List of Famous people born in Grand Est, France

Nicolas Peifer is a French wheelchair tennis player. He plays single and double events.

Jacques Jean Edmond Georges Gaillot ; pronunciation (help·info); generally known in French as Monseigneur Gaillot) is a French Catholic clergyman and social activist. He was Bishop of Évreux in France from 1982 to 1995. In 1995, Pope John Paul II removed him as head of his diocese because he publicly expressed controversial and heterodox positions on religious, political and social matters.

Roland Ries is a French politician from Alsace holding several posts on local, regional and national level since 1997.

Axel Clerget is a French judoka. He is the 2017 European silver medalist in the 90 kg division.

Youssef Aït Bennasser is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Monaco and the Moroccan national team.

Pierre-Louis Barassi is a French rugby union player who plays for Lyon OU in the Top 14 and the French national team. His position is centre.

Jackie Berroyer is a French actor, comedian and writer.

Claude Vigée was a French poet who wrote in French and Alsatian. He described himself as a "Jew and an Alsatian, thus doubly Alsatian and doubly Jewish".

Gérard Lhéritier is a French manuscript dealer and expert in balloon mail. He is a sponsor of the National Library of France and around 2004 was the buyer of the manuscript of the Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom. In 1990 he founded Aristophil but in March 2015, was arrested by French police in connection with an investigation into a suspected pyramid scheme fraud at the firm. In 2012, he won the largest ever EuroMillions jackpot awarded in France at €170 million.

Jean Tirole is a French professor of economics at Toulouse 1 Capitole University. He focuses on industrial organization, game theory, banking and finance, and economics and psychology. In 2014 he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of market power and regulation.