# List of people from Bruges

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

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

* Jan Breydel, leader of the uprising against the French (13th century)
* Pieter de Coninck, weaver and leader of the uprising against the French (13th century)
* Joannes Corvus, portrait painter
* Jan Heem, craftsman and politician (13th century)
* Anselm Adornes, merchant, diplomat (8 December 1424 - 1483)
* Louis de Gruuthuse, Flemish knight, courtier, and nobleman (1427–1492)
* Philip I of Castile, first Habsburg ruler in Spain (1478–1506)
* Adriaen Isenbrant, Renaissance painter (1490–1551)
* Adrian Willaert, composer of the Renaissance (c. 1490 – 1562, birth in Bruges uncertain)
* Petrus Vulcanius, humanist scholar and administrator (c 1503-1571)
* Bonaventura Vulcanius, humanist scholar (1538-1614)
* Levina Teerlinc, Flemish miniaturist (1510–1576)
* Johannes Vasaeus, humanist, teacher, historian (1511-1561)
* Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, engraver, illustrator, and painter (c. 1520 – c. 1590)
* Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, painter (1561–1636)
* Stradanus, mannerist painter (1523–1605)
* Pamelius, theologian (1536–1587)
* Peter Candid, painter and architect (1548–1628, birth in Bruges uncertain)
* Simon Stevin, mathematician and engineer (1548–1620)
* Franciscus Gomarus, Calvinist theologian (1563–1641)
* Louis de Deyster, Flemish painter (1656–1711)

### 19th century

* Henri Milne-Edwards, French zoologist (1800–1885)
* Eugène Charles Catalan, mathematician (1814–1894)
* Paul Jean Clays, marine painter (1819–1900)
* Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, economist (1822–1892)
* Guido Gezelle, poet and priest (1830–1899)
* Louis Delacenserie, architect (1838–1909)
* Eugène Goossens, père, conductor (1845–1906)
* Albin van Hoonacker, Catholic theologian and Biblical scholar (1857–1933)
* Frank Brangwyn, Welsh artist, painter, colourist, engraver, and illustrator (1867–1956)
* Dobbelaer, a stained glass designer and maker (c. 1880)

### 20th century

* Nelly Landry, French tennis player (1916–2010)
* Hugo Claus, novelist, poet, playwright, painter, and film director (1929–2008)
* Jean Schramme, colonel and mercenary in Katanga (1929–1988)
* Andries Van den Abeele, historian, historical preservationist, entrepreneur and politician (councilor and alderman of Bruges) (born 1935)
* Noël Devisch, agriculture (born 1943)
* Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, politician, entrepreneur, and writer (1945-2018)
* Alain Billiet, alleged designer of the euro sign (born 1951)
* Pierre Chevalier, politician (born 1952)
* Pieter Aspe, writer of detective stories (1953-2021)
* Kris Defoort, avant-garde jazz pianist and composer (born 1959)
* Frank Vanhecke, politician (born 1959)
* Geert Hoste, cabaret performer (born 1960)
* Filip Dewinter, politician (born 1962)
* Peter Verhelst, novelist, poet, and dramatist (born 1962)
* Peter Verhoyen, flautist and piccolo player (born 1968)
* Swen Vincke, video game director (born 1972)
* Geoffrey Claeys, football player (born 1974)
* Olivier De Cock, football player (born 1975)
* Denis Viane, football player (born 1977)
* Gotye, Australian-Belgian singer songwriter (born 1980)
* Tony Parker, basketball player (born 1982)

### 21st century

* Thomas Van den Keybus, football player (born 2001)
* Brent Deklerck, trampolinist (born 2006)

## Lived in Bruges
### 15th century

* Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy
* Giovanni Arnolfini, Italian merchant
* Adrien Basin, Franco-Flemish composer, singer, and diplomat
* William Caxton, English merchant, diplomat, write, and printer
* Petrus Christus, Flemish painter
* Gerard David, Renaissance painter
* Lupus Hellinck, composer of the Renaissance
* Gilles Joye, Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance
* Roger Machado, diplomat and officer of arms
* Hans Memling, Flemish painter
* Tommaso Portinari, Italian banker for the Medici bank
* Jan Provoost, Flemish painter
* Jean Richafort, Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance
* Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter
* Juan Luís Vives, Spanish scholar and humanist

### 16th century until now

* George Cassander, Flemish theologian (1513–1566)
* Pieter Pourbus, Flemish Renaissance painter (1523–1584)
* Bernard Jungmann, German theologian and ecclesiastical historian (1833–1895)
* Fernand Khnopff, symbolist painter (1858–1921)
* Georges Emile Lebacq, Belgian artist, painter, colourist, pastellist, Impressionist, Post-Impressionist (1876–1950)
* Karel Verleye and Hendrik Brugmans, founders of the College of Europe
* Godfried Danneels, archbishop and cardinal (born 1933)
* Pieter Aspe, writer
* Salah Abdeslam Terrorist accused of involvement in the November 2015 Paris Attacks, and the March 2016 Brussels Attacks. (Born September 15, 1989)