List of Famous people born in Belgium
Tim Mertens
Tim Mertens is a former Belgian professional racing cyclist. He got most of his successes on the track.
Luc Eymael
Luc Eymael is a Belgian football manager and a former footballer who most recently managed the Tanzanian Young Africans S.C. until July 2020.
Leo Sterckx
Leo Sterckx is a former Belgian cyclist. He competed for Belgium at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy in the individual sprint event where he finished in second place.
Joseph Maraite
Joseph Maraite was a Belgian politician of the German-speaking Community.
Patrick Lefevere
Patrick Lefevere is a Belgian former professional cyclist, who currently serves as the general manager of UCI WorldTeam Deceuninck–Quick-Step. According to the ranking site Cycling Ranking he is the most successful cycling manager in history.
Jonathan Breyne
Jonathan Breyne is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for Belgian amateur team Gaverzicht–BE Okay.
Rudy Pevenage
Rudy Pévenage is a former Belgian cyclist, and later in his career team coach of cycling teams such as Histor, La William, Team Bianchi and T-Mobile Team.
Stijn Vandenbergh
Stijn Vandenbergh is a Belgian former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2007 and 2020 for the Unibet.com, Team Katusha, Etixx–Quick-Step and AG2R La Mondiale teams.
Frederik Frison
Frederik Frison is a Belgian professional road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Lotto–Soudal. He rode first for the Lotto–Soudal U23 team, where he had some success in the first part of the 2015 season. He was then signed to the senior team as a stagiaire; he rode races including the 2015 Tour of Britain and the 2015 Paris–Tours. In December 2015, he signed a professional contract to ride for Lotto–Soudal from the 2016 season. In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Giro d'Italia. In August 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Tour de France.
Marianne Bertrand
Marianne Bertrand is a Belgian economist who currently works as Chris P. Dialynas Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. Bertrand belongs to the world's most prominent labour economists in terms of research, which has been awarded the 2004 Elaine Bennett Research Prize and the 2012 Sherwin Rosen Prize for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Labor Economics.She is a research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the IZA Institute of Labor Economics.