Belgium
People of this nationality
Émile Mathieu
1844 – 1932
composer
Thomas Wils
b. 1990
association football player
Panamarenko
1940 – 2019
painter
Didier Theys
b. 1956
racing automobile driver
Muriel Dacq
b. 1962
singer
Joseph Édouard Bommer
1829 – 1895
botanist
Robert Van Zeebroeck
1909 – 1991
figure skater
Ward Ruyslinck
1929 – 2014
writer
Jo Gilis
b. 2000
association football player
Willy Schroeders
1932 – 2017
sport cyclist
Yves De Brabander
b. 1976
visual artist
Françoise Meunier
b. 1953
physician
Prince Gabriel of Belgium
b. 2003
student
Jacques Rensburg
b. 1903
field hockey player
Adolf Ax
1906 – 1983
military personnel
Jean Collard
1881 – 1951
sculptor
Tony Englebert
b. 1961
association football player
Hippolyte Fizeau
1819 – 1896
physicist
Pieter Stevens
1567 – 1624
painter
Herri met de Bles
1510 – 1555
painter
Gil Suray
b. 1984
sport cyclist
Willy Taminiaux
1939 – 2018
politician
Louis Andrieu
sport shooter
Aimé Anthuenis
b. 1943
association football player
Jean-Claude Van Geenberghe
1962 – 2009
equestrian
Katrien Torfs
b. 1987
association football player
Jane Mérey
b. 1872
opera singer
Princess Marie-Astrid of Liechtenstein
b. 1987
aristocrat
Marcel Wolfers
1886 – 1976
sculptor
Hans Kluge
b. 1968
physician
Marcel Gustin
1895 – 1977
athletics competitor
Stijn Van Cauter
b. 2000
lyricist
Paula Sémer
1925 – 2021
actor
Joos Valgaeren
b. 1976
association football player
Louis Paul Boon
1912 – 1979
writer
Hanne Gaby Odiele
b. 1988
model
Jacob Ferdinand Voet
1639 – 1700
painter
Sam de Meester
b. 1982
association football player
Tom Waes
b. 1968
film director
Jacob van der Kerckhoven
1636 – 1712
painter
Willy Peirens
b. 1936
syndicalist
Josef Christiaens
1882 – 1919
engineer
John Klotz
sailor
Bruno De Clynsen
b. 1954
field hockey player
Irina De Knop
b. 1978
politician
Auguste Lameere
1864 – 1942
entomologist
Ingrid Vandebosch
b. 1970
actor
André Poplimont
1893 – 1973
ice hockey player
Jacques Brotchi
b. 1942
neurosurgeon
Henri Eugène Lucien Gaëtan Coemans
1825 – 1871
botanist
Carole Dekeijser
1959 – 2008
painter
Mateo Romero
1575 – 1647
composer
Adjani Mujangi Bia
b. 2010
association football player
Albert Michant
b. 1876
water polo player
Elza Severin
1913 – 1988
artist
Eva De Bleeker
b. 1974
politician
Georges Ditzler
1897 – 1974
association football player
Farah Jacquet
b. 1985
politician
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1946 – 2014
film director
Marcel Hendrickx
1935 – 2020
politician
Adolphe Groscol
1904 – 1985
athletics competitor
Emma Leclercq
1851 – 1933
naturalist
Louis Clincke
b. 1986
sport cyclist
Dominiq Fournal
1956 – 2024
painter
Guillaume Metten
1938 – 2020
diplomat
Alfred Ronner
1851 – 1901
painter
August Meuleman
1906 – 2000
sport cyclist
Félix de Vigne
1806 – 1862
painter
Stef Kamil Carlens
b. 1970
singer-songwriter
Gerard Soete
1920 – 2000
writer
Mourade Zeguendi
b. 1980
actor
Franck Delhem
1936 – 2020
fencer
Henri-Joseph Ruxthiel
1775 – 1837
sculptor
Goedele Vermeiren
b. 1962
politician
Edward Lipiński
1930 – 2024
orientalist
Ruud Kuijten
b. 1973
badminton player
Sara Bals
b. 1977
researcher
Edouard Close
1929 – 2017
politician
Raoul Servais
1928 – 2023
film director
Andreas Vanpoucke
b. 1959
painter
Louis Melsens
1814 – 1886
chemist
Raoul Daufresne de la Chevalerie
1881 – 1967
association football player
Benoît Mernier
b. 1964
organist
André Louf
1929 – 2010
translator
Anja Daems
b. 1968
radio personality
Léopold Guillaume Gillekens
1833 – 1905
arboriculture
Karel Van Miert
1942 – 2009
politician
Geneviève Janssen-Pevtschin
1915 – 2001
lawyer
Joseph Octave Delepierre
1804 – 1879
historian
Hannah Eurlings
b. 2003
association football player
Julien Friedler
1950 – 2022
painter
Pol Fraiture
1946 – 1981
painter
Marcel Seynaeve
1933 – 2015
sport cyclist
Pascale Verbauwen
b. 1963
swimmer
Guillaume Meulders
1888 – 2000
association football player
Frédéric Mawet
b. 1977
badminton player
Jozef De Beenhouwer
b. 1948
musicologist
Albert Dehert
1921 – 2013
association football player
Bob Hancké
b. 1962
economist
Francis De Smet
b. 1963
film producer