Malakoff

History

Transport

Education

• Eight public preschools : Georges-Cogniot, Fernand-Léger, Jean-Jaurès, Guy-Môquet, Paul-Bert, Paul-Vaillant-Couturier, Paul-Langevin, Henri-Barbusse
• Seven public elementary schools: Georges-Cogniot, Fernand-Léger, Jean-Jaurès, Guy-Môquet, Paul-Bert, Paul-Langevin, Henri-Barbusse

• Junior high schools: Collège Paul-Bert and Collège Henri-Wallon
• Senior high school: Lycée professionnel Louis-Girard

• ENSAE ParisTech

  Notable residents

• Christian Boltanski, sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker, lives and works in Malakoff
• Charles Bourseul, scientist, a pioneer in development of the telephone, lived at 62 Rue d'Arcueil.
• Sophie Calle, artist, lives and works in Malakoff.
• Eugène Christophe, cyclist, winner of the Milan-San Remo race and first wearer of the yellow jersey in the Tour de France.
• Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault, was a psychiatrist, an ethnologist, and a photographer. Lived in a fine villa on Rue Vincent Moris.
• Pierre Curie and Marie Curie rented a house on Rue du Marché . They used a shed on the property for their radium experiments.
• Serge Danot, director and animator, creator of Le Manège enchanté
• Louis de Grandmaison, painter, lived in Malakoff.
• Edmond Lachenal,, potter who opened his first pottery works in the city.
• Henri Désiré Landru, notorious serial killer, ran a car repair shop on Avenue de Châtillon in the 1910s.
• Roger Legris, stage and film actor.
• Annette Messager, artist, lives and works in Malakoff.
• Louise Michel, militant anarchist, feminist, important figure in the Paris Commune
• Pablo Reinoso, artist and designer, lives in Malakoff.
• Henri Rousseau, called "The Customs Agent",, painter, took his nickname from the fact that his full-time job was as a Paris customs agent at the Porte de Vanves in Malakoff.
• Sanyu, painter, lived from 1928 to 1931 in Malakoff on Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
• Francesca Solleville, singer, lives in Malakoff.
• Sam Szafran, artist, lives and works in Malakoff