List of Famous people born in Belgium
Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo
Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a left midfielder or defender for Belgian club Mechelen.
Philippe Geluck
Philippe Geluck is a Belgian comedian, humorist, television writer and cartoonist, who sold more than 14 million albums worldwide. He studied at the INSAS. His best-known work is the comic strip Le Chat, which is one of the ten bestselling Franco-Belgian comics series.
Elio Di Rupo
Elio Di Rupo is a Belgian social-democratic politician who is the 15th Minister-President of Wallonia. He served as the 50th Prime Minister of Belgium from 6 December 2011 to 11 October 2014, and headed the Di Rupo Government. Di Rupo was the first francophone to hold the office since Paul Vanden Boeynants in 1979, and the country's first socialist Prime Minister since Edmond Leburton left office in 1974. He was also Belgium's first Prime Minister of non-Belgian descent, and the world's second openly gay person and first openly gay man to be head of government in modern times.
Jacques Rogge
Jacques Jean Marie Rogge, Count Rogge is a Belgian sports administrator and physician who served as the eighth President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 2001 to 2013. In 2013, the IOC announced that Rogge would become their Honorary President.
Blanche
Ellie Blanche Delvaux, better known as simply Blanche, is a Belgian singer and songwriter. She represented Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Ukraine with the song "City Lights", finishing in fourth place. Blanche previously competed on season five of The Voice Belgique, where she was a member of Team Cats on Trees.
Dion Cools
Dion Johan Cools is a Belgian-Malaysian professional footballer who plays as a right back for Midtjylland in the Danish Superliga. His father is Belgian and his mother is Malaysian.
Thierry Hancisse
Thierry Hancisse is a Belgian actor. His acting credits include Un soir au club, The Boat Race, Le Couperet, Gabrielle, The Colonel, The Night Watchman, The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun and Fool Moon. He was nominated for the Magritte Award for Best Actor for The Boat Race.
Leandro Trossard
Leandro Trossard is a Belgian footballer who plays for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion and the Belgian national team.
Pierre Carette
Pierre Carette was the leader of the Belgian extreme-left terrorist group Communist Combatant Cells or CCC. Although Carette was sentenced to lifelong imprisonment for terrorist attacks, he was released in 2003. However, he was briefly arrested again on 5 June 2008 because of a parole violation, but was released by the court on 18 June.
Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant
Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant is the heir apparent to the Belgian throne. The eldest child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde, she acquired her position after her grandfather King Albert II abdicated in favour of her father on 21 July 2013.