List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Patrick Hernandez
Patrick Pierre Hernandez is a French singer who had a worldwide hit with "Born to Be Alive" in 1979.
Alain-Philippe Malagnac
Alain-Philippe Malagnac (1949–2000) was the adopted son of French writer Roger Peyrefitte, their relationship being a subject of several of the latter's works. Malagnac was also an art collector and the husband of singer Amanda Lear.
Annette Chalut
Annette Brigitte Chalut was a French physician who was a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War.
Dominique Crenn
Dominique Crenn is a French chef. She is currently the only female chef in America to attain three Michelin stars, for her restaurant Atelier Crenn, in San Francisco, California.
Guy Hamilton
Mervyn Ian Guy Hamilton, DSC was an English film director. He directed 22 films from the 1950s to the 1980s, including four James Bond films.
Elena Poniatowska
Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska, known professionally as Elena Poniatowska is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on those considered to be disenfranchised especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents, including her mother whose family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left France for Mexico when she was ten to escape the Second World War. When she was eighteen and without a university education, she began writing for the newspaper Excélsior, doing interviews and society columns. Despite the lack of opportunity for women from the 1950s to the 1970s, she wrote about social and political issues in newspapers, books in both fiction and nonfiction form. Her best known work is La noche de Tlatelolco about the repression of the 1968 student protests in Mexico City. Due to her leftwing views, she has been nicknamed "the Red Princess". She is considered to be "Mexico's grande dame of letters" and is still an active writer.
Eugène Christophe
Eugène Christophe was a French road bicycle racer and pioneer of cyclo-cross. He was a professional from 1904 until 1926. In 1919 he became the first rider to wear the yellow jersey of the Tour de France.
Martine Sarcey
Martine Sarcey (1928–2010) was a French stage, film and television actress.
Fiona Gélin
Fiona Gélin is a French actress.
Gilles Le Gendre
Gilles Le Gendre is a French politician who presided over the La République En Marche group in the National Assembly from 2018 to 2020. He was elected to the National Assembly in the 2017 legislative election in the 2nd constituency of Paris, which encompasses the 5th, as well as parts of the 6th and 7th arrondissements.