26 Notable alumni of
University of Namur
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The University of Namur is 1833rd in the world, 616th in Europe, and 10th in Belgium by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 26 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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Paul Janssen
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Paul Adriaan Jan, Baron Janssen was a Belgian physician. He was the founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica, a pharmaceutical company with over 20,000 employees which is now a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.
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Mathias Cormann
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- politician
- Biography
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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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Jean-Luc Dehaene
- Occupations
- 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
- Occupations
- pedagogueuniversity teacherlawyerjudgejurist
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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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- philosopherCatholic bishopwriterCatholic priestuniversity teacher
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André-Joseph Léonard is a Belgian Catholic retired prelate who served as the Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels and Primate of Belgium from 2010 to 2015. He previously served as Bishop of Namur from 1991 until 2010 under the name André-Mutien Léonard.
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Oliver Paasch
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- lawyerpolitician
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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
- Occupations
- politicianbankerjuristlawyeruniversity teacher
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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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- politicianjuristlawyer
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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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Jean Capart
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- art historianegyptologistjurist
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Jean Capart was a Belgian Egyptologist, who is often considered the "Father of Belgian Egyptology."
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Eva Brems
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- human rights activistpolitical activistuniversity teacherpoliticianjurist
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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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- university teacheranthropologistarchaeologistclassical philologist
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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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- politicianjuristlawyer
- Biography
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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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- astronomerresearcherdocent
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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. Morbidelli specialises in Solar System dynamics, especially planetary formation and migration and the structure of the asteroid and Kuiper belts.
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Oly Ilunga Kalenga
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- politicianphysician
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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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- historianpolitician
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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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- lecturerCatholic priestmissionaryphysicist
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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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- non-fiction writerhuman rights activist
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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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- latinistCatholic priesttheologianphilosopherlinguist
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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 91)
- 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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- Catholic priestmissionary
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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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Léopold Genicot
- Enrolled in the University of Namur
- Studied in 1932-1934
- Occupations
- archivistuniversity teacherhistorian
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Léopold Genicot was a Belgian historian and medievalist and an activist for the Walloon Movement. He established a centre for the study of rural history and an influential series of guides to medieval historical sources.
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Jean-Luc Brédas
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- researcherchemist
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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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Elie Melia
- Occupations
- historianEastern Orthodox priest
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Fr. Elie Melia was a Georgian Orthodox priest in France and church historian.
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Henri Bogaert
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- 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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Michel Bierlaire
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- 1967-.. (age 58)
- 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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John Patrick Farrelly
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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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.
