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Montpellier ranks 261st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Birmingham, Alabama, Cape Town, and Cambridge. Memorable people born in Montpellier include Auguste Comte, Saint Roch, and James I of Aragon. Memorable people who died in Montpellier include François-Xavier Fabre, Bruno Martini, and Paul-Jacques Curie. Montpellier has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many biologists, and painters. Montpellier is located in France.

Montpellier is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the department of Hérault. At the 2020 census, 299,096 people lived in the city proper, while its metropolitan area had a population of 813,272. The inhabitants are called Montpelliérains. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1182 and 1998, Montpellier was the birth place of 49 globally memorable people, including Auguste Comte, Saint Roch, and James I of Aragon. Additionaly, 24 globally memorable people have passed away in Montpellier including François-Xavier Fabre, Bruno Martini, and Paul-Jacques Curie.

People Born in Montpellier

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Montpellier were soccer players (8), politicians (7), painters (5), biologists (4), and writers (3),  while most who died were biologists (4), painters (2), musicians (2), mathematicians (2), and politicians (2).

Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Montpellier, including Alexander Djiku, Téji Savanier, and Yunis Abdelhamid. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Montpellier, including Pierre Allemane, Louis Gabrillargues, and Alexander Djiku.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Montpellier since 1700.