List of Famous people born in Belgium
Pieter Vanspeybrouck
Pieter Vanspeybrouck is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux. In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the Tour de France.
Aloys Jousten
Aloys Jousten was a bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Liège in Belgium.
Jill Vandermeulen
Jozef De Kesel
Jozef De Kesel is a Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a cardinal since 2016 and Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels since 2015. He served as Bishop of Bruges from 2010 to 2015.
Marc Streel
Marc Streel is a Belgian former racing cyclist.
Luc Roosen
Luc Roosen is a retired road racing cyclist from Belgium, who was a professional rider from 1986 to 1997.
Wouter Beke
Wouter Beke is a Belgian politician and a member of the CD&V. He was reelected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2007. In 2014 he became a member of the Belgian Federal House of Representatives and was reelected in 2019. In July 2019 he succeeded Kris Peeters as Federal Minister for Work, Economy and Consumer affairs. He left the Belgian Federal Government in October 2019 to become Minister for Welfare, Public health, Family and Poverty reduction in the Flemish Regional Jambon Government.
Jean-Louis Comolli
Jean-Louis Comolli is a French writer, editor, and film director. He was editor in chief of Cahiers du cinéma from 1966 to 1978, during which period he wrote the influential essays "Machines of the Visible" (1971) and "Technique and Ideology: Camera, Perspective, Depth of Field" (1971-2), both of which have been translated in English anthologies of film and media studies. This work was important in the discussion on apparatus theory, an attempt to rethink cinema as a site for the production and maintenance of dominant state ideology in the wake of May 1968.
Guido Van Calster
Guido Van Calster is a retired Belgian racing cyclist. He won the points classification in the 1984 Vuelta a España.
Kadir Bekmezci
Kadir Bekmezci is a Belgian professional footballer of Turkish descent who plays as an attacking midfielder for Turkish club Elazığspor.