List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France

Cerrone

Born on May 24, 1952 (age 74)

Marc Cerrone is a French disco drummer, composer, record producer and creator of concert shows. Cerrone is an influential producer of 1970s and 1980s disco songs. He has sold over 30 million albums worldwide, including over four million copies in France, and eight million copies of Supernature. The single "Love in C Minor" (1976) reached No. 3 and was in the charts for two months, selling three million copies. With "Supernature" (1977), Cerrone merged symphonic orchestration with synthesizers. At the 1978 Billboard Disco Forum, Cerrone received six awards including Disco Artist of the Year.

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Frédéric Péchenard

First Name Frédéric
Last Name Péchenard
Born on March 12, 1957 (age 69)

Frédéric Péchenard is a French police officer and high civil servant with the Ministry of the Interior. He has served as General Director of the French National Police from 11 June 2007 to May 2012.

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Alma Jodorowsky

First Name Alma
Last Name Jodorowsky
Born on September 26, 1991 (age 34)
Height 174 cm | 5'9

Alma Jodorowsky is a French actress, fashion model and singer.

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Sarah Cysique

Sarah-Léonie Cysique
First Name Sarah
Last Name Cysique
Born on July 6, 1998 (age 27)
Height 163 cm | 5'4

Sarah-Léonie Cysique is a French judoka from Guadeloupe. She won the silver medal in the women's 57 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She also won the gold medal in the mixed team event.

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Prosper Mérimée

First Name Prosper
Last Name Mérimée
Born on September 28, 1803
Died on September 23, 1870 (aged 66)

Prosper Mérimée was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, and one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, and an important figure in the history of architectural preservation. He is best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen. He learned Russian, a language for which he had great affection, and translated the work of several important Russian writers, including Pushkin and Gogol, into French. From 1830 until 1860 he was the inspector of French historical monuments, and was responsible for the protection of many historic sites, including the medieval citadel of Carcassonne and the restoration of the façade of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. Along with the writer George Sand, he discovered the series of tapestries called The Lady and the Unicorn, and arranged for their preservation. He was instrumental in the creation of Musée national du Moyen Âge in Paris, where the tapestries now are displayed. The official database of French monuments, the Base Mérimée, bears his name.

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Gwladys Épangue

First Name Gwladys
Born on August 15, 1983 (age 42)
Height 177 cm | 5'10

Gwladys Patience Épangue is a French taekwondo athlete. Representing France at the 2005 World Taekwondo Championships in Madrid, she won the silver medal in the welterweight division, losing to Hwang Kyung-Seon from South Korea in the final. At the 2007 World Taekwondo Championships in Beijing, she won a silver medal, losing to Hwang in the final again.

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Geneviève Page

Geneviève Anne Marguerite Bonjean
First Name Geneviève

Geneviève Page is a French actress with a film career spanning fifty years and also numerous English-speaking film productions. She is the daughter of French art collector Jacques Paul Bonjean (1899–1990).

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Ellen Andrée

Hélène Marie André
First Name Ellen
Last Name Andrée
Born on March 7, 1856
Died on December 9, 1933 (aged 77)

Ellen Andrée was a French model for Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir and other impressionists, in the 1870s.

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Michel Poniatowski

Michel Casimir Jean Pierre Guillaume Marie-André Poniatowski
First Name Michel
Last Name Poniatowski
Born on May 16, 1922
Died on January 15, 2002 (aged 79)

Michel Poniatowski was a French politician, member of the senior branch of Poland's princely Poniatowski family. He was a founder of the Independent Republicans and a part of the administration for President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Poniatowski served as Minister of Health from 1973 to 1974 and Minister of the Interior in the Giscard d'Estaing government from 1974 to 1977. He was a founder and honorary president of the Union for French Democracy.

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Nicolas Vaude

First Name Nicolas
Last Name Vaude
Born on July 24, 1962 (age 63)

Nicolas Vaude is a French actor.

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