List of Famous people born in Wallonia, Belgium
Aloys Jousten
Aloys Jousten was a bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Liège in Belgium.
Dieudonné Smets
Dieudonné Smets was a Belgian racing cyclist. He won the 1926 edition of the Liège–Bastogne–Liège.
Hubert Theophil Simar
François Neuville
François Neuville was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. In 1938, Neuville won one stage of the 1938 Tour de France.
Louis Gallait
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.
Alfons Deloor
Alfons Deloor was a Belgian racing cyclist. He reached second place at the 1936 Vuelta a España behind his brother Gustaaf.
Pol Bury
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.
Pierre Joseph Célestin François
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.
Gustave Singier
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.
Sabine Laruelle
Sabine Laruelle is a Belgian politician and a member of the liberal party Mouvement Réformateur.