List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Jacques Higelin
Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin was a French pop singer who rose to prominence in the early 1970s.
Cyril Dion
Cyril Dion is a French writer, film director, poet, and activist.
Alice David
Alice David is a French actress, known for the television series Bref (2011) and the film Babysitting (2014). She is the voice of the French dub of Lara Croft in the video game Tomb Raider.
Aurore Bergé
Aurore Bergé is a French politician who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly since 2017, representing Yvelines's 10th constituency. She is considered a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron.
Frédéric Beigbeder
Frédéric Beigbeder is a French writer, literary critic and television presenter. He won the Prix Interallié in 2003 for his novel Windows on the World and the Prix Renaudot in 2009 for his book Un roman français. He is also the creator of the Flore and Sade Awards. In addition, he is the executive director of Lui, a French adult entertainment magazine.
Léon Blum
André Léon Blum was a French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister.
Charles-Michel de l'Épée
The Abbé Charles-Michel de l'Épée was a philanthropic educator of 18th-century France who has become known as the "Father of the Deaf".
Guillaume de Tonquédec
Guillaume de Tonquédec is a French actor.
Irène Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie was a French chemist, physicist, and a politician of partly Polish ancestry, the eldest daughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Jointly with her husband, Joliot-Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial radioactivity. This made the Curies the family with the most Nobel laureates to date. She was also one of the first three women to be a member of a French government, becoming undersecretary for Scientific Research under the Popular Front in 1936. Both children of the Joliot-Curies, Hélène and Pierre, are also prominent scientists.
Patrick Balkany
Patrick Balkany, born 16 August 1948 in Neuilly-sur-Seine is a French politician.