# List of people from Liège

This is a list of notable people from Liège, who were either born in Liège, or spent part of their life there.

## People born in Liège
### Before the 19th century

* Saint Bavo, saint (6th century)
* The Carolingian dynasty originated in the Liège region
** Charles Martel Mayor of the Palace of the Frankish court.
** Pippin the Younger (in French: Pépin le Bref), King of the Franks (born in Jupille, 8th century)
** Charlemagne, King of the Franks, then crowned emperor (birth in Liège uncertain, 8th century)
* Alger of Liège, learned priest (11th century)
* William of St-Thierry, theologian and mystic (11th century)
* Juliana of Liège, nun and visionary (12th century)
* Lambert le Bègue, priest and reformer (12th century)
* Jacob of Liège, musician (13th century)
* Peter Plaoul (1353–1415), bishop, scholastic philosopher and theologian
* Johannes Ciconia, composer and theorist (14th century)
* Jean d'Outremeuse, writer and historian (14th century)
* Jacques Arcadelt, composer (16th century)
* Johann Theodor de Bry, engraver, draftsman, book editor and publisher (16th century)
* Louis De Geer, merchant and industrialist (16th century)
* Lambert Lombard, architect (16th century)
* Matheo Romero, composer (16th century)
* Jean-Guillaume Carlier, Flemish painter (1639-1676)
* Gérard de Lairesse, painter (1640–1711)
* Henri-Guillaume Hamal (1685-1752), musician and composer
* André-Joseph Blavier, composer and choirmaster of Antwerp Cathedral (1717–1782)
* André Ernest Modeste Grétry, composer (1741–1813)
* Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany (1753–1789)
* Jean-Jacques Dony, inventor and industrialist (1759–1819)
* Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, diplomat (1727–1794)
* Gilles-François Closson, painter (1796–1842)

### 19th century

* Noël Delfosse, lawyer, politician (1801–1858)
* André Dumont, geologist (1809–1857)
* Joseph Massart, violinist (1811–1892)
* Hubert Joseph Walther Frère-Orban, statesman (1812–1896)
* Gustave de Molinari, economist and political philosopher (1819–1912)
* Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger, theologian and author (1819–1883)
* Hubert Léonard, violinist (1819–1890)
* César Franck, composer (1822–1890)
* Caroline Samuel, composer (1822-1851)
* Florent Joseph Marie Willems, painter (1823–1905)
* Adolphe Samuel, composer (1824-1898)
* Zénobe Gramme, inventor (1826–1901)
* Ernest Candèze, doctor and entomologist (1827–1898)
* Georges Montefiore-Levi, inventor and philanthropist (1832–1906)
* Émile Banning (1836–1898), civil servant
* Georges Nagelmackers, founder of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (1845–1905)
* Martin Pierre Marsick, violinist (1847 in Jupille-sur-Meuse—1924)
* Constantin Le Paige, mathematician (1852–1929)
* Gustave Serrurier-Bovy, architect and furniture designer (1858–1910)
* Eugène Ysaÿe, composer and violinist (1858–1931)
* Armand Rassenfosse, painter and lithographer (1862–1934)
* Joseph Jongen, organist, composer, and educator (1873–1953)
* Henri Gagnebin, composer (1886–1977)

### 20th century

* Albert Van den Berg (resistant), doctor of law, resistance, saved Jews in WW2 (1890–1945)
* Edouard Zeckendorf, doctor, army officer, and mathematician (1901–1983)
* Jean Rey, lawyer and politician (1902–1983)
* Georges Simenon, novelist (1903–1989)
* Arthur Haulot, journalist, humanist, and poet (born in Angleur, 1913–2005)
* Eddy Paape, cartoonist (born in Grivegnée, 1920)
* Jean-Michel Charlier, writer of comic books and novels (1924–1989)
* Jean-Claude Lorquet, chemist and professor (born 1935)
* Axel Hervelle, Real Madrid basketball player (born 1983)
* Hermann Huppen, comic book artist (born 1938)
* Violetta Villas, singer and actress (1938–2011)
* Jacques Hustin, singer-songwriter (1940–2009)
* Bernard Gheur, journalist, writer (born 1945)
* Noël Godin, writer, critic, actor and notorious cream pie flinger (born 1945)
* Jean-Marie Klinkenberg, writer, critic, linguist and semioticians (born 1944)
* Elmore D, musician (born 1946)
* Patrick Nève, Formula One driver (born 1949)
* Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, filmmakers (born 1951 and 1954, resp.)
* Didier Reynders, politician (born 1958)
* Armand Eloi, actor and director (born 1962)
* Jean-Michel Saive, table tennis player (born 1969)
* Isabelle Wéry, actress
* Ethel Houbiers, voice actress (born 1973)
* Marie Gillain, actress (born 1975)
* Justine Henin, tennis player (born 1982)
* Jonatan Cerrada, singer (winner of A La Recherche De La Nouvelle Star) (born 1985)
* Françoise Taylor (née Wauters), artist (1920 - 2007)

## People associated with Liège
### Before the 19th century

* Saint Lambert, martyr (7th century)
* Saint Hubert, first bishop of Liège (7th century)
* Agilfride, bishop (8th century)
* Ratherius, bishop (10th century)
* Notger, first prince-bishop of Liège (10th century)
* Conrad of Urach, canon of the cathedral of Liège (12th century)
* Thomas of Cantimpré, writer, preacher, and theologian (13th century)
* Pope Urban IV, archdeacon (13th century)
* Engelbert III von der Marck, bishop (14th century)
* John Mandeville, naturalist, philosopher, and astrologer (14th century)
* Johannes Brassart, composer at the church of St Jean l'Evangeliste (15th century)
* William de la Marck, political character of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (15th century)
* Ernest of Bavaria, bishop (16th century)
* Macropedius, humanist and headmaster of St Jerome (16th century)
* Rinaldo del Mel, composer (16th century)
* Johannes Sleidanus, historian (16th century)
* Ferdinand of Bavaria, bishop (17th century)
* François Walther de Sluze, mathematician and canon (17th century)
* Peter Wright, martyr and priest (17th century)
* Clementina Walkinshaw, mistress of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (18th century)
* François-Xavier de Feller, author and professor (18th century)

### 19th century

* Eugène Charles Catalan, mathematician, taught at the University of Liège
* Etienne Constantin, Baron de Gerlache, politician and historian
* Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck, paleontologist and chemist, taught at the University of Liège
* Philippe Auguste Hennequin, painter, pupil of David
* Godefroid Kurth, historian, taught at the University of Liège
* Jean Théodore Lacordaire, entomologist, taught at the University of Liège
* Joseph Lebeau, statesman and newspaper founder
* Antoine Joseph Wiertz, painter

### 20th century

* André Cools, politician, assassinated in Liège in 1991
* Mathieu Crickboom, violinist and main disciple of Eugène Ysaÿe
* Lucien Godeaux, one of the most published mathematicians
* Pierre Harmel, lawyer, politician, and diplomat, taught at the University of Liège
* Gary Hartstein, associate professor of medicine at the University of Liège
* Steve Houben, jazz saxophonist and flutist, created the jazz seminar at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Liège
* Jacques Ochs (1883–1971), artist and Olympic fencing champion
* Henri Pousseur, composer, taught at the University of Liège and at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Liège
* Frederic Rzewski, composer and virtuoso pianist, taught at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Liège
* Matthieu Verstraete, physicist, taught at the University of Liège