List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Pierre-Alain Raphan
Pierre-Alain Raphan is a French accountant and politician representing La République En Marche! He was elected to the French National Assembly on 18 June 2017, representing the 10th constituency of the department of Essonne.
Estelle Skornik
Estelle Skornik is a French actress, known in the United Kingdom for playing "Nicole" alongside Max Douchin ("Papa") in a range of Renault Clio advertisements.
Charles Richet
Professor Charles Robert Richet was a French physiologist at the Collège de France known for his pioneering work in immunology. In 1913, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis". Richet devoted many years to the study of paranormal and spiritualist phenomena, coining the term "ectoplasm". He also believed in the inferiority of blacks, was a proponent of eugenics and presided over the French Eugenics Society towards the end of his life. The Richet line of professorships of medical science would continue through his son Charles and his grandson Gabriel. Gabriel Richet was one of the great pioneers of European nephrology.
Marc Lazar
Marc Lazar is professor and director of the Doctoral School at the Paris Institute of Political Studies. He manages a research group on contemporary Italy with CERI.
Luis Federico Leloir
Luis Federico Leloir was an Argentine physician and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the metabolic pathways in lactose. Although born in France, Leloir received the majority of his education at the University of Buenos Aires and was director of the private research group Fundación Instituto Campomar until his death in 1987. His research into sugar nucleotides, carbohydrate metabolism, and renal hypertension garnered international attention and led to significant progress in understanding, diagnosing and treating the congenital disease galactosemia. Luis Leloir is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires.
Louis of Lorraine, Count of Armagnac
Louis of Lorraine was the Count of Armagnac from his father's death in 1666. The Grand Squire of France, he was a member of a cadet branch of the House of Guise, itself a cadet branch of the sovereign House of Lorraine. His descendants include Albert II, Prince of Monaco, Umberto II of Italy, and Diana Álvares Pereira de Melo, 11th Duchess of Cadaval.
Nicolas Jaeger
Nicolas Jaeger (1946–1980) was a French physician and alpinist.
Henri Pélissier
Henri Pélissier was a French racing cyclist from Paris and champion of the 1923 Tour de France. In addition to his 29 career victories, he was known for his long-standing feud with Tour founder Henri Desgrange and for protesting against the conditions endured by riders in the early years of the Tour. He was killed by his lover with the gun that his wife had used to commit suicide.
Miss.Tic
Miss.Tic is a French artist born in Paris on 20 February 1956. She is known for her stencils of dark haired woman often seen in the streets of Paris and associated with poetry. She has been active as a street artist since 1985.
David Habib
David Habib is French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France since the 2002 elections, representing the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department.