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

Jean-Philippe Toussaint is a Belgian novelist, photographer and filmmaker. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and he has had his photographs displayed in Brussels and Japan. Toussaint won the Prix Médicis in 2005 for his novel Fuir, second volume of the « Cycle of Marie », a four-tome chronicle published over ten years and displaying the separation of Marie and her lover. His 2009 novel La Vérité sur Marie, third volume of the cycle, won the Prix Décembre.

Bessora is a novelist and short story writer. After a career in international finance in Geneva, she studied anthropology and wrote her first novel. Since 1999 Bessora has published a book a year on average, mainly through the publishing group Gallimard. Her books have been translated into several languages.

Adeline Dieudonné is a Belgian writer. She is best known for her debut novel Real Life (2018), which won numerous literary prizes in the Francophone world, among them:

• Prix du Roman FNAC
• Prix Rossel
• Prix Renaudot des lycéens
• Prix Goncourt―Le Choix de la Belgique
• Prix des Étoiles du Parisien
• Prix Première Plume
• Prix Filigrane

Mathias François Dewatripont is a Belgian economist and professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).