51.2206° N, 4.4018° E
ANTWERPEN
Most Famous People Born in Antwerpen, Belgium
- Notable people
- 1,932
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- Median birth year
- 1881
- Most distinctive
- Engraver 36.3×
The centre of the 17th-century Flemish painting world, and the numbers still carry that weight. More than a quarter of Antwerp's notables are painters — Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, the Brueghels, the Teniers — and the distinctive shelves after that are engravers and printmakers at more than thirty times the global rate, the trades of a city whose printing presses supplied Catholic Europe. The 1500s and 1600s each hold roughly a sixth of the bench.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Antwerpen during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Antwerpen Is Known For
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Painter is Antwerpen's biggest profession — 27% of all notables (520).
Antwerpen over-indexes on engraver — 36.3× the global rate.
Antwerpen under-produces actor — only 0.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Antwerpen's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Georges Eekhoud
1854 - 1927
Jef Lambeaux
1852 - 1908
Hippolyte Delehaye
1859 - 1941
Jan Blockx
1851 - 1912
Thomas Vinçotte
1850 - 1925
Alexander Struys
1852 - 1941
Eugène Siberdt
1851 - 1931
Gerard Portielje
1856 - 1929
Piet Verhaert
1852 - 1921
Edgard Farasyn
1858 - 1938
Frans Hens
1856 - 1928
Henri Cassiers
1858 - 1944
Léon Abry
1857 - 1905
Frans Van Kuyck
1852 - 1915
Marie-Elisabeth Belpaire
1853 - 1948
Octave van Rysselberghe
1855 - 1929
Eugène Joors
1850 - 1910
Victor Brants
1856 - 1917
Marie Heilbron
1851 - 1886
Jules Bilmeyer
1850 - 1920
Henri Houben
1858 - 1931
Jan Van Rijswijck
1853 - 1906
Victor Alexis dela Montagne
1854 - 1915
Frans Simons
1855 - 1919
Paul Eugène Gorge
1856 - 1941
Leo van Aken
1857 - 1904
Ernest Stordiau
1855 - 1937
Fredegand Cogels
1850 - 1932
Henri Arden
1858 - 1917
Charles Ullens de Schooten
1854 - 1908
Omer Bodson
1856 - 1891
Emmanuel van den Bosch
1854 - 1921
Alfred de Vinck de Winnezeele
1852 - 1914
Gaston de Vinck
1855 - 1927
Léon Lambert (banquier)
1851 - 1919
Julie Pecher
1851 - 1928
Libert H. Boeynaems
1857 - 1926
Alphonse Ryckmans
1857 - 1931
Henry Kistemaeckers père
1851 - 1934
René Van de Werve
1850 - 1911
Oscar Van der Molen
1850 - 1926
Émile Thielens
1854 - 1911