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

Henry Roujon was a French academic, essayist and novelist.

Amélie Marie Antoinette Legallois was a French dancer.

Alphonse Royer, was a French author, dramatist and theatre manager, most remembered today for having written the librettos for Gaetano Donizetti's opera La favorite and Giuseppe Verdi's Jérusalem. From 1853 to 1856, he was the director of the Odéon Theatre and from 1856 to 1862 director of the Paris Opéra, after which he was appointed France's Inspecteur Général des Beaux-Arts. In his later years, he wrote a six volume history of the theatre and a history of the Paris Opéra. He also translated the theatrical works of the Italian dramatist Carlo Gozzi, as well those of the Spanish writers, Miguel de Cervantes, Tirso de Molina, and Juan Ruiz de Alarcón. A Chevalier and later Officier of the Légion d'honneur, Royer died in Paris, the city of his birth, at the age of 71.

Edmond Isidore Etienne Nocard, was a French veterinarian and microbiologist, born in Provins.

Gérard Thurnauer was a French architect and a founding member of the Atelier de Montrouge, an architectural and urban planning studio.

Gustave Arosa (1818–1883) was a French art collector and patron.