- Matilda Of Flanders
Matilda of Flanders was Queen consort of the Kingdom of England and the wife of William I the Conqueror. She was the daughter of count Baldwin V of Flanders, and Adèle (1000-1078/9), daughter of Robert II of France. Accustomed to speaking her mind and getting her way, the 4'2"-tall (Britain's smallest queen) Matilda (or "Maud") told the representative of William, Duke of Normandy (later king of England as William the Conqueror), who had come asking for her hand, …
- Henry Of Flanders
Henry (c. 1174-1216), was the second emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople. He was a younger son of Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (later Baldwin VIII, count of Flanders), and Margaret I of Flanders, sister of Philip of Alsace, count of Flanders. Having joined the Fourth Crusade about 1201, he distinguished himself at the siege of Constantinople in 1204 and elsewhere, and soon became prominent among the princes of the new Latin Empire.
- Judith Of Flanders
Judith of Flanders (844 - 870) was a daughter of the Frankish king Charles the Bald and therefore she was a princess. Through her marriage to two kings of Wessex she first became queen, and later through her third marriage to Baldwin she became countess of Flanders. Judith was probably born in October of 844, the daughter of Charles the Bald, King of the Franks, and Ermentrude. Her father gave her in marriage to Ethelwulf, …
- Laura Flanders
Laura Flanders "is the host of "RadioNation" heard on Air America Radio and syndicated to non-commercial affiliates nationwide. She is the author most recently, of Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians (The Penguin Press, 2007) and also BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004), an investigation into the women in George W. Bush's Cabinet. Publisher's Weekly called Flanders' New York Times best-seller, "fierce, funny and intelligent."
- Louis II of Flanders II of Flanders
Louis II of Flanders, known as Louis of Male, was the son of Louis I of Flanders and Marguerite of France, and Count of Flanders. On his father's death at the Battle of Crécy in 1346, he inherited the counties of Flanders, Nevers, and Rethel. In 1347, he married Margaret of Brabant (1323-1368), daughter of John III, Duke of Brabant.
- Robert III of Flanders III of Flanders
Robert III of Flanders (1249 - September 17, 1322), also called Robert of Bethune and nicknamed "The Lion of Flanders" was Count of Nevers 1273-1322 and Count of Flanders 1305-1322. Robert was the oldest son of Guy of Dampierre from his first marriage with Mathilda of Bethune. His father essentially gave up the rule of Flanders to him in November 1299, during his war with Philip IV of France.
- Ralph Flanders
Ralph Edward Flanders was an American mechanical engineer, industrialist and Republican politician from the state of Vermont. Flanders was born in Barnet, Vermont. He spent much of his childhood in Rhode Island, where he started his working career. Flanders worked in the machine tool industry for most of his life. In his early career he wrote a number of articles on machine tool technology, which led to an editorship of "Machine" magazine between 1905 and 1910.
- Benjamin Flanders
Benjamin Franklin Flanders was an appointed Governor of Louisiana during Reconstruction and was Mayor of New Orleans.
- Joanna Of Flanders
Joanna of Flanders (c. 1295 - September 1374) was consort Duchess of Brittany by her marriage to John IV, Duke of Brittany. She was daughter of Louis, Count of Nevers and Jeanne of Rethel and sister of Count Louis I of Flanders. She married Duke John IV in March 1329. When her husband died in 1345 in the midst of the Breton War of Succession, …
- Alvan Flanders
Alvan Flanders (August 2, 1825 - March 14, 1884) was a Delegate from the Territory of Washington. Born in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, Flanders attended the public schools. Learned the machinist trade in Boston. He moved to Humboldt County, California, in 1851, and there engaged in the lumber business until 1858, when he moved to San Francisco. He was one of the founders and proprietors of the San Francisco Daily Times.
- Louis I of Flanders I of Flanders
Louis I (1304 - August 26, 1346, ruled 1322-1346) was Count of Flanders, Nevers and Rethel. He was the son of Louis, Count of Nevers and Jeanne of Rethel, and grandson of Robert III of Flanders. Louis married Marguerite of France, second daughter of Philip V of France and Jeanne II, Countess of Burgundy. Louis I relied on the aid of the King of France to put down the peasant revolt of Nicolaas Zannekin. Louis was killed in the Battle of Crécy.
- Michael Flanders
Michael Henry Flanders (March 1, 1922 - April 14, 1975) was an English actor, broadcaster, and writer and performer of comic songs. He is best known to the general public for his partnership with Donald Swann (see Flanders and Swann). __TOC_
- Yolanda Of Flanders
Yolanda of Flanders (1175 - 1219) ruled the Latin Empire in Constantinople for her husband Peter of Courtenay from 1217 to 1219. She was the daughter of Baldwin V, Count of Hainault, and Countess Margaret I of Flanders. Two of her brothers, Baldwin I and then Henry, were emperors in Constantinople. After the death of the latter in 1216 there was a brief period without an emperor, before Peter was elected.
- Walter Flanders
Walter E. Flanders (1871 - 1923) was a United States car industrialist, one of the earliest mass production experts. He left Ford Motor Company in 1909 to found E-M-F Company. Later he founded the United States Motor Company and reorganised Maxwell after the fall of the United States Motor Company
- Joshua Flanders
- Stephanie Flanders
Stephanie Hope Flanders (born August 5 1968) is the daughter of British actor and comic singer Michael Flanders. She is the Economics Editor of the BBC's "Newsnight." Educated at Balliol College, Oxford and Harvard University. Flanders began her career as an economist at the London Business School and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She then under took journalistic training to become a leader writer and columnist at the Financial Times from 1994.
- Ed Flanders
Ed Flanders was an American actor best known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Dr. Donald Westphall in the television series "St. Elsewhere".
- Yves Leterme
Yves Camille Désiré Leterme is an incoming Belgian Senator, a former Minister-President of Flanders and Flemish Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries. Yves Leterme is favourite to become the next prime minister of Belgium following the 2007 Belgian General Election. He tendered his resignation as Flemish Minister-President on June 26, 2007, and has been succeeded in that position by Kris Peeters.
- Hugo Claus
Hugo Maurice Julien Claus is a prolific Flemish novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director. He is considered to be one of the most important contemporary Dutch language authors. Hugo Claus was born in Bruges. Under the pseudonym Dorothea van Male, he published the novel Schola Nostra (1971). He also used the pseudonyms Jan Hyoens and Thea Streiner. In 1983, he published "Het verdriet van België" ("The Sorrow of Belgium"), …
- Helmut Lotti
Helmut Lotti (born Helmut Lotigiers on October 22, 1969 in Ghent, Flanders) is a Belgian popular singer and songwriter. The son of Luc Lotigiers and Rita Lagrou, he began his singing career with a visual and singing style in an obvious imitation of Elvis Presley, and was described as "De Nieuwe Elvis" (in Dutch) or "The New Elvis". His first two albums were "Vlaamse Nachten" (1990) and "Alles Wat Ik Voel" (1992).
- Kris Peeters
Kris Peeters (May 18, 1962) is a Flemish politician and member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party who is currently Minister-President of Flanders, Belgium. Peeters served from 1991 to 1994 as Director of the NCMV research department. In 1994 he became Secretary-General of NCMV and when NCMV was reformed into the SME interest group UNIZO in 1999, he became its first managing director.
- Paul Belien
Paul Belien worked as a journalist in Belgium and the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994. Afterward, he founded the classical-liberal, Brussels-based think-tank, Centre for the New Europe. He acted as CNE's first managing director and research director from 1994 to 2000. Belien is editor of the Flemish quarterly Secessie and the editor-in-chief of the pan-European website the Brussels Journal , which he founded in 2005.
- Karel de Gucht
Karel Lodewijk Georgette Emmerence De Gucht (Overmere, 27 january 1954) is the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and a former chairman of the Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD), a Belgian political party and prominent member of the Freemasons. In January 2004 he was forced to step down as chairman and was temporarily replaced until after the elections of June 4 by Dirk Sterckx.
- Philippe Gilbert
Philippe Gilbert is a Belgian road racing cyclist, known as a Classics specialist (cycling). A professional rider since 2003, Gilbert rides on the 2006 UCI ProTour for the Française des Jeux squad. In 2004, he represented his country and participated in the men's road race at the Summer Olympics. He participated in the 2005 Tour de France. What make's Gilbert unusual is that he is from Wallonia, meaning he is a French speaking by nature, …
- Geert Bourgeois
Geert Albert Bourgeois (Roeselare, 6 July 1951) is a Flemish politician and lawyer. He is the current Flemish Minister for Administrative Affairs, Foreign Policy, Media and Tourism.
- John Moore
John Moore (1729 - 21 January 1802) was a Scottish physician and writer. He was born at Stirling, the son of a clergyman. After taking his medical degree at Glasgow, he served with the army in Flanders, then proceeded to London to continue his studies, and eventually to Paris, where he was attached to the household of the British ambassador. His novel "Zeluco" (1789), a close analysis of the motives of a selfish profligate, produced a great impression at the time, …
- Guido Gezelle
Guido Gezelle (May 1, 1830 - November 27, 1899) was a Flemish writer and poet and a Roman Catholic priest. He was born in Bruges in the province of West Flanders, where he also spent most of his life. He was ordained a priest in 1854, and worked as a teacher and priest in Roeselare. He was always interested in all things in English and was given the prestigious right of being the priest for the 'English Convent' in Bruges.
- Willem Elsschot
Willem Elsschot (7 May 1882 - 31 May 1960), was a Flemish writer and poet (pseudonym of Alfons-Jozef De Ridder). Few of his works have been translated into English.
- Saint Amand
Saint Amand or Amandus, was a French Roman Catholic saint, one of the great Christian apostles of Flanders.
- Luc van den Brande
Luc Constant Hélène Van den Brande is a Flemish politician, member of the CD&V and was Minister-president of Flanders from 21 February 1992 until 13 July 1999.
- Jean-Marie Dedecker
Jean-Marie Louis Dedecker (born Nieuwpoort, 13 June 1952) is a Belgian-Flemish politician. In 1999 and 2003, Dedecker was directly elected to the Belgian Senate. In 2004 Dedecker ran for a seat in the Flemish Parliament, after taking his seat in the Flemish Parliament, Dedecker was elected by his colleagues as a community senator as well. He was a member of the Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD), before being expelled, …
- Axelle Red
Axelle Red was born Fabienne Demal in Hasselt, Flanders, Belgium, on 15 February 1968. She is a singer-songwriter. Despite being Flemish, she chose to write and perform songs in the French language. She has achieved great critical success in both Belgium and France. Her musical style varies from jazz to piano ballads. Her musical idols as a youth were the pop group ABBA.
- Herman van Rompuy
Herman Van Rompuy (born October 31, 1947 in Etterbeek) is a Flemish politician and member of the CD&V (formerly called CVP). He was the Vice President of the CVP Youth from 1973 to 1975, from 1978 onward, he was a member of the National Bureau of the CVP, from 1975 to 1980 he worked in the ministerial cabinets of Leo Tindemans and Gaston Geens and from 1988 to 1993 he was the President of the CVP.
- Tom Lanoye
Tom Lanoye is a Flemish novelist and poet. He went to school at the "Sint Jozef Klein Seminarie" in Sint-Niklaas, where Anton van Wilderode was a teacher. He graduated in Germanic philology and sociology at the University of Ghent. Lanoye started his career as poet in the style of John Cooper Clarke. From 1981, he formed a duo with James Bordello. Within a year they went from unannounced recitals in Ghent student cafés to the Night of Poetry in Utrecht (city).
- Adriaen Brouwer
Adriaen Brouwer (1605, Oudenaarde - January 1638, Antwerp) was a Flemish genre painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century. At a young age Brouwer, probably born as "Adriaen de Brauwer", moved perhaps via Antwerp to Haarlem, where he became a student of Frans Hals alongside Adriaen van Ostade. He also was active in stage acting and poetry. He stayed in Haarlem and Amsterdam until 1631, …
- Bart Peeters
Bart Peeters (Mortsel, 30 November 1959) is a Flemish singer, drummer, television presenter and actor. Peeters studied Germanic philology and drama in Antwerp. There, he met Jan Leyers and Hugo Matthysen, with whom he worked later. Bart Peeters is married and has two daughters and a son.
- Louis Paul Boon
Louis Paul Boon (15 March 1912 - 10 May 1979) was a Flemish journalist and novelist who is considered one of the major 20th century writers in the Dutch language. He forsook the literary Dutch of the Netherlands for regional Flemish words and expressions with which he colored his writing. Born Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht Boon in Aalst, Belgium to a working-class family, Boon left school at age 16 to work for his father as a carriage painter.
- Bart Somers
Bartolomeus Jozef Lodewijk Rosalia "Bart" Somers (born 12 may 1964 in Mechelen) is a Belgian, Flemish politician. He is currently the mayor of Mechelen and chairman of the party VLD. He obtained a law degree from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium).
- Hilde Crevits
Hilde Urbanie Julia Crevits (Torhout, June 28, 1967) is a Flemish politician and member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party who is currently the Flemish minister of Public Works, Energy, the Environment and Nature. Crevits graduated from Ghent University as a Licentiate of Law in 1990 and subsequently became a lawyer. Crevits served on the provincial council of West-Flanders from 1999 to 2004, …
- Will Tura
Will Tura (born August 2, 1940 in Veurne) is the stage name of Arthur, Knight Blanckaert, a Belgian artist famous in Flanders and the Netherlands. Tura is a singer, musician (he can play the piano, guitar, drums, accordion and harmonica), composer and songwriter. He is married to Jenny Swinnen, with whom he has a son David (born October 16, 1974) and a daughter Sandy Tura (born November 21, 1975).