List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Paul Frankeur
Paul Frankeur was a French actor who appeared in films by Jacques Tati and Luis Buñuel. He was sometimes credited as Paul Francoeur.
Solveig Dommartin
Solveig Dommartin was a French actress.
Fabien Onteniente
Fabien Onteniente is a French film director and screenwriter.
Yael Grobglas
Yael Grobglas is a French-born Israeli actress, best known for her roles as Petra Solano and her twin sister Anežka on The CW's television series Jane the Virgin.
Corentin Fila
Corentin Fila is a French actor.
Marie-Antoine Carême
Marie Antoine (Antonin) Carême was a French chef and an early practitioner and exponent of the elaborate style of cooking known as grande cuisine, the "high art" of French cooking: a grandiose style of cookery favored by both international royalty and by the nouveau riche of Paris. Carême is often considered one of the first internationally renowned celebrity chefs.
Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon
Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon was the daughter of Henri Jules de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, and Anne Henriette of Bavaria. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, she was a princesse du sang. Forced to marry the Duke of Maine, legitimised son of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, she revelled in politics and the arts, and held a popular salon at the Hôtel du Maine as well as at the Château de Sceaux.
Karine Tuil
Karine Tuil, is a French novelist who has written several award-winning novels in French and English. Her works have themes ranging from marriage and Jewish identity to detention centers and corporate politics.
Anaïs Nin
Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, known professionally as Anaïs Nin, was a French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist and writer of short stories and erotica. Born to Cuban parents in France, Nin was the daughter of composer Joaquín Nin and Rosa Culmell, a classically trained singer. Nin spent her early years in Spain and Cuba, about sixteen years in Paris (1924–1940), and the remaining half of her life in the United States, where she became an author.
Cléo
Chantal Rousselot (1946) stage name Cléo is a French yéyé singer popular 1966–1970. She recorded six singles, two of them with Richard Fontaine as the duo Cédric et Cléo, inspired by Sonny and Cher. She married Herbert Léonard whom she met in 1967.