List of Famous people born in Hauts-de-France, France

Emma Saïd Ben Mohamed was best known as the maternal grandmother of Edith Piaf, France's national chanteuse. French of Moroccan-Italian descent, she worked as a singer and circus performer.

Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles, usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French priest, author, and novelist.

Françoise Hostalier was a member of the National Assembly of France. She represented Nord's 15th constituency from 2002 to 2012. She campaigned for François Fillon in the first round of the 2017 French presidential election, she supported Marine Le Pen in the second round.

Grégory Thil is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward.

Alexandre Flanquart is a French rugby union player, playing as lock for Provence in the Pro D2.

Henri Édouard Tresca was a French mechanical engineer, and a professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris.

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat is a French mathematician and physicist. She has made seminal contributions to the study of Einstein's general theory of relativity, by showing that the Einstein equations can be put into the form of an initial value problem which is well-posed. In 2015, her breakthrough paper was listed by the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity as one of thirteen 'milestone' results in the study of general relativity, across the hundred years in which it had been studied.

Geneviève Claisse was a French geometrical abstract painter.

Firminus Caron was a French composer, and likely a singer, of the Renaissance. He was highly successful as a composer and influential, especially on the development of imitative counterpoint, and numerous compositions of his survive. Most of what is known about his life and career is inferred.

Gervais Martel is a French businessman and president of French football club RC Lens having served in this role since 24 August 1988. Under the leadership of Martel, Lens won their first ever Ligue 1 title in the 1997–98 season and won their first ever Coupe de la Ligue title the following year. Martel is also a vice-president of the French Football Federation and serves on the federation's Federal Council.