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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.