Paul Janssen

Paul Janssen

male, deceased (2003)
Roman Catholic, Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Leuven alumni before 1968, DeGrootsteBelg, The Greatest Belgian, Ghent University alumni…Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix
Paul Adriaan Jan Janssen (Turnhout, Belgium, 12 September 1926 - Rome, Italy, 11 November, 2003) was the founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica, a...
Adolf Daens

Adolf Daens

male
Former Jesuit, Christelijke Volkspartij, priest, Christene Volkspartij, DeGrootsteBelg, Daens
Adolf Daens was a Flemish priest from Aalst. He created the daensism movement from which originated in 1893 the Christelijke Volkspartij inspired...
Father Damien

Father Damien

male, deceased (1889)
Roman Catholic, canonization, The Greatest Belgian, Anglican, religious order, Hansen's disease…Joseph de Veuster, DeGrootsteBelg
Father Damien, also Blessed Damien of Molokai and born Joseph de Veuster, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation...
Benoît Poelvoorde

Benoît Poelvoorde

male, 45 years old
belgian, namur, actor, DeGrootsteBelg, Man Bites Dog, C'est arrivé près de chez vous
Benoît Poelvoorde (born September 22, 1964, in Namur, Belgium) is a Belgian actor. His first movie was the 1987 student film "Pas de C4 pour D...
Pedro de Gante

Pedro de Gante

male, deceased (1572)
monk, Franciscan, Pedro de Mura, beatification, new world, flanders…DeGrootsteBelg
Fray Pieter van der Moere, also known as Fray Pedro de Gante or Pedro de Mura (ca. 1480 -1572) was a Franciscan missionary in sixteenth century...

Zénobe Gramme

male, deceased (1901)
National Inventors Hall of Fame, liege, inventor, electrical engineer, physicist, dynamo…DeGrootsteBelg
Zénobe Théophile Gramme was a Belgian electrical engineer. In spite of the fact that he was semi-literate and had no advanced knowledge of ma...