List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Bahia Bakari
Bahia Bakari is a French woman who was the sole survivor of Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310, which crashed into the Indian Ocean near the north coast of Grande Comore, Comoros on 30 June 2009, killing the 152 other people on board. Bakari, who could barely swim and had no life vest, clung to a piece of aircraft wreckage, floating in heavy seas for over nine hours, much of it in pitch darkness, before being rescued. Her mother, who had been traveling with her from Paris, France, for a summer vacation in Comoros, died in the crash.
Sophie Guillemin
Sophie Guillemin is a French actress. She has appeared in such films as L'Ennui, Harry, He's Here to Help, Un chat un chat, and A la folie, pas du tout.
Stanislas Merhar
Stanislas Merhar is a French actor.
Gérard Jouannest
Gérard Jouannest was a French pianist and composer.
Philippe Delerm
Philippe Delerm is a French writer whose collection of essays La Première gorgée de bière et autres plaisirs minuscules sold more than one million copies in France.
Virginie Lemoine
Virginie Lemoine is a French actress and comedian. By her marriage with actor Alexandre Bonstein, she also has Swiss nationality.
Jérôme Chartier
Jérôme Chartier was a member of the National Assembly of France from 2002 to 2017. He represented the Val-d'Oise department, and was a member of The Republicans.
Georges Poujouly
Georges Poujouly was a French actor who gained international acclaim as a child for his performance in the award-winning film Forbidden Games. In the 1950s, he appeared in a number of other high-profile films, notably Les Diaboliques, And God Created Woman and Ascenseur pour l'échafaud. His later career was spent mainly in television, where he specialised in voiceover work.
Aurora Lacasa
Aurora Lacasa is a popular singer of Aragonese (Spanish) provenance who has made most of her professional career in the German Democratic Republic and, since 1989, in Germany.
David Diop
David Diop is a French novelist and academic, who specializes in 18th-century French and Francophone African literature. He received the 2021 International Booker Prize for his novel At Night All Blood Is Black as the first French author. The novel was also shortlisted for ten French awards and won them in other countries.