List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Jean Desailly
Jean Desailly was a French actor. He was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1942 to 1946, and later participated in about 90 movies.
Annick Dumont
Annick Dumont is a French figure skating coach. She coaches in Champigny, alongside Pierre Trente. Among her current and former students are two time European Figure Skating Championships bronze medalist Stanick Jeannette, Gabriel Monnier, Jérémy Prévoteaux, Vincent Restencourt, two time French champion Laëtitia Hubert, four time French silver medalist Frédéric Dambier, Alban Préaubert and Florent Amodio.
Diego Buñuel
Diego Buñuel is a Franco-American film-maker born 21 july 1975 in Paris and the host and director of the National Geographic Channel series Don't Tell My Mother. He is also the host of a television news show in France called Les Nouveaux Explorateurs, broadcast on Canal Plus. In 2014, he was appointed Director of Documentaries and Factual Entertainment at Canal Plus. In 2018, he joined Netflix as Director of Original Documentaries in Europe.
Philip II of France
Philip II, byname Philip Augustus, was King of France from 1180 to 1223. His predecessors had been known as kings of the Franks, but from 1190 onward, Philip became the first French monarch to style himself "King of France". The son of King Louis VII and his third wife, Adela of Champagne, he was originally nicknamed Dieudonné (God-given) because he was a first son and born late in his father's life. Philip was given the epithet "Augustus" by the chronicler Rigord for having extended the crown lands of France so remarkably.
Alice Diop
Alice Diop, born in 1979, is a documentary filmmaker, who makes films about contemporary French society.
Jacqueline Joubert
Jacqueline Joubert, born Jacqueline Annette Édith Pierre, was a French television continuity announcer, producer and director. Alongside Arlette Accart, Joubert was one of the first two in-vision continuity announcers when television commenced in France after the Second World War.
Marion Vernoux
Marion Vernoux is a French director and screenwriter.
Óliver Laxe
Óliver Laxe Coro is a French-born Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor of Galician ethnicity. His debut feature film You All Are Captains premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. His third film Fire Will Come was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize.
Patrick Kron
Patrick Kron was the chairman and chief executive of the French engineering conglomerate Alstom. Alstom is most well known for its Eurostar and TGV trains, and is headquartered at Levallois-Perret.
Julien Rassam
Julien Rassam was a French actor.