Montparnasse Cemetery - B

B

• Shapour Bakhtiar (1914–1991), last prime minister of the constitutional monarchy in Iran
• César Baldaccini (1921–1988), sculptor
• Théodore de Banville (1823–1891), poet, writer
• Frédéric Bartholdi (1834–1904), sculptor of the Statue of Liberty
• Maryse Bastié (1898–1952), pioneer aviatrix
• Pierre Batcheff (1901–1932), actor
• Jane Bathori (1877–1970), opera singer
• Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), famous poet
• Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), 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
• Eugène Belgrand (1810–1878), civil engineer
• Paul Belmondo (1898–1982), French sculptor
• Jean Béraud (1849–1935), painter
• Emmanuel Berl (1892–1976), writer
• Aloysius Bertrand (1807–1841), poet
• Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (1847–1907), geologist, founder of the plate tectonic theory
• Louis Gustave Binger (1856–1936), explorer
• Lucien Bodard (1914–1998), journalist
• Marc Boegner (1881–1970), theologist and academician
• Jean-Marie Bonnassieux (1810–1892), sculptor
• Aristide Boucicaut (1810–1877), entrepreneur and creator of Le Bon Marché chain of department stores
• William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905), artist (painter in realist style)
• Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph, comte Boulay de la Meurthe (1761–1840), statesman
• Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1921), sculptor & teacher
• Paul Bourget (1852–1935), writer
• Marcel Bozzuffi (1928–1988), actor
• Gérard Brach (1927–2006), screenwriter
• Constantin Brâncuşi (1876–1957), Romanian sculptor
• Brassaï (born Gyula Halász) (1899–1984), photographer
• Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (1817–1894), physician
• Jean Bruller (1902–1991), author who wrote under the nom de plume of Vercors