List of Famous people born in Belgium

Pascaline Crêvecoeur is a French-speaking actress in both cinema and theatre.

Jean-Marie Wampers is a former professional road racing cyclist from Belgium. He was a professional between 1981 and 1992, achieving his greatest triumph when he won Paris–Roubaix in 1989.

Joan Daemen is a Belgian cryptographer who co-designed with Vincent Rijmen the Rijndael cipher, which was selected as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in 2001. More recently, he co-designed the Keccak cryptographic hash, which was selected as the new SHA-3 hash by NIST in October 2012. He has also designed or co-designed the MMB, Square, SHARK, NOEKEON, 3-Way, and BaseKing block ciphers. In 2017 he won the Levchin Prize for Real World Cryptography "for the development of AES and SHA3". He modestly describes his development of encryption algorithms as the creating the bricks which are needed to build the secure foundations online.

Francky Dury is a Belgian football manager who is the current manager of Zulte Waregem.

Jean-Claude Paye is a Belgian sociologist. His work, including La fin de l’Etat de droit, focuses on the transformations of the juridical forms of the state in the wake of the War on Terrorism.