List of Famous people born in Flemish Region, Belgium
Davy Commeyne
Davy Commeyne is a Belgian cyclist riding for Smartphoto.
Jens Renders
Joan Daemen
Joan Daemen is a Belgian cryptographer who co-designed with Vincent Rijmen the Rijndael cipher, which was selected as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in 2001. More recently, he co-designed the Keccak cryptographic hash, which was selected as the new SHA-3 hash by NIST in October 2012. He has also designed or co-designed the MMB, Square, SHARK, NOEKEON, 3-Way, and BaseKing block ciphers. In 2017 he won the Levchin Prize for Real World Cryptography "for the development of AES and SHA3". He modestly describes his development of encryption algorithms as the creating the bricks which are needed to build the secure foundations online.
Jan Kuyckx
Jan Kuyckx is a former Belgian racing cyclist.
Willem Wauters
Willem Wauters is a former Belgian cyclist. He rode in the 2013 Giro d'Italia, where he finished in 158th place.
Valérie De Bue
Tom Van Asbroeck
Tom Van Asbroeck is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Israel Start-Up Nation. He was previously a member of the Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise team, between 2012 and 2014. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España. In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the Giro d'Italia. In August 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Tour de France.
Thomas Sprengers
Thomas Sprengers is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Sport Vlaanderen–Baloise.
Johan Verstrepen
Johan Verstrepen is a Belgian former racing cyclist.