100 Notable alumni of
Free University of Brussels
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The Free University of Brussels is 481st in the world, 176th in Europe, and 4th in Belgium by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Free University of Brussels sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 3 individuals affiliated with the Free University of Brussels won Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology or Medicine.
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Pedro Sánchez
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Graduated with Master in Economic Policy
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón is a Spanish politician and economist who has served as Prime Minister of Spain since 2018. He has also been Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since July 2017, having previously held that office from 2014 to 2016, and has also been serving as the ninth president of Socialist International since 2022.
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Enver Hoxha
- Occupations
- politicianpartisan
- Biography
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Enver Halil Hoxha was an Albanian communist revolutionary, statesman and Marxist–Leninist political theorist who was the leader of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985. He was the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania from 1941 until his death, a member of its Politburo, chairman of the Democratic Front of Albania, and commander-in-chief of the Albanian People's Army. He was the twenty-second prime minister of Albania from 1944 to 1954 and at various times served as his own foreign minister and defence minister.
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Charles Michel
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Charles Michel is a Belgian politician who served as the president of the European Council from 2019 to 2024. He previously served as the prime minister of Belgium between 2014 and 2019. Michel became the minister of development cooperation in 2007 at age thirty-one, and remained in this position until elected the leader of the Francophone liberal Reformist Movement (MR) in February 2011. He led MR to the 2014 federal election, where they emerged as the third-largest party in the Chamber of Representatives. After coalition negotiations, Michel was confirmed as Prime Minister of a MR-N-VA-OVLD-CD&V government. He was sworn in on 11 October 2014, becoming the youngest Belgian prime minister since Jean-Baptiste Nothomb in 1841.
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Amélie Nothomb
- Occupations
- writernovelistshort story writerscreenwriter
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Baroness Fabienne Claire Nothomb, better known by her pen name Amélie Nothomb ( French: [ameli nɔtɔ̃b]), is a Belgian Francophone novelist. Part of her childhood was spent in Asia.
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Amir-Abbas Hoveyda
- Occupations
- diplomatwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Amir-Abbas Hoveyda was an Iranian economist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Iran from 27 January 1965 to 7 August 1977. He was the longest-serving prime minister in Iran's history. He also served as deputy prime minister and minister of finance in Mansur's cabinet. After the Iranian Revolution, he was tried by the newly established Revolutionary Court for "waging war against God" and spreading corruption on earth (Mofsed-e-filarz) and executed.
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Tatiana Silva
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Tatiana Silva Braga Tavares is a Belgian TV host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Belgium 2005. She entered the pageant as Miss Brussels and represented Belgium at the Miss World 2005 and later at Miss Universe 2006.
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Denis Mukwege
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- pastorgynecologisthuman rights defenderobstetrician
- Biography
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Denis Mukwege is a Congolese humanitarian, gynecologist and Pentecostal pastor. He founded and works in Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, where he specializes in the treatment of women who have been raped. In 2018, Mukwege and Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict".
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Vũ Đức Đam
- Occupations
- civil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Vũ Đức Đam is a Vietnamese politician who served as one of the Deputy Prime Ministers of Vietnam from 2013 until his sacking in 2023. A long-time assistant to the economic reformer Võ Văn Kiệt, Đam previously served as Chairman of the People's Committee (Governor) of Quảng Ninh province and as Minister of the Government Office prior to being appointed deputy prime minister, where he was in charge of the Science and Technology, Information and Communication, Tourism and Sports portfolio. He was also the Chairman of the National Committee for AIDS and the Prevention of Drug Addiction and Prostitution.
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Ilya Prigogine
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicistnon-fiction writerphilosopherchemist
- Biography
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Viscount Ilya Romanovich Prigogine was a Belgian physical chemist of Russian-Jewish origin, noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility.
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Moncef Slaoui
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- 1976-1983 graduated with doctorate in molecular biology and immunity
- Occupations
- researcherimmunologist
- Biography
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Moncef Mohamed Slaoui is a Moroccan-born researcher who served as the head of Operation Warp Speed (OPWASP) under President Donald Trump from 2020 to 2021.
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Alex Vizorek
- Occupations
- comedianradio personalitycomics writertelevision presenterstand-up comedian
- Biography
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Alex Vizorek is a Belgian television host, comedian, writer, and radio personality.
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Pedro Carmona
- Occupations
- economistbusinesspersonentrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Pedro Francisco Carmona Estanga is a Venezuelan politician, economist, and businessman. He was president of the business federation Fedecámaras and served as de facto President of Venezuela for 47 hours following the 2002 coup attempt.
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Hadja Lahbib
- Occupations
- news presenterpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Hadja Lahbib is a Belgian journalist, television presenter, director and politician, who has been serving as the European Commissioner for Preparedness and Crisis Management and Commissioner for Equality since 1 December 2024. Prior to that, she served as the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs from July 2022 to 30 November 2024.
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Georges-Louis Bouchez
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Studied in 2007-2009
- 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 the Reformist Movement, a liberal French-speaking party in Belgium. He is also the owner and chairman of the Challenger Pro League football club Royal Francs Borains.
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Enrique Olaya Herrera
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- politicianlawyerdiplomatjournalistpublisher
- Biography
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Enrique Alfredo Olaya Herrera was a Colombian journalist and politician. He served as President of Colombia from 7 August 1930 until 7 August 1934 representing the Colombian Liberal Party.
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François Englert
- Occupations
- university teachertheoretical physicistphysicist
- Biography
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François, Baron Englert is a Belgian theoretical physicist and 2013 Nobel Prize laureate.
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Pierre Deligne
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Pierre René, Viscount Deligne is a Belgian mathematician. He is best known for work on the Weil conjectures, leading to a complete proof in 1973. He is the winner of the 1978 Fields Medal, 1988 Crafoord Prize, 2008 Wolf Prize and 2013 Abel Prize.
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Jean Van Hamme
- Occupations
- screenwriterwritercomics writernovelistteacher
- Biography
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Jean Van Hamme is a Belgian novelist and comic book writer. He has written scripts for a number of Belgian/French comic series, including Histoire sans héros, Thorgal, XIII and Largo Winch.
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Paul Magnette
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- researcherpolitical scientistuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Paul Magnette is a Belgian politician. Since 2019, he is the leader of the Socialist Party, a social democratic French-speaking party in Belgium. He was mayor of Charleroi from December 2012 to December 2024. Magnette is a former political science professor at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and Director of the Institute of European Studies of the ULB. He was appointed minister in the Belgian federal government from 2007 to 2013 and was Minister-President of Wallonia from 2014 to 2017. He also was a member of the Senate of Belgium, of the Parliament of Wallonia and of the Parliament of the French Community.
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Sandro Gozi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sandro Gozi is an Italian politician, former Undersecretary of State for European Affairs in the Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni governments.
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Jacques Tits
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Studied in 1950
- Occupations
- university teachermathematicianprofessor
- Biography
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Jacques Tits was a Belgian-born French mathematician who worked on group theory and incidence geometry. He introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric.
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Marianne Basler
- Occupations
- film actoractorfilm director
- Biography
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Marianne Basler is a French actress. She has appeared in more than eighty films since 1980.
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Jules Bordet
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianbiologistdermatologistimmunologist
- Biography
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Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet was a Belgian immunologist and microbiologist. The bacterial genus Bordetella is named after him. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to him in 1919 for his discoveries relating to immunity.
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Jean Bourgain
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jean Louis, baron Bourgain was a Belgian mathematician. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1994 in recognition of his work on several core topics of mathematical analysis such as the geometry of Banach spaces, harmonic analysis, ergodic theory and nonlinear partial differential equations from mathematical physics.
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Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş is a Turkish-Belgian politician, diplomat and was Turkey's Ambassador to Algeria between 2020 and 2023. She is the youngest and first female member of parliament to wear the hijab. She was expelled from the Humanist Democratic Centre party (cdH) for denying the Armenian genocide in 2015.
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Henri La Fontaine
- Occupations
- bibliographerjuristlawyerwomen's rights activistpacifist
- Biography
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Henri La Fontaine, was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1913 because "he was the effective leader of the peace movement in Europe."
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Herman De Croo
- Occupations
- lawyeractoruniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Herman Francies Joseph De Croo is a Belgian politician of Anders (formerly Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats). First elected in March 1968, he is the longest serving Belgian member of parliament, serving uninterrupted until 2014. He is the father of former prime minister Alexander De Croo.
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Xavier Chen
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Graduated with licentiate in law
- Occupations
- restaurant ownercolor commentatorassociation football player
- Biography
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Xavier Chen is a former professional footballer who played as a right-back. He began his youth career with Anderlecht before moving to KV Kortrijk where he first played at senior level (2003–2007). After Kortrijk, he spent six years at KV Mechelen (2007–2013) and two at Guizhou Renhe (2013–2015) before returning to KV Mechelen. Born in Belgium, he represented Chinese Taipei at international level.
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Zakia Khattabi
- Occupations
- women's rights activistpolitician
- Biography
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Zakia Khattabi is a Belgian-Moroccan politician who was the co-president of the Ecolo party.
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Léon Kengo
- Occupations
- politicianminister
- Biography
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Léon Kengo wa Dondo is a Congolese politician who served as the "first state commissioner" (a title equivalent to prime minister) several times under Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaïre. He was one of the most powerful figures in the regime and was a strong advocate of economic globalization and free-market economics. He served as President of the Senate of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2007 to 2019.
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Judith Tuluka Suminwa
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Judith Suminwa Tuluka is a Congolese politician who has served as Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2024, and is the first woman to hold the position. Prior to her tenure as prime minister she was Minister of State and Minister of Planning.
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Vincent Callebaut
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Vincent Callebaut is a Belgian ecological architect. Callebaut specialises in futuristic ecodistrict projects which focus on sustainability issues such as renewable energies, biodiversity, and urban agriculture.
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Hugo de Garis
- Occupations
- computer scientistartificial intelligence researcher
- Biography
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Hugo de Garis is an Australian retired researcher in the sub-field of artificial intelligence (AI) known as evolvable hardware. In the 1990s and early 2000s, he performed research on the use of genetic algorithms to evolve artificial neural networks using three-dimensional cellular automata inside field programmable gate arrays. He has written about his belief in an coming war between the supporters and opponents of intelligent machines, with the potential for the elimination of humanity by artificial superintelligences.
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Paul Jorion
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- university teacherpsychoanalystartificial intelligence researcheranthropologistsociologist
- Biography
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Paul Jorion is by training an anthropologist, sociologist with a special interest in the cognitive sciences. He has also written seven books on capitalist economics.
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Philippe Moureaux
- Occupations
- historianpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Philippe Moureaux was a Belgian politician, senator, mayor of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, and professor of economic history at the Université libre de Bruxelles. He held the honorary title of Minister of State and was a member of the Order of Leopold II and the Order of Leopold.
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Rudi Vervoort
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Rudi Vervoort is a Brussels politician. He has been the mayor of Evere since 1998 and member of the Brussels Parliament. He became the Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region on 7 May 2013 and is responsible for Local Authorities, Urban Development, Monuments and Sites, Environmental Maintenance (responsibility delegated to the Secretary of State Rachid Madrane), Development Cooperation and Regional Statistics.
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Caroline Désir
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Caroline Désir is a Belgian politician of the Socialist Party serving as a member of the Chamber of Representatives since 2024. She was a member of the Senate from 2009 to 2013 and a member of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region from 2009 to 2019, and served as minister of education in the government of the French Community from 2019 to 2024.
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Tomáš Petříček
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tomáš Petříček is a Czech politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from October 2018 to April 2021. He served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs between August and October 2018, then Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs from May until December 2017.
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Rudy Demotte
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rudy W.G. Demotte is a Belgian socialist politician who served as the 12th Minister-President of Wallonia (2007–2014), replacing Elio Di Rupo, one month after a historical defeat of the socialists in the federal election.
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Mischaël Modrikamen
- Occupations
- juristlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Mischaël Modrikamen is a Belgian right-wing politician and lawyer. He is the co-founder and leader of the People's Party. He is the vice-president of the Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe (ADDE) and the publisher of Le Peuple.
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Maud Mannoni
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- essayistpsychoanalystcriminologist
- Biography
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Maud Mannoni was a French psychoanalyst of Belgian origin, who married Octave Mannoni and became a major figure of the Lacanian movement.
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Olivier Maingain
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Olivier D. A. Gh. Maingain is a Belgian francophone politician and former president of DéFI.
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Denis Ducarme
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Denis Ducarme is a Belgian Walloon politician. As a member of the Reformist Movement, he served as the Federal Minister of the Middle Class, SMEs, Self-employed, Agriculture, Social Integration and Urban Policy in the Michel Government and Wilmès Government from 2017 to 2020 and a member of parliament since 2003.
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Philippe Vandevelde
- Occupations
- comics artist
- Biography
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Philippe Vandevelde, working under the pseudonym Tome, was a Belgian comics writer. He was known for collaborations with Janry on Spirou et Fantasio and Le Petit Spirou, and with Luc Warnant and later Bruno Gazzotti on Soda. He also collaborated with Ralph Meyer on Berceuse assassine, and with Marc Hardy on Feux. Earlier in his career he was an assistant-artist for Dupa.
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Gilles Verlant
- Occupations
- television presenterradio personalityjournalist
- Biography
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Gilles Verlant was a Belgian journalist, best known as a music critic and rock expert. He was also Serge Gainsbourg's friend and wrote his definitive biography. He died from falling down a set of stairs.
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Albert Guérisse
- Occupations
- physicianmilitary officerresistance fighter
- Biography
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Major General Count Albert-Marie Edmond Guérisse GC, KBE, DSO was a Belgian Resistance member who organized French and Belgian escape routes for downed Allied pilots during World War II under the alias of Patrick Albert "Pat" O'Leary, purportedly the name of a peace-time Canadian friend. His escape line was dubbed the Pat O'Leary Line.
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Antoinette Spaak
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Antoinette Spaak was a Belgian politician and leading figure within Francophone and regionalist politics in Brussels. She was born into a noted political family and entered politics as part of the regionalist Democratic Front of Francophones (Front Démocratique des Francophones, FDF) in 1972. She held the presidency of the FDF from 1977 to 1982 and later advocated conciliation between Francophone centrist political parties. This brought the FDF into an electoral coalition ahead of the 1999 election and paved the way for its absorption into the Reformist Movement (Mouvement Réformateur, MR) in 2002. Spaak held various political offices in Belgium and the European Communities until retiring from politics in 2009.
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Armand De Decker
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Armand De Decker was a Belgian politician and member of the French-speaking liberal party Mouvement Réformateur (MR).
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Enex Jean-Charles
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Enex Jean-Charles is a Haitian politician who served as the 19th prime minister of Haiti from 2016 to 2017.
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Miroslav Radman
- Occupations
- biologistresearcher
- Biography
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Miroslav Radman is a Croatian biologist.
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Freddy Thielemans
- Occupations
- teacherpoliticianbûûmdroeger
- Biography
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Freddy Thielemans was a Belgian socialist politician who was the mayor of the City of Brussels from 2001 to 2013, and previously also for a period in 1994.
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Sarah Chaâri
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Studied in 2022
- Occupations
- taekwondo athlete
- Biography
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Sarah Chaâri is a Belgian taekwondo practitioner and Olympic medal winner.
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André Flahaut
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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André M. J. Gh. Flahaut is a Belgian politician, then in the province of Brabant and now in the province of Walloon Brabant. Flahaut studied political sciences and public administration at the Université libre de Bruxelles.
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Michel Bauwens
- Occupations
- computer scientistphilosopher
- Biography
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Michel Bauwens is a Belgian political theorist, writer, and conference speaker on the subjects of technology, culture and business innovation. A leading thinker in the emerging field of peer-to-peer (P2P) theory, Bauwens founded the P2P Foundation, a global organization of researchers working in open collaboration in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. He has authored a number of essays, including his thesis The Political Economy of Peer Production.
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Fernando Nobre
- Occupations
- physicianpoliticiansurgeon
- Biography
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Fernando José de La Vieter Ribeiro Nobre is a Portuguese doctor who is the founder and president of the Portuguese NGO AMI (Global Humanitarian Action). In 2007 he was voted as the 25th greatest Portuguese ever in the contest Os Grandes Portugueses, being the 5th most voted among Portuguese living people at that date. He was a candidate to the 2011 Portuguese presidential election.
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Jules Destrée
- Occupations
- writerlawyerart historianpolitician
- Biography
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Jules Destrée was a Walloon lawyer, cultural critic and socialist politician. The trials subsequent to the strikes of 1886 determined his commitment within the Belgian Labour Party. He wrote a Letter to the King in 1912, which is seen as the founding declaration of the Walloon movement. He is famous for his quote "Il n'y a pas de Belges" (There are no Belgians), pointing to the lack of patriotic feelings in Flemings and Walloons, while pleading for some kind of federal state.
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Peter Praet
- Occupations
- bankereconomist
- Biography
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Peter Praet is a Belgian economist who served as a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 2011 to 2019 and concurrently as ECB chief economist following his 2012 appointment.
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Éliane Tillieux
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Éliane Tillieux is a Belgian Socialist politician from Namur (Wallonia) and the first woman to serve as president of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives.
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Ben Heine
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Studied in 2003-2004
- Occupations
- painterrecord producerphotographer
- Biography
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Ben Heine is a Belgian multidisciplinary visual artist and music producer. In 2010 media described his "Pencil Vs Camera" art. He is an accomplished illustrator and photographer, He is also the creator of other original art series such as "Digital Circlism" and "Flesh and Acrylic".
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Rachid Madrane
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Rachid Madrane is a Belgian politician and journalist of Moroccan descent. He is currently Speaker of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region.
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Marleen Temmerman
- Occupations
- gynecologistuniversity teacherpoliticianobstetricianphysician
- Biography
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Marleen Temmerman is a Belgian gynaecologist, professor and former senator, currently heading the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health at Aga Khan University in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Vincent Biruta
- Occupations
- physicianministerpolitician
- Biography
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Vincent Biruta is a Rwandan physician and politician who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation from November 2019 to June 2024. He previously served in various other positions in the Rwandan cabinet under Presidents Paul Kagame and Pasteur Bizimungu.
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Léon Delacroix
- Occupations
- juristlawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Léon Frédéric Gustave Delacroix was a Belgian statesman. Before entering politics, he was a renowned lawyer, and served as president of the Belgian Court of Cassation from 1917 to 1918. In the context of reconstruction after World War I, he was appointed the prime minister and served from 1918 to 1920. During his term, universal suffrage for men was enacted. He was also the minister of Finance from 1918 to 1920.
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Tong Dizhou
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Tong Dizhou was a Chinese embryologist known for his contributions to the field of cloning. He was a vice president of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Vitit Muntarbhorn
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- lawyerhuman rights defender
- Biography
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Vitit Muntarbhorn is an international human rights expert and professor of law at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, nicknamed "Van Cau", is a Belgian politician. He is member of the Parti Socialiste (Socialist Party; PS). He was the tenth Minister-President of Wallonia from 4 April 2000 until 30 September 2005. He resigned amid the ICDI affair and was replaced by Elio Di Rupo. He also served as mayor of Charleroi (1983–2000).
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Andrei Toshev
- Occupations
- diplomatteacherpolitician
- Biography
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Andrey Slavov Toshev was Prime Minister of Bulgaria in 1935. He was also a Bulgarian scientist and a diplomat. Toshev was a professor of botany.
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Bernard Quintin
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Bernard Quintin is a Belgian diplomat and politician who has been serving as Minister of the Interior in the De Wever Government since February 2025. Before that he has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the De Croo Government from November 2024 until February 2025.
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Mony Elkaïm
- Occupations
- psychiatristuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Mony Elkaïm was a Moroccan-Belgian psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He was a part of the anti-psychiatry movement in the 1970s.
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Théophile de Donder
- Occupations
- musicianuniversity teacherphysicistmathematicianchemist
- Biography
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Théophile Ernest De Donder was a Belgian mathematician, physicist and chemist famous for his work (published in 1923) in developing correlations between the Newtonian concept of chemical affinity and the Gibbsian concept of free energy.
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Robert Rothschild
- Occupations
- military personneldiplomatmilitary officerresistance fighter
- Biography
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Baron Robert Rothschild was a Belgian diplomat. He helped to draft the Treaty of Rome of 1957, the foundation of the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1958.
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Driss Dahak
- Occupations
- diplomatjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Driss Dahak is a Moroccan civil servant, and diplomat. He held the cabinet position of General Secretary of the Government from 2008 to 2017, under prime ministers Abbas El Fassi and Abdelilah Benkirane.
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Karel Bossart
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Karel Jan Bossart was an innovative rocket designer and creator of the Atlas ICBM. His achievements rank alongside those of Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolev. But as most of his work was for the United States Air Force and was therefore classified, his achievements are not widely known.
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Erik Pevernagie
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 87)
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Erik Pevernagie is a Belgian painter and writer, living in Uccle (Brussels), who has held exhibitions in Paris, New York City, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, London, Brussels and Antwerp.
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Nabil Boukili
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nabil Boukili is a Belgian politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of the Workers' Party of Belgium, he has represented Brussels since June 2019.
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Nasser Kamel
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Nasser Kamel is an Egyptian statesman. He currently serves as the Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean.
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Michel De Maegd
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- 1987-1989 studied legal science
- Occupations
- television presenterpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Michel De Maegd is a Belgian politician of the centrist movement Les Engagés serving as a member of the Chamber of Representatives since 2019. Until 2019, he worked as a journalist for RTL-TVI.
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Charles de Brouckère
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jonkheer Charles Joseph Marie Ghislain de Brouckère was a Belgian nobleman, liberal politician and mayor of the City of Brussels.
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Moushegh Ishkhan
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Studied in 1938-1940
- Occupations
- poeteducation activistwriterteachercultural activist
- Biography
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Moushegh Ishkhan was an Armenian Diasporan poet, writer and educator.
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Philippe Samyn
- Occupations
- engineerarchitect
- Biography
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Sir Philippe Samyn is a Belgian architect, engineer and urbanist. He is the creator of over 686 projects, 250 of which are built. His architecture is characterized by a holistic approach, investigating new ways of construction focused on efficiency between the material, the shape, the function, and the energy needed in the making and functioning of the building.
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Michel Feher
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- cultural studies scholarlecturertranslatorediting staffuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Michel Feher is a Belgian philosopher and cultural theorist who writes in English and French. As the name indicates, he is of hungarian ancestry. He is the founding editor of Zone Books and the co-founder and president of Cette France-là, Paris, a monitoring group on French immigration policy. Feher writes for a number of outlets and has a semi-regular blog with the French journal Mediapart. He has held the positions of Professor and Visiting Lecturer at various universities, including École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the University of California, Berkeley, and most recently, Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Marc Angenot
- Occupations
- university teacheressayistsociologist
- Biography
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Marc Angenot is a Belgian-Canadian social theorist, historian of ideas and literary critic. He is a professor of French literature at McGill University, Montreal, and holder of the James McGill Chair of Social Discourse Theory there. He is a leading exponent of the sociocritical approach to literature.
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Saskia Bricmont
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Saskia Bricmont is a Belgian politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.
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Antoine Depage
- Occupations
- physician writerpoliticianuniversity teachersurgeon
- Biography
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Dr. Antoine Depage, was the Belgian royal surgeon, the founder and president of the Belgian Red Cross, and one of the founders of Scouting in Belgium.
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Léon van Hove
- Occupations
- university teachernuclear physicistphysicist
- Biography
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Léon Charles Prudent Van Hove was a Belgian physicist and a Director General of CERN. He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology.
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Józefa Joteyko
- Occupations
- pedagogueeditorpsychologistneurologist
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Józefa Joteyko was a Polish physiologist, psychologist, pedagogue, and researcher. After completing her undergraduate studies at the University of Geneva, she entered medical school at the Free University of Brussels and completed her Doctor of Medicine in 1896 at the University of Paris. She opened a medical practice in France but decided two years later that she preferred research and moved back to Brussels. Operating as an assistant at the Solvay Institute of Physiology, she lectured and conducted research into muscle and nervous system fatigue.
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Janaina Tewaney
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticiananalyst
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Janaina Tewaney Mencomo is a Panamanian politician. She served as foreign minister of Panama from October 2022 to July 2024. She also previously served as Minister of Government of Panama from March 2020 through October 2022.
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Jean Jules Linden
- Occupations
- explorerhorticulturistbotanical collectorscientific collectorbotanist
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Jean Jules Linden was a Belgian botanist, explorer, horticulturist and businessman. He specialised in orchids, which he wrote a number of books about.
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Raoul Warocqué
- Occupations
- art collectorbusinesspersonpolitician
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Raoul Warocqué, was a Belgian industrialist from Wallonia.
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Yves Coppieters
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- physicianresearcherepidemiologistpolitician
- Biography
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Yves Coppieters is a Belgian epidemiologist and politician. Since 2024, he has served as minister of health, environment, solidarity and social economy in the government of Wallonia, and as minister of health, equal opportunities and women's rights in the government of the French Community. In July 2024, he was a member of the Chamber of Representatives.
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Haïm Vidal Séphiha
- Occupations
- university teacherlinguisttranslator
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Haïm Vidal Séphiha was a Belgian-French linguist and professor emeritus at several European universities, notably the Sorbonne. He was one of the first people to study Judaeo-Spanish, today spoken by a number of Sephardi Jews, and has contributed to the defense and promotion of the language's continued use.
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Etienne de Harven
- Occupations
- pathologistvirologist
- Biography
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Etienne de Harven was a Belgian-born pathologist and electron microscopist. Born in Brussels, he did most of his work in New York City, Paris and Toronto. He did pioneering research on viruses, mostly related to murine leukemia. He is the former President of the Electron Microscopy Society of America (now Microscopy Society of America).
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Jacques Neveu
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Studied in 1950-1952
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jacques Jean-Pierre Neveu was a Belgian (and then French) mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He is one of the founders of the French school (post WW II) of probability and statistics.
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Marc Henneaux
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Marc, Baron Henneaux is a Belgian theoretical physicist and professor at the Universite libre de Bruxelles who was born in Brussels on 5 March 1955.
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Hugues Bayet
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- politician
- Biography
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Hugues Bayet is a Belgian politician of the Socialist Party. He is a former Member of the European Parliament and the mayor of Farciennes.
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Willy Fischler
- Occupations
- physicisttheoretical physicist
- Biography
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Willy Fischler is a theoretical physicist. He is the Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is affiliated with the Weinberg theory group. He is also a certified Flight Paramedic (FP-C) and was a Licensed Paramedic with Marble Falls Area EMS and a volunteer EMT with the Westlake Fire Department.
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Radu Bălescu
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Radu Bălescu was a Romanian and Belgian (from 1959) scientist and professor at the Statistical and Plasma Physics group of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
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Marie Tumba Nzeza
- Years
- 20th Century
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Graduated with licentiate in social science
- Occupations
- politicianminister
- Biography
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Marie Tumba Nzeza is a Congolese politician and diplomat. She served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Prime Minister Sylvestre Ilunga's cabinet from September 2019 to April 2021. Previously, she was deputy secretary general of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress, responsible for foreign affairs.
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Bart Decrem
- Born in
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Belgium - Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Bart Decrem is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who, most recently, headed the Mobile Games business for The Walt Disney Company between July 2010 and the Fall of 2013. He was born and raised in Belgium.
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Leo Collard
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Léo Collard was a Belgian politician in the Belgian Socialist Party (PSB–BSP) who served as minister of public education (1946 and 1954–1958) and Mayor of Mons (1953–1974).
