List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Cornélis Henri de Witt
Sylvia Bataille
Sylvia Bataille was a French actress of Romanian-Jewish descent. When she was twenty, she married the writer Georges Bataille with whom she had a daughter, the psychoanalyst Laurence Bataille (1930–1986). Georges Bataille and Sylvia separated in 1934 but did not divorce until 1946. Starting in 1938, she was a companion of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan with whom, in 1941, she had a daughter, Judith. Sylvia Bataille married Jacques Lacan in 1953.
Rosemary Forbes Kerry
Rosemary Isabel Forbes was an American nurse, social activist, and the mother of John Forbes Kerry, the 68th United States Secretary of State and the 2004 Democratic nominee for President of the United States.
Edgar Ney
Edgar Napoléon Henry Ney (1812–1882) was the 3rd Prince of the Moskva, and fourth son of the 1st prince Michel Ney.
Chrétien-François II de Lamoignon
Chrétien François de Lamoignon de Bâville, also written as Chrétien François de Lamoignon de Basville (1735–1789) was a French statesman and magistrate.
Jack Depp
Edmond Blanc
Edmond Blanc (1856–1920) was a great horse breeder as well a French politician. He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1893 to 1894, and from 1898 to 1902, representing Hautes-Pyrénées. He also served as the mayor of La Celle Saint-Cloud. He was the owner of several stud farms in La Celle Saint-Cloud, Haras Villebon and Haras Hardy. He built the racecourse of Saint-Cloud inaugurated in 1901 along with a horse training center named La Fouilleuse. He won the Grand Prix de Paris seven times.
Benoît Peeters
Benoît Peeters is a French comics writer, novelist, and comics studies scholar.
Andreas Feininger
Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger was an American photographer and a writer on photographic technique. He was noted for his dynamic black-and-white scenes of Manhattan and for studies of the structures of natural objects.
Harlem Gnohéré
Harlem-Eddy Gnohéré is a French professional footballer who plays as a striker for Mouscron. Nicknamed "the Bison" due to his strong body frame, he started his career as a junior in native France, and went on to compete in Switzerland, Belgium and Romania.