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

Françoise Cachin was a French art historian and curator. She was the founding director of the Musée d’Orsay and the author of numerous books on 19th-century French painting.

Gabriel Zucman is a French economist known for his research on tax havens and corporate tax havens from his 2015 book The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens. Zucman is also known for his work on the quantification of the financial scale of base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) tax avoidance techniques employed by multinationals in corporate tax havens, through which he identified Ireland as the world's largest corporate tax haven in 2018. Zucman showed that the leading corporate tax havens are all OECD–compliant, and that tax disputes between high–tax locations and havens are very rare. Zucman's papers are some of the most cited papers on research into tax havens. In 2018, Zucman was the recipient of the Prize for the Best Young Economist in France, awarded by the Cercle des économistes and Le Monde in recognition of his research on tax evasion and avoidance and their economic consequences. He is currently an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of California, Berkeley‘s Goldman School of Public Policy.

Mona Achache is a Moroccan-French film director and screenwriter.

Marcel Jany Émile Tisserand is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for Turkish club Fenerbahçe and the DR Congo national team.

Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs.

Ludovic Régis Arsène Blas is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Nantes in Ligue 1.

Martin Bouygues is the chairman and chief executive officer of the French company Bouygues ; founded by his father Francis Bouygues in 1952.

Christophe Riblon is a French former road and track racing cyclist who competed as a professional for the AG2R La Mondiale team for 13 seasons between 2005 and 2017. He also competed for France at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Areski Belkacem, also known simply as Areski, is a French singer, multi-instrumentalist, comedian and composer.

Christ-Emmanuel Faitout Maouassa is a French professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Belgian First Division A side Club Brugge.