List of Famous people born in Flemish Region, Belgium
Wout Faes
Wout Felix Lina Faes is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as centre back for Stade de Reims.
Leander Dendoncker
Leander Dendoncker is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as either a defender or defensive midfielder for Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers and Belgium national team.
Tom Boonen
Tom Boonen is a Belgian former road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2002 and 2017 for the U.S. Postal Service and Quick-Step Floors teams and a professional racing driver who currently competes in Belcar, having previously competed in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series. Boonen won the 2005 UCI World Road Race Championships, and was a single-day road specialist with a strong finishing sprint. He won the cycling monuments Paris–Roubaix 4 times and the Tour of Flanders 3 times, among many other prestigious victories, such as prevailing 5 times in the E3 Harelbeke, winning 6 stages of the Tour de France and winning the Overall title of the Tour of Qatar 4 times.
Georges Leekens
Georges Leekens is a Belgian football manager and former player. During his managerial career, he was in charge of four national teams: the Belgian, Tunisian, Algerian and Hungarian national football teams. He also managed numerous clubs in Belgium, the Netherlands, Turkey, Tunisia, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Dodi Lukebakio
Dodi Lukebakio Ngandoli is a Belgian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Hertha BSC.
Martin Margiela
Martin Margiela is a Belgian fashion designer and the founder of French fashion house Maison Margiela. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) in 1979, a year before the avant-garde fashion collective the Antwerp Six.
Geike Arnaert
Geike Arnaert is a Belgian singer, best known for being the lead vocalist of the band Hooverphonic from 1997 until 2008 and again since 2020. Geike was born in Poperinge and grew up in Westouter, a town that is close to the French border. From a young age she was captivated by music and therefore she decided to audition for the Belgian band Hooverphonic, the group of guitarist Raymond Geerts and Alex Callier.
Stoffel Vandoorne
Stoffel Vandoorne is a Belgian professional racing driver who is currently competing for Mercedes-Benz EQ in Formula E. He had previously competed in Formula One for McLaren until 2018. He is currently a test driver of Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 team. Vandoorne currently resides in both Monte Carlo (Monaco) and Roeselare (Belgium).
Laura Tesoro
Laura Tesoro is a Belgian singer and actress. She represented Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "What's the Pressure". Tesoro is also known for portraying Charlotte on the Flemish soap opera Familie, and placing second on season three of The Voice van Vlaanderen. The singer is also one of the four coaches on The Voice Kids.
Emma Meesseman
Emma Meesseman is a Belgian professional basketball player for UMMC Ekaterinburg and the Washington Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). After playing basketball in Belgium, Meesseman was drafted by the Mystics with the 19th overall pick in the second round of the 2013 WNBA draft. She was the 2011 FIBA Europe Young Women's Player of the Year, and the 2019 WNBA Finals MVP.