100 Notable alumni of
Free University of Brussels
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The Free University of Brussels is 480th in the world, 172nd 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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Enver Hoxha
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- politicianpartisan
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Enver Halil Hoxha was an Albanian communist revolutionary and politician 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 was both foreign minister and defence minister of the country.
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Charles Michel
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- lawyerpolitician
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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
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- short story writerscreenwriterwriternovelist
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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
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- writerpoliticiandiplomat
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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
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- television presenter
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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
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- pastorgynecologisthuman rights activistobstetrician
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Denis Mukwege is a Congolese 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 by armed rebels. 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
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- civil servantpolitician
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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
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- chemistuniversity teacherphysicistnon-fiction writerphilosopher
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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 Belgian-American 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
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- television presenterstand-up comedianactorcomedianradio personality
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Alex Vizorek is a Belgian television host, comedian, writer, and radio personality.
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Pedro Carmona
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- politicianeconomistbusinesspersonentrepreneur
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Pedro Francisco Carmona Estanga is a former Venezuelan business leader who was briefly installed as acting president of Venezuela in place of Hugo Chávez, following the attempted military coup in April 2002.
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Enrique Olaya Herrera
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- politicianlawyerdiplomatjournalistpublisher
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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
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- physicistuniversity teachertheoretical physicist
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François, Baron Englert is a Belgian theoretical physicist and 2013 Nobel Prize laureate.
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Hadja Lahbib
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- politicianjournalistnews presenter
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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, Crisis Management and Equality since the 1st of December, 2024. Prior to that, she served as the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs from July 2022 to 30th 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 Reformist Movement. He is also the owner and chairman of Challenger Pro League football club Royal Francs Borains.
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Pierre Deligne
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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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 2013 Abel Prize, 2008 Wolf Prize, 1988 Crafoord Prize, and 1978 Fields Medal.
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Jean Van Hamme
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- publisherscreenwriterwritercomics writernovelist
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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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Fernand Khnopff
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- philosopherwriterphotographergraphic artistsculptor
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Fernand Edmond Jean Marie Khnopff was a Belgian symbolist painter.
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Paul Magnette
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- university teacherpoliticianresearcherpolitical scientist
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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
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- politician
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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
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- professoruniversity teachermathematician
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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
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- film directorfilm actoractor
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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
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- dermatologistpoliticianphysicianimmunologistbiologist
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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
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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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Henri La Fontaine
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- pacifistpoliticianbibliographerjuristlawyer
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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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Alexandru C. Cuza
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- politicianjournalisteconomist
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Alexandru C. Cuza, also known as A. C. Cuza, was a Romanian far-right politician and economist.
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Herman De Croo
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- university teacherpoliticianlawyeractor
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Herman Francies Joseph De Croo is a Belgian politician of the 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 incumbent prime minister Alexander De Croo.
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Xavier Chen
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Graduated with licentiate in law
- Occupations
- color commentatorassociation football playerrestaurant owner
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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
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- women's rights activistpolitician
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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
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- politician
- 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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Mahinur Özdemir
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- politician
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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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Philippe Moureaux
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- politicianuniversity teacherhistorian
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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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Vincent Callebaut
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- architect
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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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Paul Jorion
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- sociologistuniversity teacherpsychoanalystartificial intelligence researcheranthropologist
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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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Hugo de Garis
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- computer scientistartificial intelligence researcher
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Hugo de Garis is an Australian retired researcher in the sub-field of artificial intelligence (AI) known as evolvable hardware. He became known in the 1990s for his research on the use of genetic algorithms to evolve artificial neural networks using three-dimensional cellular automata inside field programmable gate arrays. He claimed that this approach would enable the creation of what he terms "artificial brains" which would quickly surpass human levels of intelligence.
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Philippe Vandevelde
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- comics artist
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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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Rudi Vervoort
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- lawyerpolitician
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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
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- juristpolitician
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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
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- politician
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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
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- 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
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- politicianjuristlawyer
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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
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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
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- 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
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- 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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Gilles Verlant
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- journalisttelevision presenterradio personality
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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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Armand De Decker
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- lawyerpolitician
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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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Miroslav Radman
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- biologistresearcher
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Miroslav Radman is a Croatian biologist.
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Théophile de Donder
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- chemistmusicianuniversity teacherphysicistmathematician
- 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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Albert Guérisse
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- resistance fighterphysicianmilitary officer
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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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Enex Jean-Charles
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- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Enex Jean-Charles is a Haitian politician who served as Prime Minister of Haiti from March 2016 until March 2017.
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Freddy Thielemans
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- politicianbûûmdroegerteacher
- 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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Michel Bauwens
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- computer scientistphilosopher
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Michel Bauwens is a Belgian theorist in the emerging field of peer-to-peer (P2P), a writer, and a conference speaker on the subject of technology, culture and business innovation. 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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Judith Tuluka Suminwa
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- politician
- Biography
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Judith Suminwa Tuluka is a Congolese politician who is serving as prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 12 June 2024. She was nominated for the position by President Félix Tshisekedi on 1 April 2024, the first woman in the post, and took office following the investiture of her government by the National Assembly.
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André Flahaut
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- 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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Fernando Nobre
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- politiciansurgeonphysician
- 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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Peter Praet
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- 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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Sarah Chaâri
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Studied in 2022
- Occupations
- taekwondo athlete
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Sarah Chaâri is a Belgian taekwondo practitioner. She won the bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympic and gold medal in the women's lightweight event at the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships in Guadalajara, Mexico and became Belgium's first female World Taekwondo champion. In doing so, Chaâri also became the first-ever Taekwondo fighter to win golds at both Junior and Senior World Championships in the same year. Chaâri, who moved up to the senior division in 2022, had previously won gold in the 2022 World Taekwondo Junior Championships in Sofia in August.
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Jules Destrée
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- art historianpoliticianwriterlawyer
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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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Ben Heine
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Studied in 2003-2004
- Occupations
- photographerpainterrecord producer
- 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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Éliane Tillieux
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- 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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Marleen Temmerman
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- obstetricianphysiciangynecologistuniversity teacherpolitician
- 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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Rachid Madrane
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- 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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Tong Dizhou
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- 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 Science.
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Léon Delacroix
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- judgepoliticianjuristlawyer
- 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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Vitit Muntarbhorn
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- lawyerhuman rights activist
- Biography
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Vitit Muntarbhorn is an international human rights expert and professor of law at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. Muntarbhorn was designated in September 2016 as the first UN Independent Expert on violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity by the Human Rights Council before succeeded by Victor Madrigal-Borloz in 2018.
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Françoise Schepmans
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Françoise Schepmans is a Belgian politician for the Mouvement Réformateur, a French-speaking liberal party in Belgium. She has been a member of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region and the Parliament of the French Community since 2019.
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Vincent Biruta
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- 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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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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Erik Pevernagie
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 86)
- 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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Andrei Toshev
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomatteacher
- 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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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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Driss Dahak
- Occupations
- judgepoliticiandiplomat
- 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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Robert Rothschild
- Occupations
- resistance fightermilitary personneldiplomatmilitary officer
- 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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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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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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Moushegh Ishkhan
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Studied in 1938-1940
- Occupations
- cultural activistjournalistpoeteducation activistwriter
- Biography
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Moushegh Ishkhan was an Armenian Diasporan poet, writer and educator.
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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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Marc Angenot
- Occupations
- sociologistuniversity teacheressayist
- 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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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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Antoine Depage
- Occupations
- university teachersurgeonphysician writerpolitician
- 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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Michel Feher
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- philosophercultural studies scholarlecturertranslatorediting staff
- 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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Léon van Hove
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teachernuclear physicist
- 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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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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Janaina Tewaney
- Occupations
- politiciananalystlawyer
- Biography
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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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Józefa Joteyko
- Occupations
- psychologistneurologistpedagogueeditor
- Biography
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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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Jean Jules Linden
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- horticulturistexplorerbotanist
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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
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- businesspersonpoliticianart collector
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Raoul Warocqué, was a Belgian industrialist from Wallonia.
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Etienne de Harven
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- pathologistvirologist
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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 former President of the Electron Microscopy Society of America (now Microscopy Society of America).
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Paul Lannoye
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- politician
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Paul Lannoye was a Belgian politician.
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Marc Henneaux
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- physicistuniversity teacher
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Marc, Baron Henneaux is a Belgian theoretical physicist and professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles who was born in Brussels on 5 March 1955.
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Willy Fischler
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- physicisttheoretical physicist
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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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Haïm Vidal Séphiha
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- translatoruniversity teacherlinguist
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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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Radu Bălescu
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- physicistuniversity teacher
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Radu Bălescu was a Romanian and Belgian (since 1959) scientist and professor at the Statistical and Plasma Physics group of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
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Hugues Bayet
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- politician
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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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Jacques Neveu
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Studied in 1950-1952
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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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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Bart Decrem
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Belgium - Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
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- businessperson
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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
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- lawyerpolitician
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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).
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Louis Franck
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- politicianwriterjuristlawyer
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Louis Marie François Franck was a Belgian lawyer and liberal politician.
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Isabelle Peretz
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- psychologistresearcher
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Isabelle Peretz CM OQ FRSC is a professor of psychology at the University of Montreal, holding a Canada Research Chair and Casavant Chair in neurocognition of music. She specializes in music cognition, focusing on congenital and acquired musical disorders (amusia) and on the cognitive and biological foundations of music processing in general.
