48.8317° N, 2.3264° E
MONTROUGE
Most Famous People Born in Montrouge, France
- Notable people
- 709
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- Median birth year
- 1927
- Most distinctive
- Actor 4.2×
The inner-ring Paris suburb that became, against all odds, a screen town: the Actor bench runs at better than four times the global baseline, and the Screenwriter and Film clusters line up behind it like a studio lot. Layer in the Historian and Journalist benches and you get something unexpected for a commuter commune, a kind of Left Bank-adjacent intelligentsia with a movie habit.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Montrouge during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Montrouge Is Known For
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Actor is Montrouge's biggest profession — 22% of all notables (158).
Montrouge over-indexes on actor — 4.2× the global rate.
Montrouge under-produces football — only 0.2× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Montrouge's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Film & TV
- Writing
- Sports
- Art & Design
- Politics & Law
- Music
- Other
- Filtered to 1880s Clear ×
Octave Lapize
1887 - 1917
Armand Massard
1884 - 1971
Kostja Zetkin
1885 - 1980
Michel Georges-Michel
1883 - 1985
Pierre Vellones
1889 - 1939
Émile Roubaud
1882 - 1962
Jean Lacroix
1884 - 1971
Georges Cochevelou
1889 - 1974
Jules Cayette
1882 - 1953
Henri Beau (football)
1881 - 1928
Louis Chatelain
1883 - 1950
Jeanne Leuba
1882 - 1979
Jean Devoissoux
1889 - 1945
Fernand Massip
Born 1884
Henri Vialmonteil
Born 1884
Pauline Ramart
1880 - 1953
Georges Pavis
1886 - 1977
Jacques Chapelon
1884 - 1973
Gaston Haelling
1886 - 1958
Joseph Tommasi (Communist)
1886 - 1926
Monna Delza
1882 - 1921
Marcel Poimbœuf
1889 - 1974
Georges Bruni
1887 - 1973
Théodore Peyrusson
1884 - 1916