51.0534° N, 3.7250° E

GENT

Most Famous People Born in Gent, Belgium

Notable people

850

Peak decade

1980s

Median birth year

1897

Most distinctive

Rower 9.6×

Charles V's birthplace and a Flemish Primitive stronghold — the Painter bench tracks Van Eyck's altarpiece and the long wake of Hugo van der Goes and Théo van Rysselberghe. The real oddity is a Rower cohort wildly out of proportion to anything else (thank the Watersportbaan) sitting next to a Conductor line that runs from Jacob Obrecht straight through Herreweghe's early-music revival.