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 1910s Clear ×
Yvette Chauviré
1917 - 2016
Christiane Rochefort
1917 - 1998
Pierre Bézier
1910 - 1999
Odette Joyeux
1914 - 2000
Jean-Roger Caussimon
1918 - 1985
Lucienne Delyle
1913 - 1962
Mado Maurin
1915 - 2013
Micheline Francey
1919 - 1969
Blanchette Brunoy
1915 - 2005
Pierre Collet
1914 - 1977
Jean Sauvagnargues
1915 - 2002
André Valmy
1919 - 2015
René Le Grevès
1910 - 1946
Jean Daurand
1913 - 1989
Annette Poivre
1917 - 1988
André Casanova
1919 - 2009
Micheline Cheirel
1917 - 2002
Georges Houot
1913 - 1977
Alexandre Minkowski
1915 - 2004
Renée Le Calm
1918 - 2019
Gilles Martinet
1916 - 2006
Pierre Delaunay
1919 - 2019
Arlette Merry
1918 - 2015
Pierre-Laurent Brenot
1913 - 1998
Élie Wollman
1917 - 2008
André Tollet
1913 - 2001
Geneviève Sorya
1912 - 2008
Luc Estang
1911 - 1992
Henri Mouillefarine
1910 - 1994
Jean Roy (music critic)
1916 - 2011
Jacques Lassaigne
1911 - 1983
Jean Bouret
1914 - 1979
Jean Pons (1913-2005)
1913 - 2005
Georges Régnier
1913 - 1992
Pierre Hiegel
1913 - 1980
Jacques Lagrange (peintre)
1917 - 1995
Michel Junot
1916 - 2008
Annie France
1915 - 2012
Jean Kahn-Dessertenne
1916 - 1970
Serge Grave
1919 - 1995
Giselle Soubiran
1916 - 2012
Valérie Soudères
1914 - 1995
Pierre Gérin
1913 - 1982
Georges Carrier
1910 - 1993
Denise Clair
1916 - 1970
Diomède Catroux
1916 - 2008
Michel Rouzé
1910 - 2003
Serge Jeanneret
1911 - 2000
Elisa Ruis
1917 - 1998
Catherine Parat
1917 - 2014
René Puissesseau
1919 - 1970
Raymond Faure
1915 - 1972
Lucien Barnier
1918 - 1979
Max Bozzoni
1918 - 2003
Gilbert Pradet
1915 - 1980
François Gazier
1919 - 2005
Olivier Pettit
1918 - 1979
Claire Leclerc
1915 - 2009
François-Henri Raymond
1914 - 2000
Jean Achard (pilote)
1918 - 1951
Jean Lehérissey
1915 - 1980
Paul Bourrières
1914 - 2018
Pierre Daboval
1918 - 2015
Simone Féjard
1911 - 2012
Marcel Derny
1914 - 2003
Pierre Iehle
1914 - 1984
Raymond Arveiller
1914 - 1997
Étienne Chevalier (peintre)
1910 - 1982
Jeannette Mac Donald
1918 - 1999
Raymond Meyer
1918 - 2002
Louis Lefebvre (acteur)
1919 - 1968
Jean-Pierre Dévigne
1918 - 1980
Roger Caron
1914 - 1999
Louis Pichon
1916 - 2002
Élisée Alban Darthenay
1913 - 1944
Raymond Colibeau
1917 - 1996
Anne-Marie Seghers
1911 - 2012
René Morel (athlete)
Born 1912
Georges Toupet
1918 - 2007
Henri Tougard
Born 1914
Arthur-Georges Héaume
Born 1915
Lucien Guezennec
1914 - 1980
Gisèle Pelvey
1912 - 2000
Pierre Bassan
1917 - 2010
Claude Carvallo
Born 1916