List of Famous people born in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Julien Lizeroux
Julien Lizeroux is a retired French World Cup alpine ski racer. He competed mainly in slalom, but also in giant slalom and combined.
Estelle Cascarino
Estelle Cascarino is a women's association football player from Saint-Priest, Rhône, Lyon, France. She plays as a defender for Bordeaux and the France women's national football team.
Henri Vidal
Henri Vidal was a French film actor.
Gesaffelstein
Mike Lévy, known professionally as Gesaffelstein, is a French musician, DJ, songwriter and record producer from Lyon. He has worked alongside artists as varied as The Weeknd, Daft Punk, Kanye West, A$AP Rocky, Electric Youth, Haim, Miss Kittin, The Hacker, Jean-Michel Jarre and Pharrell Williams.
Dounia Bouzar
Dounia Bouzar, also Dominique Bouzar, is a French anthropologist, writer and educator who has worked towards better acceptance of Muslims, especially Muslim women, in France. She has held high-level posts where she has contributed to promoting the understanding of Muslims but has not always seen eye to eye with the authorities.
Coco
Corinne Rey is a French cartoonist who publishes under the pen name Coco.
Alexandra Tavernier
Alexandra Tavernier is a French hammer thrower. She finished sixth at the 2014 European Championships. She won gold medals at the 2015 European U23 Championships and 2012 World Junior Championships.
Jean-Pierre Masseret
Jean-Pierre Masseret was a member of the Senate of France, representing the Moselle department from 1983 to 2011, when he lost for reelection. He is a member of the Socialist Party. He is President of the Lorraine (region) region since 2004, reelected in 2010, after being a member of the regional council since 1986. He was mayor of Talange from 1995 to 1997, and Secretary of State for Veterans affairs from 1997 to 2001, in Lionel Jospin's Government. He was also municipal councillor of Metz and general councillor of Moselle.
Monique Pinçon-Charlot
Monique Pinçon-Charlot is a French sociologist, research director at CNRS until 2007, year of her retiring, attached to the Research Institute on Contemporary Societies/ l'Institut de recherche sur les sociétés contemporaines (IRESCO).
Éric Vuillard
Éric Vuillard is a French writer and film director. He has made two films, L'homme qui marche and Mateo Falcone, the latter based on a story by Prosper Merimee. He is the author of Conquistadors (2009) which won the Prix de l'inaperçu in 2010. He won the Prix Goncourt in 2017 for L'Ordre du jour.