List of Famous people born in Wallonia, Belgium

Marcel Detienne was a Belgian historian and specialist in the study of ancient Greece. He was a Professor at The Johns Hopkins University, where he held the Basil L. Gildersleeve chair in Classics.

Bernard Van de Kerckhove was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer from 1962 to 1971. The highlight of his career was one stage win each in the 1964 Tour de France and 1965 Tour de France after which he wore the yellow jersey for two and three stages respectively.

Édouard Louis Joseph, Baron Empain, was a wealthy Walloon Belgian engineer, entrepreneur, financier and industrialist, as well as an amateur Egyptologist. During World War I he became a known Major-General.

Sabine Anne Renée Ghislaine Dardenne is a Belgian author. She was kidnapped at the age of twelve by the child molester and serial killer Marc Dutroux in 1996. Dardenne was one of Dutroux's last two victims. She and fellow captive Laetitia Delhez survived, though the bodies of four other kidnap victims and Dutroux's accomplice were found on the property.

Kathrin Julia Hendrich is a German-Belgian footballer. She plays as a defender for VfL Wolfsburg and the German national team.

Reynaert was a Belgian singer-songwriter, best known for his participation in the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest.

Pierre Seron was a Belgian comic book artist.

Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir also known as Jean J. Lenoir was a Belgian-French engineer who developed the internal combustion engine in 1858. Prior designs for such engines were patented as early as 1807, but none were commercially successful. Lenoir's engine was commercialized in sufficient quantities to be considered a success, a first for the internal combustion engine.

Juliana of Liège, was a medieval Norbertine canoness regular and mystic in what is now Belgium. Traditional scholarly sources have long recognized her as the promoter of the Feast of Corpus Christi, first celebrated in Liège in 1246, and later adopted for the Catholic Church in 1264. More recent scholarship includes manuscript analysis of the initial version of the Office, as found in The Hague, National Library of the Netherlands and a close reading of her Latin vita, a critical edition of which was published in French by the Belgian scholar, Jean-Pierre Delville.

Erwin Drèze was a Belgian comic book artist.