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

Nicolas Pépé is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Arsenal and the Ivory Coast national team.

Jean-Michel Blanquer is a French jurist and government official serving as Minister of National Education since 17 May 2017 under Prime Minister Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex.

Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame Aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas, fils; Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand. She also played male roles, including Shakespeare's Hamlet. Rostand called her "the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture", while Hugo praised her "golden voice". She made several theatrical tours around the world, and was one of the first prominent actresses to make sound recordings and to act in motion pictures.

Sara Giraudeau is a French actress.

Presnel Kimpembe is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the France national team. He was part of the France squad that won the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Neal Maupay is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion. He came to prominence in his homeland with Nice, Saint-Étienne and Brest and was a France youth international. Maupay is also adept as an attacking midfielder or winger.

Jules Olivier Koundé is a French professional footballer who plays as a defender for Sevilla FC.

François Claude Pierre René Baroin is a French lawyer and politician of the Republicans (LR) who served as Finance Minister from 2011 to 2012, following a stint as Minister of the Budget in the government of Prime Minister François Fillon. He was a long-time ally of Jacques Chirac and is currently the mayor of Troyes.

Seko Mohamed Fofana is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club RC Lens.

Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French illusionist, actor and film director who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès was well known for the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour. He was also one of the first filmmakers to use storyboards. His films include A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904), both involving strange, surreal journeys somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy.