List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Pierre Alféri
Pierre Alféri is a French novelist, poet, and essayist. Alféri is the son of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and psychoanalyst Marguerite Aucouturier.
Jérôme Niel
Jerôme Niel is a humorist, choreographer, writer, comedian and video producer working among other things for the French cable TV channel Canal+. Niel was born in Trappes in the Yvelines. After passing his French baccalauréat with a specialization in economics and social sciences, he worked as a salesman in gardening tools. He went on to study languages at university for 2 months and a half. A few months later, he joined a radio school. Having arrived in Paris he worked for RMC as a switchboarder to pay his rent. In Paris, he started to upload his videos on YouTube and got noticed by MTV, for which he shot forty episodes. In May 2013, Le Grand Journal noticed Jérôme's web series Groom Service in Montreux and hired him to make episodes with stars of the Cannes Film Festival. Although Michel Denisot had stopped presenting Le Grand Journal, Jérôme continued to work for the channel, creating a miniseries named Les Tutos, already present on the internet through the Studio Bagel. In September 2014, he went on working for Canal + with the creation of a miniseries called Speakerine broadcast daily in Le Grand Journal, which centers around the humorous analysis of one of that night's TV programs on French television. Niel takes part in the video Imagine Paris in which with some thirty other YouTubers, he covers John Lennon's song "Imagine".
Émile Cohl
Émile Cohl, born Émile Eugène Jean Louis Courtet, was a French caricaturist of the largely forgotten Incoherent Movement, cartoonist, and animator, called "The Father of the Animated Cartoon" and "The Oldest Parisian".
Mickaël Tacalfred
Mickaël Tacalfred is a Guadeloupean professional footballer who plays as a defender for French side Béziers. He represented the Guadeloupe national football team five times at the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Jacques Boutault
Jacques Boutault is a French politician member of Europe Écologie Les Verts (EELV) and the mayor of the 2nd arrondissement of Paris since March 2001.
Michel Louis Coloni
Michel Louis Coloni was a Catholic bishop.
Jean-Louis Bory
Jean-Louis Bory was a French writer, journalist and film critic.
Jacques Le Brun
Jacques Le Brun was a French historian who specialized in the study of Christianity in the 17th century.
Didier Sandre
Didier Sandre is a French actor. He appeared in more than sixty films since 1973.
Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans
Louis, Duke of Orléans was a member of the royal family of France, the House of Bourbon, and as such was a prince du sang. At his father's death, he became the First Prince of the Blood. Known as Louis le Pieux and also as Louis le Génovéfain, Louis was a pious, charitable and cultured prince, who took very little part in the politics of the time.