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

Paul Étienne Victor Wachs was a French composer, organist and pianist. He is most remembered for his salon compositions for piano.

Alice Tissot was a French actress.

Jules Antoine Lissajous was a French physicist, after whom Lissajous figures are named. Among other innovations, Lissajous invented the Lissajous apparatus, a device that creates the figures that bear his name. In it, a beam of light is bounced off a mirror attached to a vibrating tuning fork, and then reflected off a second mirror attached to a perpendicularly oriented vibrating tuning fork, onto a wall, resulting in a Lissajous figure. This led to the invention of other apparatus such as the harmonograph.

Yvonne Lefébure was a French pianist and teacher.

François Fulgis Chevallier was a French botanist whose areas of interest included fungi, ferns and algae.

John Dubois, S.S., served as the third bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York. He was the first non-Irish born Bishop of New York.

René Mayer was a French Radical politician of the Fourth Republic who served briefly as Prime Minister during 1953. He was born and died in Paris. He led the Mayer Authority from 1955 to 1958. He was France's second Prime Minister of Jewish descent.

François Barthélemy Michel Édouard Cibot (1799–1877) was a French historical and landscape painter born in Paris. His masters were Guérin and Picot. During the first part of his career he devoted himself to historical painting, producing many sacred works, several specimens of which are to be seen in the churches of Paris. His most important work of this kind is the series of paintings representing Charity, in the church of St. Leu at Paris. About 1863 he applied himself to landscape painting. He died in Paris in 1877. Amongst his best works are: