List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Guy Geoffroy
Guy Geoffroy is a French wrestler. He represents the Seine-et-Marne department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.
Frédéric Jousset
Frédéric Jousset is a French entrepreneur and sponsor. He is the founder and co-chairman of Webhelp, a business outsourcing company headquartered in France.
Paul Painlevé
Paul Painlevé was a French mathematician and statesman. He served twice as Prime Minister of the Third Republic: 12 September – 13 November 1917 and 17 April – 22 November 1925. His entry into politics came in 1906 after a professorship at the Sorbonne that began in 1892.
Édouard Jaguer
Édouard Jaguer was a French poet and art critic linked with the surrealist movement including Maurice Blanchard, Laurence Iché, Régine Raufast, Robert Rius and Tita.
Maurice Maindron
Maurice Maindron was a French entomologist.
Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau
Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, also given as Du Cerceau, DuCerceau, or Ducerceau (1510–1584) was a well-known French designer of architecture, ornament, furniture, metalwork and other decorative designs during the 16th century, and the founder of the Androuet du Cerceau family. He introduced Renaissance architecture to France with the assistance of Pierre Lescot, Philibert Delorme and Jean Bullant. Though he was referred to by contemporaries as architecte and was even appointed architecte du roi, he is remembered especially for his suites of engravings produced from 1549 from his printshop in Orléans.
Maurice Bellet
Augustin Félix Fortin
Augustin Félix Fortin (1763–1832), a French painter of landscapes, and of genre and historical subjects, was born in Paris in 1763, and studied under his uncle, the sculptor Félix Lecomte. He was, however, chiefly noted for his sculpture, for which he obtained the Prix de Rome in 1783. He became a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1789, and died in Paris in 1832.
Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine
Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer.
Guy de Gisors
Alexandre-Jean-Baptiste-Guy de Gisors was a French architect, a member of the Gisors family of architects and prominent government administrators responsible for the construction and preservation of many public buildings in Paris.