List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Pape Badiane
Pape Badiane was a French professional basketball player who played 23 times for the men's French national basketball team between 2007 and 2008. He died on 23 December 2016 in a traffic accident.
Léon Foucault
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was a French physicist best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation. He also made an early measurement of the speed of light, discovered eddy currents, and is credited with naming the gyroscope.
Brice Lalonde
Brice Lalonde is a former green party leader in France, who ran for President of France in the Presidential elections, 1981. In 1988 he was named Minister of the Environment, and in 1990 founded the green Ecology Generation party.
Daniel Filipacchi
Daniel Filipacchi is the Chairman Emeritus of Hachette Filipacchi Médias and a French collector of surrealist art.
Minou Drouet
Marie-Noëlle Drouet, known as Minou Drouet, of La Guerche-de-Bretagne, France, is a former poet, musician, and actor.
Tabatha Cash
Tabatha Cash is a French former pornographic actress and currently the editor in chief of France's Hot Video magazine as well as the head of the Hot Video group.
Wadeck Stanczak
Wadek Jean André Stanczak is a French actor. He appeared in more than thirty films since 1984. His parents were immigrants from Poland.
Emma Becker
Emma Becker is a French writer living in Berlin. Her pen name Becker is derived from Pannebecker, the family name of her German grandmother.
Tristan Nitot
Tristan Nitot is the founder and former president of Mozilla Europe.
Jeanne Blum
Jeanne Adèle “Janot” Blum was the third wife of Léon Blum, the French socialist politician and three times Prime Minister of France.