List of Famous people born in Belgium

Vital Philomene Borkelmans is a Belgian football coach and a former left fullback who mainly played for Club Brugge, in the Belgian First Division. He also played for Patro Eisden, SV Waregem, Gent and Cercle Brugge. Vital played with Belgium and was in the team for the 1994 and 1998 World Cups. In January 2010, he was appointed manager of Dender EH in the Belgian Second Division, but fired following the relegation to the Belgian Third Division following the 2011-12 season. In July 2012, Vital Borkelmans was revealed as assistant manager to Marc Wilmots for the Belgium national football team.

Lianne Tan is a Belgian badminton player. She competed for Belgium at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Lianne was selected, together with her brother Yuhan, to participate in the 2012 Summer Olympics. In 2015, she won the silver medal in the European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan. In 2016, she also competed at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Mahinur Özdemir is a Belgian politician, with dual nationality. She is youngest and first female member of parliament with Hijab. She was expelled from Humanist Democratic Centre (cdH) for denying the Armenian genocide in 2015.

Edmilson Junior Paulo da Silva, commonly known as Edmilson, is a Belgian footballer who plays as a winger for Qatari club Al-Duhail.

Björn Vleminckx is a Belgian footballer who plays as a striker for FC Oppuurs.

Umut Gündoğan is a Turkish professional footballer who most recently played as a midfielder for Boluspor.