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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Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval
1808 - 1885
Jean-Pierre Pincemin
1944 - 2005
François Dufrene
1930 - 1982
Bernard Rancillac
Born 1931
Albert Rigolot
1862 - 1932
Michel Georges-Michel
1883 - 1985
Gérard Gasiorowski
1930 - 1986
Théodore Fraenkel
1896 - 1964
Pierre-Laurent Brenot
1913 - 1998
Jeanne Jacquemin
1863 - 1938
Fernand Dauchot
1898 - 1982
Jean Pons (1913-2005)
1913 - 2005
Philippe Lejeune (peintre)
1924 - 2014
René Cottet
1902 - 1992
Jacques Lagrange (peintre)
1917 - 1995
Claude Bellegarde
1927 - 2019
Jean-Marie Queneau
Born 1934
Ginette Cals
1921 - 2019
André Jordan
1908 - 1982
Daniel Sénélar
1925 - 2001
Léon Henri Ruffe
1864 - 1951
Georges Pavis
1886 - 1977
Pierre Daboval
1918 - 2015
Jean Labasque
1902 - 1983
Éric Dubuc
1961 - 1986
Roger Amand
1931 - 2005
Étienne Chevalier (peintre)
1910 - 1982
Jean Cuillerat
1927 - 1998
Bernard Kagane
1932 - 2008