100 Notable alumni of
Catholic University of Louvain
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The Catholic University of Louvain is 357th in the world, 124th in Europe, and 1st in Belgium by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Catholic University of Louvain sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 2 individuals affiliated with the Catholic University of Louvain won Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine.
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Gustavo Petro
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Louvain
- Studied in 1995
- Occupations
- economistpartisanpoliticianwriterenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego ODB ODSC ODIC is a Colombian politician who is the 34th and current president of Colombia since 2022. Upon inauguration, he became the first left-wing president in the recent history of Colombia.
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Rafael Correa
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Louvain
- In 1991 graduated with master's degree in economics
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as President of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017. The leader of the PAIS Alliance political movement from its foundation until 2017, Correa is a democratic socialist and his administration focused on the implementation of left-wing policies. Internationally, he served as president pro tempore of the UNASUR. Since 2017, he has been living in exile in Belgium.
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Queen Mathilde of Belgium
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Louvain
- In 2002 graduated with master's degree in psychology
- Occupations
- consortspeech and language therapist
- Biography
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Mathilde Marie Christine Ghislaine Countess d'Udekem d'Acoz is Queen of the Belgians as the wife of King Philippe. She is the first native-born Belgian queen, and has four children. She formerly worked as a speech therapist. She is involved with a range of organisations which address social issues including education, child poverty, intergenerational poverty, the position of women in society and literacy.
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Abdul Qadeer Khan
- Occupations
- academicmetallurgistnuclear physicistscientisttheoretical physicist
- Biography
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Abdul Qadeer Khan, NI, HI, FPAS, known as A. Q. Khan, was a Pakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgical engineer who is colloquially known as the "father of Pakistan's atomic weapons program".
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Sophie Wilmès
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Sophie Wilmès is a Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 2019 to 2020. She later served as minister of foreign affairs from 2020 to 2022. A member of the Reformist Movement, she is the first woman to hold either position.
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Jan Baptist van Helmont
- Occupations
- philosopherphysician writerphysicianchemistalchemist
- Biography
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Jan Baptist van Helmont was a chemist, physiologist, and physician from Brussels. He worked during the years just after Paracelsus and the rise of iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be "the founder of pneumatic chemistry". Van Helmont is remembered today largely for his 5-year willow tree experiment, his introduction of the word "gas" (from the Greek word chaos) into the vocabulary of science, and his ideas on spontaneous generation.
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Stéphanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
- Occupations
- aristocrat
- Biography
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Princess Stéphanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, is the wife of Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume, the heir apparent to the throne of Luxembourg. She became engaged to the Hereditary Grand Duke on 26 April 2012 and married him, in a civil ceremony, on 19 October 2012, followed by a religious service the next day. The couple have two sons, Prince Charles and Prince François.
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Chantal Mouffe
- Occupations
- women's rights activistphilosopherpolitical scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Chantal Mouffe is a Belgian political theorist, formerly teaching at University of Westminster. She is best known for her and Ernesto Laclau's contribution to the development of the so-called Essex School of discourse analysis. She is a strong critic of deliberative democracy and advocates a conflict-oriented model of radical democracy.
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Jan Ingenhousz
- Occupations
- physiologistphysicistphysicianchemistbotanist
- Biography
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Jan Ingenhousz FRS was a Dutch-British physiologist, biologist and chemist.
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Paul Janssen
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Paul Adriaan Jan, Baron Janssen was a Belgian physician. He was the founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica, a pharmaceutical company with over 20,000 employees which is now a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.
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Princess Marie-Esméralda, Lady Moncada
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium, Lady Moncada, is a member of the Belgian royal family. She is the half-aunt of King Philippe of Belgium and Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg. Princess Marie-Esméralda is a journalist, author, documentary-maker, environmental activist and a campaigner for the rights of women and indigenous people.
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Denise Maerker
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Louvain
- Graduated with licentiate in economics and social science
- Occupations
- journalistlawyer
- Biography
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Denise Maerker Salmón is a Mexican journalist who anchored the flagship En punto, the nightly newscast for Televisa from 2016 to 2023, and has served on the company's Board of Directors since April 2022.
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Ferran Soriano
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Ferran Soriano Compte is a Spanish businessman who is the chief executive officer of Premier League club Manchester City. He also operates in the same role for Major League Soccer's New York City, and the A-League's Melbourne City. Between 2003 and 2008, he was the vice-president and General Manager of Barcelona.
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Mostafa Mohaqeq Damad
- Occupations
- theologianuniversity teacherakhoondwriterphilosopher
- Biography
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Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad is an Iranian Shia cleric and scholar.
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Georges-Louis Bouchez
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Louvain
- 2004-2007 studied law and political science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Georges-Louis Bouchez is a Belgian politician and lawyer. Since 2019 he has served as a Senator and leader of Reformist Movement. He is also the owner and chairman of Challenger Pro League football club Royal Francs Borains.
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Justus Lipsius
- Occupations
- philologistphilosopheruniversity teacherclassical scholarwriter
- Biography
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Justus Lipsius was a Flemish Catholic philologist, philosopher, and humanist. Lipsius wrote a series of works designed to revive ancient Stoicism in a form that would be compatible with Christianity. The most famous of these is De Constantia (On Constancy). His form of Stoicism influenced a number of contemporary thinkers, creating the intellectual movement of Neostoicism. He taught at the universities in Jena, Leiden, and Leuven.
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Typh Barrow
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Louvain
- In 2009 studied law
- Occupations
- singer-songwriterpianistsinger
- Biography
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Typh Barrow is a Belgian singer, songwriter, jurist, composer and pianist who was born in Brussels, Belgium. Her style is a mixture of pop and soul music with jazz and blues accents.
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Christian de Duve
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974
- Born in
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United Kingdom - Years
- 1917-2013 (aged 96)
- Occupations
- academicphysicianbiologistchemistphysiologist
- Biography
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Christian René Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve was a Nobel Prize-winning Belgian cytologist and biochemist. He made serendipitous discoveries of two cell organelles, peroxisomes and lysosomes, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Albert Claude and George E. Palade ("for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell"). In addition to peroxisome and lysosome, he invented scientific names such as autophagy, endocytosis, and exocytosis on a single occasion.
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Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia was a Costa Rican medical doctor and politician, who served as President from 1940 to 1944.
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Étienne Davignon, 1st Count Davignon
- Occupations
- top officialbusinesspersondiplomatactor
- Biography
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Étienne, Count Davignon is a Belgian former diplomat, top civil servant, businessman, and former vice-president of the European Commission.
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Anne Malherbe Gosselin
- Occupations
- physical education teacher
- Biography
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Anne Malherbe Gosselin is a Belgian-Ecuadorian teacher who served as First Lady of Ecuador from 15 January 2007 to 24 May 2017, as the wife of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. She was born in Namur, Belgium, and is the daughter of Paul Malherbe and Chantal Gosselin. She met Correa while both were attending courses in the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium. They later married and, during Correa's presidency, moved to Ecuador. After the end of Correa's presidency, the couple moved to Belgium.
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Lorenzo Bini Smaghi
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Louvain
- In 1978 graduated with Bachelor in Economics
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbankereconomist
- Biography
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Lorenzo Bini Smaghi is an Italian economist and banker who served as a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 2005 to 2011. He has been chairman of Société Générale since 2015.
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Philippe Lamberts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Philippe Lamberts is a Belgian politician serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2009. He is a member of Ecolo, within the Greens–European Free Alliance.
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Philippe Van Parijs
- Occupations
- philosopheruniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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Philippe Van Parijs is a Belgian political philosopher and political economist, best known as a proponent and main defender of the concept of an unconditional basic income and for the first systematic treatment of linguistic justice.
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Jean Bricmont
- Occupations
- philosopherphysicistessayist
- Biography
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Jean Bricmont is a Belgian theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain), he works on renormalization group and nonlinear differential equations. Since 2004, He is a member of the Division of Sciences of the Royal Academy of Belgium.
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Dyab Abou Jahjah
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- political activistpolitician
- Biography
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Dyab Abou Jahjah is a Lebanese political activist and writer. He is the co-founder of Hind Rajab Foundation and its parent organization, the March 30 Movement, as well as the former leader of the Arab European League (AEL), a Pan-Arabist movement that supports the interests of Muslim immigrants in Europe.
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Édouard Ngirente
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Édouard Ngirente is a Rwandan economist and politician. He serves as the Prime Minister of Rwanda, since 30 August 2017, having been appointed by the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame.
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Albert Claude
- Occupations
- academicphysicianbiologistchemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Albert Claude was a Belgian-American cell biologist and medical doctor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Christian de Duve and George Emil Palade. His elementary education started in a comprehensive primary school at Longlier, his birthplace. He served in the British Intelligence Service during the First World War, and got imprisoned in concentration camps twice. In recognition of his service, he was granted enrolment at the University of Liège in Belgium to study medicine without any formal education required for the course. He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1928. Devoted to medical research, he initially joined German institutes in Berlin. In 1929 he found an opportunity to join the Rockefeller Institute in New York. At Rockefeller University he made his most groundbreaking achievements in cell biology. In 1930 he developed the technique of cell fractionation, by which he discovered the agent of the Rous sarcoma, as well as components of cell organelles such as the mitochondrion, chloroplast, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, ribosome, and lysosome. He was the first to employ the electron microscope in the field of biology. In 1945 he published the first detailed structure of cell. His collective works established the complex functional and structural properties of cells.
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André-Joseph Léonard
- Occupations
- philosopherCatholic bishopwriterCatholic priestuniversity teacher
- Biography
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André-Joseph Léonard is a Belgian Catholic retired prelate who served as the Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels and Primate of Belgium from 2010 to 2015. He previously served as Bishop of Namur from 1991 until 2010 under the name André-Mutien Léonard.
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Joëlle Milquet
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Joëlle F.G.M. Milquet is a Belgian politician from the Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH).
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Gemma Frisius
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Louvain
- Studied in 1526-1536
- Occupations
- physicianastronomercartographeruniversity teacherinstrument maker
- Biography
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Gemma Frisius was a Dutch physician, mathematician, cartographer, philosopher, and instrument maker. He created important globes, improved the mathematical instruments of his day and applied mathematics in new ways to surveying and navigation. Gemma's rings, an astronomical instrument, are named after him. Along with Gerardus Mercator and Abraham Ortelius, Frisius is often considered one of the founders of the Netherlandish school of cartography, and significantly helped lay the foundations for the school's golden age (approximately 1570s–1670s).
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Carlos Larraín
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Carlos Aníbal Larraín Peña is a Chilean lawyer and politician. He represented Los Ríos in the Senate and was the president of National Renewal.
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Vladimír Dlouhý
- Occupations
- politicianpedagogueeconomist
- Biography
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Vladimír Dlouhý is a Czech economist and politician.
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Maxime Prévot
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Maxime Patrick Robert Albert Prévot is a Belgian politician of the Les Engagés party who has been serving as a Deputy Prime Minister and as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Affairs and Development Cooperation in the De Wever Government since february 2025. He previously served as the mayor of Namur from 2012 to 2025.
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Fernando Llort Choussy
- Occupations
- printmakerceramicistpainter
- Biography
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Fernando Llort Choussy was a Salvadoran artist, often dubbed "El Salvador's National Artist" by the Foundation for Self Sufficiency in Central America (now called EcoViva).
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Guy Ullens
- Occupations
- art collectorpatron of the artsphilanthropistbusinessperson
- Biography
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Baron Guy François Edouard Marie Ullens de Schooten Whettnall is a Belgian art collector, philanthropist, and former businessperson.
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Olivier De Schutter
- Occupations
- human rights lawyerinternational law scholaruniversity teacherlegal scholarjurist
- Biography
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Olivier De Schutter is a Belgian legal scholar specialising in economic and social rights, with a specific focus on the role of social rights in the fight against poverty and their status in European integration: he coined the term "the Social Constitution of Europe" to describe the role of the European Social Charter on the European continent. He served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food from 2008 to 2014. He is a Professor of international human rights law, European Union law and legal theory at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, as well as at the College of Europe and at Sciences Po in Paris. He was a regular visiting professor at Columbia University between 2008 and 2012 and has regularly contributed to the American University Washington College of Law's Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. He is the first chair of the Belgian Advisory Council on Policy Coherence for Development and he co-chairs the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food), a group of experts from various disciplines and regions who work together towards developing proposals for food systems reform. A Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights between 2015 and 2020, he was appointed the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, and took up his functions on May 1, 2020.
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Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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António Manuel Mascarenhas Gomes Monteiro was the first democratically elected President of Cape Verde from 22 March 1991 to 22 March 2001.
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Gregorio Rosa Chávez
- Occupations
- Catholic priesttheologianCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Gregorio Rosa Chávez is a Salvadoran Latin Catholic prelate who was an Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador from 1982 to 2022. He was a close collaborator of the slain Archbishop Saint Óscar Romero.
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Rembert Dodoens
- Occupations
- physicianbotanistuniversity teacherphysicistillustrator
- Biography
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Rembert Dodoens was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus. He has been called the father of botany. The standard author abbreviation Dodoens is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
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Bernard Lietaer
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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Bernard Lietaer was a Belgian civil engineer, economist, author, and educator. He studied monetary systems and promoted the idea that communities can benefit from creating their own local or complementary currency, which circulate parallel with national currencies.
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Francis Xavier Morgan
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Francis Xavier Morgan C. O. was a Spanish and British Catholic priest of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri. He served for most of his priesthood at the Birmingham Oratory in Edgbaston. Decades after his death, Morgan has become famous as the teacher, legal guardian, and father figure to the fantasy author and academic J. R. R. Tolkien.
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Alexia Bertrand
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alexia Bertrand is a Belgian politician serving as a member of the Chamber of Representatives since 2024. Since 2025, she has served as group leader of the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats. She is the daughter of Luc Bertrand.
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Karl-Heinz Lambertz
- Occupations
- politicianactorlawyer
- Biography
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Karl-Heinz Lambertz is a Belgian politician holding a master's degree in law from the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) with an additional specialisation in German law (University of Heidelberg). Lambertz was president of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) from 12 July 2017 until 12 February 2020 after serving a 2+1⁄2-year term as first vice-president. He is also president of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community of Belgium.
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Oliver Paasch
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Oliver Paasch is a Belgian politician of the German-speaking Pro Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft party and the incumbent Minister-president of the German-speaking Community of Belgium.
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Wilfrid Napier
- Occupations
- Catholic priestfriarCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Wilfrid Fox Napier O.F.M. is a South African Franciscan friar and prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Durban from 1992 to 2021 and has been a cardinal since 2001. He served as Bishop of Kokstad from 1981 to 1992.
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Serge Brammertz
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Serge Brammertz is a Belgian prosecutor, academic and jurist. He serves as the chief prosecutor for the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) since 2016. He also served as the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) from 2008 until its closure in 2017.
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Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum
- Years
- 1942-.. (age 83)
- Occupations
- virologist
- Biography
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Jean-Jacques Muyembe is a Congolese microbiologist. He is the general director of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Institut National pour la Recherche Biomedicale. He was part of team at the Yambuku Catholic Mission Hospital that investigated the first Ebola outbreak, and was part of the effort that discovered Ebola as a new disease, although his exact role is still subject to controversy. In 2016, he led the research that designed, along with other researchers at the INRB and the National Institute of Health Vaccine Research Center in the US, one of the most promising treatment for Ebola, mAb114. The treatment was successfully tested during recent outbreaks in the DRC, on the express decision of the then DRC Minister of Health, Dr Oly Ilunga, despite advice against this from the World Health Organization.
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Vera Songwe
- Occupations
- businesspersoneconomist
- Biography
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Vera Songwe is an economist and banking executive from Cameroon who worked for the World Bank from 1998 to 2015, and in 2015–2017 served as Western and Central Africa's regional director for the International Finance Corporation. She was the first woman to head the UN's Economic Commission for Africa at the level of Under-Secretary-General. Songwe currently serves as a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution's Africa Growth Initiative.
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David Clarinval
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Clarinval is a Belgian politician of the Reformist Movement who has been serving as Minister of Labour and Economy in the De Wever government since February 2025. Additionally he was serving as Minister of Agriculture since Ocotber 2020 in both the De Croo government and the De Wever government. Before that he served as Minister of the Middle Class, SMEs, Self-employed, Social Integration and Urban Policy in the De Croo government.
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Pierre-Yves Dermagne
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Pierre-Yves Dermagne is a Belgian politician who served as Minister of Economy and Employment in the De Croo Government led by Prime Minister Alexander De Croo between 2020 and 2025. He is affiliated with the Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste). He won the 2018 communal elections in Rochefort with 2,109 votes over François Bellot. In October 2021, he advocated for a reduction in the work week from five days a week to four.
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Joseph Maréchal
- Occupations
- psychologisttheologianCatholic priestphilosopher
- Biography
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Joseph Maréchal, SJ was a Belgian Jesuit priest, philosopher, theologian and psychologist. He taught at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the University of Leuven and was the founder of the school of thought called transcendental Thomism, which attempted to merge the theological and philosophical thought of St. Thomas Aquinas with that of Immanuel Kant.
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Philippe Maystadt
- Occupations
- politicianbankerjuristlawyeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Philippe M.P.J. Maystadt was a Belgian politician who served as Minister for Economic Affairs, Minister of Finance, and Deputy Prime Minister. He was President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) from 2000 to 2011.
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Anastase Murekezi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anastase Murekezi is a Rwandan politician. He studied in Groupe Scolaire Officiel de Butare (GSOB) and went on to the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium to study agriculture. He was the Minister of Public Service and Labor until 23 July 2014 when he became Prime Minister of Rwanda, serving until 2017. From 2017-2020, he served as Ombudsman of Rwanda.
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Pierre Harmel
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianlawyerdiplomat
- Biography
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Pierre Charles José Marie, Count Harmel was a Belgian lawyer, Christian Democratic politician and diplomat. Harmel served as the prime minister of Belgium from 1965 to 1966.
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Jean-Baptiste Janssens
- Occupations
- theologianCatholic priestteachercanon law jurist
- Biography
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Jean-Baptiste Janssens SJ was a Belgian Jesuit priest who was the 27th Superior General of the Society of Jesus. He was born in Mechelen, Belgium.
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Johannes Sturm
- Occupations
- university teachertheologianpedagogue
- Biography
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Johannes Sturm, was a German educator and Protestant reformer, who was influential in the design of the gymnasium system of secondary education.
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Marie Peltier
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 45)
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Louvain
- Graduated with licentiate
- Occupations
- historianessayist
- Biography
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Marie Peltier is a Belgian author. She teaches at the Institut supérieur de pédagogie Galilée in Brussels.
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Fernando Sebastián Aguilar
- Occupations
- Latin Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Fernando Sebastián Aguilar CMF was a Spanish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the Archbishop Emeritus of Pamplona y Tudela. Pope Francis elevated him to the rank of cardinal in a consistory on February 22, 2014.
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Marcel Claude
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Louvain
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- writeracademiceconomistpolitical activist
- Biography
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Marcel Henri Claude Reyes is a Chilean economist, academic, and political activist. He was an independent candidate to become President of Chile in the 2013 Chilean presidential election, and has been endorsed by the Humanist Party.
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Alain Hubert
- Occupations
- engineermountain guideexplorer
- Biography
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Alain Hubert is a Belgian explorer. He is a certified mountain and polar guide, a civil engineer, and the founder President of the International Polar Foundation. With the Foundation and its private partners, he built and financed the construction of the scientific research station ‘Princess Elisabeth’. This station is the first ‘Zero Emissions’ station in Antarctica, designed under the spirit of the Madrid protocol system establishing in 1992 the strictest environmental rules to date for a continent through the Antarctic Treaty System.
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Charles-Jean de la Vallée Poussin
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Charles-Jean Étienne Gustave Nicolas, baron de la Vallée Poussin was a Belgian mathematician. He is best known for proving the prime number theorem.
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Jean-Luc Crucke
- Occupations
- politicianjuristlawyer
- Biography
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Jean-Luc Crucke is a Belgian politician of Les Engagés who has been serving as the Minister of Mobility and Climate in the De Wever Government since february 2025. He previously was a member of the Chamber of Representatives from 2024 util 2015, having previously served from 2007 to 2009. From 2017 to 2022, he was a minister in the government of Wallonia. Until 2023, he was a member of the Reformist Movement.
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Santos Gutiérrez
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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José Santos Gutiérrez Prieto, was a Colombian statesman and soldier, who became president of the Sovereign State of Boyacá, and later elected as president of the United States of Colombia for the term of 1868-1870.
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Jean-Pascal van Ypersele
- Occupations
- climatologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jean-Pascal van Ypersele de Strihou is a Belgian academic climatologist. He is a professor of Environmental Sciences at the UCLouvain (Belgium). As a previous vice-chair of the IPCC, Van Yp (as he is called by his peers) is one of the forerunners of climate change mitigation through strong decrease of fossil fuel consumption.
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Philippe Goffin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Philippe Goffin is a Belgian politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defence from 30 November 2019 to 1 October 2020.
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Pierre-Yves Jeholet
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Pierre-Yves Jeholet is a Belgian politician of the Reformist Movement. Since 2024, he has served as vice president of the government of Wallonia and as minister of economy and employment. From 2019 to 2024, he served as minister-president of the French Community. He served as group leader of the Reformist Movement in the Parliament of Wallonia from 2014 to 2017, and as minister of economy from 2017 to 2019.
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Henri Carton de Wiart
- Occupations
- writerpolitician
- Biography
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Henry Victor Marie Ghislain, Count Carton de Wiart was a Belgian writer and statesman who served as the Prime Minister of Belgium from 20 November 1920 to 16 December 1921.
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Melchior Wathelet, Jr
- Occupations
- politicianjuristlawyer
- Biography
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Melchior Wathelet is a Belgian politician, Secretary of State of Environment, Energy, Mobility and Institutional Reforms, and member of the Centre démocrate humaniste (cdH). His father is Melchior Wathelet. He followed part of his secondary education in Dutch at a school in Bilzen, Limburg. After a degree in law from the Catholic University of Louvain and a Master of European Law from the University of Southampton, he became lawyer at the Bar association of Liège in 2002.
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Charles Picqué
- Occupations
- actorpolitician
- Biography
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Charles Picqué is a Belgian politician. He is a former Minister-President of the Brussels Capital-Region.
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Bernard Clerfayt
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Bernard Clerfayt is a Belgian politician. He has been the mayor of Schaerbeek since 2001 and is currently vice-president of the Front Démocratique des Francophones (FDF). As is common in Belgium, he holds a dual mandate and has also been a member of the federal Belgian Chamber of Representatives since 2007.
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Isabelle Durant
- Occupations
- politiciannurse
- Biography
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Isabelle Annie J. Durant is a Belgian politician of the Ecolo party who served as Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) from 2017 to 2021 and as acting Secretary-General of the organisation from 2021 to 2022.
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Michel Weber
- Occupations
- university teacherphilosopher
- Biography
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Michel Weber is a Belgian philosopher. He is best known as an interpreter and advocate of the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, and has come to prominence as the architect and organizer of an overlapping array of international scholarly societies and publication projects devoted to Whitehead and the global relevance of process philosophy.
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François Bellot
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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François Bellot is a Belgian politician. He is a member of the Reformist Movement (MR) party. He served as the Federal Minister for Mobility and Transport in the Wilmès' caretaker Government from April 17, 2016, to October 1, 2020.
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François-Xavier de Donnea
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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François Xavier Gustave Marie Joseph Corneille Hubert, Knight de Donnea de Hamoir is a Belgian politician and a former mayor of the City of Brussels and Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region. He is also a former member of the Olivaint Conference of Belgium.
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Yves Sente
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Louvain
- 1983-1986 graduated with bachelor's degree
- 1986-1989 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- editorscreenwriterwritercomics writer
- Biography
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Yves Sente is a Belgian comic book editor and author. He is known as a writer for XIII, Blake and Mortimer and Thorgal.
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Gilles de Kerchove
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- juristpolitician
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Gilles de Kerchove d'Ousselghem is a Belgian senior European Union official. He was director in the general directorate of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union from 1995 – 2007, he has since been appointed as EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator, succeeding Gijs de Vries.
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Évariste Boshab
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Évariste Boshab Mabudj-ma-Bilenge is a Congolese politician who is currently Deputy Prime Minister in Charge of the Interior and Security and a former President of the National Assembly.
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Ana Miranda Paz
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- politicianjuristlawyer
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Ana Maria Miranda Paz is a Galician politician of the Galician Nationalist Bloc. She has served thrice in the European Parliament.
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Francisco de Enzinas
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- translatoruniversity teacherBible translator
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Francisco de Enzinas, also known by the humanist name Francis Dryander (from the Greek drus, which can be translated encina in Spanish), was a classical scholar, translator, author, Protestant reformer and apologist of Spanish origin.
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Albert Yuma
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Albert Yuma Mulimbi is a Congolese businessman, economist and former chairman at the state-owned mining company Gecamines. An International Labour Organization dignitary, he is the chairman of the Congolese Employers Federation, Democratic Republic of the Congo's biggest business lobby group.
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Pablo da Silveira
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Pablo da Silveira García is a Uruguayan writer, lecturer, philosopher, and politician of the National Party (PN), serving as Minister of Education and Culture of Uruguay, since March 1, 2020.
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Justine Kasa-Vubu
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- politician
- Biography
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Justine M'Poyo Kasa-Vubu is a Congolese politician and leader of a small political party, the Movement of the Congolese Democrats (Mouvement des démocrates congolais), for whom she stood as a presidential candidate in the 2006 elections.
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José Aldunate
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- Catholic priestpriesthuman rights activist
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José Aldunate Lyon was a Society of Jesus and Chilean teacher, worker, priest and human rights activist during the military dictatorship. He was awarded the National Prize for Human Rights in 2016.
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Vincent Blondel
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- politicianmathematicianrector of UCLouvainengineer
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Vincent Daniel Blondel is a Belgian professor of applied mathematics and former rector of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Blondel's research lies in the area of mathematical control theory and theoretical computer science. He is mostly known for his contributions in computational complexity in control, multi-agent coordination and complex networks.
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Léonard Misonne
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- photographer
- Biography
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Léonard Misonne was a Belgian pictorialist photographer. He is known for his landscapes and street scenes with atmospheric skies.
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Leonardus Lessius
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- Catholic priesttheologian
- Biography
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Lenaert Leys, better known as Leonardus Lessius was a Brabant jurist, theologian, economist from the Jesuit order.
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Jorge Volio Jiménez
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- politicianpriestmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Jorge Volio Jiménez was a Costa Rican priest, soldier and politician.
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Gérard Deprez
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- politician
- Biography
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Gérard M.J. Deprez is a Belgian politician. He was the president of the Walloon Christian Social Party (PSC) from 1981 to 1996. In 1998 he left the PSC and founded the Citizens' Movement for Change (MCC). He was a Member of the European Parliament representing the French Community of Belgium for six terms from 1984 to 2009 and again from 2014 until 2019. He is the Delegate General of the European Democratic Party.
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Alain Maron
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- politician
- Biography
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Alain Maron is a politician from Belgium. Since 2019, he has been a minister for the cabinet of the Brussels-Capital Region.
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Bashar Warda
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- Catholic priestuniversity teacherCatholic bishop
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Bashar Matti Warda is a Chaldean Catholic cleric and the current Archbishop of Erbil (in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq).
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Emmanuel Dungia
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- diplomatpolitician
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Emmanuel Dungia was a diplomat of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and author of the political book: Mobutu and the money of Zaïre: the revelations of a diplomat, former Secret Services agent (Mobutu et l’argent du Zaïre: les révélations d'un diplomate, ex-agent des Services secrets). The latter includes the report prepared for the International Monetary Fund by Erwin Blumenthal, former Director of Foreign Affairs of the Bundesbank. Dungia was also imprisoned but was eventually acquitted by the Congolese government for his alleged involvement in a plot to overthrow Laurent Kabila who was assassinated 16 January 2001.
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Daniel Olesker
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Daniel Olesker is an Uruguayan politician of the Socialist Party – Broad Front. He served as Minister of Social Development from 2011 to 2015 and as Minister of Public Health between 2010 and 2011. Since February 15, 2020, he has served as Senator of the Republic.
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Valérie De Bue
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- politician
- Biography
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Valérie De Bue is a Belgian politician of the Reformist Movement serving as president of the Senate since 2024. She was a member of the Chamber of Representatives from 2003 to 2014, a member of the Parliament of Wallonia from 2014 to 2017, and a member of the government of Wallonia from 2017 to 2024.
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Jean-Pierre Delville
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- Catholic bishopuniversity teacherCatholic priesttheologianhistorian
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Jean-Pierre Delville is a Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the Bishop of Liège since 2013. His earlier career was devoted to church history and teaching, which he always combined with pastoral activity. He has been associated with the Community of Sant'Egidio since 1978.
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Nicolas Cleynaerts
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- grammarianorientalistwriterlexicographer
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Nicolas Cleynaerts was a Flemish grammarian and traveler. He was born in Diest, in the Duchy of Brabant.
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Stephen Brislin
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Stephen Brislin is a South African prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the archbishop of Cape Town from 2010 - 2024. He was made a cardinal by Pope Francis on 30 September 2023 and on 24 October 2024 was appointed archbishop of Johannesburg And was Installed As Archbishop on the 25 January 2025
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Georges Dallemagne
- Enrolled in the Catholic University of Louvain
- Studied in 1982
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- politicianphysician
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Georges J.F.M.G. Dallemagne, is a Belgian politician and doctor.
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Ricardo Cifuentes
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- politician
- Biography
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Ricardo Óscar Cifuentes Lillo is a Chilean professor and politician. He was undersecretary of Regional and Administrative Development of Chile between 2014 and 2018. He served as president of the Chamber of Deputies from 24 July 2023 to 15 April 2024.
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André Antoine
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- lawyerpolitician
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André Antoine is a Belgian politician, minister and mayor. He has been a member of the francophone cdH (Humanist Democratic Centre party) since 1980. He was elected to the presidency of the Wallon parliament on 22 July 2014.
