Saint-Ouen Cemetery

The Saint-Ouen Cemetery (French: Cimetière Parisien de Saint-Ouen) is located just north of Montmartre at Saint-Ouen, near Paris. The cemetery consists of two parts. The first, located on Rue Adrien Lesesne opened in 1860 and the second at 2 Avenue Michelet was opened on 1 September 1872.

Main entrance.

Notable burials
  • Alphonse Allais (1854–1905), writer
  • Amer Alwan (1957–2023), film director and actor[1]
  • Yvette Andréyor (1891–1962), actress
  • Mireille Balin (1909–1968), film actress
  • Roland Charmy (1908–1987), violinist, husband of harpist Lily Laskine
  • Carmen Damedoz, née Marie Élise Provost (1819–1964), artists model, dancer and aviator
  • Eugène Godard (1827–1890), aeronaut
  • Lily Laskine (1893–1988), harpist
  • Mona Goya (1909–1961), actress
  • Suzanne Lenglen (1899–1938), tennis champion
  • Alfred Manessier (1911–1993), painter
  • Jules Pascin (1885–1930), artist (later re-interred)
  • Henri Quittard (1864–1919), composer, musicologist
  • Émile-Alexandre Taskin, (1853–1897), opera singer
  • Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938), painter

The cemetery contains one British Commonwealth war grave, of a Royal Marines officer of World War I.[2]

References
  1. Vivarelli, Nick (14 July 2023). "Amer Alwan, Iraqi Director of 'Zaman, the Man From the Reeds,' Dies at 66". Variety. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  2. CWGC casualty record, accessed 5 March 2021.
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