List of Famous people born in Flemish Region, Belgium

Dirk Geeraerd is a Belgian former footballer and caretaker manager of Waasland-Beveren in the Belgian First Division B.

Marcel Laurens is a former Belgian racing cyclist. He finished in last place in the 1983 Tour de France.

Wouter Beke is a Belgian politician and a member of the CD&V. He was reelected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2007. In 2014 he became a member of the Belgian Federal House of Representatives and was reelected in 2019. In July 2019 he succeeded Kris Peeters as Federal Minister for Work, Economy and Consumer affairs. He left the Belgian Federal Government in October 2019 to become Minister for Welfare, Public health, Family and Poverty reduction in the Flemish Regional Jambon Government.

Jozef De Kesel is a Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a cardinal since 2016 and Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels since 2015. He served as Bishop of Bruges from 2010 to 2015.

Dirk Demol was directeur sportif for UCI World Tour team Team Katusha–Alpecin until 2019 and is currently assistant sports director with Eric Van Lancker of the Israel Cycling Academy. He specializes as a director is the spring classics, having himself won the 1988 edition of the one-day classic Paris–Roubaix, riding as a professional cyclist for Team ADR.

Gustaaf Van Slembrouck was a Belgian professional cyclist from 1926 to 1934, nicknamed 'Den Staf'. He won 4 Tour de France stages, and wore the yellow jersey for 6 days in 1926. He finished in second place in the 1926 Paris–Roubaix.

Daniël Termont is a Belgian politician, member of the Socialist Party and former mayor of Ghent, Belgium. He was the son of shopkeepers who lived in Mariakerke. His mother's family was strongly socialistically engaged. In 1971, Daniel obtained a degree in accounting at the Stedelijk Instituut voor Handel en Secretariaat. He did his military service as from April 1972 until April 1973 and worked later on for ten years as a federal charge of LTA, the youth organization of the Socialist Unions at that time. Until 1980 he was also an information officer at the East Flemish Division in the area Ghent-Eeklo. He has been elected to the city council since 1976. Later on, from 1983 until 1988, he was also director of De Ceder holiday centre in Deinze. He was the first director of the centre after a renovation which followed after many years of decline of the institution. Subsequently, from 1988 to 1995, he was secretary-treasurer of Bond Moyson, the year he took his first full-time political office as a councilor in Ghent. From 1995 until 2006, he was alderman of the harbour. Between 2001 and 2006 he was also alderman of festivities.

Rudy W.G. Demotte is a Belgian socialist politician who served as 12th Minister-President of Wallonia (2007-2014), replacing Elio Di Rupo, one month after a historical defeat of the socialists in the federal election.

Glen De Boeck is a Belgian former football player and manager, who is currently unemployed after most recently managing Lokeren in the Belgian First Division B. During his career he played as central defender, mostly on the books of Anderlecht.

Edward Sels is a former Belgian professional road bicycle racer. He was professional from 1963 to 1972, winning 35 races. He was road champion of Belgium in 1961 (Military) and 1964. He won seven stages in the Tour de France and one in the Giro d'Italia. He wore the yellow jersey for two days in the 1964 Tour de France. His sister, Rosa Sels, was a cyclist too.