List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Robert Klapisch
Robert Elie Klapisch was a French engineer and physicist.
Marie-Hélène Amiable
Marie-Hélène Amiable is a member of the National Assembly of France. She represents the 11th constituency of the Hauts-de-Seine département. She is a member of the French Communist Party and works in association with the Gauche démocrate et républicaine coalition.
Raleigh E. Colston
Raleigh Edward Colston was a French-born American professor, soldier, cartographer, and writer. He was a controversial brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Colston was among a handful of former Confederates who served in Egypt following the war.
Clotilde Mollet
Clotilde Mollet is a French actress.
Maud Linder
Maud-Lydié Marcelle Leuvielle, better known as Maud Linder, was a French journalist, film historian and documentary film director.
Michel Roux
Michel Roux was a French actor.
Alexandre Ricard
Alexandre Ricard, born in 1972, is a French businessman and one of the grandsons of distiller and Pernod Ricard founder, Paul Ricard. He became Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Pernod Ricard, the world's second-biggest distiller by sales on February 11, 2015. At 43, he is the youngest Chief Executive Officer of the 40 top companies on the CAC 40, the Paris Stock Market.
Charles Le Brun
Charles Le Brun was a French painter, physiognomist, art theorist, and a director of several art schools of his time. As court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French artist of all time", he was a dominant figure in 17th-century French art and much influenced by Nicolas Poussin.
Lionel Poilâne
Lionel Poilâne was a French baker and entrepreneur whose commitment to crafting quality bread earned him worldwide renown. His father, Pierre Poilâne started a baking business in 1932, creating bread using stone-ground flour, natural fermentation and a wood-fired oven. Lionel took over the bakery in 1970, continuing the traditional methods.
Jacques Tourneur
Jacques Tourneur was a French film director known for the classic film noir Out of the Past and a series of low-budget horror films he made for RKO Studios, including Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, and The Leopard Man. He is also known for directing Night of the Demon, which was released by Columbia Pictures. While in Hollywood, he was usually addressed by his anglicized name "Jack Turner", a literal and phonetic translation of his name in English.