List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Roxane Duran
Roxane Duran is a French-Austrian actress. She appeared in the Palme d'Or-winning 2009 film The White Ribbon. She also acted in the Le moine, a 2011 French-language film directed by Dominik Moll, an adaptation of Matthew Lewis's novel The Monk.
Michèle Moretti
Michèle Moretti is a French actress. She has appeared in more than one hundred films since 1961.
Christophe Tiozzo
Christophe Tiozzo is a French former professional boxer who held the Lineal and WBA super middleweight championship. In amateur boxing, Tiozzo won the bronze medal at light middleweight in the 1984 Summer Olympics. He is the brother of three-time world champion Fabrice Tiozzo.
Annette Wieviorka
Annette Wieviorka is a French historian. She is a specialist in the Holocaust and the history of the Jewish people in the 20th century since the 1992 publication of her thesis, Deportation and genocide between memory and forgetting, defended in 1991 at the Paris Nanterre University.
Christian Cambon
Christian Cambon is a French politician of the Republicans (LR) who has been serving as a member of the Senate since 2004, representing the Val-de-Marne department.
Philippe Decouflé
Philippe Decouflé is a French choreographer, dancer, mime artist, and theatre director. As a child he travelled extensively around Lebanon and Morocco before learning his skills as a teenager at the Annie Fratellini École du Cirque and the Marceau Mime School. While frequenting Parisienne nightclubs he discovered and was attracted to contemporary dance, and he eventually moved to the Centre National de la Danse Contemporaine in Angers to study under choreographer Alwin Nicolais. After briefly working as a solo dancer, he formed the Découflé Company of Arts in Bagnolet in 1983, moving it to a former electrical works in the Parisienne suburb of Saint-Denis in 1995.
Antoine Frérot
Antoine Frérot is a French businessman. Since 2009, he is the chief executive officer of Veolia Environment.
Thomas Hugues
Thomas Hugues is a French journalist, producer and television host.
Jean-Paul Cluzel
Jean-Paul Cluzel is a French government official and politician. Among other positions, he has served as inspector general of Finance, director of the Paris Opera, and CEO of Radio France Internationale and Radio France. He is currently the president of the entity in charge of the administration of the Grand Palais and the president of the "Réunion des musées nationaux", an entity which administers 34 national museums under the authority of the French Ministry of Culture. He is also openly gay, advocates for LGBT rights, and supports AIDS-related campaigns.
François Hadji-Lazaro
François Hadji-Lazaro is a French actor, musician and producer.