List of people from Bruges

This is a list of notable people from Bruges, who were either born in Bruges, or spent part of their life there.

People born in Bruges

Before the 19th century

• Jan Breydel, leader of the uprising against the French (13th century)
• Pieter de Coninck, weaver and leader of the uprising against the French (13th century)
• Joannes Corvus, portrait painter
• Jan Heem, craftsman and politician (13th century)
• Anselm Adornes, merchant, diplomat (8 December 1424 - 1483)
• Louis de Gruuthuse, Flemish knight, courtier, and nobleman (1427–1492)
• Philip I of Castile, first Habsburg ruler in Spain (1478–1506)
• Adriaen Isenbrant, Renaissance painter (1490–1551)
• Adrian Willaert, composer of the Renaissance (c. 1490 – 1562, birth in Bruges uncertain)
• Petrus Vulcanius, humanist scholar and administrator (c 1503-1571)
• Bonaventura Vulcanius, humanist scholar (1538-1614)
• Levina Teerlinc, Flemish miniaturist (1510–1576)
• Johannes Vasaeus, humanist, teacher, historian (1511-1561)
• Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, engraver, illustrator, and painter (c. 1520 – c. 1590)
• Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, painter (1561–1636)
• Stradanus, mannerist painter (1523–1605)
• Pamelius, theologian (1536–1587)
• Peter Candid, painter and architect (1548–1628, birth in Bruges uncertain)
• Simon Stevin, mathematician and engineer (1548–1620)
• Franciscus Gomarus, Calvinist theologian (1563–1641)
• Louis de Deyster, Flemish painter (1656–1711)

19th century

• Henri Milne-Edwards, French zoologist (1800–1885)
• Eugène Charles Catalan, mathematician (1814–1894)
• Paul Jean Clays, marine painter (1819–1900)
• Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, economist (1822–1892)
• Guido Gezelle, poet and priest (1830–1899)
• Louis Delacenserie, architect (1838–1909)
• Eugène Goossens, père, conductor (1845–1906)
• Albin van Hoonacker, Catholic theologian and Biblical scholar (1857–1933)
• Frank Brangwyn, Welsh artist, painter, colourist, engraver, and illustrator (1867–1956)
• Dobbelaer, a stained glass designer and maker (c. 1880)

20th century

• Nelly Landry, French tennis player (1916–2010)
• Hugo Claus, novelist, poet, playwright, painter, and film director (1929–2008)
• Jean Schramme, colonel and mercenary in Katanga (1929–1988)
• Andries Van den Abeele, historian, historical preservationist, entrepreneur and politician (councilor and alderman of Bruges) (born 1935)
• Noël Devisch, agriculture (born 1943)
• Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, politician, entrepreneur, and writer (1945-2018)
• Alain Billiet, alleged designer of the euro sign (born 1951)
• Pierre Chevalier, politician (born 1952)
• Pieter Aspe, writer of detective stories (1953-2021)
• Kris Defoort, avant-garde jazz pianist and composer (born 1959)
• Frank Vanhecke, politician (born 1959)
• Geert Hoste, cabaret performer (born 1960)
• Filip Dewinter, politician (born 1962)
• Peter Verhelst, novelist, poet, and dramatist (born 1962)
• Peter Verhoyen, flautist and piccolo player (born 1968)
• Swen Vincke, video game director (born 1972)
• Geoffrey Claeys, football player (born 1974)
• Olivier De Cock, football player (born 1975)
• Denis Viane, football player (born 1977)
• Gotye, Australian-Belgian singer songwriter (born 1980)
• Tony Parker, basketball player (born 1982)

21st century

• Thomas Van den Keybus, football player (born 2001)

Lived in Bruges

15th century

• Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy
• Giovanni Arnolfini, Italian merchant
• Adrien Basin, Franco-Flemish composer, singer, and diplomat
• William Caxton, English merchant, diplomat, write, and printer
• Petrus Christus, Flemish painter
• Gerard David, Renaissance painter
• Lupus Hellinck, composer of the Renaissance
• Gilles Joye, Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance
• Roger Machado, diplomat and officer of arms
• Hans Memling, Flemish painter
• Tommaso Portinari, Italian banker for the Medici bank
• Jan Provoost, Flemish painter
• Jean Richafort, Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance
• Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter
• Juan Luís Vives, Spanish scholar and humanist

16th century until now

• George Cassander, Flemish theologian (1513–1566)
• Pieter Pourbus, Flemish Renaissance painter (1523–1584)
• Bernard Jungmann, German theologian and ecclesiastical historian (1833–1895)
• Fernand Khnopff, symbolist painter (1858–1921)
• Georges Emile Lebacq, Belgian artist, painter, colourist, pastellist, Impressionist, Post-Impressionist (1876–1950)
• Karel Verleye and Hendrik Brugmans, founders of the College of Europe
• Godfried Danneels, archbishop and cardinal (born 1933)
• Pieter Aspe, writer
• Salah Abdeslam Terrorist accused of involvement in the November 2015 Paris Attacks, and the March 2016 Brussels Attacks. (Born September 15, 1989)

This page was last edited on 15 December 2023, at 13:49