Jaques brel famous musician
Georges Lemaître Invented the big bang theory
Edward de Smedt, chemist and inventor of modern-day road asphalt
Lambert Adolphe Quetelet, mathematician and inventor of the Body Mass Index
Gerardus Mercator, cartographer, mathematician and geographer
Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone
Leo Hendrik Baekeland, inventor of the synthetic resin known as "bakelite"
Joseph Plateau, inventor of the stroboscope
Ernest Solvay, inventor of the Solvey process (ammonia)
Jean Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt, inventor of the two-finger guitar playing technique
Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir, inventor of the internal-combustion engine
Charles Van Depoele, inventor of the electric railway
Zénobe Gramme, inventor of the Gramme dynamo
Constant Loiseau, inventor of the optometer
Belgium was also the first countrie to abolish slavery!
Also first president of Europe ever Herman van Rompuy
Eddy merckx the best cyclist ever
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