page_title: List of people from Ghent
section_title: Before the 19th century
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Ghent / Lived in Ghent / Before the 19th century
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people from Ghent, who were either born in Ghent, or spent part of their life there.
context_section_description: Saint Amand, Roman Catholic saint (584–675)
  Saint Bavo, patron saint of Ghent (589–654)
  Jan Boeksent, Franciscan Sculptor.
  Hubert van Eyck, painter (c. 1366 – 1426)
  Jan van Eyck, painter (c. 1385 – 1441)
  Joos van Wassenhove, painter (c. 1410 – c. 1480)
  Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy married in Ghent in 1477
  William Damasus Lindanus, Bishop of Ghent (1525–1588)
  Jodocus Hondius, artist, engraver, and cartographer (1563–1612)
  Tobie Matthew, English Catholic priest (1577–1655)
  Caspar de Crayer, painter (1582–1669)
  David t'Kindt, architect (1699-1770)
  Jan Frans Willems, writer (1793–1846)
  Jacques-Joseph Haus, criminal law and natural rights professor at Ghent University (1796–1881)
caption: Mary of Burgundy
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