List of Famous people born in Grand Est, France

Régis Laconi is a French former professional motorcycle racer. In 2009 he competed in the Superbike World Championship for DFX on a Ducati. He was runner-up in 2004, and has won races in both Grand Prix in 500cc engine capacity classification and the Superbike World Championship.

Paul-Henri Mathieu is a retired French tennis player. He won four singles titles on the ATP Tour. His best singles performance in an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament was reaching the semifinals of the 2005 Canadian Open. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 12 in April 2008.

Abdel Slem Billel Omrani is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Romanian Liga I club CFR Cluj.

Alain Weill is a French business executive. He is the founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of NextRadioTV and Chairman and CEO of SFR Group.

Elif Shafak FRSL is a Turkish-British writer, storyteller, essayist, academic, public speaker, and women's rights activist. In English, she publishes under the anglicised spelling of her pen-name 'Elif Shafak'.

Inès Taittinger is a French racing driver.

Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry was a French Air Force lieutenant-colonel and military air-weaponry engineer. He was the creator of the Nord SS.10/SS.11 missiles. He attempted to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle on 22 August 1962, following de Gaulle's decision to accept Algerian independence. The attack made international headlines. Bastien-Thiry was the last person to be executed by firing squad in France.

Pierre Person is a French politician serving as the member of the National Assembly for the 6th constituency of Paris since 2017. A member of La République En Marche! (LREM), his constituency covers parts of the 11th and 20th arrondissements. Person is considered a close ally to President Emmanuel Macron in Parliament.

Yannick Stopyra is a French former footballer who played as a striker.

Vincenzo Aiutino is a French serial killer who was nicknamed "the man with fifty affairs". Convicted of three murders in the Longwy commune, he was sentenced to life imprisonment on March 6, 1998, including 18 years of preventive detention, which did not allow him to apply for parole.