List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Sophie Morel
Sophie Morel is a French mathematician, specializing in number theory. She is a CNRS directrice de recherches in mathematics at École Normale supérieure de Lyon. In 2012 she received one of the ten prizes of the European Mathematical Society.
Marine Vignes
Jacqueline Huet
Josseline Gaël
Josseline Gaël was a French film actress who specialised in comedy roles. She is best remembered today, for her portrayal of Cosette in the 1934 film adaptation of Les Miserables. Her daughter with Jules Berry, Michèle, became a renowned art dealer.
Henri Estienne
Henri Estienne, also known as Henricus Stephanus, was a French printer and classical scholar. He was the eldest son of Robert Estienne. He was instructed in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew by his father and would eventually take over the Estienne printing firm which his father owned in 1559 when his father died. His most well-known work was the Thesaurus graecae linguae, which was printed in five volumes. The basis of Greek lexicology, no thesaurus would rival that of Estienne's for three hundred years.
Freddy Balta
François Furet
François Furet was a French historian and president of the Saint-Simon Foundation, best known for his books on the French Revolution. From 1985 to 1997, Furet was a professor of French history at the University of Chicago.
Jacqueline Duhême
Jacqueline Dufranne
Alfred Baudrillart
Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart, Orat. was a French prelate of the Catholic Church, who became a Cardinal in 1935. An historian and writer, he served as Rector of the Institut Catholique de Paris from 1907 until his death. He campaigned to rouse international support for France during the First World War, while in the Second World War he supported the Vichy regime and backed the Germans for leading the international struggle against bolshevism.