List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Dominique Wilkins
Jacques Dominique Wilkins is an American former professional basketball player. Wilkins was a nine-time NBA All-Star and is widely viewed as one of the best dunkers in NBA history, earning the nickname "the Human Highlight Reel". In 2006, Wilkins was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Francis Carmont
Francis Carmont is a French professional mixed martial artist who last competed in the Light Heavyweight division. A professional competitor since 2004, Carmont has competed for Bellator MMA, the UFC, and KSW.
David Kessler
David Kessler was a French senior official. He served as Culture and Communication Adviser to the President of France from 2012 to 2014, and also served on numerous boards of directors.
Alexandre Letellier
Alexandre Letellier is a French professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain.
Alexandre de Juniac
Alexandre de Juniac is a French businessman.
Hector Crémieux
Hector-Jonathan Crémieux was a French librettist and playwright. His best-known work is his collaboration with Ludovic Halévy for Jacques Offenbach's Orphée aux Enfers, known in English as Orpheus in the Underworld.
Didier Daeninckx
Didier Daeninckx is a French author and left-wing politician of Belgian descent, best known for his romans noirs. He frequently uses fictional settings to transport social critique; his writings are characterized by a sobering social realism. An anti-fascist, he has also written on the Alsace Soviet Republic, on eugenicist Alexis Carrel, on Holocaust denial, etc.
Margyl
Jeanne Clémence Floriet called Jane Margyl was a French mezzo-soprano. She began her career as a mime artist at the Folies Bergère starring in several productions. After voice studies, she appeared in operas from 1902 onwards. She first appeared at the Paris Opera in 1905 as Dalila in Samson et Dalila by Saint-Saëns, and took other leading roles there.
Ultan Dillane
Ultan Dillane is an Irish rugby union player. He plays for the Irish province of Connacht in the Pro14. Dillane primarily plays as a lock.
Alexandre de Lesseps
Count Alexandre de Lesseps is a French entrepreneur and pioneer of micro financing in developing countries. He serves as President of Pandaw Investment Holdings of Hong Kong, which invests in Myanmar. Until 2013, he was Chairman of Coral Capital Group and was one of the founder investors in the rebuilt Saratoga Hotel in Havana, Cuba. In 2012, he became a director at Leopard Capital, a private equity firm investing in Cambodia, Haiti, and various other frontier markets. He was a co-founder and Director of Blue Orchard Finance S.A. of Geneva, a leading microfinance management company.