List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Charles-Henri Sanson
Charles-Henri Sanson, full title Chevalier Charles-Henri Sanson de Longval, was the royal executioner of France during the reign of King Louis XVI, and High Executioner of the First French Republic. He administered capital punishment in the city of Paris for over forty years, and by his own hand executed nearly 3,000 people, including the King himself.
Sylvie Brunet
Sylvie Brunet is a French politician of the Democratic Movement (MoDem) who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019. She has since been serving on the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.
Henriette Caillaux
Henriette Caillaux was a Parisian socialite and second wife of the former Prime Minister of France, Joseph Caillaux. On March 16, 1914, she shot and killed Gaston Calmette, editor of the newspaper Le Figaro.
Yann Trégouët
Yann Trégouët is a French actor. He appeared in more than thirty films since 1993.
Prince Jean d'Orléans
Jean, Count of Paris is the current head of the House of Orléans. The senior male descendant by primogeniture in the male-line of Louis-Philippe I, King of the French, he is, according to the Orléanists, the legitimate claimant to the throne of France as Jean IV. Of France's three monarchist movements, Orléanism, Legitimism and Bonapartism, most royalists are Orléanists. Prince Jean is the second son of Prince Henri, Count of Paris (1933–2019), the late head of the House of Orléans and his former wife Duchess Marie-Thérèse of Württemberg.
Jacques Boudet
Jacques Boudet is a French stage and screen actor. He had great success in the 1980s with his appearance in Exercises in Style, and is featured in the film The Names of Love (2010).
Julie Jézéquel
Julie Jézéquel is a French actress and writer.
Jean-Paul Goude
Jean-Paul Goude is a French graphic designer, illustrator, photographer, advertising film director and event designer. He worked as art director at Esquire magazine in New York City during the 1970s, and famously choreographed the 1989 Bicentennial Parade in Paris to mark the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution. In addition, over the last three decades, he has created well-known campaigns and illustrations for brands including Perrier, Citroën, Kodak, Chanel, Kenzo, Shiseido, Cacharel, H&M, Galeries Lafayette.
Jean-Claude Dassier
Jean-Claude Dassier is the president of Olympique de Marseille between June 2009 and June 2011. Before, he was a journalist and the news director of TF1.
Pierre Joxe
Pierre Joxe is a former French Socialist politician and has been a member of the Constitutional Council of France between 2001 and 2010.