Guy Verhofstadt

Guy Verhofstadt

male, 56 years old (Belgium)
Prime Minister of Belgium, prime minister, belgian, politician, ghent, PVV…GhentUniversityalumni
Guy Verhofstadt , Prime Minister since July 1999Belgium is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy which evolved after World War II...
Robert Cailliau

Robert Cailliau

male, 62 years old
GhentUniversityalumni, atheist, computer programmer, Order of Léopold recipient, from Antwerp, Belgium, Developer…University of Michigan alumni, Ghent, Belgium, ghent
Robert Cailliau (b. 26 January 1947) is one of the co-developers of the World Wide Web.
Leo Baekeland

Leo Baekeland

male, deceased (1944)
from Florida, Perkin Medal, from Dutchess County, New York, GhentUniversityalumni, naturalized citizen of the United States, Belgian-American…ghent, university of ghent, From Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, A real gent from Ghent
Leo Hendrik Baekeland (Ghent, November 14, 1863 - February 23, 1944) was a Belgian-American chemist who invented Velox photographic paper (1893)...
Jacques Rogge

Jacques Rogge

male, 67 years old
IOC Session, Belgium national rugby union team, Belgian national rugby union team, GhentUniversityalumni, Salt Lake City, Orthopedic…ghent, From Ghent
Count Jacques Rogge (born May 2, 1942 in Ghent, Belgium) is by profession an orthopedic surgeon. He is the eighth president of the International...
Yves Leterme

Yves Leterme

male, 49 years old
CD&V, Yves Camille Désiré Leterme, politician, Minister-presidents of Flanders, cvp, belgian…GhentUniversityalumni
Yves Camille Désiré Leterme is an incoming Belgian Senator, a former Minister-President of Flanders and Flemish Minister of Agriculture and Fi...
Willy de Clercq

Willy de Clercq

male
Minister of State, belgian, Belgian European Commissioner, GhentUniversityalumni, Party for Freedom and Progress, Syracuse University…university of ghent, ghent university, ghent
Viscount Willy Clarisse Elvire Hector De Clercq (Ghent, 8 July 1927) is a Belgian liberal politician. After his law and notariat studies at the...
Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck

male, deceased (1949)
Belgian poet in French, GhentUniversityalumni, Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, Belgian writer in French, Nobel laureate in Literature, From Ghent
Count Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist. He was awarded the...
Franz Cumont

Franz Cumont

male, deceased (1947)
historian, Baron Edouard Descamps, GhentUniversityalumni, Edouard Descamps, roman empire, flemish…university of ghent
Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont was a Belgian archaeologist and historian, a philologist and student of epigraphy, who brought these often isolated s...
Marc van Montagu

Marc van Montagu

male, 76 years old
GhentUniversityalumni, maize, Molecular biologist, ghent university, ghent, molecular biology…university of ghent
Marc Van Montagu (b.Ghent, 10 November 1933) is a Belgian molecular biologist. He was full Professor and director of the Laboratory of Genetics at...
Dirk Verhofstadt

Dirk Verhofstadt

male, 54 years old
political philosophy, Dendermonde, GhentUniversityalumni, university of ghent, philosopher, flemish
Dirk Verhofstadt (b. Dendermonde 1955) is a Belgian liberal (Rawlsian) theorist and brother of the Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt. He has a...