List of Famous people born in Wallonia, Belgium
Olivier Kaisen
Olivier Kaisen is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2005 and 2014. He currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI ProTeam Bingoal WB and its junior team, UCI Continental team Bingoal WB Development Team.
Rémy Victor Vancottem
Rémy Victor Vancottem is the bishop of Namur, since his installation on 20 June 2010. He had previously served as an Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen-Brussels.
Félicien Rops
Félicien Victor Joseph Rops was a Belgian artist associated with Symbolism and the Parisian Fin-de Siecle. He was a painter, illustrator, caricaturist and a prolific and innovative print maker, particularly in intaglio. Although not well known to the general public, Rops was greatly respected by his peers and actively pursued and celebrated as an illustrator by the publishers, authors, and poets of his time and provided frontispieces and illustrations for Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Charles Baudelaire, Charles De Coster, Théophile Gautier, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Stéphane Mallarmé, Joséphin Péladan, Paul Verlaine, Voltaire, and many others. He is best known today for his prints and drawings illustrating erotic and occult literature of the period, although he also produced oil paintings including landscapes, seascapes, and occasional genre paintings. Rops is recognized as a pioneer of Belgian comics.
Stéphan Roelants
Henri Debehogne
Henri Debehogne was a Belgian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets.
Christophe Brandt
Christophe Brandt is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2000 and 2010 for the Saeco Macchine per Caffè–Valli & Valli and Omega Pharma–Lotto teams. He now works as the general manager for UCI ProTeam Bingoal WB, and as a directeur sportif for its junior team, UCI Continental team Wallonie–Bruxelles Development Team.
Fanny Ruwet
François Troukens
Marc Goblet
Raymond Leblanc
Raymond Leblanc was a Belgian comic book publisher, film director and film producer, best known for publishing works such as The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé and Blake and Mortimer by Edgar P. Jacobs. He debuted, published, and promoted many of the most famous Franco-Belgian comics. Leblanc and his two partners created Le Lombard publishing, Tintin magazine, PubliArt advertising agency, and Belvision Studios.