List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France

Véronique Le Flaguais is a French actress who has acted in many Canadian productions. Her work includes a Genie Award nomination for her supporting role in Surviving My Mother, Rumeurs, Jesus of Montreal , Cruising Bar and the sequel Cruising Bar 2. She is married to actor Michel Côté.

Robert Le Vigan, was a French actor.

Pierre Laurent is a French politician and journalist. Ex-director of L'Humanité, and former leader of the French Communist Party (PCF).

Claude Mauriac was a French author and journalist, the eldest son of the author François Mauriac.

François d'Orléans, prince de Joinville was the third son of Louis Philippe, king of the French, and his wife Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily. An admiral of the French Navy, François was famous for bringing the remains of Napoleon from Saint Helena to France, as well as a talented artist, with 35 known watercolours. He married Princess Francisca of Brazil, daughter of emperor Pedro I and sister of emperor Pedro II. The dowry received by François upon the marriage became the Brazilian city of Joinville.

Jacques Rozier is a French film director and screenwriter. He is one of the lesser known members of the French New Wave movement and has collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard. Three of his films have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1978, he was a member of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.

Michel Arrivé was a French novelist, short story writer, linguist and academic. He was a Professor of Linguistics and Semiotics at Paris Nanterre University from 1983 to 2006. He authored several novels and short stories.

Roman François Coppola is the son of Francis Ford Coppola and an American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and entrepreneur. With the 2012 film Moonrise Kingdom, he and co-writer Wes Anderson were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. His television series Mozart in the Jungle won the 2016 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. In 2019, Coppola was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Laurent-Moïse Schwartz was a French mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work on the theory of distributions. For several years he taught at the École polytechnique.

Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle, duchesse de Châteauroux was the youngest of the five famous de Nesle sisters, four of whom would become the mistress of King Louis XV of France. She was his mistress from 1742 until 1744.