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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.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Montrouge during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1920s with 158 notable births.

What Montrouge Is Known For

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Actor is Montrouge's biggest profession — 22% of all notables (158).

Montrouge over-indexes on actor4.2× the global rate.

Montrouge under-produces football — only 0.2× the global rate.

  1. Actor158
  2. Politician48
  3. Writer36
  4. Painter29
  5. Journalist26
  6. Singer18
  7. Historian18
  8. Football18
  1. Actor1584.2×
  2. Screenwriter123.9×
  3. Sculptor122.6×
  4. Historian182.4×
  5. Journalist262.3×
  6. Film151.7×
  7. Poet121.6×
  8. Writer361.6×
  1. Football180.2×
  2. Politician480.6×

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.

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  • Art & Design
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Showing 158 of 709 notable people

0007 ACTOR

Michel Bouquet

Born 1925

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0008 SCREENWRITER

Claude Sautet

1924 - 2000

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0009 SCREENWRITER

Michel Audiard

1920 - 1985

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0014 PHYSICIAN

Jérôme Lejeune

1926 - 1994

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0017 WRITER

François Cavanna

1923 - 2014

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0020 ACTOR

Zizi Jeanmaire

1924 - 2020

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0022 SCREENWRITER

Albert Lamorisse

1922 - 1970

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0031 ACTOR

Claude Piéplu

1923 - 2006

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0039 WIFE OF

Jacqueline Roque

1926 - 1986

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0041 SCREENWRITER

Gérard Brach

1927 - 2006

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0042 ACTOR

Maurice Biraud

1922 - 1982

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0043 ACTOR

Brigitte Auber

Born 1928

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0044 ACTOR

Lilyan Chauvin

1925 - 2008

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0046 COMPOSER

Gérard Calvi

1922 - 2015

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0049 ACTOR

François Chaumette

1923 - 1996

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0051 ACTOR

Jacques Dynam

1923 - 2004

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0054 ACTOR

Françoise Christophe

1923 - 2012

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0057 BALLET

Colette Marchand

1925 - 2015

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0058 ACTOR

Monique Chaumette

Born 1927

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0064 ACTOR

Philippe Clay

1927 - 2007

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0073 ACTOR

Jacques Fabbri

1925 - 1997

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0074 POET

Raymond Federman

1928 - 2009

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0078 WRITER

Jean Markale

1928 - 2008

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0082 COLLECTOR

Daniel Filipacchi

Born 1928

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0084 OPERA

Michel Sénéchal

1927 - 2018

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0086 FOOTBALL

Robert Jonquet

1925 - 2008

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0099 HISTORIAN

Pierre Riché

1921 - 2019

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0110 SCENOGRAPHER

Pierre Guffroy

1926 - 2010

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0111 CHEMIST

Marc Julia

1922 - 2010

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0112 ACTOR

Maria Pacôme

1923 - 2018

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0113 FEMINIST

Évelyne Sullerot

1924 - 2017

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0122 HISTORIAN

André Chastagnol

1920 - 1996

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0129 CINEMA

Edmond Richard (cinematographer)

1927 - 2018

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0135 ACTOR

Jean-Claude Deret

1921 - 2016

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0138 ACTOR

Guy Tréjan

1921 - 2001

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0152 WRITER

Pierre Barbéris

1926 - 2014

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0153 MUSIC

Pierre Nicolas

1920 - 1990

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0156 LINGUIST

Jean Dubois (linguist)

1920 - 2015

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0157 HISTORIAN

Michel Meslin

1926 - 2010

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0158 ACTOR

René Arrieu

1924 - 1982

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0159 PHOTOGRAPHER

Jean-Pierre Sudre

1921 - 1997

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0162 FILM

Albert Jurgenson

1929 - 2002

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0164 WRITER

Gilles Thomas

1929 - 1985

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0168 RACING

André Simon (racing driver)

1920 - 2012

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0173 PHILOSOPHER

Michel Chodkiewicz

1929 - 2020

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0175 ACTOR

Anne-Marie Carrière

1925 - 2006

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0181 COMPOSER

Daniel Wayenberg

1929 - 2019

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0187 POLITICIAN

François Fontan

1929 - 1979

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0191 POLITICIAN

Robert Barcia

1928 - 2009

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0202 HISTORIAN

Robert Turcan

1929 - 2018

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0212 CANOE

Georges Dransart

1924 - 2005

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0217 BANK

Claude de Kemoularia

1922 - 2016

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0224 FOOTBALL

André Grillon

1921 - 2003

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0233 BASKET

Maurice Desaymonnet

1921 - 2015

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0238 JOURNALIST

Pierre Descargues

1925 - 2012

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0241 ACTOR

René-Jean Chauffard

1920 - 1972

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0244 FENCER

Renée Garilhe

1923 - 1991

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0245 EXECUTIONER

Marcel Chevalier

1921 - 2008

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0249 TEACHER

Georges Fontenis

1920 - 2010

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0253 ACTOR

Véra Norman

Born 1927

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0263 WRITER

André Migdal

1924 - 2007

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0269 JOURNALIST

Pierre Sipriot

1921 - 1998

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0275 PSYCHOANALYST

Roger Misès

1924 - 2012

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0285 SCREENWRITER

Jean Dewever

1927 - 2010

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0287 TRACK AND FIELD

Georges Breitman

1920 - 2014

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0289 FILM

Armand Psenny

Born 1929

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0296 CHOREOGRAPHER

Jean Cébron

1927 - 2019

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0297 HISTORIAN

Jean Chesneaux

1922 - 2007

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0300 SOLDIER

Roger Vandenberghe

1927 - 1952

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0306 PHYSICIAN

Jacques Masquelier

1922 - 2009

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0308 WRITER

Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat

1926 - 2018

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0309 RADIO

Zappy Max

1921 - 2019

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0311 WRITER

Roger Le Taillanter

1925 - 2005

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0315 PAINTER

Philippe Lejeune (peintre)

1924 - 2014

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0318 ACTOR

André Gaillard (acteur)

1927 - 2019

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0337 ARTIST

René Ferracci

1927 - 1982

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0341 SPORT

Jean Guéguen

1924 - 1998

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0343 TYPOGRAPHER

Pierre Faucheux

1924 - 1999

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0348 PSYCHOANALYST

Michel de M'Uzan

1921 - 2018

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0357 SCULPTOR

François Cacheux

1923 - 2011

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0361 POET

Paul Braffort

1923 - 2018

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0363 ACTOR

Lisa Jouvet

1924 - 2004

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0386 HISTORIAN

Roger Caratini

1924 - 2009

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0391 HISTORIAN

Pierre Ayçoberry

1925 - 2012

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0392 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Francis Mazière

1924 - 1994

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0396 PHYSICIAN

Jacques Courtin

1921 - 2007

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0402 PAINTER

Claude Bellegarde

1927 - 2019

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0410 ACTOR

Jean Pignol

1924 - 1990

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0411 WRITER

Claude Néron

1926 - 1991

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0412 ACTOR

Edmond Tamiz

Born 1923

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0417 ECONOMIST

Joseph Klatzmann

1921 - 2008

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0418 PRESENTER

Françoise Bernard

Born 1921

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0425 OPERA

Gustave Botiaux

Born 1926

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0426 ACTOR

France Asselin

1923 - 1960

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0427 SINGER

Stéphane Golmann

1921 - 1987

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0430 ACTOR

Michel Gudin

1920 - 1996

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0432 SWIMMER

Colette Thomas

1929 - 2001

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0433 CANOE

Maurice Graffen

1924 - 2016

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0441 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Philippe Laburthe-Tolra

1929 - 2016

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0444 ACTOR

Jean Juillard

1925 - 1998

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0472 ACTOR

Madeleine Rousset

Born 1922

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0474 ARCHITECT

Jean Perrottet

Born 1925

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0476 CHOREOGRAPHER

D'Déé

Born 1929

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0478 CONDUCTOR

Florian Hollard

Born 1926

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0480 JOURNALIST

Gilbert Larriaga

1926 - 2019

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0486 LIBRARIAN

François Chapon

Born 1929

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0493 PAINTER

Ginette Cals

1921 - 2019

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0504 PAINTER

Daniel Sénélar

1925 - 2001

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0505 ROWER

Jean-Pierre Souche

1927 - 2020

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0513 BUSINESS

Jean Carteron

1926 - 2011

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0515 ACTOR

Edith Perret

1929 - 2019

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0519 FOOTBALL

Max Urbini

1924 - 2004

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0521 ACTOR

Joëlle Robin

Born 1923

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0522 OPERA

Léna Pastor

1925 - 1998

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0523 WRITER

Geneviève Latour

1923 - 2019

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0524 SOCIOLOGIST

Jacques Maître

1925 - 2013

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0527 SWORDSMAN

Robert Heddle-Roboth

1925 - 2013

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0530 CHEMIST

Georges Figon

1926 - 1966

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0531 SCIENTIST

Claude Fréjacques

1924 - 1994

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0532 ILLUSTRATOR

Éliane Bonabel

1920 - 2000

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0536 SOCIOLOGIST

Viviane Isambert-Jamati

1924 - 2019

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0540 NOVELIST

Robert Vaudois

1921 - 2017

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0543 ACTOR

Paulette Andrieux

Born 1925

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0544 AUTHOR

André Francis

1925 - 2019

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0548 POLITICIAN

Manuel Bridier

1925 - 2003

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0553 EGYPTOLOGIST

Paule Posener-Kriéger

1925 - 1996

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0560 POLITICIAN

Jacques Huyghues des Étages

1923 - 2007

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0562 FILM

Jean Fontaine (animateur)

1920 - 2001

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0563 EDITOR

Michel Minard

1928 - 2013

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0564 POET

Michel Zimbacca

Born 1924

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0568 FILM

Marcel Gibaud

1921 - 1970

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0569 POET

Henry Galy-Carles

1922 - 2017

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0573 WRITER

Henri Heinemann

Born 1927

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0590 POLITICIAN

Pierre Mahias

1921 - 2013

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0593 PHOTOGRAPHER

Jacques Vauclair (photographe)

1926 - 1999

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0599 BUSINESS

Paul Reverdy

1924 - 2006

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0604 PAINTER

Jean Cuillerat

1927 - 1998

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0605 TEST PILOT

Jean-Marie Saget

1929 - 2020

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0607 POÈTE

Joël Picton

1926 - 1993

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0611 ENGINEER

André Masson (ingénieur)

1921 - 2011

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0615 POLITICIAN

Serge Magnien

1929 - 2012

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0616 ACTOR

Jean Vilmont

Born 1924

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0617 ACTOR

Michel Dancourt

1928 - 2008

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0622 GEOLOGIST

René Dars

Born 1921

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0623 FOOTBALL

Jacques Cousin

1921 - 1984

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0625 ENGINEER

Paul Josse

1924 - 2018

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0627 JOURNALIST

Daniel Garric

1929 - 1997

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0633 PLAYER

André Frémaux

Born 1928

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0635 LIBÉRATION

Jean-Gérard Verdier

1924 - 2013

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0636 CYCLING

Guy Solente

Born 1921

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0643 JOCKEY

Roger Poincelet

1921 - 1977

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0644 ACTOR

Roger Dalphin

Born 1929

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0646 ACTOR

Claire Muriel

1924 - 1985

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0652 POLITICIAN

Gérard Spitzer

1927 - 1996

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0654 HUMOURIST

1924 - 1995

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0665 POLITICIAN

Pierre Naudet

1922 - 1997

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0673 FOOTBALL

Pierre Bican

1921 - 2013

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0686 PRIEST

André Boissonnet

1920 - 2007

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