Ixelles Cemetery (, ; ), located in Ixelles in the southern part of Brussels, is one of the major cemeteries in Belgium. Ixelles Cemetery also refers to a neighbourhood with a lot of bars and restaurants for students, north of the actual cemetery. It is in fact located between the two main campuses (Solbosch/Solbos and La Plaine/Het Plein) of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).
Notable interments
Personalities buried there include: Luigi Bigiarelli (1876–1908), athlete, founder of the S.S. Lazio Anna Boch (1848–1936), painter Jules Bordet (1870–1961), Nobel Prize in medicine Georges Boulanger (1837–1891), French Minister of War and exile in Belgium, who committed suicide there Victor Bourgeois (1897–1962), architect and urban planner Marcel Broodthaers (1924–1976), artist Fernand Brouez (1861–1900), editor of La Société Nouvelle Charles De Coster (1827–1879), novelist Neel Doff (1858–1942), artists' model and writer Jean Isaac Effront (1856–1931), inventor Antonio Oladeinde Fernandez (1936–2015), Nigerian diplomat and business tycoon Édouard Louis Geerts (1846–1889), sculptor, whose tomb was designed by the architect Victor Horta and the sculptor Charles van der Stappen Lucette Heuseux (1913–2010), painter Victor Horta (1861–1947), architect Louis Hymans (1829–1884), journalist and politician Paul Hymans (1865–1941), statesman Joseph Jacquet (1857–1917), army general during World War I Sylvain de Jong (1868–1928), maker of the luxury Minerva automobile Frédéric de La Hault (1860–1903), developed an 1885 motorised tricycle Camille Lemonnier (1844–1913), writer Constantin Meunier (1831–1905), painter and sculptor Jean-Baptiste Moëns (1833–1908), philatelist Frederic Neuhaus (1846–1912), pharmacist, inventor of chocolate pralines Paul Saintenoy (1862–1952), architect Jacques Saintenoy (1845–1947), architect Ernest Solvay (1838–1922), chemist and industrialist, tomb designed by Victor Horta Carl Sternheim (1878–1942), German writer Marc Van Bever (1974–2010), film producer Joseph Wieniawski (1837–1912), composer Antoine Wiertz (1806–1865), painter Eugène Ysaÿe (1858–1931), violinist
War graves
In the Field of Honour in Block A are buried First World War soldiers from Belgium, France, Italy, Russia and Great Britain (twelve identified soldiers), who died mainly as prisoners of war.
See also
List of cemeteries in Belgium Anderlecht Cemetery Brussels Cemetery Laeken Cemetery Molenbeek-Saint-Jean Cemetery Saint-Josse-ten-Noode Cemetery Schaerbeek Cemetery
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