Liège (city)

Liège (Dutch: Luik, German: Lüttich; before 1946, the city's name was written Liége, with the acute accent) is a major city located in the Belgian province of Liège, of which it is the capital. It is situated in the valley of the Meuse River near Belgium's eastern borders with the Netherlands and Germany, at the point where the Meuse meets the Ourthe.

Famous inhabitants

• Alger of Liège, priest
• Jean de Liège, sculptor
• Juliana of Liège, nun
• Lambert Lombard, architect (1505-1566)
• André Ernest Modeste Grétry, composer (1741-1813)
• Gustave de Molinari, economist and political philosopher (1819-1912)
• César Franck, composer (1822-1890)
• Zénobe Gramme, inventor (1826-1901)
• Eugène Ysaÿe, composer and violonist (1858-1931)
• Georges Simenon, novelist (1903-1989)
• Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, filmmakers
• Marie Gillain, actress
• Noël Godin, writer, critic, actor and notorious cream pie flinger