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

Souleymane M'baye is a professional boxer and is the former WBA super-lightweight champion. He won the vacated title by a fourth technical knockout on September 2, 2006 against Raul Horacio Balbi. His current record is 39 wins, four losses and a draw, with 21 wins coming by way of knockout. His defeats came against former WBA super-lightweight champion Vivian Harris, former WBA light-welterweight champion Gavin Rees, and Herman Ngoudjo. On May 28, M'baye defeated Antonin Décarie by unanimous decision to capture the WBA Interim welterweight championship.

Jil Caplan is a French singer and songwriter.

Sir Austen Henry Layard was an English traveller, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal.

Robert Villemain was a French boxer. Villemain defeated Hall of Famers Kid Gavilán and Jake LaMotta during his career. He lost his Pennsylvania middleweight title to Sugar Ray Robinson in 1950.

Michel Houel was a French politician. He was the mayor of Crécy-la-Chapelle from 2001 until 2015, and represented the Seine-et-Marne department in the Senate of France from 2004 until his death in 2016. He was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement Party.

Jean-Louis Chrétien was a French philosopher in the tradition of phenomenology, as well as a poet and religious thinker. Author of over thirty books, he was the 2012 winner of the Cardinal Lustiger Prize for his life’s work in philosophy. At his death, he was professor emeritus of philosophy at the Sorbonne.

Paul Chemetov is a French architect and urbanist. He is best known for his collaborations with Borja Huidobro.

Georgette Elgey was a French journalist and historian. She was the author of Histoire de la IVe République, published in 6 volumes from 1965 to 2012.

Mhamed Arezki is a French actor of Kabyle origins best known for his starring and supporting roles in French television series. He portrays Lyès Beloumi on the action packed, comedic, police drama Les Bleus, young Tony on the gangster mini-series Les Beaux Mecs and Brigadier Jean-Baptiste Medjaoui on another police drama, Candice Renoir. He is also known for his roles in such films as The Tourist, Zim and Co. and Adieu Gary.

Sylvie Feit was a French actress and artistic director.