List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Francis Bouygues
Francis Bouygues was a French businessman and film producer. He founded the industrial company Bouygues in 1952 and ran it until 1989, when his son Martin Bouygues succeeded him.
Grâce Zaadi
Grâce Zaadi Deuna is a French handball player for Rostov-Don and the French national team.
Jérôme Monod
Jérôme Monod was a French business executive and political advisor. He was the chairman of Lyonnaise des eaux, later known as Suez-Lyonnaise, from 1980 to 2000. He was an advisor to President Jacques Chirac. He was a co-founder of the Rally for the Republic and the Union for a Popular Movement, two center-right political parties in France.
F'Murr
Richard Peyzaret, better known by his pen name F'Murrr or F'Murr, was a French cartoonist and comic book writer. He was most famous for the long-running series Le Génie des alpages.
Pierre Omidyar
Pierre Morad Omidyar is a French-American billionaire entrepreneur, software engineer and philanthropist. He is the founder of eBay where he served as chairman from 1998 to 2015. He became a billionaire at the age of 31 with eBay's 1998 initial public offering (IPO). Omidyar and his wife Pamela are philanthropists who founded Omidyar Network in 2004 in order to expand their efforts beyond non-profits to include for-profits and public policy.
Renée Faure
Renée Faure was a French stage and film actress.
Jean Rostand
Jean Edmond Cyrus Rostand was a French biologist and philosopher.
Jean-Luc Vasseur
Jean-Luc Vasseur is a French football manager, currently in charge of the women's team of Lyon.
Laure de La Raudière
Laure de La Raudière is a French politician of Agir who has been serving chair of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications, Postal and Print Media Distribution (ARCEP) since 2021. From 2007 until 2021, she was a member of the National Assembly of France, representing the Eure-et-Loir department.
Jean-Pierre Bernard
Jean-Pierre Bernard was a French film, television and stage actor. He appeared in many French films over a 50-year period and became known internationally for his portrayal of a French climber named Jean-Paul Montaigne in the 1975 film The Eiger Sanction that was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood.