List of Belgians

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Science

Chemists

• Jean-Claude Lorquet - theoretical chemist
• Ilya Prigogine - theoretical chemist Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977 (born in Russia)
• Ernest Solvay - chemist
• Jean Stas - chemist

Geographers

• Gerardus Mercator - geographer
• Abraham Ortelius - geographer

Geologists

• Gaston Briart - geologist

Inventors and engineers

• Leo Hendrik Baekeland - inventor of bakelite
• Robert Cailliau - information and control engineer
• Zénobe Gramme - electrical engineer
• Adolphe Sax - inventor of the saxophone
• Egide Walschaerts - engineer and inventor
• Bart Preneel - cryptographer

Mathematicians

• Francois d'Aguilon - mathematician and physicist
• Jean Bourgain - mathematician
• Eugène Charles Catalan - mathematician
• Pierre Deligne - mathematician
• Jean-Charles de la Faille - mathematician
• Victor d'Hondt - lawyer and mathematician
• Constantin Le Paige - mathematician
• Adolphe Quetelet - mathematician and statistician
• Simon Stevin - mathematician
• André Tacquet - mathematician
• Joseph Tilly - mathematician
• Jacques Tits - mathematician
• Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin - mathematician
• Adriaan van Roomen - mathematician

Political scientists

• Vincent de Coorebuyter
• Pascal Delwit

Others

• Jules Bordet - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1919
• Albert Claude - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974
• Christian De Duve - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974 (born in Britain of Belgian parents)
• Dirk Frimout - first Belgian astronaut
• John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster - born in Ghent
• Adrien de Gerlache - explorer
• Corneille Heymans - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1938
• Albert Hustin - medical doctor, the first to practice non-direct blood transfusion
• Paul Janssen
• Georges Lemaître - astronomer
• Claude Lévi-Strauss, French scientist born in Belgium
• Justus Lipsius - classical philologian
• Michel Louette - ornithologist
• Paul Otlet - information architect
• Joseph Plateau - physicist
• Gregory of Saint-Vincent
• Louis-Joseph Seutin - surgeon
• Andreas Vesalius - anatomist
• Marc Waelkens - archeologist