List of Famous people born in Belgium
Daniel Van Buyten
Daniel Van Buyten is a Belgian former footballer who played as a centre back. Nicknamed "Big Dan", Van Buyten was known for his uncompromising style of play, exploiting both his physical strength and aerial ability.
Marie Gillain
Marie Gillain O.M.W. is a Belgian actress.
Jean de Selys Longchamps
Baron Jean Michel P.M.G. de Selys Longchamps DFC was a Belgian aristocrat and RAF fighter pilot during World War II who is chiefly notable for his solo 1943 attack on the Gestapo headquarters in Brussels in German-occupied Belgium.
Jade Foret
Jade Foret is a Belgian model whose family roots are in France. She is the wife of French businessman Arnaud Lagardère.
Thomas Pieters
Thomas Pieters is a Belgian professional golfer who currently plays on the European Tour.
Thierry Rey
Thierry Rey is a French judoka, world champion and olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the extra lightweight (60 kg) division at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. He is the father of Martin Rey-Chirac, as a result of a relation with Claude Chirac, a daughter of late president Jacques Chirac.
Loena Hendrickx
Loena Hendrickx is a Belgian figure skater. She is the 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia bronze medalist, a two-time Challenger series medalist, a two-time International Challenge Cup champion, and a four-time Belgian national champion. She is the first-ever Grand Prix medalist from Belgium in women's singles.
Arno
Arnold Charles Ernest Hintjens, better known by his stage name Arno, is a Belgian artist born in Ostend. He was the frontman of TC Matic, one of the best-known Belgian bands of the 1980s. Since the band split in 1986 he has had a solo career.
Milow
Jonathan Ivo Gilles Vandenbroeck, known professionally as Milow, is a Belgian singer-songwriter. Milow released his debut album, The Bigger Picture, in 2006 on his own label Homerun Records. The fourth single from that album, "You Don't Know," became one of the biggest hit singles of the year in Belgium in 2007, and The Bigger Picture stayed on the Belgian album chart for 110 weeks. However, it was not until his second self-released album Coming of Age in 2008, that Milow achieved major commercial success all over mainland Europe. The album peaked at number three on the German Album Top 50 chart, at number four in the Swiss Album Top 100, and peaked in the top twenty of many European charts. The album reached platinum in Germany and Switzerland, it reached gold in France, the Netherlands, and Belgium, and it sold over 500,000 copies in mainland Europe and Canada.
Princess Léa, Princess Alexandre of Belgium
Princess Léa of Belgium is the widow of Prince Alexandre of Belgium. She is an aunt by marriage of King Philippe of Belgium.