List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Abdallah Yaisien
Abdallah Yaisien is a French professional footballer who plays for Al Mokawloon in the Egyptian Premier League.
Francis Szpiner
Francis Szpiner is a French lawyer who currently serves as the mayor of the 16th arrondissement of Paris since 2020. During the Abdullah Öcalans appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), he was the lawyer representing the Turkish Government.
Abdoulay Diaby
Abdoulay Diaby is a professional footballer who plays mainly as a left winger for Belgian club RSC Anderlecht, on loan from Portuguese club Sporting CP. Born in France, he represents Mali at international level.
Ray Ventura
Raymond Ventura was a French jazz pianist and bandleader. He helped popularize jazz in France in the 1930s. His nephew was singer Sacha Distel.
Babik Reinhardt
Jean-Jacques "Babik" Reinhardt was a guitarist and the younger son of gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt by Django's second wife, Naguine. His elder half brother Lousson, who was Django's son by his first wife, Bella, was also a guitarist, but the two grew up in different families and rarely met. He was christened Jean-Jacques but generally known by his family nickname, Babik.
Claire-Marie Le Guay
Claire-Marie Le Guay is a French classical pianist.
Catherine Share
Catherine Louise "Gypsy" Share is known as a former member of the Manson Family; she was convicted of witness intimidation in relation to the 1970 trial of the Tate-LaBianca murders. In 1971 she was convicted of armed robbery and served five years. Share was not directly involved in the Tate-LaBianca murders, for which Charles Manson and some of his followers were convicted and originally sentenced to death. She served 90 days for witness intimidation.
Robert Doisneau
Robert Doisneau was a French photographer. In the 1930s, he made photographs on the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and with Henri Cartier-Bresson a pioneer of photojournalism.
Étienne-Louis Boullée
Étienne-Louis Boullée was a visionary French neoclassical architect whose work greatly influenced contemporary architects.
Charles Garnier
Jean-Louis Charles Garnier was a French architect, perhaps best known as the architect of the Palais Garnier and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.