List of Famous people born in Flemish Region, Belgium
Hendrik Redant
Hendrik Redant is a former Belgian professional cyclist. He was a directeur sportif with the Omega Pharma-Lotto cycling team until the end of the 2010 season. For 2011 he left Omega Pharma-Lotto to take up a position with the Australian Pegasus Sports Racing team. The team folded before making its debut.
René Vanderveken
René Vanderveken is a Belgian racing cyclist. He rode in the 1961 Tour de France.
Edward Theuns
Edward Theuns is a Belgian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Trek–Segafredo. He rode for his national team at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships.
Stijn Coninx
Stijn, Baron Coninx is a Belgian film director.
Inge Vervotte
Inge Vervotte is a Belgian politician for the Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD&V). She was Belgian federal minister for Civil Service and Public Enterprises in the Leterme I Government, which was in office in 2008 from 20 March to 30 December.
Jurgen Van Den Broeck
Jurgen Van den Broeck is a Belgian former road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2004 and 2017 for the Discovery Channel, Lotto–Soudal, Team Katusha and LottoNL–Jumbo squads. Van den Broeck specialised in the time trial discipline, having been Junior World Champion against the clock in 2001. The promise he first displayed in minor stage races like the Tour de Romandie and Eneco Tour was later validated and confirmed by top-10 finishes in all three Grand Tours: the Giro d'Italia, the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España.
Micha Marah
Micha Marah is a Belgian singer and actress. She represented Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1979 with the song "Hey Nana".
Bart De Clercq
Bart De Clercq is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2011 and 2019 for the Lotto–Soudal and Wanty–Gobert teams. His first professional victory was the seventh stage of the 2011 Giro d'Italia.
Ira Vannut
Ira Vannut is a Belgian figure skater. She is the 2011 Belgian ladies champion and the first female skater from Belgium to medal on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, winning a bronze at the 2010 Pokal der Blauen Schwerter.
Wouter Claes
Wouter Claes is a male left-handed Belgian badminton player. He won 20 Belgian titles, 10 in men's doubles with Fréderic Mawet and Ruud Kuijten, 10 in mixed doubles with Manon Albinus, Corina Herrle and Nathalie Descamps. He won 20 Flemish Championships in singles, men's doubles with Nico Claes and Steven Delsaert and mixed doubles with Nathalie Descamps and Janne Elst. He won a bronze medal in mixed doubles during the 2010 European Badminton Championships. This was the first Belgian medal ever won at a European Championship. During his career, he was placed 21 in world ranking.