List of Famous people born in Wallonia, Belgium

Aloys Jousten

First Name Aloys
Last Name Jousten
Born on November 2, 1937
Died on September 20, 2021 (aged 83)
Born in Belgium, Wallonia

Aloys Jousten was a bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Liège in Belgium.

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Dieudonné Smets

First Name Dieudonné
Last Name Smets
Born on August 17, 1901
Died on November 29, 1981 (aged 80)
Born in Belgium, Wallonia

Dieudonné Smets was a Belgian racing cyclist. He won the 1926 edition of the Liège–Bastogne–Liège.

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Hubert Theophil Simar

First Name Hubert
Last Name Simar
Born on December 14, 1835
Died on May 24, 1902 (aged 66)
Born in Belgium, Wallonia
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François Neuville

First Name François
Last Name Neuville
Born on November 24, 1912
Died on April 12, 1986 (aged 73)
Born in Belgium, Wallonia

François Neuville was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. In 1938, Neuville won one stage of the 1938 Tour de France.

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Louis Gallait

First Name Louis
Last Name Gallait
Died on November 20, 1887
Born in Belgium, Wallonia

Louis Gallait was a Belgian painter. He lay at the basis of a revival of history painting in Belgium. He earned his reputation especially with the large painting of Charles V's abdication. Gallait's works were esteemed because of their realism, faithfulness of the costumes and color composition of his paintings. He was also a distinguished portrait painter.

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Alfons Deloor

First Name Alfons
Born on June 3, 1910
Died on March 23, 1995 (aged 84)
Born in Belgium, Wallonia

Alfons Deloor was a Belgian racing cyclist. He reached second place at the 1936 Vuelta a España behind his brother Gustaaf.

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Pol Bury

First Name Pol
Last Name Bury
Died on September 28, 2005 (aged 35)

Pol Bury was a Belgian sculptor who began his artistic career as a painter in the Jeune Peintre Belge and COBRA groups. Among his most famous works is the fountain-sculpture L'Octagon, located in San Francisco.

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Pierre Joseph Célestin François

First Name Pierre
Last Name François
Born on March 29, 1759
Died on March 13, 1851 (aged 91)
Born in Belgium, Wallonia

Pierre Joseph Célestin François or Joseph François was a history, genre and miniature painter and etcher from the Southern Netherlands. He is known for his religious and mythological subjects and portraits executed in a Neoclassicist style.

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Gustave Singier

First Name Gustave
Born on February 11, 1909
Died on May 5, 1984 (aged 75)
Born in Belgium, Wallonia

Gustave Singier was a Belgian non-figurative painter active in France as part of the new Paris School of Lyrical Abstraction and the Salon de Mai.

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Sabine Laruelle

First Name Sabine
Last Name Laruelle
Born on June 2, 1965 (age 60)
Born in Belgium, Wallonia

Sabine Laruelle is a Belgian politician and a member of the liberal party Mouvement Réformateur.

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