Montrouge Cemetery
The Montrouge cemetery is a cemetery belonging to the town of Montrouge, but geographically located in the south of the 14th arrondissement of Paris, bordering the boulevard périphérique.
While the most visited grave is that of Coluche, there are many other graves of interest and a crypt.
Some personalities buried in the cemetery
Grave | Name | Dates | Désignation |
Maurice Arnoux | 1895–1940 | aviator | |
Odile Astié | 1941–1980 | first French stunt woman | |
Michel Audiard | 1920–1985 | dialoguist, screenwriter and director | |
Jurgis Baltrušaitis | 1873–1944 | Lithuanian symbolist poet and translator | |
Émile Bégin | 1802–1888 | physician and historian | |
István Beöthy | 1897–1961 | sculptor and architect of Hungarian origin | |
Georges Biscot | 1886–1945 | actor and singer | |
Eugénie Buffet | 1866–1934 | singer of music hall | |
Cécile Cerf Marcel Cerf | 1916–1973 1911–2010 | Resistant historian | |
Pierre Clerget | 1875–1943 | engineer and inventor | |
Coluche | 1944–1986 | comedian and actor | |
René Crevel | 1900–1935 | surrealist writer and poet | |
Gabriel Cromer | 1873–1934 | photographer and collector | |
Georges Cusin | 1902–1964 | stage and film actor | |
Jules Déchin | 1869–1947 | statuary | |
Emmanuel Dolivet | 1854–1910 | sculptor | |
Maurice Escande | 1892–1973 | stage and film actor | |
Félix Fourdrain | 1880–1923 | organist and composer | |
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes | 1932–2007 | physicist, Collège de France faculty, Nobel prize | |
Gustave Geffroy | 1855–1926 | journalist, art critic, historian and novelist | |
Henri Ginoux | 1909–1994 | mayor of Montrouge | |
Albert Kazimirski de Biberstein | 1808–1887 | orientalist of Polish origin | |
Grégory Ken | 1947–1996 | singer | |
Alphonse Kirchhoffer | 1873–1913 | foil fencing master | |
Georges Kirsch | 1892–1969 | aviator and test pilot | |
Ernest La Jeunesse | 1874–1917 | journalist and drama critic | |
Lina Margy | 1914–1973 | singer | |
Jacques Paul Migne | 1800–1875 | priest and publisher | |
Germaine Montero | 1909–2000 | comedian and singer | |
Henri Mouillefarine | 1910–1994 | racing cyclist | |
Dimitri Navachine | 1889-1937 | Russian politician and economist | |
Louis Noël | 1839-1925 | sculptor | |
Charles Pélissier | 1903–1959 | racing cyclist | |
Henri Queffélec | 1910–1992 | writer | |
Lucien Rosengart | 1881–1976 | car manufacturer | |
Albert Simonin | 1905–1980 | writer and scriptwriter | |
Nicolas de Staël | 1914–1955 | painter of Russian origin | |
André Tollet | 1913–2001 | union leader |