List of Famous people born in Belgium

Pieter Vanspeybrouck

First Name Pieter
Last Name Vanspeybrouck
Born on February 10, 1987 (age 39)
Height 186 cm | 6'1

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.

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Aloys Jousten

First Name Aloys
Last Name Jousten
Born on November 2, 1937
Died on September 20, 2021 (aged 83)
Born in Belgium, Wallonia

Aloys Jousten was a bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Liège in Belgium.

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Jill Vandermeulen

First Name Jill
Born on December 3, 1987 (age 38)
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Jozef De Kesel

First Name Jozef
Born on June 17, 1947 (age 78)

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.

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Marc Streel

First Name Marc
Last Name Streel
Born on August 12, 1971 (age 54)
Born in Belgium, Wallonia

Marc Streel is a Belgian former racing cyclist.

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Luc Roosen

First Name Luc
Last Name Roosen
Born on September 17, 1964 (age 61)

Luc Roosen is a retired road racing cyclist from Belgium, who was a professional rider from 1986 to 1997.

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Wouter Beke

First Name Wouter
Born on August 9, 1974 (age 51)

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.

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Jean-Louis Comolli

Jean Louis Florentin Comolli
First Name Jean-Louis
Last Name Comolli
Born on July 30, 1941
Died on May 19, 2022 (aged 80)
Born in Belgium, Wallonia

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.

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Guido Van Calster

First Name Guido
Last Name Calster
Born on February 6, 1956 (age 70)

Guido Van Calster is a retired Belgian racing cyclist. He won the points classification in the 1984 Vuelta a España.

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Kadir Bekmezci

First Name Kadir
Last Name Bekmezci
Born on July 5, 1985 (age 40)
Born in Belgium, Wallonia
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Kadir Bekmezci is a Belgian professional footballer of Turkish descent who plays as an attacking midfielder for Turkish club Elazığspor.

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