List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Mehdi Belhaj Kacem
Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is a French-Tunisian actor, philosopher, and writer.
Sebastian Roché
Sebastian Charles Edward Roché is a Scottish-French actor. He is known for his roles as Kurt Mendel in Odyssey 5, Jerry Jacks in General Hospital, Thomas Jerome Newton in Fringe, Balthazar in Supernatural, Mikael in both The Vampire Diaries and The Originals, and Reichsminister Martin Heusmann in The Man in the High Castle.
Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres
Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, often known as RDDV, is a French politician, France's Minister of Culture from 2004 to 2007. He is a member of the UMP center-right party, and the grandson of Henri Donnedieu de Vabres.
Daniel Schneidermann
Daniel Schneidermann is a French journalist, born in Paris on April 5, 1958, who focuses on the analysis of televised media. He is mainly active in weekly columns—in the past in Le Monde and presently in Libération and on a video channel: Arrêt sur images (Freeze-frame), formerly broadcast by the public TV channel France 5, but currently financed by subscription. The television show was canceled in 2007 by France 5 direction, an incident that led to the creation of the Arret Sur Images web site.
Renaud Gagneux
Renaud Gagneux was a French composer.
Michel Tognini
Michel Ange-Charles Tognini is a French test pilot, engineer, brigadier general in the French Air Force, and a former CNES and ESA astronaut who served from 1 January 2005 to 1 November 2011 as head of the European Astronaut Centre of the European Space Agency. A veteran of two space flights, Tognini has logged a total of 19 days in space. Tognini has 4000 flight hours on 80 types of aircraft. He is fluent in English and Russian.
Francis Chouat
Francis Chouat is a French historian and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly since winning a by-election in 2018, representing Essonne's 1st constituency.
Alexandre Gavras
Alexandre Gavras is a French film producer.
Willy Ronis
Willy Ronis was a French photographer. His best-known work shows life in post-war Paris and Provence.
Christopher Samba
Veijeany Christopher Samba, known as Christopher Samba, is a former professional footballer who played as a defender. Born in France, he played for the Congo national team.