List of Famous people born in Île-de-France, France
Charles, Joseph, Marie, Auguste de Forbin Janson
Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph, Count of Forbin-Janson, C.P.M., was a French aristocrat and prelate who was a founder of the Fathers of Mercy, established in an effort to re-evangelize the French people. He preached throughout North America, taking an active role in reviving the Catholic populations of the United States and Canada. He was influential in establishing an ultramontane stand in the Catholic Church in French-speaking Canada, an influence which would last for generations.
Claude Nollier
Claude Nollier, French actress, was born on 12 December 1919 in Paris, and died 12 February 2009 in Boulogne-Billancourt.
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis was a French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist. He is best known for his work on the supplementary forces that are detected in a rotating frame of reference, leading to the Coriolis effect. He was the first to apply the term travail for the transfer of energy by a force acting through a distance, and he prefixed the factor ½ to Leibniz's concept of vis viva, thus specifying today's kinetic energy.
Frédéric Bonnefille
Christian Chevreuse
Paul Bellot
Paul Louis Denis Bellot was a French monk and modern architect.
François Pétis de la Croix
François Pétis de la Croix (1653–1713) was a French orientalist.
André Cheron
André Cheron was a French-born American character actor of the late silent and early sound film eras. During his 16-year career he appeared in over 100 films, usually in smaller roles, although with the occasional featured part.
Bleuette Bernon
Bleuette Bernon was a French film actress who appeared in five films made by Georges Méliès around the turn of the 20th century. The earliest films, made before 1900, were usually without plot and had a runtime of just a few minutes. However, Méliès evolved the genre of the fictional motion picture, and Bernon became one of the earliest character actors in movies. In 1899, she played the title character in Méliès's Jeanne d'Arc, and Cinderella in Cendrillon. In 1901, she appeared in Barbe-bleue. In 1902 she appeared in a minor role in A Trip to the Moon, which is the best known film of Méliès, as one "lady in the Moon". In 1903 she appeared as Aurora in Le Royaume des fées.
Pierre Labry
Pierre Labry (1885–1948) was a French stage and film actor. He was active in the French film industry between 1920 and 1948, appearing in more than a hundred films.