List of Famous people born in Flemish Region, Belgium

Filip Meirhaeghe is a retired Belgian racing cyclist. His primary focus was in mountain bike racing, however, he has also taken part in elite road, cyclo-cross and track cycling. He has won four Mountain Bike World Championships medals, one Olympic medal and a total of eleven mountain bike World Cup events. In the final years of his racing career he raced for the bicycle manufacturer Specialized Bicycle Components on the mountain bike and for the professional team Domina Vacanze-Elitron on the road.

Rik Van Slycke is a former Belgian cyclist. He is now a directeur sportif with the Quick Step cycling team.

Nathalie Descamps is a right-handed badminton player from Belgium. Until 2010, she has won 17 Belgian National Badminton Championships. Descamps also won the bronze medal at the 2010 European Badminton Championships in the mixed doubles event partnered with Wouter Claes.

Guido Van Calster is a retired Belgian racing cyclist. He won the points classification in the 1984 Vuelta a España.

Johan De Muynck is a Belgian former professional road racing cyclist who raced from 1971 to 1983. The highlight of his career was his overall win in the 1978 Giro d'Italia. He was an outstanding climber. Other Grand Tour highlights include a very strong performance in the closely contested 1976 Giro d'Italia where he held the Maglia Rosa until the final time trial finishing on the podium in 2nd less than a minute behind the winner. He also rode well in the 1980 and 1981 editions of the Tour de France where he finished 4th and 7th respectively. Going into the 2020 cycling season De Muynck is the last Belgian rider to win a Grand Tour.

Paul Van den Berghe is a Belgium Bishop in the Roman Catholic Church.

Wim Mertens is a Flemish Belgian composer, countertenor vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and musicologist.

Andy Cappelle is a Belgian former professional road cyclist.

Marc Wauters is a former Belgian cyclist who was professional from 1991 until 2006. The 2004 Olympian, nicknamed The Soldier was a member of the Rabobank cycling team of the UCI ProTour since 1998 and had to end his career several weeks short because of a broken collarbone which he suffered during a training on 20 September 2006.

Lucien Storme was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. He won the 1938 Paris–Roubaix. In December 1942, he was taken prisoner by the Germans for smuggling. In 1945, at the end of the Second World War, he was accidentally shot by the Americans.