Belgium
People of this nationality
Marc Bolle
b. 1949
tennis player
Leo Baekeland
1863 – 1944
chemist
Leylah Alliët
b. 1992
beauty pageant contestant
Marthe Crick-Kuntziger
1891 – 1963
curator
Jef Moerenhout
1910 – 1966
sport cyclist
Gladys Kazadi
b. 1994
politician
Henri Quersin
1863 – 1944
sport shooter
Maria Huybrechts
1930 – 2023
swimmer
Pol Goffaux
1916 – 1977
boxer
Corneille Heymans
1892 – 1968
physician
Bernd Rauw
b. 1980
association football player
Louis-Georges Niels
1919 – 2000
bobsledder
Damien Lahaye
b. 1984
association football player
René Walschot
1916 – 2003
sport cyclist
Yvan Freedman
1926 – 1996
field hockey player
Firmin De Coster
1930 – 2006
association football player
Amber Tysiak
b. 2000
association football player
Piat Joseph Sauvage
1744 – 1818
painter
Élisabeth Van Rysselberghe
1890 – 1980
translator
Didier Beugnies
b. 1961
association football player
Paul Michiels
b. 1948
singer
Willy Polleunis
b. 1947
athletics competitor
Jef Planckaert
1934 – 2007
sport cyclist
Boudewijn Bouckaert
b. 1947
university teacher
Joachim Lafosse
b. 1975
film director
Thomas Plesters
b. 1977
rower
Suzanne Leclercq
1901 – 1994
paleobotanist
Aristote Nkaka
b. 1996
association football player
Ernest Mandel
1923 – 1995
economist
Julien Verdonck
1885 – 1949
artistic gymnast
Réginal Goreux
b. 1987
association football player
William Tackaert
b. 1956
sport cyclist
Dolly Menga
b. 1993
association football player
Jules Bordet
1870 – 1961
biologist
Jean de Witte
1808 – 1889
classical archaeologist
Niels Bruynseels
b. 1983
show jumper
Victor Larock
1904 – 1977
politician
Nicolas Lombaerts
b. 1985
association football player
Philibert Smellinckx
1911 – 1977
association football player
Vittorio Leonardo
b. 1938
comics artist
Khalil Aouasti
b. 1986
politician
Alessio Allegria
b. 1995
association football player
Eddy Wauters
1933 – 2025
association football player
Walter Baele
b. 1964
actor
Michel Van Tuyckom
b. 1954
field hockey player
Rosalie Loveling
1834 – 1875
poet
Jan Vanderheyden
1890 – 1961
film director
Hans Eworth
1520 – 1574
painter
Raphael Glorieux
1929 – 1986
sport cyclist
Joe Tshupula
b. 1972
association football player
Marguerite Chaudoir
1885 – 1967
tennis player
Jan Storms
1925 – 2019
sport cyclist
Théodore Pilette
1883 – 1921
engineer
Macarius Simeomo
1616 – 1676
theologian
Edith Volckaert
1949 – 1992
violinist
Josina Margareta Weenix
painter
Reinhoud D'Haese
1928 – 2007
painter
Antoine Lox
1900 – 1982
sport cyclist
Lorenzo Noviello
b. 2002
association football player
Albert Henry
1910 – 2002
historian
Charles Faider
1811 – 1893
politician
Krista De Jonge
b. 1959
architectural historian
Frederik Bouttats the Elder
1590 – 1661
painter
Jean Chaerels
b. 1908
sport cyclist
Fernand Goossens
1888 – 1963
association football player
Victor Harou
1851 – 1923
explorer
Émile Barbier
1902 – 1999
fencer
Xavier Löwenthal
b. 1970
comics artist
François van Hoobrouck d'Aspre
1934 – 2020
politician
Jean-Baptiste Piron
1896 – 1974
military officer
Filip Anthuenis
b. 1965
politician
Fanny Mosselman
1808 – 1880
salonnière
Georges Dallemagne
b. 1958
politician
Monique Hanotte
1920 – 2022
resistance fighter
Vitold Belevitch
1921 – 1999
mathematician
François Glorieux
1932 – 2023
conductor
Maurice Passelecq
1875 – 1937
skipper
Karel Dobbelaere
1933 – 2024
university teacher
Jules Quoilin
b. 1929
association football player
François Kompany
b. 1989
association football player
Shana Van Glabeke
b. 1993
sport cyclist
Auguste-Léopold Huys
1871 – 1938
Catholic priest
Yusuf Lawal
b. 1998
association football player
Frans Mortelmans
1865 – 1936
painter
Paul-Aloïse De Bock
1898 – 1986
lawyer
Emir Ujkani
b. 1985
association football player
Dieter Dekelver
b. 1979
association football player
Léon van Hove
1924 – 1990
physicist
Hatty Nawezhi
b. 1994
basketball player
Ilona Masson
b. 2001
athletics competitor
Peter Luts
b. 1971
record producer
Herman de Coninck
1944 – 1997
poet
Pieter Gerkens
b. 1995
association football player
Fernand Auwera
1929 – 2015
screenwriter
Marc Vervenne
b. 1949
theologian
Jan Baptist van der Hulst
1790 – 1862
painter
Paul Goeminne
1888 – 2000
ice hockey player
Pierre Pestieau
b. 1943
economist
Carla Serena
1824 – 1884
writer
Joseph Destrée
1853 – 1932
art historian