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

César Gabriel de Choiseul, duc de Praslin was a French officer, diplomat and statesman.

Didier Brunner is a French film producer.

Claude-Henri Watelet was a rich French fermier-général who was an amateur painter, a well-respected etcher, a writer on the arts and a connoisseur of gardens. Watelet's inherited privilege of farming taxes in the Orléanais left him free to pursue his avocations, art and literature and gardens. His Essai sur les jardins, 1774, firmly founded on English ideas expressed by Thomas Whately, introduced the English landscape garden to France, as the jardin Anglois. The sociable Watelet, who was born and died in Paris, was at the center of the French art world of his time.

Marie-Noémi Cadiot was a French sculptor, journalist and writer of the 19th century. She was the second wife of Eliphas Levi and had a daughter with him; they later separated. Cadiot later married the Marquis de Montferrier but separated, and then married Maurice Rouvier on 3 September 1872.