Brussels
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Notable people from Brussels
See also: Notable people from Brussels
- Pierre Alechinsky, artist
- Plastic Bertrand, musician
- Brian Molko, lead singer of the band Placebo
- Jacques Brel, musician
- Rene Carcan, artist
- Michel De Ghelderode, dramatist
- Marc Didden, film director
- Saint Gudulae of Brussels and Eibingen, Saint of the city and national saint of Belgium
- Audrey Hepburn, actress
- Hergé, comics writer
- René Follet, comics writer
- Victor Horta, Art Nouveau architect
- Jacky Ickx, racing driver
- Paul-Emile Janson, politician, former Prime Minister of Belgium
- Nicholas Lens, author/composer
- Suzanne Lilar, essayist, novelist, and playwright, lived in Brussels from 1977-1992
- René Magritte, painter
- Amélie Nothomb, writer
- Peyo (Pierre Culliford), illustrator and creator of the Smurfs
- François Schuiten, comics artist
- Paul-Henri Spaak, politician, several times Minister of Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister of Belgium, former Secretary General of the NATO
- Toots Thielemans, jazz musician
- Jean-Claude Van Damme, actor; nickname: "The Muscles from Brussels"
- Rogier van der Weyden, painter, (1400-1465)
- Barend van Orley, painter, (1488-1541)
- Diane von Furstenberg, fashion designer
- Marguerite Yourcenar, writer and first female member of the Académie Française
- Olivier Theyskens, fashion designer
