List of Famous people born in Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

François Vercauteren, nicknamed "The Little Prince", is a Belgian former footballer who played as a left winger. He is currently managing Antwerp.

Toma Nikiforov is a Belgian judoka who competes in the under 100 kg category. In 2015, he won bronze medals at the world championships and European Games. In 2016, he placed second at the European championships, but was eliminated in the second bout at the Rio Olympics. He won the gold medal at the 2018 European Judo Championships.

Vinciane Despret is a Belgian philosopher of science, associate professor, at the University of Liège, Belgium.

Leopold III was King of the Belgians from 1934 until 1951. On the outbreak of World War II, Leopold tried to maintain Belgian neutrality, but after the German invasion in May 1940, he surrendered his country, earning him much hostility, both at home and abroad.

Georges Serge Grün is a former Belgian football defender, who currently works as a television presenter for the UEFA Champions League matches at RTL TVI.

Axel Eddy Lucien Jonkheer Merckx is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer and the son of five-time Tour de France champion Eddy Merckx. He is currently the team director of UCI Continental team Hagens Berman Axeon.

Anne Coesens is a Belgian actress. She studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and the National Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Paris and works in theatre. She also appears in films – her credits include Illegal, Ma vie en rose, Private Lessons, Tomorrow We Move, and Diamant 13. She received the Magritte Award for Best Actress for Illegal which was her fourth film with Olivier Masset-Depasse.

Pierre Alechinsky is a Belgian artist. He has lived and worked in France since 1951. His work is related to tachisme, abstract expressionism, and lyrical abstraction.

Yvan Mayeur is a former Belgian politician, former member of the Socialist Party and former mayor of Brussels from 2013 until 2017.

Gérard Chaliand is a French expert in geopolitics who has published widely on irregular warfare and military strategy. Chaliand analyses of insurgencies in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, mostly based on his field experience with insurgent forces, have appeared in more than 20 books and in numerous newspaper articles. He has worked autonomously throughout his career, unconstrained by the perspectives of national governments and policy institutes. As a result, his work provides an independent perspective on many of the major conflicts characterized the 20th and 21st centuries. He is also a published poet.