List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Agnès Pannier-Runacher
Agnès Pannier-Runacher is a French business executive and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as Secretary of State for Economy and Finance in the governments of successive Prime Ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex since 2018.
Matthieu Chedid
Matthieu Chedid, better known by his stage name -M-, is a French rock singer-songwriter and guitar player. Since 2018, he has been the most awarded artist at the Victoires de la Musique Awards with 13 awards, tied with Alain Bashung.
Vincent Lindon
Vincent Lindon is a French actor and filmmaker who has been active for more than 30 years. At the 2015 Cannes Film Festival he won the award for Best Actor for his role in the film The Measure of a Man. He won the IFFI Best Actor Award (Male) at the 46th International Film Festival of India.
Gabriel Matzneff
Gabriel Matzneff is a French writer. He was the winner of the Mottard and Amic awards from the Académie française in 1987 and 2009 respectively, the Prix Renaudot essay in 2013 and the Prix Cazes in 2015.
Adrien-Marie Legendre
Adrien-Marie Legendre was a French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics. Well-known and important concepts such as the Legendre polynomials and Legendre transformation are named after him.
Lorie
Laure Pester, professionally known as Lorie, is a French singer. She has sold over 8 million albums and singles worldwide as of December 2007. Her first studio album Près de toi was certified triple platinum in France and she followed it with five other certified albums. Lorie is also an actress, who lent her voice for many French versions of international movies including Stuart Little 2. She stars in the TF1 TV film De feu et de glace, and guest-starred as a Parisian model on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless. She has also launched a clothing line, "Lorie", only found in the Z stores in France. Her contract with Z ended in early 2009.
Olivier Dassault
Olivier Dassault is a French politician and billionaire, and a deputy in the French National Assembly.
Patrick Modiano
Jean Patrick Modiano, generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He previously won the 2012 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the 2010 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca from the Institut de France for lifetime achievement, the 1978 Prix Goncourt for Rue des boutiques obscures, and the 1972 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for Les Boulevards de ceinture. His works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have been celebrated in and around France, but most of his novels had not been translated into English before he was awarded the Nobel Prize.
Niels Arestrup
Niels Arestrup is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. He won three César Awards.
Jonathan Lambert
Jonathan Lambert is a French actor and comedian.