Paul Saintenoy was a Belgian architect, teacher, architectural historian, and writer. Born in Elsene in the Brussels-Capital Region, he was the son of an architect. He began studying architecture in Antwerp in 1881 then returned home to complete his training in Brussels. With an interest in archaeology, for a time he served as the general secretary of the "Royal Society of Archaeology" in Brussels.

Andreas Ernestus Josephus Claes (24 October 1885 in Zichem - 2 September 1968 in Elsene) was a Flemish author. Some of his works are written under the pseudonym G. van Hasselt

Julianus Marie August de Boeck was a Belgian composer, organist and music pedagogue. From 1880 he studied organ at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels under Alphonse Mailly from whom he became an assistant until 1902. In 1889 he met the young Paul Gilson who became his close friend, and, despite their same age, his teacher for orchestration and his motivator for composition. He became an organist at various churches in Belgian villages (1892-1894 in Merchtem, …

Anne-Marie Cécile J. Neyts-Uyttebroeck is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Flanders with the Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. She is for the second time member of the European Parliament (since June 2004) and former president of the Liberal International, from September 1999 to 2005.

Frans Jozef de Cort (Antwerp, 21 June, 1834- Elsene, 18 January, 1878) was a Flemish writer. Professionally he was, first a clerk, editor, bookkeeper for a shipping company, and in 1861 a secretary at the military court. Together with Jan Theodoor van Rijswijck, he published the journal "De Grondwet" since 1857. In 1858, he became editor of the magazine "De Schelde". From 1861 on, he became head editor of "De Toekomst", …

Johan Michiel Dautzenberg was a Belgian writer. Professionaly he was successively secretary, clerk, teacher, private teacher, and bookkeeper. He wrote poems on nature, songs, novels, poems concerning the Flemish movement. According to August Vermeylen, he was the first consciously Flemish writer. With his "Beknopte prosodie der Nederduitsche taal (E: Concise prosody of the Dutch language), he tried to convince his fellow poets to return to the classical metrics of poetry.

Albert Joseph Charles Devèze was a Belgian liberal politician and minister. Devèze was a doctor in law and a lawyer. He was a liberal municipality Council member in Schaarbeek and in Elsene and a member of parliament for the district of Brussels (1912-1939 and 1946-1958) and for the district of Verviers (1939-1946). Devèze was President of the Liberal Party in 1927-1932 and was a minister of defense (1920-1923, 1932-1936 and 1949-1950), vice prime-minister (1949-1950), …

Philippe Dautzenberg (Elsene, 20 December 1849 - Paris, 9 May 1935) was a Belgian malacologist, the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of mollusks. He collected a great deal of the shell collection of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, which consists of 9 000 000 specimens and is one of the three biggest shell collections in the world.

Victor Auguste de Laveleye (Brussels, 5 November 1894-Elsene, 14 December 1945) was a Belgian liberal politician and minister. De Laveleye was a doctor in law. He was municipality Council member of Sint-Gillis, President of the Liberal Party (1936-1937) and liberal member of parliament (1939-1945) for the district Brussels. De Laveleye was minister of justice (1937) and of public education (1944-1945).

Charles Dekeukeleire is a Belgian author-filmmaker born on February 27, 1905 in Ixelles (Brussels) and deceased on June 2, 1971 in Werchter (the Brabant Flemish). He was with Henri Storck the pioneer of modern Belgian film. He was strongly inspired by the pure cinema of the French avant-garde, particularly of Germaine Dulac. In the years 1920, writes many articles in the reviews (7 Arts, Nouvelle Team, the last News).

Paul Hymans, was a Belgian politician associated with the Liberal Party. He was the first President of the short-lived League of Nations, and served again as its president in 1932-33. Hymans was born in Ixelles/Elsene, Belgium and became Belgian Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1918 to 1920 (and again from 1927 to 1935), minister of justice from 1926 to 1927, and member of the council of ministers from 1935 to 1936. He represented Belgium at the 1919-1920 peace conference.