List of Famous people born in Belgium
Bart Dockx
Bart Dockx is a former Belgian professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2004 to 2011.
Maxime Monfort
Maxime Monfort is a Belgian former professional road racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2004 and 2019 for the Landbouwkrediet–Colnago, Cofidis, Team HTC–Columbia, RadioShack–Leopard, and Lotto–Soudal teams.
Laura Laune
Sarah Grosjean
Wilfried Cretskens
Wilfried Cretskens is a Belgian former road bicycle racer. He rode most of his career for the Quick-Step–Innergetic team, where he was a domestique for the team leaders in the classic races, among others Tom Boonen. His most notable career win was the 2007 Tour of Qatar.
Willy Vanden Berghen
Willy Vanden Berghen is a retired Belgian professional road bicycle racer. In 1960 he won two bronze medals in the road race, one at the amateur world championships and the other at the Olympic Games.
Thor Salden
Thor Salden from Schoten was the winning contestant in the Belgian pre-selections of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 and he represented Belgium in the international final on 2 December 2006 in Bucharest, Romania where he reached seventh place in a field of fifteen. At the time of the preselections he was the youngest contestant at eight years old. He won both the first semi-final on 17 September 2006 and the final on 1 October 2006. In the opening show he performed together with Attic and Clouseau.
Kevin Seeldraeyers
Kevin Seeldraeyers is a Belgian retired professional road bicycle racer.
Gilbert Desmet
Gilbert Desmet, nicknamed Smetje van Lichtervelde, is a former Belgian cyclist who was professional from 1952 to 1967. In the 1956 Tour de France, he wore the yellow jersey for 2 days, and in the 1963 Tour de France he wore it for 9 days. Desmet won 101 professional courses, including Paris–Tours, La Flèche Wallonne and Four Days of Dunkirk. His best result in the Tour de France was his 4th place in 1962. He finished second in the 1959 Paris–Roubaix.
Herman Vanspringel
Herman Vanspringel, also spelled Herman Van Springel, was a Belgian road racing cyclist, from Grobbendonk, in the Flemish Campine or Kempen region. He achieved podium finishes in all three of the grand tours with second place in the 1968 Tour de France and 1971 Giro d'Italia, and third place in the 1970 Vuelta a España. He wore the Maillot Jaune during four stages of the 1968 Tour de France and for three stages in 1973.