List of famous Belgium people

Actors/Actresses

• Jan Decleir
• Audrey Hepburn
• Ann Petersen
• Luc Philips
• Jean Claude van Damme
• Dora van der Groen

Architects

• Paul Hankar
• Victor Horta
• Henri Van De Velde

Authors

• Louis Paul Boon
• Cyriel Buysse
• Ernest Claes
• Hugo Claus
• Hendrik Conscience
• Fernand Crommelynck
• Charles De Coster
• Michel De Ghelderode
• Willem Elsschot
• Guido Gezelle
• Camille Lemonnier
• Suzanne Lilar (1901-1992), essayist, novelist, and playwright
• Jacob van Maerlant
• Maurice Maeterlinck - Nobel Prize in Literature 1911
• Marcel Mariën - surrealist
• Henri Michaux, poet and painter
• Paul Nougé - surrealist
• Georges Rodenbach, Symbolist poet and novelist
• Georges Simenon
• Stijn Streuvels
• Herman Teirlinck
• Felix Timmermans
• Karel van de Woestijne
• Paul Van Ostayen
• Emile Verhaeren
• Marguerite Yourcenar

Choreographers

• Maurice Béjart
• Ann Theresa de Keersmaker

Composers

• Peter Benoit
• Gilles Binchois
• Jacob Clemens non Papa
• Cypriano de Rore
• Josquin des Prez
• François Joseph Fétis
• César Franck
• Karel Goeyvaerts
• Nicolas Gombert
• François Joseph Gossec
• André Grétry
• Joseph Jongen
• Léon Jongen
• Orlande de Lassus (Orlandus Lassus, Orlando di Lasso)
• Guillaume Lekeu
• Jacob Obrecht
• Johannes Ockeghem
• Henri Pousseur
• Henri Vieuxtemps
• Giaches de Wert
• Adrian Willaert

Fashion

• Dries Van Noten
• Dirk Bikkembergs
• Ann Demeulemeester
• Martin Margiela
• Walter Van Beirendonck
• Dries Van Noten
• Dirk Van Saene
• Marina Yee

Fictional characters

• Milo Perrier - the character based on Hercule Poirot in the film, Murder By Death
• Hercule Poirot
• Tintin

Filmmakers

• Stijn Coninckx
• Robbe De Hert
• André Delvaux
• Raoul Servais - maker of animated films

Military Figures

• Frank De Winne - astronaut
• Dirk Frimout - astronaut

Resistance Workers

• Henri Gaillot
• Albert Guerisse (1911-1989)
• Andrée "Dédée" de Jongh (born 1916)
• Georges Piron (1888-1943)
• Edgard Potier (1903-1944)
• Suzanne Spaak, (c.1905-1944)
• Gabrielle Weidner (1914-1945)
• Johan Hendrik Weidner (1912-1994)

Monarchs

• Albert I of Belgium
• Albert II of Belgium
• Baudouin I of Belgium
• Leopold I of Belgium
• Leopold II of Belgium
• Leopold III of Belgium
• See also: List of Belgian monarchs

Musicians, singers

• Natacha Atlas
• Tom Barman
• Plastic Bertrand (real name: Roger Jouret)
• Jacques Brel
• Charles Cluytens - conductor
• Suzanne Danco - soprano
• Lara Fabian
• Rita Gorr - mezzo soprano
• Arthur Grumiaux - violinist
• Philippe Herreweghe - conductor
• Sigiswald Kuijken - violinist and conductor
• Helmut Lotti
• Axelle Red
• Django Reinhardt
• Toots Thielemans
• Will Tura
• Eugène Ysaÿe - violinist and composer

Painters

• Pierre Alechinsky - Cobra member
• Boucicaut Master - manuscript illuminator
• Pieter Brueghel the Elder
• Robert Campin
• Petrus Christus
• Emile Claus - impressionism
• Gerard David
• Philippe de Champaigne
• Gaspar De Crayer
• Raoul De Keyser - abstract painter
• Paul Delvaux - surrealist
• Gustave De Smet - expressionism
• James Ensor
• Jacob Jordaens
• Justus of Ghent
• Fernand Khnopff - symbolist
• Limbourg brothers - manuscript illuminators
• Rene Magritte - surrealist
• Hans Memling
• Kwinten Metsys (also known as Quentin Matsys/Quentin Massys)
• Constant Permeke - expressionist
• Pieter Pourbus
• Roger Raveel
• Félicien Rops
• Peter Paul Rubens
• Victor Servranckx - cubist
• Franz Snyders
• Leon Spilliaert
• David Teniers the Younger
• Luc Tuymans
• Frits Van den Berghe - expressionist
• Hugo van der Goes
• Rogier van der Weyden (also known as Rog(i)er de la Pasture)
• Gustave Van de Woestijne
• Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antoon van Dyck)
• Jan van Eyck
• Eugeen Van Mieghem
• Bernard van Orley
• Theo van Rysselberghe - neo-impressionist
• Antoine Joseph Wiertz

Politicians

• Auguste Beernaert - Nobel Peace Prize 1908
• Willy Claes
• Hendrik De Man
• Gaston Eyskens
• Pierre Harmel
• Henri La Fontaine - Nobel Peace Prize 1913
• Wilfried Martens
• Paul-Henri Spaak
• Jacob van Artevelde
• Emile Vandervelde
• Paul Van Zeeland
• Guy Verhofstadt

Scientists

• Leo Hendrik Baekeland
• Jules Bordet - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1919
• Robert Cailliau - was involved in developing the first hypertext markup system for the WWW
• Albert Claude - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974
• Christian De Duve - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974
• Adrien de Gerlache
• Zénobe Gramme
• Corneille Heymans - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1938
• Georges Lemaître
• Justus Lipsius
• Gerardus Mercator
• Abraham Ortelius
• Henri Pirenne
• Joseph Plateau
• Ilya Prigogine - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977
• Adolphe Quetelet
• Gregory of Saint-Vincent
• Ernest Solvay
• Jean Stas
• Simon Stevin
• Andreas Vesalius

Sculptors

• François Duquesnoy
• Constantin Meunier
• George Minne
• Rik Wouters

Sportsmen and -women

• Brigitte Becue - swimmer
• Ingrid Berghmans - judoka
• Thierry Boutsen - racing driver
• Jan Ceulemans - football player
• Raymond Ceulemans - billiards player
• Kim Clijsters - tennis player
• Fred Deburghgraeve - swimmer
• Stefan Everts - motorcrosser
• Olivier Gendebien - race car driver
• Justine Henin-Hardenne - tennis player
• Jacky Ickx - racing driver
• Eddy Merckx - cyclist
• Johan Museeuw - cyclist
• Jean-Marie Pfaff - football goalkeeper
• Michel Preud'homme - football goalkeeper
• Emiel Puttemans - athlete
• Gaston Roelants - athlete
• Jacques Rogge - IOC president
• Jean-Michel Saive - table tennis player
• Enzo Scifo - football player
• Patrick Sercu - cyclist
• Paul Van Asbroeck - marksman
• Ivo Van Damme - athlete
• Gella Vandecaveye - judoka
• Robert Van De Walle - judoka
• Paul Van Himst - football player
• Hubert Van Innis - archer
• Rik Van Looy - cyclist
• Rik Van Steenbergen - cyclist
• Bart Veldkamp - speed skater
• Ulla Werbrouck - judoka

Theologians, clergymen

• Jean Bolland - hagiographer
• Father Damien (Pater Damiaan)
• Cornelius Jansen - theologian
• Georges Pire - Dominican priest, Nobel Peace Prize 1958
• Blessed John Ruysbroeck - mystic

Visual artists

• Guillaume Bijl
• Marcel Broodthaers
• Carl De Keyzer - photographer
• Wim Delvoye
• Jan Fabre
• Panamarenko

Others

• Gilbert Delahaye
• Jacques Dupuis
• Silvio Gesell
• Hergé (Georges Remi) - comics artist
• Hermann Huppen - cartoonist
• Gerard Mortier
• Marcel Marlier
• Adolphe Sax - inventor of the saxophone
• Egide Walschaerts - engineer / inventor

Sub-lists

• List of authors of Franco-Belgian comics

Links

• A Website on famous Flemish people: http://noosphere.cc/flanders.html
• Famous Belgians

See also: List of people by nationality