List of people from Bruges

The following list contains the Bruges -born, and the temporary living personalities, listed chronologically by year of birth. The list is not exhaustive.

Born in Bruges personalities

To 1800

  • Lubertus Hautscilt (around 1347-1417 ), Augustinian abbot, mathematician, astrologer, and mystic
  • Pieter Bladelin (around 1408-1472 ), Patrician of the city and consultants at the court of Philip the Good
  • Pierre Basin (1435-1497), singer
  • Jean Cordier (1440-1501), singer
  • Jean le Sauvage (1455-1518), advisor to Charles the V.
  • Georg van Themseke (1470-1535), Ambassador of Charles the V.
  • Philip I (1478-1506), Duke of Burgundy
  • Adriaen Isenbrant (1490-1556), painter
  • David Joris ( 1501/02-1556 ), a glass painter
  • Johann Otho (around 1520-1581 ), humanist, educator, cartographer and scholar
  • Marcus Gerards the Elder ( 1520/21-1586 ), Renaissance painter, graphic artist and engraver
  • Jan van der Straet (1523-1605), painter and draftsman
  • Jacobus Pamelius (1536-1587), Catholic theologian
  • Vulcanius Bonaventura (1538-1614), scholar, translator and humanist
  • Frans Pourbus the Elder (1545-1581), painter
  • Peter Candid (1548-1628), painter and graphic artist
  • Simon Stevin ( 1548/49-1620 ), mathematician, physicist and engineer
  • Marcus Gerards the Younger ( 1561/62-1636 ), Renaissance painters
  • Nicolaus Mulerius (1564-1630), professor of medicine and mathematics
  • Grégoire de Saint -Vincent (1584-1667), mathematician and Jesuit
  • Jacob van Oost the Elder ( 1600-1671 to ), painter
  • Jacob van Oost the Younger (1637-1713), painter
  • Joseph -Denis Odevaere ( 1775/78-1830 ), historical and portrait painter and lithographer
  • Louis de Potter (1786-1859), politician
  • Charles de Brouckère (1796-1860), statesman
  • Henri Milne Edwards (1800-1885), zoologist, physician and naturalist

1801-1850

  • Henri de Brouckère (1801-1891), statesman
  • Paul Devaux (1801-1880), politician
  • Octave Delepierre (1804-1879), writer
  • Eugène Charles Catalan (1814-1894), mathematician
  • Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye (1822-1892), economist
  • Guido Gezelle (1830-1899), poet
  • Eugène Goossens (1845-1906), conductor

1851-1900

1901-1950

  • Jef van de Wiele (1903-1979), a nationalist
  • Madeleine De Meulemeester (1904-1996), Pfadfinderfunktionärin and righteous among the nations
  • Guy De Poerck (1910-1996), Romance
  • Albert Coppé (1911-1999), politician
  • Robert Braet (1912-1987), football goalkeeper and functionary
  • Nelly Landry (1916-2010), tennis player
  • Albert Ramon (1920-1993), cyclist
  • Herman de Meulenaere (1923-2011), Egyptologist
  • Hugo Dyserinck (* 1927), comparatist
  • Frank Van Acker (1929-1992), politician
  • Hugo Claus (1929-2008), writer
  • Jean scratch (1929-1988), mercenaries
  • Bernhard Maria Lambert, OSB (1931-2014), abbot of the monastery Scheyern
  • Etienne Vermeersch ( b. 1934 ), philosopher
  • Desmit Gilbert ( b. 1937 ), swimmer
  • Guido Reybrouck ( b. 1941 ), cyclist
  • Michel D' Hooghe ( b. 1945 ), football official
  • Jean -Pierre Van Rossem (* 1945), scientists, politicians, writers and sponsor
  • Jean -Michel Veranneman de Watervliet (* 1947), Ambassador

1951

  • Sophie Barjac ( born 1957 ), actress
  • Kris Defoort ( born 1959 ), composer and jazz musician
  • Frank Vanhecke (* 1959), politician
  • Johan Vandewalle (* 1960), orientalist
  • Filip Dewinter (born 1962 ), politician
  • Peter Verhelst (* 1962), writer, poet, playwright, performer and playwright
  • Jan De Winne (born 1962 ), flutist
  • Bart Moeyaert (born 1964 ), author and poet
  • Aise Johan de Jong (born 1966 ), mathematician
  • Henk Houwaart junior (1967-2008), football player
  • Dominique Persoone (* 1968), Chocolatier
  • Luc Van Lierde (born 1969 ), Triathlete
  • Tom Compernolle (1975-2008), Athlete
  • James Vanlandschoot (born 1978 ), cyclist
  • Gotye ( born 1980 ), musician
  • Thomas Buffel ( born 1981 ), football player
  • Tim Maeyens ( born 1981 ), rower
  • Tony Parker ( b. 1982 ), basketball player
  • Joeri Calleeuw ( born 1985 ), cyclist
  • Nicolas Lombaerts ( born 1985 ), football player
  • Dieter Vanthourenhout (* 1985), cyclocross riders
  • Bart Buysse ( born 1986 ), football player
  • Jens Keukeleire (* 1988), cyclist
  • Sven Vandousselaere (* 1988), cyclist
  • Lindsey De Grande ( * 1989), track and field athlete

Personalities who have worked on site

  • Gilles Binchois, composer, poet and cleric
  • Antoine Busnoys, French composer, singer, poet and cleric
  • William Caxton, the first English printer
  • Petrus Christus, Dutch painter
  • Gerard David, Early Netherlandish painter
  • Guy Duijck, Belgian composer, professor and conductor
  • Franky Van Der Elst, football player
  • Jan van Eyck, representatives of Early Netherlandish painting
  • Gilles Joye, theologian, poet, singer and composer
  • Hans Memling, German painter of the Dutch school
  • Jacob Obrecht, Flemish composer and singer of the Renaissance as well as clerics
  • Werner Quintens, Belgian Roman Catholic priest
  • Saryusz -Wolski, 1997-1999 Vice- Rector of the College of Europe in Bruges
  • John Sutton ( Baronet ) ( 1820-1873 ) English benefactor and patron
  • Guy Thys, Belgian football coach
  • Johan Vandewalle, orientalist
  • Hildebrand Veckinchusen, merchant of the Hanse time
  • Gaspar van Weerbeke, composer and singer
  • Joseph HH Weiler, Professor of International Law and European Law at the College of Europe in Bruges
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