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People born in Tournai
Clovis I, first king of all Salian Franks (5th century)
Gilles Li Muisis, French chronicler and poet (13th century)
Rogier van der Weyden, Flemish painter (15th century)
Jacques Daret, Flemish painter (15th century)
Pierre de La Rue, Franco-Flemish composer (15th century)
Perkin Warbeck, impostor and pretender to the throne of England (15th century)
Marbrianus de Orto, Franco-Flemish composer (15th-16th century)
Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy, courtier and patron of learning (16th century)
Isaac Le Maire, pioneering merchant of the VOC, the Dutch East India Company (16th century)
Louise-Françoise de Bourbon (1673–1743) illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and his most famous mistress Madame de Montespan.
Peter Minuit, generally credited with orchestrating the purchase of Manhattan Island for the Dutch from the Lenape Native Americans.
Donat Casterman, publisher (18th century)
Philippe de la Motte, 1556–1617, Pastor at Tournai (1582/3) and of Walloon Church, Southampton (1586).
Piat Sauvage, painter (19th century)
Louis Gallait, painter (19th century)
Jean-Baptiste Moëns, philatelist (19th century)
Jules Bara, statesman (19th century)
Georges Rodenbach, Symbolist poet and novelist (19th century)
Hélène Dutrieu, cycle racer, stunt driver and aviator (19th and 20th centuries)
Marc Quaghebeur, writer (20th century)
Xaveer De Geyter, architect (20th century)
Gabrielle Petit, spy for the British Secret Service during the First World War, executed in 1916 by the Germans (20th century)
Viviane Nicaise, cartoonist and colorist (21st century)
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