List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Nicolas Bouzou
Nicolas Bouzou is a French liberal economist and essayist. A frequent participant in the media, he is also an entrepreneur.
Robert Paturel
Robert Paturel is a French boxer, born in 1952 in Rueil-Malmaison. He won the French Boxing championship six times in France, and became a European champion in 1984.
Alain Altinoglu
Alain Altinoglu is a French conductor of Armenian descent.
Dominique Zardi
Dominique Zardi was a French actor. He acted in more than 200 feature films, including Fantômas with Louis De Funès and Jean Marais. He died of cancer at the age of 79. He was the uncle of the actress and film director Agnès Jaoui.
Manuel Blanc
Manuel Blanc is a French television and film actor.
Younousse Sankharé
Younousse Sankharé is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Greek club Panathinaikos.
Hélène Lipietz
Hélène Lipietz is a French politician. She serves as a Senator for Seine-et-Marne.
Catherine Cusset
Catherine Cusset is a best-selling French novelist and the author of Life of David Hockney: A Novel, The Story of Jane, and 12 other novels published by Éditions Gallimard between 1990 and 2018. Some of her novels are described as autofiction, a French literary movement that is a hybrid of fiction and autobiography. Others are more romantic, but all share some recurring themes: the family, desire, and cultural conflicts between France and America. She stands out from her contemporaries with a direct, incisive, visual form of writing, marked by the influence of Anglo-Saxon novelists.
Charles III of Navarre
Charles III, called the Noble, was King of Navarre from 1387 to his death and Count of Évreux from 1387 to 1404, when he exchanged it for the title Duke of Nemours. He spent his reign improving the infrastructure of his kingdom, restoring Navarre's pride after the dismal reign of his father, Charles the Bad, and mending strained relations with France.
Nicolas Maurice-Belay
Nicolas Maurice-Belay is French former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent most of his career with FC Sochaux-Montbéliard and FC Girondins de Bordeaux.