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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
Philip I of Castile, Duke of Burgundy
Simon Stevin, mathematician and engineer
Before the 19th century
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Jan Breydel, leader of the uprising against the French (13th century)
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Pieter de Coninck, weaver and leader of the uprising against the French (13th century)
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Joannes Corvus, portrait painter
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Jan Heem, craftsman and politician (13th century)
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Anselm Adornes, merchant, diplomat (8 December 1424 - 1483)
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Louis de Gruuthuse, Flemish knight, courtier, and nobleman (1427–1492)
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Philip I of Castile, first
Habsburg ruler in
Spain (1478–1506)
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Adriaen Isenbrant,
Renaissance painter (1490–1551)
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Adrian Willaert, composer of the
Renaissance (
c. 1490 – 1562, birth in Bruges uncertain)
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Petrus Vulcanius, humanist scholar and administrator (c 1503-1571)
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Bonaventura Vulcanius, humanist scholar (1538-1614)
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Levina Teerlinc, Flemish miniaturist (1510–1576)
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Johannes Vasaeus, humanist, teacher, historian (1511-1561)
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Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, engraver, illustrator, and painter (
c. 1520 –
c. 1590)
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Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, painter (1561–1636)
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Stradanus, mannerist painter (1523–1605)
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Pamelius, theologian (1536–1587)
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Peter Candid, painter and architect (1548–1628, birth in Bruges uncertain)
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Simon Stevin, mathematician and engineer (1548–1620)
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Franciscus Gomarus,
Calvinist theologian (1563–1641)
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Louis de Deyster, Flemish painter (1656–1711)
19th century
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Henri Milne-Edwards, French zoologist (1800–1885)
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Eugène Charles Catalan, mathematician (1814–1894)
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Paul Jean Clays, marine painter (1819–1900)
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Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, economist (1822–1892)
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Guido Gezelle, poet and priest (1830–1899)
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Louis Delacenserie, architect (1838–1909)
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Eugène Goossens, père, conductor (1845–1906)
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Albin van Hoonacker, Catholic theologian and Biblical scholar (1857–1933)
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Frank Brangwyn, Welsh artist, painter, colourist, engraver, and illustrator (1867–1956)
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Dobbelaer, a stained glass designer and maker (
c. 1880)
20th century
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Nelly Landry, French tennis player (1916–2010)
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Hugo Claus, novelist, poet, playwright, painter, and film director (1929–2008)
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Jean Schramme, colonel and mercenary in
Katanga (1929–1988)
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Andries Van den Abeele, historian, historical preservationist, entrepreneur and politician (councilor and alderman of Bruges) (born 1935)
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Noël Devisch, agriculture (born 1943)
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Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, politician, entrepreneur, and writer (1945-2018)
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Alain Billiet, alleged designer of the
euro sign (born 1951)
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Pierre Chevalier, politician (born 1952)
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Pieter Aspe, writer of detective stories (1953-2021)
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Kris Defoort, avant-garde jazz pianist and composer (born 1959)
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Frank Vanhecke, politician (born 1959)
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Geert Hoste, cabaret performer (born 1960)
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Filip Dewinter, politician (born 1962)
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Peter Verhelst, novelist, poet, and dramatist (born 1962)
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Peter Verhoyen, flautist and piccolo player (born 1968)
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Swen Vincke, video game director (born 1972)
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Geoffrey Claeys, football player (born 1974)
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Olivier De Cock, football player (born 1975)
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Denis Viane, football player (born 1977)
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Gotye, Australian-Belgian singer songwriter (born 1980)
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Tony Parker, basketball player (born 1982)
21st century
Lived in Bruges
The
Arnolfini portrait by
Jan van Eyck
15th century
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Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy
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Giovanni Arnolfini, Italian merchant
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Adrien Basin,
Franco-Flemish composer, singer, and diplomat
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William Caxton, English merchant, diplomat, write, and printer
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Petrus Christus, Flemish painter
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Gerard David,
Renaissance painter
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Lupus Hellinck, composer of the
Renaissance
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Gilles Joye,
Franco-Flemish composer of the
Renaissance
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Roger Machado, diplomat and officer of arms
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Hans Memling, Flemish painter
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Tommaso Portinari, Italian banker for the
Medici bank
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Jan Provoost, Flemish painter
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Jean Richafort,
Franco-Flemish composer of the
Renaissance
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Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter
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Juan Luís Vives, Spanish scholar and humanist
Georges Emile Lebacq, 1910 Snow at Bruges
16th century until now
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George Cassander, Flemish theologian (1513–1566)
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Pieter Pourbus, Flemish
Renaissance painter (1523–1584)
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Bernard Jungmann, German theologian and ecclesiastical historian (1833–1895)
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Fernand Khnopff,
symbolist painter (1858–1921)
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Georges Emile Lebacq, Belgian artist, painter, colourist, pastellist,
Impressionist, Post-Impressionist (1876–1950)
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Karel Verleye and
Hendrik Brugmans, founders of the
College of Europe
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Godfried Danneels, archbishop and cardinal (born 1933)
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Pieter Aspe, writer
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Salah Abdeslam Terrorist accused of involvement in the November 2015 Paris Attacks, and the March 2016 Brussels Attacks. (Born September 15, 1989)