Top 20 most important and famous people from Belgium

Surrealist artist, painter of The Treachery of Images and The Son of Man

Architect, one of the founders of the Art Nouveau movement

Writer, creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret

Writer, leading member of La Jeune Belgique group and Symbolist movement, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911

Cartoonist, creator of The Adventures of Tintin

King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 and the self-made autocratic ruler of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908

King during World War One

King from 2013

Catholic priest and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious institute. In the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi he helped people with leprosy

Biologists, winners of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1974, they published the first detailed structure of cell

Physicist, who made contributions in statistical physics, quantum field theory, cosmology, string theory and supergravity, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013

Physicist, the first to theorize that the recession of nearby galaxies can be explained by an expanding universe and also he proposed the Big Bang theory

Actor, martial artist and fight choreographer. Famous for his roles in Lionheart and Kickboxer

Musician and inventor of a famous musical instrument in the early 1840s

Romani-Belgian jazz guitarist and composer. He was one of the first major jazz talents to emerge in Europe

Singer and actor considered a master of the modern chanson

Rapper, Alors On Danse, Formidable

Footballer, who played in Chelsea and Real Madrid

Footballer, who played in Wolfsburg and Manchester City

The most successful rider in the history of competitive cycling, 5 winner of Tour de France, 5 times winner of Giro d'Italia and one time winner of Vuelta a Espana