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The Saint-Ouen Cemetery () 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.

Notable burials

  • Alphonse Allais (1854–1905), writer
  • Amer Alwan (1957–2023), film director and actor
  • 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 (1890–1964), 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
  • Kakutsa Cholokashvili (1888–1930), Georgian soldier (later re-interred)

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

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