List of people from Ghent

Born in Ghent personalities

To 1800

• Jacob van Artevelde (around 1290-1345 ), Patriot
• John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster ( 1340-1399 ), son of King Edward III.
• Alexander Agricola (1446-1506), composer, singer and instrumentalist
• Jacob Obrecht ( 1457/58-1505 ), composer, singer and clerics
• Jodocus badius (1462-1535), printer and humanist
• Gerard Horenbout (1465-1541), cartographer, writer and painter
• Lucas Horenbout ( 1490/95-1544 ), miniaturist
• Charles V (1500-1558), Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
• Charles of Utenhove the Elder. (around 1500-1580 ), humanist and politician
• Isabella of Austria (1501-1526), Queen of Denmark and Norway
• Georg of Austria (1504-1557), Catholic Archbishop
• Jan van Utenhove ( 1516 or 1520-1566 ), humanist and theologian of Reformed
• Charles of Utenhove the Younger (1536-1600), humanist scholar and poet
• Levinus Battus (1545-1591), German physician
• Johanna Otho ( about 1549 - after 1621), humanist and poet
• Levinus Hulsius (1546-1606), notary, author and publisher
• Anne of Utenhove ( 1550 - after 1595 [ 1641 ?] ), Humanist and poet
• Lieven de Key (c. 1560-1627 ), architect
• Johan Philip Lansberg (1561-1632), Astronomer
• Daniel Colonius the Elder (1566-1635), Reformed theologian
• Pieter van den Keere (1570-1630), engraver and publisher
• Anthony Walaeus (1573-1639), Calvinist, Reformed theologian and professor
• Daniel Heinsius (1580-1655), scholar
• Justus de Harduwijn (1582-1636), pastor and poet
• Josse Boutmy (1679-1779), composer and harpsichordist
• Jean -Baptiste Loeillet de Gant (1688-1720), composer and flautist
• Laurent Delvaux (1695-1778), a Dutch sculptor
• Peter Anton von Verschaffelt (1710-1793), sculptor and architect
• Konstantin Karl d' Aspre (1767-1809), Field Marshal Lieutenant and Theresa Knight
• Joseph Van Crombrugghe (1770-1842), lawyer and liberal politician
• Martin -Joseph Mengal (1784-1851), horn player, composer and conductor
• Joseph -Jean De Smet (1794-1877), Catholic priest and historian
• Quételet Adolphe (1796-1874), astronomer and statistician
• Joseph Guislain (1797-1860), psychiatrist
• Victor Félix Goethals (1799-1872), scholar

1801-1850

• Philipp Blommaert (1809-1871), writer
• Dillens Adolf (1821-1877), painter
• Lievin de Winne (1821-1880), painter
• Amalia of Saxe- Weimar -Eisenach (1830-1872), aristocrat
• Gustave Rolin - Jaequemyns (1835-1902), lawyer, politician and diplomat
• Jean Jacques Kickx (1842-1887), botanist
• Paul de Smet de Naeyer (1843-1913), Catholic politician and Prime Minister
• Alberic Rolin (1843-1937), lawyer
• Jules van Evariste Biesbroeck (1848-1920), painter and engraver
• Pierre Degeyter (1848-1932), Belgian - French socialist, communist and songwriter

1851-1900

• Cooreman Gerhard (1852-1926), Catholic politician and Prime Minister
• Joris Helleputte (1852-1925), architect and politician
• Arnold t'Kint de Roodenbeke (1853-1928), Catholic politician
• Jules Van den Heuvel (1854-1926), university teachers, ambassadors and politicians
• Edward Anseele (1856-1938), politician
• Victor Horta (1861-1947), Art Nouveau architect
• Henri Lammens (1862-1937), Jesuit and Orientalist
• Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949), novelist and playwright
• Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1863-1944), Belgian -American chemist and inventor
• Edouard Rolin Jaequemyns (1863-1936), lawyer, diplomat and politician
• Théo van Rysselberghe (1863-1926), painter
• Stephan Kekulé von Stradonitz (1863-1933), German jurist, a private scholar, Herald and genealogist
• George Minne (1866-1941), painter, draftsman and sculptor
• Armand Thiéry (1868-1955), Roman Catholic. Priest, theologian, psychologist, engineer and professor
• Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925), poet and novelist
• Jules -Émile Verschaffelt (1870-1955), Physicist
• Hippolyte Daeye (1873-1952), painter
• Maurice Lippens August (1875-1956), liberal politician
• Gustave de Smet (1877-1943), painter
• Fritz Marguerre (1878-1964), Belgian - German engineer, inventor and entrepreneur
• George Van Biesbroeck (1880-1974), American astronomer
• André de Cock (1880-1964), philatelist
• Felix Klipstein (1880-1941), German painter, draftsman and graphic artist
• Frits van den Berghe (1883-1939), painter
• George Sarton (1884-1956), American historian of science
• Charles de Visscher (1884-1973), lawyer
• Fernand de Visscher (1885-1964), legal historian and archaeologist
• Raymundus Joannes de Kremer (1887-1964), writer
• Henri Rolin (1891-1973), lawyer and politician
• Corneille Heymans (1892-1968), pharmacologist
• Paul Struye (1896-1974), legal scholar, university teacher and politician
• Edgard Colle (1897-1932), chess master

1901-1950

• August Meuleman (1906-2000), cyclist and pacemaker
• Jean Van Houtte (1907-1991), Christian Democratic politician and financial expert
• Jean Beyer (1914-2002), Catholic priest, Jesuit canonist
• Théo Lefèvre (1914-1973), politician
• Robert Van Eenaeme (1916-1959), cyclist
• Joseph van der Straeten (1918-2010), Jesuit Bollandist
• Octave Landuyt ( * 1922 ), painter and sculptor
• Guy Duijck (1927-2008), composer, lecturer, oboist and conductor
• Willy De Clercq (1927-2011), liberal politician
• Gilbert Temmerman (1928-2012), politician
• Roeland Raes ( b. 1934 ), lawyer and politician
• David Ruelle ( b. 1935 ), physicist and mathematician
• Jean -Marie Albert Bottequin ( born 1941 ), Photographer, Photojournalist, photographic artist and mime
• Jacques Rogge ( born 1942 ), an orthopedic surgeon and president of the IOC
• Jef D' hont (* 1942), caregivers in cycling
• Willy De Bosscher ( b. 1943 ), cyclist
• Walter Godefroot ( b. 1943 ), cyclist and manager
• Gerard Mortier (1943-2014), director and festival director
• René Jacobs ( born 1946 ), conductor and countertenor
• Luc Coene ( b. 1947 ), politician
• Philippe Herreweghe ( born 1947 ), conductor
• Jozef De Kesel ( b. 1947 ), bishop of Bruges
• Theo Custers ( born 1950 ), football player

1951

• Vera Dua (* 1952), politician
• Johan Van Hecke ( * 1954), politician
• Frank Hoste ( born 1955 ), cyclist
• Florian Heyerick ( b. 1958 ), flautist, harpsichordist, conductor and music producer
• Joël Kotek (born 1958 ), a political scientist and historian
• Matthias Storme ( born 1959 ), lawyer, thinker, writer and politician
• Dirk Brossé ( b. 1960 ), composer and conductor
• Frank De Winne ( born 1961 ), Spaceman
• Rik Van Slycke (born 1962 ), cyclist and sports director
• Nic Balthazar (born 1964 ), television journalist
• Philip Claeys (born 1965 ), politician
• Yves Defraigne (born 1965 ), basketball coach
• Rudy Reunes (1967-2010), jazz trumpeter
• Helmut Lotti (born 1969 ), crossover and pop singer
• Filip Meirhaeghe (* 1971), mountain bikers
• Karin de Fleyt ( b. 1972 ), flutist
• Matthew Gilmore (born 1972 ), cyclist
• Vincent Van Quickenborne (* 1973), politician
• Gunther Schepens (born 1973 ), football player
• Muhammet Kurtuluş ( b. 1974 ), the Turkish football player
• Isabelle A ( b. 1975 ), singer
• Freya Van den Bossche (* 1975), politician
• Tomas van den Spiegel (born 1978 ), basketball player
• Cédric Van Branteghem (* 1979), Sprinter
• Frederic Sioen ( born 1979 ), singer-songwriter
• Bradley Wiggins ( born 1980 ), British cyclist
• Steven Caethoven ( b. 1981 ), cyclist
• Deschacht ( b. 1981 ), football player
• Dimitri De Fauw (1981-2009), cyclist
• Iljo Keisse ( b. 1982 ), cyclist
• Joeri Clauwaert ( b. 1983 ), cyclist
• Evelien Callens ( born 1984 ), basketball player
• Ingmar De Poortere ( born 1984 ), cyclist
• Wouter Weylandt (1984-2011), cyclist
• Eline Bering's (* 1986), track and field athlete
• Stijn Huys (* 1986), cyclocross riders
• Bart Michiels (* 1986), chess player
• Davy Tuytens ( born 1986 ), cyclist
• Steven Van Vooren ( born 1986 ), cyclist
• Laurens De Vreese (* 1988), cyclist
• Vadis Odjidja - Ofoe (* 1989), football player
• Jarl Salomein (* 1989), cyclist
• Jolien D' hoore (* 1990), cyclist
• Gijs Van Hoecke (* 1991), cyclist

Famous inhabitants of Ghent

• Dominik Konstantin Munich (1763-1818), German theologian and historian