List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Maurice Leloir
Maurice Leloir was a French illustrator, watercolourist, draftsman, printmaker, writer and collector.
Michèle Auclair
Michèle Auclair was a French violinist and teacher.
Patrick Laroche-Joubert
Jean-Louis Laya
Jean-Louis Laya was a French playwright. He wrote his first comedy in collaboration with Gabriel-Marie Legouvé in 1785. The piece, however, though accepted by the Comédie française, was never represented. In 1789 he produced a plea for religious toleration in the form of a five-act tragedy in verse, Jean Calas. In his next work, the injustice of the disgrace cast on a family by the crime of one of its members formed the theme of Les Dangers de l'opinion (1790).
Denis Benoist d'Azy
Maryse Gildas
Antoine Laurent Dantan
Antoine Laurent Dantan was a French academic sculptor, known as 'Dantan the Elder' to distinguish him from his slightly younger brother, Jean-Pierre Dantan (1800–1869), who was also a sculptor. He won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1828.
Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux
Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux was a French painter. Like her sister, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, she studied under David.
Didier Pain
Patricia Barbizet
Patricia Barbizet is a prominent figure in the French business world. Over the course of her career, she served as Chief Executive Officer of Christie's from 2014 until 2016, the first female CEO of the company; Executive Director of Groupe Artémis from 1992 until 2017; and as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Kering and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Christie's.