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
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Jean-Dominique Bauby
1952 - 1997
Georges Altman
1901 - 1960
Pierre Descargues
1925 - 2012
Pierre Sipriot
1921 - 1998
Laurent de Boissieu
Born 1973
Bernard Thomas
1936 - 2012
Yann Moncomble
1953 - 1990
Françoise Gaujour
1950 - 2019
Gilbert Denoyan
1939 - 2000
Michel Legris
1931 - 2008
Philippe Aubert (journaliste)
1950 - 1998
Michel Rouzé
1910 - 2003
René Puissesseau
1919 - 1970
Lucien Barnier
1918 - 1979
Clara Candiani
1902 - 1996
Gilbert Larriaga
1926 - 2019
Gilbert Pradet
1915 - 1980
Fabien Namias
Born 1972
Alain Laville
1950 - 2003
Jean-Baptiste Morain
Born 1965
Patrick Lecocq
Born 1943
Daniel Garric
1929 - 1997
Irène Allier
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Jacques Leblanc (journaliste)
Born 1950
Émile-Joseph Duval
1864 - 1918
Dominique Champot
1952 - 2007