Passy Cemetery - Notable Interments

Notable Interments

Among its more famous residents are:

• Annabella (1907–1996), actress
• 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
• 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)
• Dieudonné Costes (1896–1973) 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 Pahlavi
• 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 (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
• Princess Leila of Iran (1970–2001), daughter of the Shah of Iran
• 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
• 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