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

Émilie Le Pennec

First Name Émilie
Born on December 31, 1987 (age 38)

Émilie Le Pennec is a retired French artistic gymnast. Le Pennec was the 2004 Olympic Champion on the uneven bars and was the first female French gymnast to win an Olympic medal in women's artistic gymnastics.

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Éric Névé

Éric Jean Louis Névé
First Name Éric
Last Name Névé
Born on July 23, 1961
Died on July 21, 2019 (aged 57)

Éric Névé, was a French film producer who produced from the early nineteen nineties until his death. In 1993, he founded his own production company, La Chauve Souris. Éric is best known for Jan Kounen’s Dobermann, starring Vicent Cassel and Monica Bellucci, Jean-Paul Salomé’s Female Agents starring Sophie Marceau, and Frédéric Schoendoerffer's Crime Insiders. In 2011, he founded Astou Films, a production company based in Senegal, with whom he produced the French-Senegalese film The Pirogue directed by Senegalese director Moussa Touré, screened in the section Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival 2012 and in over 80 film festivals across the globe. In 2013 he created, with Nicholas Eschbach an international feature film sales and co-production company, Indie Sales, which focuses on diverse international independent films with a strong commercial potential.

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Sefyu

Youssef Soukouna
Born on April 20, 1981 (age 45)

Youssef Soukouna, better known by his stage name Sefyu, is a French rapper of Senegalese descent. He comes from Aulnay-sous-Bois, a city in the French department of Seine-Saint-Denis of which is located within the northern suburbs of Paris. Sefyu originally aspired to become a professional soccer player, but his dream was derailed after he sustained an injury whilst playing for English club Arsenal. He emerged upon the hip-hop scene in the early 2000s to commercial and critical acclaim.

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Jacques Dumesnil

Marie Émile Eugène André Joly
First Name Jacques
Last Name Dumesnil
Died on May 8, 1998 (aged 28)

Jacques Dumesnil was a French film and television actor.

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Jean-Edern Hallier

Jean-Edern Henri Auguste Hallier
First Name Jean-Edern
Born on March 1, 1936
Died on January 12, 1997 (aged 60)

Jean-Edern Hallier was a French writer, critic and editor.

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Claude Renoir

Claude André Henri Renoir
First Name Claude
Last Name Renoir
Born on December 4, 1913
Died on September 5, 1993 (aged 79)

Claude Renoir was a French cinematographer. He was the son of actor Pierre Renoir, the nephew of director Jean Renoir, and the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

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Henri Cogan

First Name Henri
Last Name Cogan
Born on September 13, 1914
Died on September 23, 2003 (aged 89)

Henri Cogan was a French actor and stuntman.

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Marie Boivin

First Name Marie
Last Name Boivin
Born on April 9, 1773
Died on May 16, 1841 (aged 68)

Marie-Anne Victoire Gillain Boivin was a French midwife, inventor, and obstetrics writer. Mme Boivin has been called one of the most important women in medicine in the 19th century. Boivin invented a new pelvimeter and a vaginal speculum, and the medical textbooks that she wrote were translated to different languages and used for 150 years.

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Charles Enderlin

First Name Charles
Last Name Enderlin
Born on September 30, 1945 (age 80)

Charles Enderlin is a Franco-Israeli journalist, specialising in the Middle East and Israel. He is the author of a number of books on the subject, including Shamir, une biographie (1991), Shattered Dreams: The Failure of the Peace Process in the Middle East, 1995–2002 (2002), and The Lost Years: Radical Islam, Intifada and Wars in the Middle East 2001–2006 (2007). He was awarded France's highest decoration, the Légion d'honneur, in August 2009.

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Kévin Le Cunff

First Name Kévin
Last Name Cunff
Born on March 16, 1988 (age 38)

Kévin Le Cunff is a French cyclist, who currently rides for French amateur team Dunkerque Grande Littoral–Cofidis.

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