List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
François Doubin
François Doubin was a French politician and cabinet minister. He was a member and leader of the Radical Party of the Left.
Alix Nyokas
Alix Kévynn Nyokas is a French professional handballer who plays for Portuguese club Benfica.
Axel Reymond
Axel Reymond is a French Marathon swimmer in open water swimming events. Lives near Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne), he was training at AS Plessis-Savigny Natation by Magali Mérino. In May 2014, he joined her at the Cercle des Nageurs of Fontainebleau-Avon, where he remains committed to his training while becoming licensed in CSM Clamart Natation in 2016. After several victories in Open Water Swimming French Cup since 2009 on different distances, after several Champion titles of France on 25 km (16 mi), after a bronze medal during the 2012 Open Water Swimming European Championships at Piombino, he landed, 17 August 2014, the gold medal of the 25 km (16 mi) during the 2014 European Swimming Championships in Berlin. He is a member of the France Swimming A Team since 2012. 15 November 2015, he beats the hour record of France by browsing 5859.25m during the 2015 National Autumn Meeting National at Compiègne. 14 July 2016, the French National Day, he again won the 25 km from the European Championships at Hoorn (Netherlands). In Budapest, on 21 July 2017, Axel won the 25 km of the World Championships in 2017 and became the first French Men's World Champion in that distance. In August 2017, he joined the club of A.A.S. Sarcelles Natation 95.
Paul Gavarni
Paul Gavarni was the nom de plume of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier, a French illustrator, born in Paris.
Prince Achille Murat
Charles Louis Napoleon Achille Murat was the eldest son of Joachim Murat, the brother-in-law of Napoleon who was appointed King of Naples during the First French Empire. After his father was deposed and executed by his own subjects, Achille Murat went into exile in Austria with his siblings and mother.
Napoleon Louis Bonaparte
Napoléon-Louis Bonaparte was King of Holland for less than two weeks in July 1810 as Louis II. He was a son of King Louis I and Queen Hortense. His father was the younger brother of Napoléon I, Emperor of the French, and ruled Holland from 1806 to 1810. His mother was the daughter of Josephine de Beauharnais, Napoléon's first wife. His younger brother, Louis-Napoléon, became Emperor of the French as Napoléon III.
Georges Duhamel
Georges Duhamel was a French author, born in Paris. Duhamel trained as a doctor, and during World War I was attached to the French Army. In 1920, he published Confession de minuit, the first of a series featuring the anti-hero Salavin. In 1935, he was elected as a member of the Académie française. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty-seven times. He was also the father of the musicologist Antoine Duhamel.
Freya Madeline Stark
Dame Freya Madeline Stark, was an Anglo-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabs to travel through the southern Arabian Desert.
Zola
Aurélien N'Zuzi Zola, better known by the mononym Zola, is a French rapper of Congolese descent. Cicatrices, his debut album was released in 2019. His song "California Girls" was featured in the soundtrack of the film Taxi 5.
Elie Konki
Elie Konki is a French professional boxer. As an amateur, he competed in the men's flyweight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.