Bruges, Flanders

1. Sjokz (1987)

Esports Player

Belgian TV host and professional gamer known for hosting the European League of Legends Series. She also hosted the LoL World Finals in 2013 and has appeared on the YouTube...

2. Aaron Crow (1986)

Baseball Player

Right-handed pitcher who made his MLB debut in 2011 for the Kansas City Royals and was selected to play in his first All-Star game during his rookie season, where he delivered solid...

3. Francisco Henriques (1994)

Model

Male fashion model who has appeared in advertisement campaigns for both Tommy Hilfiger and GAP. In 2017, he walked the runway at the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week event in Madrid.

4. Nicolas Lombaerts (1985)

Footballer

Center back who joined Zenit Saint Petersburg in 2007 and became a member of the Belgium national team in 2006.

5. Gotye (1980)

Musician And Singer-songwriter

Indie rock artist whose hit single "Somebody That I Used To Know" was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. He has won multiple BRIT and Grammy Awards.

6. Cilou Annys (1991)

Miss Belgium 2010 Top 15 At Miss

Belgian model who is best known as the winner of Miss Belgium 2010. She placed in the Top 15 at the Miss Universe 2010 pageant.

7. Geoffrey Claeys (1974)

Footballer

Geoffrey Claeys is a football player who last played for Melbourne Victory in the A-League as a central Defender.

8. Anja Nobus (1974)

Racing Cyclist

Anja Nobus is a Belgian cyclist. She participates in both road cycling as in cyclo-cross. In 2002 and 2004 she became Belgian national champion in cyclo-cross while in 2003 she...

9. Dieter Vanthourenhout (1985)

Cyclist

Dieter Vanthourenhout is a Belgian professional racing cyclist. For the 2014 season Vanthourenhout joined Sunweb-Napoleon Games.

10. Matthias Feys (1985)

Footballer

Matthias Feys is a Belgian footballer. He usually plays as defensive midfielder. Feys is a technically strong player but lacks physical strength. Like Frederik Boi Bram Vandenbussche and Jan Masureel...

11. Stijn De Smet (1985)

Belgian Footballer

Stijn De Smet is a Belgian professional football player who currently plays for K. V. Kortrijk.

12. Frederik Boi (1981)

Footballer

Boi is a Belgian professional football player who currently plays for Cercle Brugge. Until 2011 Boi had played his whole career for Cercle Brugge. Initially his position on the field...

13. Patrick De Groote (1958)

Belgian Politician

Patrick De Groote is a Belgian politician and is affiliated to the N-VA. He was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2010.

14. Raoul Daufresne de la Chevalerie (1881)

Sportsman

Lieutenant-General Raoul Daufresne de la Chevalerie was a Belgian sportsman and commander of the Free Belgian forces during the Second World War. He was born in Bruges and died in...

15. Jackie De Caluwé (1934)

Footballer

Jackie De Caluwé is a former footballer who played most of his career for Cercle Brugge. De Caluwé is the player with the 5th highest all-time appearances for Cercle. After...

16. Jef van de Wiele (1903)

Belgian Collaborator

gardus Jacobus Josephus van de Wiele was a Belgian Flemish National Socialist German Workers' Party politician. During the National Socialist German Workers' Party occupation of Belgium he became notorious as...

17. Ewout Denys (1987)

Footballer

Ewout Albert Marie-Louise Denijs is a Belgian professional football player. He usually plays as forward.

18. Louis of Praet (1488)

Belgian Politician

Louis of Praet Louis of Flanders Lord of Praet or locally Lodewijk van Praet was a nobleman from the Low Countries and an important diplomat and statesman under the Emperor...

19. Guido Reybrouck (1941)

Road Bicycle Racer

Guido Reybrouck is a Belgian former road bicycle racer. He is an older brother of Wilfried Reybrouck and the cousin of Gustave Danneels.

20. Jens Keukeleire (1988)

Road Racing Cyclist

Jens Keukeleire is a professional road racing cyclist currently riding for UCI ProTeam Orica-GreenEDGE.

21. Luc Sanders (1945)

Footballer

Luc Sanders is a retired Belgian footballer. During his career he played for Cercle Brugge K. S. V. Club Brugge K. V. V. G. Oostende and K. A. A. Gent....

22. Jean Sauvage (Unknow)

French Politician

Jean Savage was the chancellor of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. He was also known as Jean Le Sauvage. Savage was born in Lille. He studied law at the University...

23. Kevin Roelandts (1982)

Footballer

Kevin Roelandts is a Belgian midfielder who currently plays for Maldegem. He is a technical clever and hard-working central midfielder. He also plays a full back. He has played for...

24. Maurits Sabbe (1873)

Writer

Maurits Karel Maria Willem Sabbe was a Flemish writer. He was a son of Julius Sabbe and the eldest of seven children. He married Gabriëlla De Smet.

25. Pieter Aspe (1953)

Belgian Writer

Pieter Aspe is a Belgian writer of a series of detective stories starring inspector Pieter Van In.

26. Giovanni Dekeyser (1976)

Footballer

Giovanni Dekeyser is a Belgian football midfielder who currently plays for East Flanders lower league side K. F. C. Eeklo. He made his senior debut for Cercle Brugge in second...

27. Tom Dehaene (1969)

unknow

28. Albert Coppé (1911)

Belgian Politician

Albert Coppé was a Belgian and European politician and economist.

29. Kris Defoort (1959)

Belgian Musician

Kris Defoort is a Belgian avant-garde jazz pianist and composer. He was born in 1959 in Bruges. He also teaches at the Brussels conservatory. His brother is Bart Defoort. He...

30. Adolf van Meetkercke (1528)

Flemish Diplomat

Adolf van Meetkercke was a Flemish diplomat and humanist.

31. Achille Van Acker (1898)

Belgian Prime Minister

Achille Honoré Van Acker was the 33rd Prime Minister of Belgium in four different cabinets from 1945 to 1958 for a total period of seven years. He was a member...

32. Walter Ganshof Van Der Meersch (1900)

unknow

33. Frank Moulaert (1951)

unknow

Moulaert is Professor of Spatial Planning at the Department of Architecture Urban Design and Regional Planning at Catholic University of Leuven. He is Director of the Urban and Regional Planning...

34. Wilfried Vandaele (1959)

Belgian Politician

Vandaele is a Belgian politician and is affiliated to the N-VA. He was elected as a member of the Flemish Parliament in 2009.

35. Frank Vanhecke (1959)

Belgian Politician

Arthur Hyppolite Vanhecke started his career in Belgian politics as a student by joining the Jong Studentenverbond and later the Nationalistische Studentenvereniging. He gave up his membership of the Volksunie...

36. Jean-Pierre Van Rossem (1945)

Belgian Politician

Jean Pierre Van Rossem is a Belgian scholar socialite and writer. He studied economics at the University of Gent in 1963-1967. With his final term paper he won the International...

37. Peter Verhelst (1962)

Flemish Writer

Peter Verhelst is a Belgian Flemish novelist poet and dramatist. He won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for Tongkat. His latest novel is a political thriller Zwerm.

38. Ruben Blommaert (1992)

Belgian-german Figure Skater

Ruben Blommaert is a Belgian pair skater who currently competes for Germany. With partner Annabelle Prölß he is the 2013 Cup of Nice champion and 2013 German national senior champion.

39. Charles de Brouckère (1796)

Belgian Politician

Jonkheer Charles Joseph Marie Ghislain de Brouckère was a Belgian nobleman and liberal politician. Born in Bruges elder brother of future Prime Minister of Belgium Henri de Brouckère Charles entered...

40. Vincent Stochove (1610)

Writer Of The French-language Bo

Vincent Stochove or Vincent de Stochove is a traveller best known for his French-language book Voyage du Levant describing his travels in the 1630s through The Levant including Turkey Syria...

41. Richard Declerck (1899)

Belgian Politician

Richard August François Declerck was a Belgian lawyer and politician. He was governor of the province of Antwerp from 7 January 1946 until 31 December 1966.

42. Pierre-Marie Deloof (1964)

Rower

Pierre-Marie Deloof is a Belgian rower.

43. Walter De Donder (1960)

Belgian Politician

De Donder is a Belgian actor and politician and is best known for parts in Flemish children's television series. De Donder started in entertainment as an amateur and performed with...

44. Filip Dewinter (1962)

Politician

Philip Michel Frans Filip Dewinter is a Flemish politician in Belgium. He is one of the leading members of Vlaams Belang a right-wing Flemish nationalist and secessionist political party. This...

45. André Vermeulen (1955)

Tv Presenter

André Leopold Adiel Vermeulen is a Belgian/Flemish journalist and television personality for VRT. Since the 1991 Contest Vermeulen following Luc Appermont has been the Flemish commentator for the Eurovision Song...

46. Billie Davies (1955)

American Jazz Musician

Billie Davies is an American female jazz drummer and composer best known for her Avant Garde and Avant-garde jazz compositions since the mid nineties and her improvisational drumming techniques she...

47. Hendrik Bogaert (1968)

Belgian Politician

Hendrik Bogaert is a Flemish politician and member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party. Since 2003 he is member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives. He studied Master in...

48. Jules Boedt (1884)

Lawyer Politician

Jules Charles Stanislas Boedt was a Flemish-Belgian lawyer and liberal politician. He was a municipal council member in Bruges a member of the Belgian parliament and president of the Liberaal...

49. Anselm Adornes (1424)

Merchant

Anselm Adornes was a merchant patron politician and diplomat who belonged to the fifth generation of the Adornes family to live in Bruges.

50. Yves Buysse (1968)

Belgian Politician

Yves Buysse is a Belgian politician and a member of the Vlaams Belang. He was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2007.

Load More