List of Famous people born in Belgium

Johan Gerets

First Name Johan
Born on January 5, 1982 (age 44)
Height 186 cm | 6'1
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Vincent Blondel

First Name Vincent
Last Name Blondel
Born on April 28, 1965 (age 61)

Vincent D. Blondel is a Belgian professor of applied mathematics and current rector of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Blondel's research lies in the area of mathematical control theory and theoretical computer science. He is mostly known for his contributions in computational complexity in control, multi-agent coordination and complex networks.

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Olivier Maingain

First Name Olivier
Last Name Maingain
Born on August 3, 1958 (age 68)

Olivier D. A. Gh. Maingain is a Belgian francophone politician and former president of DéFI.

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Caroline Désir

First Name Caroline
Last Name Désir
Born on October 20, 1976 (age 50)
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Benoît Debie

First Name Benoît
Last Name Debie
Born on November 30, 1967 (age 58)
Born in Belgium, Wallonia

Benoît Debie is a Belgian cinematographer. He is best known for his work on features including Irréversible (2002), Enter the Void (2009), The Runaways (2010) and Spring Breakers (2012).

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Michel Foret

First Name Michel
Last Name Foret
Born on April 19, 1948 (age 78)
Born in Belgium, Wallonia

Michel Foret is a Belgian politician and lawyer. A member of the Reformist Movement, he is the current governor of Liège Province since 11 February 2004.

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Joseph A. Thas

First Name Joseph
Last Name Thas
Born on October 13, 1944 (age 82)

Joseph Adolphe François Thas is a Belgian mathematician, who works on combinatorics, incidence geometry and finite geometries.

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Alain Berliner

First Name Alain
Born on February 21, 1963 (age 63)

Alain Berliner is a Belgian film director best known for the 1997 film Ma vie en rose, which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Golden Globe Awards in 1998. Ma vie en rose is also used as film in England, to teach children about cross-dressing and is a very valuable film for community.

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Johan Capiot

First Name Johan
Born on April 12, 1964 (age 62)

Johan Capiot is a former professional road racing cyclist. He was a professional rider from 1986 to 2000.

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Ingrid Daubechies

First Name Ingrid
Born on August 17, 1954 (age 72)

Baroness Ingrid Daubechies is a Belgian physicist and mathematician. She is best known for her work with wavelets in image compression.

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