List of Famous people born in East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece

Vasilis Torosidis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a right-back.

Marinos Ouzounidis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is the current manager of Romanian club Universitatea Craiova.

Nikos Kostenoglou is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a centre back. He last managed AEK Athens.

Pavlos Dermitzakis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a forward.

Dramalı Mahmud Pasha,(Turkish Mahmut Pasha}}), c. 1770 in Istanbul – 26 October 1822 in Corinth) was an Ottoman statesman and military leader, and a pasha, and served as governor (wali) of Larissa, Drama, and the Morea. In 1822, he was tasked with suppressing the Greek War of Independence, but was defeated at the Battle of Dervenakia and died shortly after.

Bion of Abdera was a Greek mathematician of Abdera, Thrace, and a pupil of Democritus. He wrote both in the Ionic and Attic dialects, and was the first who said that there were some parts of the Earth in which it was night for six months, while the remaining six months were one uninterrupted day.

Tabanıyassı ("flat-footed") Mehmed Pasha was an Ottoman statesman of Albanian descent. He was governor of Egypt from September 1628 to October 1630. He served as Grand Vizier from 18 May 1632 to 1637 under Sultan Murat IV. During the early years of his term, he had the support of the sultan because of his services during the campaign in northwestern Iran. However, after sultan's return to Constantinople, Mehmed Pasha failed to defend the fort of Revan against the Persian counterattack, and the sultan dismissed him from his post. In his later years, he was appointed as the governor of Silistra. In 1637, Murat IV became suspicious of Mehmed Pasha and accused him of attempting to start a rebellion in parts of the Empire. The sultan first imprisoned him at the Yedikule Fortress and then executed him by drowning on 2 February 1637.

Aristarchus of Samothrace was a grammarian noted as the most influential of all scholars of Homeric poetry. He was the librarian of the Library of Alexandria and seems to have succeeded his teacher Aristophanes of Byzantium in that role.

Metrocles was a Cynic philosopher from Maroneia. He studied in Aristotle’s Lyceum under Theophrastus, and eventually became a follower of Crates of Thebes who married Metrocles’ sister Hipparchia. Very little survives of his writings, but he is important as one of the first Cynics to adopt the practice of writing moral anecdotes (chreiai) about Diogenes and other Cynics.