List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Georges Mandel
Georges Mandel was a French journalist, politician, and French Resistance leader.
Maïwenn
Maïwenn Le Besco, known mononymously as Maïwenn, is a French actress and filmmaker.
Catherine Allégret
Catherine Allégret is a French actress. She is the daughter of Simone Signoret and Yves Allégret.
Hippolyte Girardot
Hippolyte Girardot is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. He is the father of actress Ana Girardot.
Jalil Lespert
Jalil Lespert is a French actor, screenwriter and director.
Claude Brasseur
Claude Brasseur was a French actor.
Renaud
Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan, known as Renaud, is a popular French singer, songwriter and actor. His characteristically 'broken' voice makes for a very distinctive vocal style. Several of his songs are popular classics in France, including the sea tale "Dès que le vent soufflera", the irreverent "Laisse béton", the ballad "Morgane de toi" and the nostalgic "Mistral gagnant". However, with the exception of a recording of "Miss Maggie" in English and a franglais recording of "It is not because you are", his work is almost unknown outside the French-speaking world.
Jean-Paul Gaultier
Jean Paul Gaultier is a French haute couture and prêt-à-porter fashion designer. He is described as an "enfant terrible" of the fashion industry and is known for his unconventional designs with motifs including corsets, marinières, and tin cans. Gaultier founded his self-titled fashion label in 1982, and expanded with a line of fragrances in 1993. He was the creative director for French luxury house Hermès from 2003 to 2010, and retired following his 50th-anniversary haute couture show during Paris Fashion Week in January 2020.
Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu, published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.
Jacques Audiard
Jacques Audiard is a French film director and screenwriter. He is the son of Michel Audiard, also a film director and screenwriter.