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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Eugeen Van Mieghem
1875 - 1930
Flor Alpaerts
1876 - 1954
Jef Van der Veken
1872 - 1964
André Baillon
1875 - 1932
Pierre de Caters
1875 - 1944
Constant van Langhendonck
1870 - 1944
Pieter Franciscus Dierckx
1871 - 1950
Émile Van Averbeke
1876 - 1946
Léon Huybrechts
1876 - 1956
Victor van Strydonck de Burkel
1876 - 1961
Lode Baekelmans
1879 - 1965
Ferdinand Schirren
1872 - 1944
Frans Huygelen
1878 - 1940
Toon Dupuis
1877 - 1937
Georges Holvoet
1874 - 1967
Paul Segers
1870 - 1946
Emanuel Samson van Beever
1876 - 1912
Émile Vloors
1871 - 1952
Ferdinand Perier
1875 - 1968
Paul Nyssens
1870 - 1954
Louis de Brouchoven de Bergeyck
1871 - 1938
Eduard Pellens
1872 - 1947
Albert Grisar (sailor)
1870 - 1930
Horace Van Offel
1876 - 1944
Charles Bernard (écrivain)
1875 - 1961
Raoul Thomen
1876 - 1950
Emiel van Heurck
1871 - 1931
Leo Augusteyns
1870 - 1945
Henri Oedenkoven
1875 - 1935
Joseph De Hasque
1873 - 1942
Jan Claessens
1879 - 1963
Frits Sano
1871 - 1946
Jozef Verlinden
1876 - 1927
Henri Longville
1872 - 1947
Louis Van Berckelaer
1872 - 1936
Jacques Daems
1877 - 1953
Jozef De Ley
1879 - 1945
Eduardus Van Kerckhoven
1874 - 1952
Emmanuel Temmerman
1877 - 1951
Herman-Joseph Smets
1875 - 1943
Karel Weyler
1870 - 1935
Alfried Defever
1874 - 1929
Louis Van Hoeck
1870 - 1933
Albert Le Jeune
1873 - 1940
Alexis Van Opstal
1874 - 1936
August Cols
1870 - 1947
Louis Van Dievoort
Born 1875