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The French Riviera is a resting place for many famous people. Here is a list of graves where you will maybe want to go.

The list includes not only Nice but also cities nearby. It is different from the list in French because people who are famous only among French people are not listed here.

• Beaulieu sur Mer
  
  • Pierre Boileau, writer (he used to four hands write with Narcejac)
• Biot (cimetière de la Rine)
  • Raymond Peynet, draftsman.
• Cannes
• Cimetière du Grand Jas
  
  • Ernest Duchesne, who discovered 32 years before Fleming the bactericidal power of antibiotics.
  • Martine Carol, actress.
  • Pierre-Charles Fabergé, creator of the "Eggs", jeweller of the Russian court (Protestant part)
  • Georges Guétary (Lanbros Worloo), chanteur et comédien
  • Prosper Mérimée, writer
  • Jacques Monod, Nobel Prize of Medecine.
• La Colle sur Loup
  
  • Yves Klein, painter
• Menton (cimetière du Chateau)
  
  • William Webb Ellis, the creator of Rugby.
• Monaco
  • Cimetery 
    • Anthony Burgess, writer.
    • Joséphine Baker, dancer, singer, Resistant and civic rights activist. Only her cenotaph was placed in the Panthéon in Paris. As her children wanted it, she still lies in Monaco.
    • Léo Ferré, singer.
    • Jean-Michel Folon, draftsman.
    • Roger Moore, actor.
    • Ashraf Pahlavi, Princess and sister of the last Shah of Iran.
  • Cathedral
    • Grace Kelly, actress and Princess of Monaco
• Nice
  An on line app enables you to find all graves in all cimeteries in Nice.
  
  • Cimetières du Chateau
    • Garibaldi is no longer buried here. Only his mother is in the cimetery.n'est plus enterré dans ce cimetière. Seule sa mère s'y trouve.
    • René Goscinny, scriptwriter, creator of Astérix, Iznogoud, The little Nicolas, scriptwriter for Lucky Luke... (jewish cimetery)
    • Alexandre Herzen, russian activist
    • Gaston Leroux, writer (le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune)
    • Serge Sandberg, movie maker, creator of the studios de la Victorine (jewish cimetery)
    • Alfred Van Cleef, jeweller (jewish cimetery)
  • Cimetière de Cimiez
    • Raoul Dufy, painter
    • Roger Martin du Gard, writer, Nobel prize for Litterature 1937 (les Thibault...)
    • Henri Matisse, painter
  • Cimetière russe de Caucade
    • Katia, princess Yourievska, morganatic wife of the Tzar Alexandre II
  • Cimetière de Caucade
    • Louis Delfino, Air force General, commander of the Free French forces squadron Normandie-Niémen
    • Jean Mantelet, creator of the vegetable mill, founder of Moulinex
    • Louis Nucéra, writer
• Opio
  • Jacques Henri Lartigues, photographer
• Roquebrune Cap Martin
  • Le Corbusier, architect
  • Xenia Alexandrovna Romanova her husband and cousin Alexandre Mikhaelovitch Romanov, sister and brother in law of Nicolas II, the last Tzar of Russia.
• St Paul de Vence
  • Marc Chagall, painter
  • Aimé et Marguerite Maeght, creators of the Maeght Fondation
• Vallauris
  • Jean Marais, actor and sculptor
• Villeneuve Loubet
  • Auguste Escoffier, cook

To  walk in some famous people's footsteps on the Riviera read Here lived