List of Belgians

Notable people born in Belgium or in the provinces of present-day Belgium:
(The same person may appear under several headings)

Actors, Film Directors

• Stijn Coninckx[?] - film director
• Jan Decleir[?] - actor
• Robbe De Hert[?] - film director
• André Delvaux - film director
• Audrey Hepburn - actress
• Ann Petersen[?] - actress

• Luc Philips[?] - actor
• Raoul Servais[?] - maker of animated films
• Jean Claude van Damme - actor
• Dora van der Groen[?] - actress

Architects

• Paul Hankar[?]
• Victor Horta[?]
• Henri Van De Velde[?]

Clergymen, Mystics

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

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
• Adrian Willaert[?]

Musicians

• Natacha Atlas - singer
• Jacques Brel
• Charles Cluytens[?] - conductor
• Lara Fabian[?]
• 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[?]
• Gerard David
• Philippe de Champaigne[?]
• Gaspar De Crayer[?]
• Raoul De Keyser[?] - abstract painter
• Paul Delvaux[?] - surrealist
• 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[?]
• Félicien Rops[?]
• Peter Paul Rubens
• Victor Servranckx[?] - cubist
• Frans Snyders[?]
• Leon Spilliaert[?]
• David Teniers the Younger[?]
• 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[?]

Rulers, Politicians

• Albert I of Belgium
• Albert II of Belgium
• Baudouin I of Belgium
• Auguste Beernaert[?] - Nobel Peace Prize 1908
• Willy Claes[?]
• Hendrik De Man[?]
• Gaston Eyskens
• Pierre Harmel
• Henri La Fontaine[?] - Nobel Peace Prize 1913
• Leopold I of Belgium
• Leopold II of Belgium
• Leopold III of Belgium
• Paul-Henri Spaak
• Jacob van Artevelde[?]
• Emile Vandervelde[?]
• Paul Van Zeeland
• See also: List of Belgian monarchs

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[?]

Sporting Personalities

• 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[?]
• 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

Writers, Poets

• 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
• 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

Others

• Marcel Broodthaers[?]
• Maurice Béjart[?] - choreographer
• Ann Theresa de Keersmaker[?] - choreographer
• Gilbert Delahaye
• Frank De Winne[?] - astronaut
• Jacques Dupuis
• Dirk Frimout[?] - astronaut
• Silvio Gesell
• Hergé (Georges Remi) - comics artist
• Hermann Huppen - cartoonist
• Gerard Mortier[?]
• Marcel Marlier
• Adolphe Sax - inventor of the saxophone
• Dries van Noten[?] - fashion designer
• Egide Walschaerts[?] - engineer / inventor

Fictitious

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

Sub-list

• List of authors of Franco-Belgian comics
• A Website on famous Flemish people: Flanders (http://noosphere.cc/flanders.html)

See also: List of people by nationality