Does anyone know any famous people from switserland or belgium?
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from Belgium
Pater Damiaan = he dedicated his live to the leprous people in Hawaii
Eddy Merck = as a cyclist he won almost everything that there is to win in the cycle sport
Andreas Vesalius = he stood at the origin of the modern medical science
Geradus Mercator = he invented the technology to prospect the world on a map
Peter Paul Rubens = famous painter
Adolphe Sax = the inventor of the saxophone remember the instrument that Bill Clinton sometimes plays
Toots Thielemans = a real great jazz player with his mouth organ the people who love jazz will know him
willy Vandersteen = the father of the strip figures Suske en Wiske ( America = Willy and Wanda , UK = Bob and Bobette )
Leo Baekeland = the inventor of bakeliet and also of the first fotopaper Velox
King Albert I = the soldier, king as commanding officer he had the commonsense not to sacrifice the Belgium army in pointless offensives and was not afraid to come to the first lines not like some other generals of the Allys army's
Raymond Goethals = a famous soccer coach's the people that know a little of soccer ( voetbal ) will certainly be aware of his history
Ernest Solvay = fonder of the Solvay a chemical multinational
and many, many other
do you mean know of?
because I don't actually know him but Roger Federer is from Switzerland (note the proper spelling)
Jean Claude van Damme and Tin Tin from Belgium..
Johnny Halliday was born in belgium.
Plastic Bertrand is from Belgium
Celine Dion Represented Switzerland in the Eurovision song contest
not sure if that counts though
hercules poirot - i know he's fictional but he's famous!!
Belgium :
Jacques Brel, singer of "Amsterdam" and many songs, some of them have been sung in English by others. By far, one of the greatest Francophone singers of all time.
Jacky Ickx, one time 2nd of F1 World championship and several times winner of Le Mans. There are some other drivers from Belgium.
Eddy Merckx, cycling runner, Tom Boonen too.
Kim Geveart and Tia Hellebaut, athletes (European champions).
Justine Hénin-Hardenne and Kim Clijsters (2 of the very best tennis champions, ranked #2 and #3 in the WTA rankings
(and both were #1 some time ago)
I could add Ambiorix, the Belgian gallic hero who resisted Julius Caesar (Belgian equivalent to French's Vercingétorix - not sure however he is very much known outside Belgium.
Switzerland : Guillaume Tell whose legend about the apple on the head of his son is known in all Europe. Jean-Luc Godard (film director). Roger Federer and Marc Rosset (tennis players). H.R. Giger (the creator of the "Alien" and other dark monsters). Stephan Eicher (singer, known at least in Europe). Alexander Frei (soccer player).
Edward de Smedt , was the inventor of the asfalt , used to make the roads we are driving on today .
He's a Belgian .
Tin Tin and Poirot were Belgian. Granted they were both ficticious charcters but hey, it's Belgium we're talking about so I don't think we can afford to get picky.
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