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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Raymond Federman
1928 - 2009
Franck Venaille
1936 - 2018
Ludovic Janvier
1934 - 2016
Luc Estang
1911 - 1992
Paul Braffort
1923 - 2018
Jean Kahn-Dessertenne
1916 - 1970
André Laude
1936 - 1995
Pierre Lartigue (écrivain)
1936 - 2008
Fernand Marc
1900 - 1979
René Ménard (poète)
1908 - 1980
Michel Zimbacca
Born 1924
Henry Galy-Carles
1922 - 2017