List of Famous people born in Wallonia, Belgium
Jonathan Benteke
Jonathan Benteke Lifeka is a Belgian footballer who plays as a forward for Belgian club URSL Visé.
Jean-Marc Bosman
Jean-Marc Bosman is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. His judicial challenge of the football transfer rules led to the Bosman ruling in 1995. This landmark judgement, which was handed down by the European Court of Justice, completely changed the way footballers are employed, allowing professional players in the European Union to move freely to another club at the end of their contract with their present team.
Raoul Cauvin
Raoul Cauvin is a Belgian comics author and one of the most popular in the humorist field.
Gauthier Destenay
Gauthier Christian Destenay is a Belgian architect who is the husband of Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel.
Steve Darcis
Steve Darcis is a Belgian retired professional tennis player. He has won two ATP titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 38 on 22 May 2017.
Philippe Lafontaine
Philippe Lafontaine is a Belgian singer and composer.
Kevin Mirallas
Kevin Antonio Joel Gislain Mirallas y Castillo, more commonly known as Kevin Mirallas, is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Turkish club Gaziantep and the Belgium national team.
Noémie Happart
Noémie Happart is a Belgian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Belgium 2013. She represented her country at Miss Universe 2013 and Miss World 2013.
Michaelina Wautier
Michaelina Wautier, also Woutiers (1617–1689), was a painter from the Southern Netherlands. Only recently has her work been recognized as that of an outstanding female Baroque artist, her works having been previously attributed to male artists, especially her brother Charles.
Frank Vandenbroucke
Frank Vandenbroucke was a Belgian professional road racing cyclist. He was the great hope of Belgian cycling in the 1990s, but a remarkable talent which appeared in his adolescence in track and field and then in cycle racing dissipated in a succession of drug problems, rows with teams, suicide attempts and finally being disowned by the cycling world. His former wife described him as a cocaine addict. However, VDB claimed in an interview with ProCycling's Daniel Friebe three weeks before his death to have made a near-complete recovery from the emotional issues that plagued him throughout his career. Vandenbroucke told Friebe, "I simply realise that the last year and a half have been fantastic for me." Nevertheless, he died of a pulmonary embolism in October 2009.