List of people on stamps of Belgium
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This is a list of people on stamps of Belgium
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Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
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- Pope Adrian VIPope Adrian VIPope Adrian VI , born Adriaan Florenszoon Boeyens, served as Pope from 9 January 1522 until his death some 18 months later...
(1959) - Albert I of BelgiumAlbert I of BelgiumAlbert I reigned as King of the Belgians from 1909 until 1934.-Early life:Born Albert Léopold Clément Marie Meinrad in Brussels, he was the fifth child and second son of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, and his wife, Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen...
(1912) - Albert of LiègeAlbert of LiègeSaint Albert of Louvain or Albert of Leuven was Prince-Bishop of Liège from 22 September 1191 till January 1192...
(1935) - Prince Alexander FerdinandPrince Alexander of BelgiumPrince Alexander of Belgium was the eldest child from the second marriage of King Leopold III of Belgium. His mother was Lilian, Princess of Réthy...
(1952) - Alexandrine de Rye, countess of Taxis (1960)
- Edouard Anseele, statesman (1956)
- Prince Anselme Francois (1952)
- Arnould II, Count of Chiny (1933)
- Astrid of Belgium (1935)
- Robert Baden-Powell (1957)
- René BaetenRené BaetenRené Baeten was a Belgian motocross world champion.In 1953 and 1954, Baeten finished second in the 500cc European motocross championships to his FN team-mate Auguste Mingels. In 1957, the F.I.M. upgraded the competition to world championship, and again Baeten would finish in second place, this...
(1927, 1960) - Baudouin I of Belgium (1935, 1952)
- Peter Benoit (1933)
- Saint John BerchmansJohn BerchmansSaint John Berchmans was a Jesuit seminarian and is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. He is the patron saint of altar servers.-Early life:...
(1965) - John Bolland (1942)
- Jules Boulvin, engineer (1964)
- Duke of BrabantDuke of BrabantThe Duchy of Brabant was formally erected in 1183/1184. The title "Duke of Brabant" was created by the German Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in favor of Henry I, son of Godfrey III of Leuven . The Duchy of Brabant was a feudal elevation of the since 1085/1086 existing title of Landgrave of Brabant...
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- Charles V, Holy Roman EmperorCharles V, Holy Roman EmperorCharles V was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I, of the Spanish Empire from 1516 until his voluntary retirement and abdication in favor of his younger brother Ferdinand I and his son Philip II in 1556.As...
(1933, 1955) - Prince Charles Anselme (1952)
- Charlotte of Luxembourg (1964)
- Clara ClairbertClara ClairbertClara Pierre Impens was a Belgian soprano who sang under the stage-name Clara Clairbert.Born in Saint Gilles, Clara began studying music in Anderlecht at the age of seven. During the First World War her father, a civil servant, followed the Belgian government into exile, settling his family in Le...
(1997, 17BEF) - Adolf DaensAdolf DaensAdolf Daens was a Flemish priest from Aalst. Daens was a Jesuit from 1859 to 1871 but is especially known for his socio-political involvement after he joined the diocesan clergy. He created the Daensist movement from which originated in 1893 the Christene Volkspartij inspired by Leo XIII's...
(1989) (1998) - Joseph Damien (1964)
- Jules DestréeJules DestréeJules Destrée was a Walloon lawyer, cultural critic and socialist politician. The trials subsequent to the strikes of 1886 determined his commitment within the Belgian Labour Party. He wrote a Letter to the King in 1912, which is seen as the founding declaration of the Walloon movement...
, statesman (1963)
- Elisabeth of Belgium (1926)
- Prince Eugène Alexander (1952)
- Queen Fabiola of Belgium (1960)
- H.-J.-W. Frere-Orban (1960)
- Adrien de GerlacheAdrien de GerlacheBaron Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery was an officer in the Belgian Royal Navy who led the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897 to 1899.-His early years:...
(1947) - Alexis-Marie Gochet, geographer, educator (1962)
- Zenobe GrammeZénobe GrammeZénobe Théophile Gramme was a Belgian electrical engineer. He invented the Gramme machine, a type of direct current dynamo capable of generating smoother and much higher voltages than the dynamos known to that point.In 1873 he and Hippolyte Fontaine accidentally discovered that the device was...
(1930)
- Gerhard Armauer HansenGerhard Armauer HansenGerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen was a Norwegian physician, remembered for his identification of the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae in 1873 as the causative agent of leprosy....
, doctor (1964) - Victor HortaVictor HortaVictor, Baron Horta was a Belgian architect and designer. John Julius Norwich described him as "undoubtedly the key European Art Nouveau architect." Indeed, Horta is one of the most important names in Art Nouveau architecture; the construction of his Hôtel Tassel in Brussels in 1892-3 means that...
, architect (1962)
- Henri JasparHenri JasparHenri Jaspar was a Belgian Catholic Party politician.Jaspar was born in Schaerbeek and trained as a lawyer. He represented Liège as a Catholic in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives from 1919 until 1936. He helped create the Belgium-Luxembourg Economic Union in 1921, and served as the 27th...
, statesman, lawyer (1964) - Josephine-Charlotte, Princess of Belgium (1935)
- Juliana of the NetherlandsJuliana of the NetherlandsJuliana was the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands between 1948 and 1980. She was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry...
(1964)
- Count Lamoral I (1952)
- Count Lamoral II (1952)
- Joseph Lempoels (1930)
- Baron Leonard I (1952)
- Count Leonard II (1952)
- Léopold I of BelgiumLeopold I of BelgiumLeopold I was from 21 July 1831 the first King of the Belgians, following Belgium's independence from the Netherlands. He was the founder of the Belgian line of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha...
(1849) - Léopold II of BelgiumLeopold II of BelgiumLeopold II was the second king of the Belgians. Born in Brussels the second son of Leopold I and Louise-Marie of Orléans, he succeeded his father to the throne on 17 December 1865 and remained king until his death.Leopold is chiefly remembered as the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free...
(1869) - Léopold III of BelgiumLeopold III of BelgiumLeopold III reigned as King of the Belgians from 1934 until 1951, when he abdicated in favour of the Heir Apparent,...
(1934)
- Maria Theresa I, Holy Roman Empress (1933)
- Martin of ToursMartin of ToursMartin of Tours was a Bishop of Tours whose shrine became a famous stopping-point for pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela. Around his name much legendary material accrued, and he has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Christian saints...
(1910) - Matilda, Countess of Tuscany (1933)
- MercatorGerardus Mercatorthumb|right|200px|Gerardus MercatorGerardus Mercator was a cartographer, born in Rupelmonde in the Hapsburg County of Flanders, part of the Holy Roman Empire. He is remembered for the Mercator projection world map, which is named after him...
, geographer (1962) - Désiré Mercier (1932)
- Michael the Archangel (1896)
- Auguste PiccardAuguste PiccardAuguste Antoine Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer.-Biography:Piccard and his twin brother Jean Felix were born in Basel, Switzerland...
(1932) - Henri PirenneHenri PirenneHenri Pirenne was a Belgian historian. A medievalist of Walloon descent, he wrote a multivolume history of Belgium in French and became a national hero....
, historian (1963) - Joseph Plateau (1947)
- Nicolaus Rockox, mayor of Antwerp (1961)
- Peter Paul Rubens (1930)
- Franz von Taxis (1935, 1952)
- Jean-Baptiste von Taxis (1952)
- Pierre-Joseph Triest (1962)
- Anthony van DyckAnthony van DyckSir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next...
(1926) - Henry Van de VeldeHenry van de VeldeHenry Clemens Van de Velde was a Belgian Flemish painter, architect and interior designer. Together with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar he could be considered one of the main founders and representatives of Art Nouveau in Belgium...
, architect (1963) - Ferdinand VerbiestFerdinand VerbiestFather Ferdinand Verbiest was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China during the Qing dynasty. He was born in Pittem near Tielt in Flanders, later part of the modern state of Belgium. He is known as Nan Huairen in Chinese...
(1988) - Andreas Vesalius, anatomist (1964)
- Emile VerhaerenEmile VerhaerenEmile Verhaeren was a Belgian poet who wrote in the French language, and one of the chief founders of the school of Symbolism....
, poet (1955)
- Jacques de Winne (1930)
- Eugène YsaÿeEugène YsaÿeEugène Ysaÿe was a Belgian violinist, composer and conductor born in Liège. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tzar"...
(1958)