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
- Field: Sculptor Clear ×
Emmanuel Frémiet
1824 - 1910
Karl-Jean Longuet
1904 - 1981
Charles Pillet
1869 - 1960
Jules Cayette
1882 - 1953
François Cacheux
1923 - 2011
Jeanne Itasse-Broquet
1865 - 1941
Charles Lemanceau
1905 - 1980
Olivier Pettit
1918 - 1979
Paul Simon (sculpteur)
1892 - 1979
Georges Contaux
1891 - 1984
Alexandre-Mathurin Pêche
1872 - 1957
Marcel Derny
1914 - 2003