List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Robert Goldman
Robert Goldman is a French songwriter. He was born in Paris, France, the son of Alter Mojze Goldman and Ruth Ambrunn who were Jewish French resistance fighters during the Second World War. He is the younger brother of Jean-Jacques Goldman and half-brother of Pierre Goldman.
Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orléans, commonly known as Philippe, was a major French noble who supported the French Revolution.
Virginie Guilhaume
Virginie Guilhaume is a French television presenter.
Daniel Cauchy
Daniel Cauchy was a French film actor and producer. He was known for his role in Jean-Pierre Melville's 1956 crime film Bob le flambeur.
François Villon
François Villon is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these experiences in his poems.
Alfred de Musset
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing the autobiographical novel La Confession d'un enfant du siècle.
Laurent Joffrin
Laurent Joffrin is a French journalist and the editor of the newspaper Libération.
Jonathan Biabiany
Jonathan Ludovic Biabiany is a French professional footballer who plays as a winger for Spanish club San Fernando. One of the fastest footballers in the world, he is known for his great acceleration and pace both with and without the ball, as well as his stamina and athleticism.
Nils Tavernier
Nils Tavernier is a French actor and director. He is best known for his film appearances in Beatrice (1987), Valmont (1988), and Revenge of the Musketeers (1993), and for his directorial efforts The Other Side of the Tracks (1997), Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet (2001), and Les enfants de Thiès (2001). He is the son of film director Bertrand Tavernier.
Nicolas Berggruen
Nicolas Berggruen is a billionaire investor and philanthropist. Born in Paris, France, he is a dual American and German citizen. He is the founder and president of Berggruen Holdings, a private investment company and the co-founder and chairman of the Berggruen Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan think tank that works to address global governance issues. In 2014, through the Institute, Berggruen launched Noema Magazine, formerly the WorldPost, a digital and print publication dedicated to exploring global issues.