List of Famous people born in Flemish Region, Belgium
Willy Planckaert
Willy Planckaert is a Belgian former road bicycle racer. His brothers, Eddy and Walter Planckaert, are also famous road bicycle racers. His son, Jo, was also a road cyclist.
Tessa Wullaert
Tessa Wullaert is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Anderlecht and the Belgian national team.
Marc Van Ranst
Marc Van Ranst is a Belgian public health doctor and Professor of Virology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Rega Institute for Medical Research. On 1 May 2007, he was appointed as Interministerial comissionar by the Belgian federal government to prepare Belgium for an influenza pandemic.
Jo Planckaert
Jo Planckaert is a former Belgian professional road bicycle racer. He is the son of former professional road bicycle racer Willy Planckaert, brother of famous road bicycle racers Eddy and Walter Planckaert.
Julie Vanloo
Julie Vanloo is a Belgian basketball player for Casademont Zaragoza of La Liga Feminina. She also plays for the Belgian national team. She participated at EuroBasket Women 2017.
Baptiste Planckaert
Baptiste Planckaert is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux. In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the Giro d'Italia, where he finished 116th overall.
Francesco Planckaert
Raoul Lévy
Raoul Levy was a French film producer, writer and director best known for a series of movies he made starring Brigitte Bardot. He was born in Antwerp.
Felix Van Groeningen
Felix van Groeningen is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. He is known for The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012) and Belgica (2016), with the former being nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards. He made his English-language debut with the biographical drama Beautiful Boy (2018).
Vincent Van Quickenborne
Vincent Paul Marie Van Quickenborne is a Belgian politician of the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats who has been serving as Minister of Justice in the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since 2020.