[3] The Swedish artist Carl Larsson met his wife Karin Bergöö while they were both staying at Grez.

Others include Irish artist Frank O'Meara, Swedish artists Karl Nordström, Emma Chadwick, Julia Beck and Bruno Liljefors as well as writer August Strindberg, the Danish and Norwegian members of the Skagen Painters, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

American artists were John Singer Sargent, Francis Brooks Chadwick, Robert Vonnoh, Edward Simmons (painter), Will Hicox Low, Theodore Robinson, Willard Metcalf, Bruce Crane, and Kenyon Cox.

The English composer Frederick Delius lived here and dictated a number of works to his amanuensis, Eric Fenby, here.

The American soprano and folk song fieldworker Loraine Wyman spent several years here starting in 1928, following her retirement from singing.