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

Michel d'Ornano

First Name Michel
Last Name D'Ornano
Born on July 12, 1924
Died on March 8, 1991 (aged 66)

Michel d'Ornano was a French politician. A descendant of both Marie Walewska and Philippe Antoine d'Ornano, he began his political career as mayor of Deauville in 1962. He served as president of the General Councils of both Calvados and Basse-Normandie before going on to represent the fourth district of Calvados in the Parliament of France; in that body he sat first as an Independent Republican and later with the Union for French Democracy. He served in numerous cabinet positions under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, including as Secretary of State for Ecology, the Minister of Culture, and Minister of Industry.

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Michel Winock

Michel Joseph Winock
First Name Michel
Last Name Winock
Born on March 19, 1937 (age 89)

Michel Winock is a French historian, specializing in the history of the French Republic, intellectual movements, antisemitism, nationalism and the far right movements of France. He is a professeur des universités in contemporary history at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po) and member of L'Histoire magazine's editing board. Winock has also worked as a reporter for Le Monde.

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Pierre Sudreau

First Name Pierre
Last Name Sudreau
Born on May 13, 1919
Died on January 22, 2012 (aged 92)

Pierre Sudreau was a French politician. His childhood correspondence with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) helped inspire the title character of the 1943 novel The Little Prince.

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Philippe Clay

Philippe Mathevet
First Name Philippe
Last Name Clay
Born on March 7, 1927
Died on December 13, 2007 (aged 80)

Philippe Clay, born Philippe Mathevet, was a French mime artist, singer and actor.

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Jehanne d'Alcy

Charlotte Lucie Marie Adèle Stephanie Adrienne Faës
First Name Jehanne
Born on March 20, 1865
Died on October 14, 1956 (aged 91)

Charlotte Lucie Marie Adèle Stephanie Adrienne Faës, known by her stage name Jeanne d'Alcy or Jehanne d'Alcy, was a French film actress.

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Myriam Bru

Myriam Rosita Bruh
First Name Myriam
Last Name Bru
Born on April 20, 1930 (age 96)

Myriam Bru is a French retired actress and the wife of German actor Horst Buchholz, to whom she was married from 1958 until his death in 2003. She appeared in 16 films between 1952 and her marriage in 1958, when she retired from acting to raise her two children, one of whom is German actor Christopher Buchholz.

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Christian Vincent

First Name Christian
Last Name Vincent
Born on November 5, 1955 (age 70)

Christian Vincent is a French film director and screenwriter. He won the César Awards for Best Feature Film and Best Writing for his 1990 film La Discrète.

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François Mansart

First Name François
Last Name Mansart
Born on January 23, 1598
Died on September 23, 1666 (aged 68)

François Mansart was a French architect credited with introducing classicism into Baroque architecture of France. The Encyclopædia Britannica cites him as the most accomplished of 17th-century French architects whose works "are renowned for their high degree of refinement, subtlety, and elegance".

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Steeve Elana

First Name Steeve
Born on July 11, 1980 (age 46)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Steeve Elana is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for FC Martigues and the Martinique national football team.

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Chris Marker

First Name Chris
Last Name Marker
Born on July 29, 1921
Died on July 29, 2012 (aged 91)

Chris Marker was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977) and Sans Soleil (1983). Marker is usually associated with the Left Bank subset of the French New Wave that occurred in the late 1950s and 1960s, and included such other filmmakers as Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy.

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