List of Famous people born in Belgium
Roland Lethem
Roland Lethem is a Belgian filmmaker and writer.
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Koen Wauters
Koen Maria Gaston Wauters is a Flemish singer, active with the band Clouseau, television presenter, and occasionally actor and race car driver.
Lodewijk De Witte
Lodewijk (Lode) De Witte is the former governor of the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant.
Bessora
Bessora is a novelist and short story writer. After a career in international finance in Geneva, she studied anthropology and wrote her first novel. Since 1999 Bessora has published a book a year on average, mainly through the publishing group Gallimard. Her books have been translated into several languages.
Birger Verstraete
Birger Verstraete is a Belgian professional footballer who plays for Belgian First Division A side Antwerp, on loan from 1. FC Köln. In 2018–19, he helped Gent reach the final of the 2018–19 Belgian Cup, where they took the lead against Mechelen, before losing 2–1.
Bernard Tirtiaux
Peter Piot
Peter Karel Piot, Baron Piot, KCMG, FRCP, FMedSci is a Belgian microbiologist known for his research into Ebola and AIDS. Piot is the director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Karel De Gucht
Karel Lodewijk Georgette Emmerence De Gucht is a Belgian politician who was the European Commissioner for Trade from February 2010 until 31 October 2014. Previously, he served as Belgium's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2004 to 2009 and as the European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response from 2009 to 2010.