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: Singer Clear ×
Alain Bashung
1947 - 2009
Didier Barbelivien
Born 1954
Lucienne Delyle
1913 - 1962
François Corbier
1944 - 2018
Tonton David
Born 1967
Teki Latex
Born 1978
Gogol Premier
Born 1957
Hélène Bouvier
1905 - 1978
Emmanuelle Mottaz
Born 1963
Medhy Custos
Born 1973
Sly Johnson
Born 1974
Ben Ricour
Born 1975
Sorel (chanteur)
Born 1977
Lionel Leroy
Born 1956
Stéphane Golmann
1921 - 1987
Claude Besson (chanteur)
1948 - 2019
Claire Leclerc
1915 - 2009
Esther Chevalier
Born 1853