List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Antoine Conte
Antoine Conte is a French professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Israeli club Beitar Jerusalem.
Keny Arkana
Keny Arkana is an Argentine-French rapper who is active in the alter-globalization and civil disobedience movements. In 2004 she founded a music collective called La Rage du peuple, in the neighborhood of Noailles in Marseille.
Bernard Lavalette
Bernard Lavalette was a French film and television actor.
Sebastian
Sébastien Akchoté-Bozović, known mononymously as Sebastian, is a French musician, composer, producer, mixer, engineer, vocalist and DJ affiliated with Ed Banger Records. He has worked as a solo electronic musician and as a remixer for bands and singers such as Charlotte Gainsbourg, Daft Punk, Beastie Boys, Bloc Party, and Nero. He has also composed and produced songs for Charlotte Gainsbourg, Katerine, Kavinsky, Frank Ocean, Uffie and Woodkid, and he has composed soundtracks for the films Our Day Will Come, The World Is Yours and Steak. Many of his tracks have been used on television and in video games.
Delphine Gény-Stephann
Delphine Gény-Stephann, is a French politician, senior civil servant and business executive. She served as Secretary of State to the Minister of the Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, from 24 November 2017 to 16 October 2018.
Emre Akbaba
Emre Akbaba is a Turkish footballer who plays as a midfielder for Süper Lig side Galatasaray.
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is a French virologist and Director of the Regulation of Retroviral Infections Division and Professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France. Born in Paris, France, Barré-Sinoussi performed some of the fundamental work in the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the cause of AIDS. In 2008, Barré-Sinoussi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with her former mentor, Luc Montagnier, for their discovery of HIV. She mandatorily retired from active research on August 31, 2015 and fully retired by some time in 2017.
Christophe de Ponfilly
Christophe de Ponfilly (1951–2006) was a French journalist, film director, cinematographer, and screenwriter. He was married to Florence Dauchez.
Nicolas Le Goff
Nicolas Le Goff is a French volleyball player, member of the France men's national volleyball team and French club Montpellier UC, 2015 European Champion, gold medallist of the World League, two–time German Champion.
Paul Personne
Paul Personne is a French blues singer and guitarist.