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

Nafissatou "Nafi" Thiam is a Belgian athlete specializing in multi-event competition. Her mother is Belgian and her father is Senegalese. As of February 2020, Thiam holds the Belgian record in women's heptathlon, women's javelin and women's long jump. She set a new world record for the high jump discipline within a women's heptathlon competition in 2019.

Yolande Moreau is a Belgian comedian, actress, film director and screenwriter. She has won three César Awards from four nominations.

Olivier Minne is a Belgian-born French television presenter, actor and producer.

Serge Van Laeken, known as Marka, is a Belgian singer, songwriter, composer and film-maker.

Marie Kremer is a Belgian actress. Her first leading role was in the 2003 movie I Always Wanted to be a Saint ., for which she won the Créteil International Women's Film Festival's Female Talent Award. After that, she played in St.Jacques-La Mecque, a film about a group of people on their way to Santiago de Compostela. She is also to be seen in Caché, and also in Ravages, a film from Christophe Lamotte, Blame it on Fidel and Beneath the rooftops of Paris. In 2012 she was nominated for the Magritte Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Jonas Bloquet is a Belgian actor, known for his roles as Vincent Leblanc in Elle (2016), for which he was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actor, and Jonas in Private Lessons (2009), which earned him a Magritte Award nomination in the category of Most Promising Actor.

Florence Aubenas is a French journalist.

Jonathan Zaccaï is a Belgian actor, film director and screenwriter. He is the nephew of René Kalisky.

Jacques Tits is a Belgium-born French mathematician who works on group theory and incidence geometry. He introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric.

Jason Grégory Marianne Denayer is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for French club Lyon and the Belgium national side.