List of Famous people born in Giresun Province

Alperen Şengün is a Turkish professional basketball player for Beşiktaş of the Turkish Super League.

Nurettin Canikli is a Turkish politician, the former Minister of National Defense of Turkey and a Member of Parliament for Giresun under the ruling Justice and Development Party. He previously also served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey and the Minister of Customs and Trade of Turkey.

Hikmet Karaman is a Turkish football manager who most recently managed Yeni Malatyaspor. In the beginning of his coaching career, Hikmet Karaman worked as an assistant coach for managers like Reinhard Saftig and Mustafa Denizli in Galatasaray and Kocaelispor, as well as Holger Osieck in both Kocaelispor and Fenerbahçe. As a head coach he previously worked for clubs, such as, Kocaelispor, Zeytinburnuspor, Erzurumspor, Çaykur Rizespor, Adanaspor, Kayserispor, MKE Ankaragücü, Ankaraspor, Antalyaspor, Manisaspor, and Gaziantepspor, respectively. During his career he has won the Turkish Cup with Kocaelispor and the Second division league with Çaykur Rizespor and Antalyaspor.

Feridun Hadi Sinirlioğlu is a Turkish diplomat and politician.

Gökdeniz Karadeniz is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a winger or as an attacking midfielder.

Ergün Demir is a Turkish actor and musician. He became popular in Eastern Europe and South America after his role as Ali Kemal Evliyaoğlu in the Turkish television series Binbir Gece.

Erdem Gül is a Turkish politician serving as the current Mayor of Princes' Islands since 2019. He was the chief of the Ankara bureau of Turkish secularist newspaper Cumhuriyet between 2010 and 2018. He was arrested in November 2015 after his newspaper published footage showing the National Intelligence Organization of Turkey (MİT) sending weapons to Syrian Islamist fighters.

Abdullah Levent Tüzel is a Turkish politician who was one of the founders of the Labour Party (EMEP) in 1996. He was a Member of Parliament for İstanbul's third electoral district, had been elected as an Independent in the 2011 general election with the backing of the Labour, Democracy and Freedom Bloc. He was with the parliamentary group of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

Şenes Erzik is the vice president of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). He is a member of the FIFA Council.