Born in Brussels metropolitan area

Brussels metropolitan area

Metropolitan area of Brussels, in Belgium

Brussels metropolitan area as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. Belgian actor, Belgian politician, Duchess of Burgundy and wife of Emperor Maximilian I (1457-1482)): Jérémie Renier, Philippe Lamberts, Mary of Burgundy and some more.

Celebrities from Brussels metropolitan area

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Jérémie Renier

Belgian actor

*January 6th, 1981

61

Philippe Lamberts

Belgian politician

*March 14th, 1963

25

Mary of Burgundy

Duchess of Burgundy and wife of Emperor Maximilian I (1457-1482)

*February 13th, 1457 †March 27th, 1482, Bruges

42

Alex Vizorek

Belgian actor, humorist and radio host

*September 21st, 1981

60

Yves Sente

Comic writer

*January 17th, 1964

51

Brian Molko

Belgium musician

*December 10th, 1972

77

Diane von Fürstenberg

Belgian-born American fashion designer

*December 31st, 1946

71

Yolande Moreau

Belgian actress, film director and screenwriter

*February 27th, 1953

99

Micheline Lannoy

Belgian figure skater

*January 31st, 1925

54

Helena Noguerra

Belgian actress and singer

*May 18th, 1969

79

Jacky Ickx

Belgian racecar driver

*January 1st, 1945

79

Jean-Pierre de Launoit

Belgian private banker

*January 5th, 1935 †November 12th, 2014, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert - Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe

41

Nicolas Gob

Belgian actor

*October 29th, 1982

80

Christine Ockrent

Belgian journalist

*April 24th, 1944

86

Jacques Piccard

Swiss oceanographer (1922–2008)

*July 28th, 1922 †November 1st, 2008, La Tour-de-Peilz

63

Florence Aubenas

French journalist

*February 6th, 1961

40

Hande Kodja

Belgian actress

*February 6th, 1984

98

Maxime Weygand

French military commander in World War I and World War II (1867−1965)

*January 21st, 1867 †January 28th, 1965, Paris

70

Charles Mahieu

Belgian actor (1894-1964)

*February 23rd, 1894 †October 2nd, 1964, City of Brussels

47

Udo Mechels

Belgian Flemish singer-songwriter

*May 10th, 1976

59

Rick Allison

Belgian-born Canadian, singer, author and record producer

*July 17th, 1964

85

Jean Van Hamme

Belgian author

*January 16th, 1939

66

Grace de Capitani

Belgian actress

*June 17th, 1957

26

Orel Mangala

Belgian association football player

*March 18th, 1998

38

Faris Haroun

Belgian footballer

*September 22nd, 1985

68

Bruno Valkeniers

Flemish politician

*June 13th, 1955

77

Safter Çinar

German translator

*May 20th, 1946

66

Crisse

Belgian comics artist

*February 26th, 1958

91

Philippe Washer

Belgian tennis player

*August 6th, 1924 †November 27th, 2015, Knokke

33

Leonhard II. von Taxis

(1594-1628)

*July 5th, 1594 †May 23rd, 1628, Prague

86

Pierre Chenal

Director

*December 5th, 1904 †December 23rd, 1990, La Garenne-Colombes

69

Joseph Ignaz Philipp von Hessen-Darmstadt

Roman Catholic bishop (1699-1768)

*January 13th, 1699 †August 20th, 1768, Plombières-les-Bains

69

Jiří Buquoy

Bohemian aristocrat, mathematician, and inventor

*September 7th, 1781 †April 19th, 1851, Prague

20

Junior Malanda

Belgian association football player (1994–2015)

*August 28th, 1994 †January 10th, 2015, Porta Westfalica

91

Pierre Cordier

Belgian artist (1933- )

*January 28th, 1933 †March 21st, 2024, Brussels metropolitan area

80

Gilberte Thirion

Belgian racecar driver (1928-2008)

*January 8th, 1928 †May 21st, 2008, Uccle - Ukkel

77

Raymond Rouleau

Actor, film director (1904-1981)

*June 14th, 1904 †December 11th, 1981, 7th arrondissement of Paris

68

Maria Clementine Martin

German nun and entrepreneur, creator of Klosterfrau Melissengeist (1775-1843)

*May 5th, 1775 †August 9th, 1843, Cologne

24

Blanche

Belgian singer

*June 10th, 1999

66

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Belgian writer and filmmaker

*November 29th, 1957

93

Claude Strebelle

Belgian architect

*November 2nd, 1917 †November 16th, 2010, Liège

66

Emile Wafflard

Belgian carom billiards player

*November 16th, 1927 †September 19th, 1994

95

Lucien Kroll

Belgian architect

*March 13th, 1927 †August 2nd, 2022, City of Brussels

54

André Geerts

Writer

*December 18th, 1955 †July 27th, 2010

63

Bernard Yerlès

Belgian actor

*January 17th, 1961

49

Vanina Ickx

Auto racer

*February 16th, 1975

33

Omar El Kaddouri

Moroccan footballer

*August 21st, 1990

55

Camille Japy

French actress

*September 7th, 1968

55

Christophe Van Rossom

Belgian poet

*April 21st, 1969

34

Tom Boon

Belgian field hockey player

*January 25th, 1990

58

Stéphane De Groodt

Belgian actor and comedian

*March 3rd, 1966

66

Claude Moniquet

French journalist

*March 3rd, 1958

37

Jill Boon

Belgian field hockey player

*March 13th, 1987

60

Stephan Streker

Belgian film director

*March 17th, 1964

75

Michel Herr

Belgian jazz pianiste, composer and arranger

*February 16th, 1949

92

François Houtart

Belgian writer

*March 7th, 1925 †June 6th, 2017, Quito

49

Yannick Renier

Belgian actor

*March 29th, 1975

53

Queen Maria of Hungary

Governor of the Netherlands; queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia as the wife of King Louis II

*September 15th, 1505 †October 18th, 1558, Cigales

85

Pierre Wynants

Belgian chef

*March 5th, 1939

75

Vincent Grass

Belgian actor

*January 9th, 1949

88

Jean Warland

Belgian composer

*October 23rd, 1926 †June 17th, 2015

49

Frederik Haùgness

Belgian dub actor

*September 30th, 1974

76

Michel Weyland

Belgian artist

*August 19th, 1947

60

Cécilia Hornus

French actress

*September 27th, 1963

38

Nicolas Achten

Music conductor and musician

*September 25th, 1985

55

Sandra Zidani

Actress

*September 12th, 1968

84

Robert Janssens

Belgian composer and conductor

*July 27th, 1939

40

Gauthier de Fauconval

Belgian actor

*July 15th, 1983

42

Émilie Heymans

Canadian diver

*December 14th, 1981

66

Thierry Boutsen

Belgian racecar driver

*July 13th, 1957

70

Plastic Bertrand

Belgian editor, musician, producer, songwriter

*February 24th, 1954

79

Burt Blanca

Belgian singer

*August 6th, 1944

42

Julie Villers

Belgian actress

*January 11th, 1982

74

Guy Peellaert

Artist, comic artist , illustrator, painter, photographer

*April 6th, 1934 †November 17th, 2008, Paris

56

Gilles Verlant

Belgian journalist

*June 11th, 1957 †September 20th, 2013, Saint-Cloud

78

Liz Claiborne

American fashion designer

*March 31st, 1929 †June 26th, 2007, New York City

52

François Vincentelli

Belgian actor

*July 3rd, 1971

51

Lubna Azabal

Belgian actress

*January 1st, 1973

58

Christophe Beaucarne

Belgian cinematographer

*September 24th, 1965

81

Princess Stéphanie of Belgium

Archduchess of Austria

*May 21st, 1864 †August 23rd, 1945, Pannonhalma

44

Pierre François Verhulst

Belgian mathematician

*October 28th, 1804 †February 15th, 1849, Brussels metropolitan area

70

Ralph Miliband

1924-1994 Marxist theorist

*January 7th, 1924 †May 21st, 1994, Westminster

30

Tayfun Aksoy

Belgian-Turkish footballer

*March 11th, 1994

47

Adrian Bakalli

Belgian footballer

*November 22nd, 1976

31

Bruno Godeau

Belgian footballer

*May 10th, 1992

81

Teddy Pilette

Racecar driver

*July 26th, 1942

70

Jean-Michel Martin

Belgian racing driver

*June 19th, 1953

87

Jean-Marie Piquint

Belgian film director

*February 5th, 1937

51

Laurence Tieleman

Italian tennis player

*November 14th, 1972

77

Pierre Dieudonné

Belgian racing driver

*March 24th, 1947

43

Michaël Espinho

Belgian radio host and television presenter

*April 19th, 1981

79

George Albert Boulenger

Belgian-British zoologist (1858–1937), member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino from 1900

*October 19th, 1858 †November 23rd, 1937, France

76

Michèle Goslar

Belgian writer and biographer

*February 26th, 1948

66

Vincent De Wolf

Belgian politician

*March 6th, 1958

94

Francisco Norden

Colombian film director

*November 9th, 1929

44

Dominique Fidanza

Italian singer

*August 7th, 1979

78

Monique Thomassettie

French painter, poet and writer

*February 28th, 1946

40

Jérôme Dekeyser

Belgian field hockey player

*December 15th, 1983

61

André Lamy

Belgian comedian

*September 30th, 1962

71

Pascal Vrebos

Belgian journalist, playwright and radio host

*May 26th, 1952

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