars (1859-1931), writer and first husband of Colette
- François Gérard (1770-1837), artist
- Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911), organist and composer
- Mireille Hartuch (1906-1996), singer, composer, and actress
- Clara Haskil (1895-1960), pianist
- Jean Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), famous sculptor of notable men
- Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907), author
- Roger Ibáñez (1931-2005), actor
- Vincent d’Indy (1851-1931), composer
- Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994), Romanian playwright
- Jean Robert Ipousteguy (1920-2006), sculptor, painter
- Joëlle (1953-1982), American-born French singer
- Gustave Jundt (1830-1884), painter
- Joseph Kessel (1898-1979), writer
- Kiki (1901-1953), singer, actress, painter, « Queen of Montparnasse »
- Bernard Lacoste (1931-2006), apparel
- Henri Langlois (1914-1977), film preservationist
- Pierre Larousse (1817-1875), author of encyclopedia of Larousse Gastronomique
- Henri Laurens (1885-1954), sculptor, engraver
- Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922), physician, parasitologist
- Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941), biographer of Arsene Lupin, novelist
- Jean Henri Lefortier (1819-1886), painter
- Philippe Léotard (1940-2001), teacher, actor, poet, singer
- Jacques Lisfranc (1790-1847), gynecologist and surgeon
- Émile Littré (1801-1881) lexicographer, philosopher
- Baltasar Lobo (1910-1993), Spanish sculptor
- Sylvia Lopez (1931-1959), actress
- Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925), poet, romance novelist
- Gaston Maspero (1846-1916), Egyptologist
- Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), author
- Catulle Mendès (1841-1909), poet, man of letters
- Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868), actress, poet
- André Meyer (1898-1979), French/American financier
- Mireille (1906-1996), singer, composer
- Maria Montez (1912-1951), actress
- Max Nordau (1849-1923), Zionist leader, physician, author,
- Philippe Noiret (1930-2006), actor
- Mathieu Orfila (1787-1853), toxicologist, chemist
- Gerard Oury (1919-2006), director
- Adolphe Pegoud (1889-1915) aviator
- Simon Petlyura (1879-1926), Ukrainian leader
- Maurice Pialat (1925-2003), film director
- Jules Henri Poincaré, (1854-1912), mathematician and physicist
- Jean Poiret (1926-1992), actor, film director
- François Charles Henri Laurent Pouqueville (1770-1838), Diplomat, writer, historian, archaeologist, physician
- Visarion Puiu (1879 – 1964), Romanian metropolitan bishop
- Edgar Quinet (1803-1875), historian
- Jean Pierre Rampal (1922-2000), flautist
- Man Ray (1890-1976), American-born Dada & Surrealist artist and photographer
- Serge Reggiani (1922-2004), singer, actor
- Jean-Marc Reiser (1941-1983), comic artist
- Yves Robert (1920-2002), actor, director
- Yves Rocard (1903-1992), physicist
- Frédéric Rossif (1922-1990), filmmaker
- François Rude (1784-1855), sculptor
- Julio Ruelas (1870-1907), Mexican painter
- Jean Sablon (1906-1994), singer
- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869), literary critic, author
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), composer & performer of Romantic classical music
- Jules Sandeau (1811-1883), novelist
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), French philosopher & novelist
- Claude Sautet (1924-2000), film director
- Jean Seberg (1938-1979), American actress & civil rights activist
- Delphine Seyrig (1932-1990), actress
- Susan Sontag (1933-2004), American author & philosopher
- Jesús Rafael Soto (1923-2005), sculptor, painter
- Chaim Soutine (1893 – August 9, 1943), painter of the School of Paris
- Christophe Tarkos (1963-2004), poet
- Boris Taslitzky (1911-2005), painter
- Augustin Thierry (1795-1856), historian
- Tristan Tzara (1896-1963), Romanian Dadaist poet and essayist
- Roland Topor (1938-1997), writer, illustrator
- Henri Troyat (1911-2007), author
- Louis Veuillot (1813-1883), journalist
- Vierne Louis (1870-1937), composer, organist
- Henri Wallon (1812-1904), historian, statesman
- Adolphe Willette (1857-1926), painter
- Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967), Russian-born sculptor & artist
Personnes célèbres enterrées au cimetière de Montmartre
north-east of the town to the left while going up to Montmartre (north Clichy). This cemetery is not christian. Most of the people buried here are either confessed atheists or belong to other confessions
- Laure Junot d’Abrantès (1784–1838), mémorialiste
- André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), physicien
- Édouard André (1840–1911), paysagiste
- Claude Autant-Lara (1901–2000), réalisateur de cinéma
- Michel Berger (1947–1992), auteur, compositeur et chanteur
- Hector Berlioz (1803–1869), compositeur
- Lili Boulanger (1893–1918), compositrice
- Jean-Claude Brialy (1933–2007), acteur, comédien et directeur de théâtre
- Jacques Chambaz (1923–2004), intellectuel et dirigeant communiste
- Fred Chichin (1954–2007), musicien, cocréateur du groupe les Rita Mitsouko
- Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907–1977), réalisateur de cinéma
- Dalida (Yolanda-Cristina Gigliotti, dite) 1933–1987, chanteuse et actrice
- Jean Daurand (1913–1989), acteur surtout connu pour sa prestation dans la série Les cinq dernières minutes
- Edgar Degas (1834–1917), peintre et sculpteur
- Léo Delibes (1836–1891), compositeur
- Marie-Anne Detourbey, comtesse de Loynes (1837–1908), salonnière
- Alexandre Dumas fils (1824–1895), écrivain
- Marie Duplessis, née Alphonsine Plessis (1824–1847), courtisane
- François Duprat (1940–1978, homme politique
- Jacques Fabbri (1925–1997), comédien
- Jean Marie Joseph Farina (1785–1864), fabricant de l’Eau de Cologne
- Georges Feydeau (1862–1921), dramaturge
- Alain Feydeau (1934– 2008), comédien, metteur en scène, écrivain
- Charles de Flahaut (1785–1870), diplomate et militaire
- Carole Fredericks (1952–2001), chanteuse
- Suzanne Gabriello (1932–1992), actrice et chanteuse
- Pauline Garcia-Viardot (1821–1910), chanteuse d’opéra, compositrice
- Théophile Gautier (1811–1872), écrivain
- Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896), auteur, éditeur, fondateur de l’Académie Goncourt
- Jules de Goncourt (1830–1870), auteur, éditeur, frère d’Edmond de Goncourt
- Amédée Gordini (1899–1979), mécanicien et pilote préparateur d’automobile
- Sacha Guitry (1885–1957), acteur, réalisateur de cinéma
- Daniel Halévy (1872–1962), historien et essayiste français
- Jacques Halévy (1799–1862), compositeur
- Ludovic Halévy (1834–1908), écrivain et librettiste d’opéra français
- Jean Hamburger (1909–1992), médecin et écrivain, membre de l’Académie française
- Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), poète
- Louis Jouvet (1887–1951), acteur
- Marie Pierre Kœnig (1898–1970), maréchal de France
- Dominique Laffin (1952–1985), actrice
- Jacques Legras (1924–2006), acteur et membre de la troupe des Branquignols
- Joachim Lelewel (1786–1861), historien, numismate et politicien polonais
- Frédérick Lemaître (1800–1876), acteur
- Jean Le Marois (1776–1836), général et député
- Jean Le Poulain (1924–1988), comédien français
- Nicolas-Prosper Levasseur (1791–1871), chanteur d’opéra français
- Francis Lopez (1916–1995), compositeur
- Mary Marquet (1894–1979), actrice française d’origine russe
- Auguste Ricard de Montferrand (1786–1858), architecte
- Gustave Moreau (1826–1898), peintre
- Sigismond von Neukomm (1778–1858), compositeur autrichien
- Louis Niedermeyer (1802–1861), compositeur
- Vaslav Nijinsky (1890–1950), danseur de ballet et chorégraphe russe d’origine polonais.
- Adolphe Nourrit (1802–1839), chanteur d’opéra
- Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880), compositeur
- Francisque Poulbot (1879–1946), dessinateur et peintre
- Olga Preobrajenska (1871–1962), danseuse russe
- Juliette Récamier (1777–1849), salonnière, femme de lettres
- Jean Rédélé (1922–2007), pilote et créateur automobile
- Robert Rollis (1921–2007), comédien français, membre de la troupe des Branquignols
- Henri Sauguet (1901–1989), compositeur
- Adolphe Sax (1814–1894), facteur d’instruments de musique, inventeur du saxophone
- Claude Simon (1913–2005), écrivain, prix Nobel de littérature
- Fernando Sor (1778–1839), compositeur et guitariste
- Stendhal (Henri Beyle, dit) (1783–1842), écrivain
- Claude Terrasse (1867–1923), compositeur d’opérette
- Henri Tresca (1814–1885), ingénieur mécanicien
- François Truffaut (1932–1984), réalisateur de cinéma
- Horace Vernet (1789–1863), peintre
- Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863), écrivain
- Lucien de Vissec (1872–1953), écrivain
- Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1798–1875), luthier
- Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau (1846–1904), homme politique
- Louise Weber dite La Goulue (1866–1929), danseuse
- Émile Zola (1840–1902), écrivain (cénotaphe, cendres transférées au Panthéon en 1908)
Cemetery of Passy
crossing the Seine at the tour Eiffel, to the left
Among its more famous residents are:
- Annabella (1909–1996) – actress
- Bảo Đại (1913–1997) – the last Emperor of Vietnam
- 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
- James Gordon Bennett, Jr. (1848–1918 ) – American newspaper publisher, sportsman
- Tristan Bernard (1866–1947) – playwright and novelist
- Henri Bernstein (1876–1953) – actor
- Princess Brassova (Natalia Sheremetyev-Romanov) (1880–1952) – wife of Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov
- Georgi, Count Brasov (1910–1931) – son of Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov and Princess Brassova (Natalia Sheremetyev-Romanov)
- Marcel Dassault (1892–1986) – engineer, founder of Dassault Aviation
- Claude Debussy (1862–1918 ) – impressionist classical music composer
- 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 Second World War 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 (1946–1980) – novelist
- Virgil Gheorghiu, (1916–1992) – novelist
- Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944) – playwright, soldier, and statesman
- 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 Landowsky (1875–1961) – architect and sculptor
- Princess Leila of Iran (1970–2001) – daughter of the Shah of Iran
- Georges Mandel (1885–1944) – statesman, French Resistance during WWII
- Édouard Manet (1832–1883) – realist and impressionist painter
- André Messager (1853–1929) – musician, composer
- Alexandre Millerand (1859–1943) – President of France
- Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917) – anarchist, art critic, and novelist
- Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) – impressionist painter
- Gabrielle Réjane (1856–1920) – actress
- Madeleine Renaud (1900–1994) – actress
- Marcel Renault (1872–1903) – industrialist, racing driver, co-founder of Renault motor company
- Maurice Rostand (1891–1968 ) – playwright
- 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
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