List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for directing Quest for Fire (1981), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Bear (1988), The Lover (1992), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), Enemy at the Gates (2001), Black Gold (2011), and Wolf Totem (2015).
Étienne Klein
Étienne Klein is a French physicist and philosopher of science, born in 1958. A graduate of École Centrale Paris, he holds a DEA in theoretical physics, as well as a Ph.D. in philosophy of science and an accreditation to supervise research (HDR).
Alexandre Tharaud
Alexandre Tharaud is a French pianist. He is active on the concert stage and has released a large and diverse discography.
Corinne Lepage
Corinne Dominique Marguerite Lepage is a French politician. She served as French Minister of the Environment in the Alain Juppé cabinets 1 and II 1995–1997 and as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) 2009–2014 for the North-West constituency.
Simon de La Brosse
Simon de La Brosse was a French actor from Suresnes. He started his acting career in the role of Sylvain in Éric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach in 1983. He committed suicide in 1998, shortly after completing the TV film Louise et les Marchés.
Betty Catroux
Betty Catroux is a former Chanel model, and fashion icon. She has been cited as a muse by both Yves Saint Laurent and Tom Ford.
Jacques Laffite
Jacques-Henri Laffite is a French former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1974 to 1986. He achieved six Grand Prix wins, all while driving for the Ligier team. From 1997 to 2013, Laffite was a presenter for TF1.
Vincent Reynouard
Vincent Reynouard is a French historical revisionist, Holocaust denier, and proponent of neo-Nazism. He has been convicted and jailed in France under the Gayssot Act, which bars Holocaust denial.
Alexandre Debanne
Alexandre Debanne is a French television presenter.
Évariste Galois
Évariste Galois was a French mathematician and political activist. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections. He died at age 20 from wounds suffered in a duel.