List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Larbi Benboudaoud
Larbi Benboudaoud is a judoka from France, who won the silver medal in the half lightweight division at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. In the final he was defeated by Turkey's Huseyin Ozkan.
Timothée de Fombelle
Timothée de Fombelle is a French author and playwright.
Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin
Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin was a French harpsichordist, the first woman to hold the position of ordinaire de la musique de la chambre du roi pour le clavecin.
Agnès Evren
Agnès Evren is a French politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019. She has since been serving on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and on the Committee on Petitions.
Christian de Boissieu
Christian de Boissieu is a French professor of economics at Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris.
Bernard Dufour
Bernard Dufour was a French painter. He was notable for abstract painting after the Second World War, and later for portraits and human figures.
Marie-Anne Collot
Marie-Anne Collot was a French sculptor. She was the student and daughter-in-law of Etienne Falconet and is most well known as a portraitist, close to the philosophic and artistic circles of Diderot and Catherine the Great.
Enrique Shaw
Enrique Ernesto Shaw was an Argentine Roman Catholic businessman. He was born in France and later emigrated to Argentina where he served in the marines. He promoted and encouraged business growth in accordance with the social doctrine of the faith and he founded the Christian Association of Business Executives. He was also a prolific writer and published a range of books.
Max Aub
Max Aub Mohrenwitz was a Mexican-Spanish experimentalist novelist, playwright and literary critic. In 1965 he founded the literary periodical Los Sesenta, with editors that included the poets Jorge Guillén and Rafael Alberti.
Georges Darien
Georges Darien was a French writer associated with anarchism and an outspoken advocate of Georgism.