List of Famous people born in Wallonia, Belgium

François-Joseph Fétis was a Belgian musicologist, composer, teacher, and one of the most influential music critics of the 19th century. His enormous compilation of biographical data in the Biographie universelle des musiciens remains an important source of information today.

Guy Coëme is a Francophone Belgian politician for the Socialist Party (PS).

Marcel Nicolet (1912–1996) was a Belgian physicist and meteorologist.

Charles Marie Jean Joseph Elvire Ghislain baron Poswick was a Belgian politician for the PLP. Poswick was doctor in Law and licentiate in commercial and financial sciences.

Benoît Lutgen is a Belgian politician who served as head of the Centre démocrate humaniste political party in Belgium from 2011 to 2019.

Albert Joseph, Count Goblet d'Alviella was an officer in the army of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. After the Belgian Revolution, he became a politician and served as Prime Minister of Belgium.

Barbara Anelka Tausia is a Belgian choreographer and dancer. She is the wife of French footballer Nicolas Anelka and has followed her husband around Europe as he has changed teams.

Rita Lejeune (1906–2009) was a Belgian literary historian who studied the history of the Middle Ages. She studied chansons de geste and Walloon literature, achieving international renown.