24 Notable alumni of
University of Namur
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The University of Namur is 1891st in the world, 627th in Europe, and 11th in Belgium by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 24 notable alumni from the University of Namur sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Mathias Cormann
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- international forum participantpolitician
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Mathias Hubert Paul Cormann is a Belgian-born Australian politician and diplomat who currently serves as Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), having assumed the office on 1 June 2021.
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Paul Janssen
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- physician
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Paul Adriaan Jan, Baron Janssen was a Belgian physician. He was the founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica, a pharmaceutical company with over 20,000 employees which is now a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.
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Jean-Luc Dehaene
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- politician
- Biography
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Jean Luc Joseph Marie "Jean-Luc" Dehaene was a Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 1992 until 1999. During his political career, he was nicknamed "The Plumber", as well as "The Minesweeper", for his ability to negotiate political deadlocks.
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Koen Lenaerts
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- judgelawyeruniversity teacherpedagoguejurist
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Koen Lenaerts, Baron Lenaerts is a Belgian jurist and the President of the Court of Justice of the European Union. He is also a Professor of European Law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and was a member of the Coudenberg group, a Belgian federalist think tank.
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André-Joseph Léonard
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- university teacherCatholic priestwriterCatholic bishopphilosopher
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André-Joseph Léonard is a Belgian Catholic retired prelate who served as the Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels and Primate of Belgium from 2010 to 2015.
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Oliver Paasch
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- politicianlawyer
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Oliver Paasch is a Belgian politician of the German-speaking Pro Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft party and the incumbent Minister-president of the German-speaking Community of Belgium.
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Philippe Maystadt
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- university teacherlawyerjuristbankerpolitician
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Philippe M.P.J. Maystadt was a Belgian politician who served as Minister for Economic Affairs, Minister of Finance, and Deputy Prime Minister. He was President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) from 2000 to 2011.
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Melchior Wathelet, Jr
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- politicianlawyerjurist
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Melchior Wathelet is a Belgian politician, Secretary of State of Environment, Energy, Mobility and Institutional Reforms, and member of the Centre démocrate humaniste (cdH). His father is Melchior Wathelet. He followed part of his secondary education in Dutch at a school in Bilzen, Limburg. After a degree in law from the Catholic University of Louvain and a Master of European Law from the University of Southampton, he became lawyer at the Bar association of Liège in 2002.
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Eva Brems
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- politicianuniversity teacherpolitical activisthuman rights activistjurist
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Eva Brems is a Belgian university professor, human rights defender and politician. She is a senior lecturer in human rights and non-Western law at Ghent University. Besides her academic engagements, Brems has also been politically active. From 2006 until 2010, she was the president of the Flemish division of Amnesty International. In the spring of 2010 she announced her candidacy in the 2010 Belgian general election for the Chamber of Representatives. She now represents the constituency of Leuven for the environmentalist party Groen.
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Louis Godart
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- anthropologistuniversity teacherclassical philologistarchaeologist
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Louis Godart is an Italian archaeologist of Belgian origins. He is a specialist in Mycenaean archaeology and philology and holds the chair of philology at the University of Naples Federico II. He is also currently Director for the Conservation of Artistic Heritage of the Italian President.
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Gérard Cooreman
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- politicianlawyerjurist
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Gérard François Marie Cooreman (25 March 1852 – 2 December 1926) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician.
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Alessandro Morbidelli
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- docentastronomer
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Alessandro Morbidelli is an Italian astronomer and planetary scientist who is currently employed by the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur in Nice.
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Oly Ilunga Kalenga
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- physicianpolitician
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Oly Ilunga Kalenga is a Belgian–Congolese medical doctor who was the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Minister of Public Health from 2016 to 2019. He resigned his post on 22 July 2019, then was arrested on 14 September 2019 for allegedly mismanaging a portion of Congo's $4.3 million in Ebola response money, an allegation that he denies.
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Andries Van den Abeele
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- politicianhistorian
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Andries Maurice Jean Marie Baron Van den Abeele is a Belgian historian historical preservationist, and former entrepreneur, politician, and employers' organization chairman.
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Eugène Lafont
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- physicistmissionaryCatholic priestlecturer
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Eugène Lafont, S.J., was a Belgian Jesuit priest, who became a missionary in India, where he became a noted scientist and the founder of the first Scientific Society in India.
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Betty Batoul
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- human rights activistwriter
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Betty Batoul Ben el Hiouel, alias Betty Batoul is a Belgian–Moroccan writer of French language and a dynamic human rights activist in Belgium and Morocco, more specifically in the fight against violence against women and sexual child abuse. She was born in Ixelles, Belgium.
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Bernard de Give
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- theologianCatholic priestlatinistlinguistphilosopher
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Bernard de Give was a Belgian priest and writer who became a monk of Scourmont Abbey.
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Jean-Pierre De Bandt
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- 1934-.. (age 90)
- Occupations
- lawyer
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Jean-Pierre, Baron de Bandt is a Belgian lawyer and former President of the Coudenberg group, a Belgian federalist think tank.
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Henri Depelchin
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- missionaryCatholic priest
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Henri Joseph Depelchin, SJ, was a Belgian Jesuit priest and missionary in India and Africa. As a missionary, he was the first superior of the failed Zambesi Mission in Africa and the founder and first superior of the West Bengal Mission in India. As an educator, he was the founder and first director of three major colleges in India.
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Jean-Luc Brédas
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- chemistresearcher
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Jean-Luc Brédas is an American chemist, working at the University of Arizona. He was born in Fraire, Belgium, on 23 May 1954.
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Henri Bogaert
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- 1948-.. (age 76)
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- economist
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Henri Bogaert, born on April 22, 1948, is a Belgian economist. From 1993 to 2014, he has been director of the Belgian Federal Planning Bureau and, until he retired in 2017, he was also professor of economic policy at the University of Namur.
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John Patrick Farrelly
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
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John Patrick Farrelly was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland in Ohio from 1909 until his death in 1921.
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Michel Bierlaire
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- 1967-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- mathematician
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Michel Bierlaire is a Belgian-Swiss applied mathematician specialized in transportation modeling and optimization. He is a professor at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and the head of the Transport and Mobility Laboratory.
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Vincent Meunier
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- researcher
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Vincent Meunier is a Belgian/American condensed matter and materials physicist known for his theoretical and computational research on electronic, optoelectronic, and structural properties of low-dimensional materials. He is the Department Head and P. B. Breneman Chair and Professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Pennsylvania State University. Among his contributions are the quantum mechanical description of processes responsible for scanning tunneling image formation in low-dimensional materials, the development of a microscopic theory of nanocapacitors, and contributions to the theory of electronic transport and ultra-low frequency vibrational modes in van der Waals heterostructures. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, of the Institute of Physics (IOP), and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Open Access Elsevier journal Carbon Trends.
