List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry
Margaret of Valois, Duchess of Berry was Duchess of Savoy by marriage to Duke Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy. She was the daughter of King Francis I of France and Claude, Duchess of Brittany.
Princess Françoise of Orléans
Françoise of Orléans was a member of the House of Orléans and by marriage Duchess of Chartres.
Tanguy Turgis
Tanguy Turgis is a French former professional cyclist, who rode professionally in 2018 before retiring due to health reasons. His brothers Jimmy Turgis and Anthony Turgis are also cyclists.
Jean-Claude Chermann
Jean-Claude Chermann is a French virologist who managed the research team which, by 1983, under the administrative supervision of Luc Montagnier, had discovered the virus associated with AIDS. Whereas second author of this initial publication and obviously involved as team manager in this discovery, he had been omitted from the Nobel Prize attributed to its colleagues. The virus was named lymphadenopathy-associated virus, or LAV. A year later, a team led by Robert Gallo of the United States confirmed the discovery of the virus, but renamed it human T-lymphotropic virus type III (HTLV-III).
Victurnien-Jean-Baptiste de Rochechouart de Mortemart
Victurnien Jean-Baptiste Marie de Rochechouart, prince of Tonnay-Charente then 9th duke of Mortemart was a French general and politician. He came from the Mortemart branch of the house of Rochechouart, named after the barony of Mortemart in Haute-Vienne, later raised to a marquisate and finally in December 1650 to a peer-duchy.
Xavier Pompidou
Xavier Pompidou is a French racing driver.
Anne Emmanuel de Croÿ
Anne-Emmanuel-Ferdinand-François de Croÿ Prince of Solre and Duke of Croÿ was a French soldier of the 18th century who attained the rank of Maréchal de camp. He served as a member of the National Constituent Assembly of 1789 representing the Bailiwick of Le Quesnoy, Hainaut.
Maurice Leroy
Maurice Leroy is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Loir-et-Cher department, and is a member of the Union of Democrats and Independents as a part of The Centrists.
Lucien Pissarro
Lucien Pissarro was a landscape painter, printmaker, wood engraver and designer and printer of fine books. His landscape paintings employ techniques of Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism, but he also exhibited with Les XX. Apart from his landscapes he painted a few still lifes and family portraits. Until 1890 he worked in France, but thereafter was based in Britain.
Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans
Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans was born a Princess of France and was the Duchess of Savoy as the first wife of Charles Emmanuel II. She was a first cousin of Louis XIV as well of her husband. She was the shortest-serving Savoyard consort, dying at the age of fifteen, childless.