100 Notable alumni of
Free University of Brussels
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The Free University of Brussels is 495th in the world, 179th 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 teacherpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón is a Spanish politician who has been Prime Minister of Spain since June 2018. He has also been Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since June 2017, having previously held that office from 2014 to 2016, and was elected President of the Socialist International in November 2022.
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Enver Hoxha
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Enver Hoxha was an Albanian Communist politician who was the dictator 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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- politicianinternational forum participantlawyer
- Biography
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Charles Michel is a Belgian politician serving as the president of the European Council since 2019. He previously served as the prime minister of Belgium between 2014 and 2019.
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Amélie Nothomb
- Occupations
- screenwriterwriter
- Biography
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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
- diplomatpoliticianwriter
- 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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Denis Mukwege
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- gynaecologistpastorobstetricianinternational forum participanthuman rights activist
- Biography
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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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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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Vũ Đức Đam
- Occupations
- politiciancivil servant
- 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
- physicistuniversity teacherchemistphilosophernon-fiction writer
- 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 immunity and molecular biology
- Occupations
- immunologistresearcher
- 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
- Occupations
- stand-up comediantelevision presenterradio personalityhumoristactor
- Biography
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Alex Vizorek is a Belgian television host, comedian, writer, and radio personality.
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Françoise Nyssen
- Occupations
- collection managereditorpolitician
- Biography
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Françoise Nyssen is a French-Belgian publisher and politician and a former director of the Actes Sud publishing house. From 2017 until 2018, she served as Minister of Culture of France in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe.
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Enrique Olaya Herrera
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyerpoliticianpublisherjournalist
- 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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Pedro Carmona
- Occupations
- businesspersoneconomistpoliticianentrepreneur
- Biography
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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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François Englert
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicisttheoretical physicist
- Biography
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François, Baron Englert is a Belgian theoretical physicist and 2013 Nobel Prize laureate.
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Pierre Deligne
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- university teachermathematician
- 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 2013 Abel Prize, 2008 Wolf Prize, 1988 Crafoord Prize, and 1978 Fields Medal.
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Fernand Khnopff
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- visual artistsculptorgraphic artistphotographerwriter
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Fernand Edmond Jean Marie Khnopff was a Belgian symbolist painter.
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Jean Van Hamme
- Occupations
- comics writerwriterscreenwriterpublisherteacher
- 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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Hadja Lahbib
- Occupations
- journalistnews presenterinternational forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Hadja Lahbib is a Belgian journalist, TV presenter, director and politician, serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium since July 2022.
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Paul Magnette
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- researcherpoliticianuniversity teacherpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Paul Magnette is a Belgian politician. Since 2019, he is the leader of the Socialist Party, social democratic French-speaking party in Belgium. Since 2012, he is also mayor of Charleroi. At academic level, he 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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Georges-Louis Bouchez
- 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 Mouvement réformateur.
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Jacques Tits
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Studied in 1950
- Occupations
- university teacherprofessormathematician
- 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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Sandro Gozi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sandro Gozi is an Italian politician formerly of the Democratic Party who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2020. He was a member of Italy's Chamber of Deputies from 2006 to 2018, and was elected to the European Parliament in 2019, representing France on the list of Emmanuel Macron's LREM party.
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Marianne Basler
- Occupations
- film 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
- Occupations
- university teacherbiologistimmunologistphysicianpolitician
- 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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- university teachermathematician
- 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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Henri La Fontaine
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- women's rights activistlawyerjuristbibliographerpolitician
- Biography
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Henri La Fontaine, was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau. He received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1913 because "he was the effective leader of the peace movement in Europe."
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Herman De Croo
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticianuniversity teacheractor
- Biography
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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
- association football playercolor commentatorrestaurant owner
- 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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Alexandru C. Cuza
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- journalistpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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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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Zakia Khattabi
- Occupations
- politicianwomen's rights activist
- 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
- 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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Philippe Moureaux
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teacherpolitician
- 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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Vincent Callebaut
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- architect
- Biography
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Vincent Callebaut is a Belgian ecological architect. Callebaut specialises in futuristic ecodistrict projects which focus on sustainability 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
- artificial intelligence researcherpsychoanalystuniversity teachersociologistanthropologist
- 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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Hugo de Garis
- Occupations
- artificial intelligence researchercomputer scientist
- 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. 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
- 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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Rudi Vervoort
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- politicianlawyer
- 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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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. Between August and October 2018 he also served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and from May to December 2017 he was Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs.
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Mischaël Modrikamen
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerjurist
- 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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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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Maud Mannoni
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- psychoanalystessayistcriminologist
- 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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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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Gilles Verlant
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalistradio personality
- 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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Olivier Maingain
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Olivier D. A. Gh. Maingain is a Belgian francophone politician and former president of DéFI.
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Mahinur Özdemir
- 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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Armand De Decker
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- 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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Miroslav Radman
- Occupations
- researcherbiologist
- Biography
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Miroslav Radman is a Croatian biologist.
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Enex Jean-Charles
- Occupations
- politicianteacher
- 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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Albert Guérisse
- Occupations
- physicianresistance fightermilitary officer
- 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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Freddy Thielemans
- Occupations
- bûûmdroegerpoliticianteacher
- 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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Théophile de Donder
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teachermusicianchemistmathematician
- 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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Michel Bauwens
- Occupations
- philosophercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Michel Bauwens is a Belgian theorist in the emerging field of peer-to-peer (P2P) collaboration, writer, and 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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Peter Praet
- Occupations
- economistbanker
- 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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Fernando Nobre
- Occupations
- physiciansurgeonpolitician
- 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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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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Ben Heine
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Studied in 2003-2004
- Occupations
- paintermusicianphotographerrecord 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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Jules Destrée
- Occupations
- lawyerwriterpoliticianart historian
- 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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Marleen Temmerman
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- politicianuniversity teachergynaecologistphysicianobstetrician
- 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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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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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 Science.
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Erik Pevernagie
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 85)
- 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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Vitit Muntarbhorn
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- human rights activistlawyer
- 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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Léon Delacroix
- Occupations
- lawyerjuristpoliticianjudge
- 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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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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Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- 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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Mony Elkaïm
- Occupations
- university teacherpsychiatrist
- 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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Andrey Toshev
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianteacher
- 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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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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Driss Dahak
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianjudge
- 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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Robert Rothschild
- Years
- 1911-1998 (aged 87)
- Occupations
- military personnelresistance fightermilitary officerdiplomat
- 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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Vincent Biruta
- Occupations
- physicianpoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Vincent Biruta is a Rwandan physician and politician serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation since November 2019. He previously served in various other positions in the Rwandan cabinet under Presidents Paul Kagame and Pasteur Bizimungu.
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Philippe Samyn
- Occupations
- architectengineer
- 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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Charles de Brouckère
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jonkheer Charles Joseph Marie Ghislain de Brouckère was a Belgian nobleman and liberal politician.
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Marc Angenot
- Occupations
- university teachersociologistessayist
- 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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Moushegh Ishkhan
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Studied in 1938-1940
- Occupations
- writereducation activistpoetjournalistcultural activist
- 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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Antoine Depage
- Occupations
- physician writersurgeonuniversity teacherpolitician
- 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
- nuclear physicistuniversity teacherphysicist
- 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
- neurologistpsychologisteditorpedagogue
- 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
- Occupations
- explorerhorticulturistbotanist
- Biography
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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
- politicianbusinesspersonart collector
- Biography
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Raoul Warocqué, was a Belgian industrialist from Wallonia.
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Janaina Tewaney
- Occupations
- analystpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Janaina Tewaney Mencomo is a Panamanian politician. She has served as foreign minister of Panama since October 2022. She previously served as Minister of Government of Panama from March 2020 through October 2022.
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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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Etienne de Harven
- Occupations
- virologistpathologist
- 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 former President of the Electron Microscopy Society of America (now Microscopy Society of America).
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Michel Feher
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- university teacherediting stafftranslatorlecturercultural studies scholar
- Biography
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Michel Feher is a Belgian philosopher and cultural theorist who writes in English and French. 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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Paul Lannoye
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paul Lannoye was a Belgian politician.
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Marc Henneaux
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- theoretical physicistphysicist
- 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
- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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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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Haïm Vidal Séphiha
- Occupations
- linguistuniversity teachertranslator
- Biography
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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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Bart Decrem
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Belgium - Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- 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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Jacques Neveu
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Studied in 1950-1952
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
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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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Hugues Bayet
- Occupations
- 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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Isabelle Peretz
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- psychologist
- Biography
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Isabelle Peretz 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.
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Leo Collard
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- politicianlawyer
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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
- Occupations
- lawyerjuristwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Louis Marie François Franck was a Belgian lawyer and liberal politician.
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Marie Tumba Nzeza
- Years
- 20th Century
- Enrolled in the Free University of Brussels
- Graduated with Licentiate in social science
- Occupations
- politician
- 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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Christian Chelman
- Occupations
- magician
- Biography
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Christian Chelman is a Belgian magician born in 1957. He specializes in close-up magic, card magic, mentalism, bizarre magic, storytelling magic and fantastic illusionism.
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Jean Jeener
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- chemistphysicist
- Biography
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Jean Louis Charles Jeener was a Belgian physical chemist and physicist, well known for his experimental and theoretical contributions to spin thermodynamics in solids and for his invention of Two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. He was born in Brussels on 31 July 1931, son of biologist Raymond Jeener and Hélène Massar. He was married to Françoise Henin. Jenner died on 10 June 2023, at the age of 91.
