List of people on the postage stamps of Belgium

This article lists people who have been featured on the postage stamps of Belgium. Note that many of these people have been featured on multiple stamps. The following entries list the name of the person, a short description of their notability, and the first year they were first featured on a stamp.

This list is complete up to 2021.

A[edit]

Mathilde d’Udekem d’Acoz, wife of Prince Philippe (1999)
Salvatore Adamo, musician (2008)
John Quincy Adams, American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, and president (1964)
Pope Adrian VI, head of the Roman Catholic Church (1959)
Albert I of Belgium, king of Belgium (1912)
Albert II of Belgium, king of Belgium (1993)
Albert of Austria, Archduke of Austria (1948)
Albert of Liège, king of Belgium (1935)
Buzz Aldrin, United States astronaut (1969)
Prince Charles Alexander, prince of Thurn and Taxis (1952)
Prince Alexander Ferdinand, prince of Belgium (1952)
Alexandrine de Rye, countess of Taxis (1960)
Hans Christian Andersen, author (2005)
Edouard Anseele, statesman (1956)
Prince Anselme Francois, Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1952)
Neil Armstrong, astronaut (1969)
Arnould II, Count of Chiny (1933)
Jacob van Artevelde, Flemish statesman and political leader (1944)
Astrid of Belgium, queen (1935)
Albert Ayguesparse, writer (2001)

B[edit]

Peter De Backer, international billiards champion from Belgium (2006)
Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts (1957)
Leo H. Baekeland, Belgian scientist (1955)
Maria Baers, Belgian senator, feminist, and trade unionist (1970)
René Baeten, motocross rider (1927, 1960)
Baldwin of Constantinople, emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople (1949)
Roland Barthes, semiotician (2001)
Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (2000)
Jean de Bast, engraver (1985)
Charles Baudelaire, author (2010)
Baudouin I of Belgium, king of Belgium (1935, 1952)
The Beatles, British musical group (1999)
Simone de Beauvoir, feminist (2001)
Auguste Beernaert, 1909 Nobel Laureate in Peace (1999)
St. Begga, saint (1948)
Maurice Béjart, choreographer (2009)
St. Benedict, saint (1980)
Khalid Benhaddou, Imam (2016)
Peter Benoit, composer (1933)
Saint Jean Berchmans, Jesuit saint (1965)
Andre Berger, climatology (2007)
Ingrid Berghmans, Belgian International Judo champion (2005)
Anton Bergmann, Belgian writer and a liberal Flemish activist (1974)
Hector Berlioz, composer (2003)
Saint Bernard, saint (1990)
Charles Bernard (journalist), French-speaking journalist (1976)
Géralt Bertot, writer (2004)
Gilles Binchois, composer of polyphonic music (2006)
Montgomery Blair, United States Postmaster General (1974)
Marc Bloch, historian (2001)
August de Boeck, composer (1977)
Marthe Boel, president of the International Council of Women (2009)
Toussaint van Boelaere, Flemish journalist (1976)
Lily Boeykens, Belgian representative to U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (2009)
Albert du Bois, playwright (1961)
Jean Bolland, Jesuit priest, theologian, and prominent Flemish hagiographer (1942)
Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader (2015)
Oscar Bonnevalle, stamp designer (1996)
Johan Bonny, Bishop of Antwerp (2016)
L. P. Boon, artist (1982)
Jules Bordet, serologist, immunologist and 1919 Physiology or Medicine Nobel laureate (1971)
John Bosco, saint (1984)
Laurent Boulanger, international billiards champion from Belgium (2006)
Jules Boulvin, mechanical engineer (1964)
Madeleine Bourdouxhe, novelist (2007)
François Bovesse, politician (1946)
Duke of Brabant, ruler of the Duchy of Brabant (1933)
Omar Bradley, general of the United States army (1994)
Louis Braille, educator of the blind (2009)
Isabelle Brandt, first wife of Peter Paul Rubens (1939)
Willy Brandt, chancellor of Germany (1999)
Bertolt Brecht, dramatist (2000)
Jacques Brel, musician (1988)
Christine Van Broeckhoven, medical researcher (2004)
Charlotte Brontë, author (2010)
Emily Brontë, author (2010)
Robert Brout, 2013 Physics Nobel laureate (2016)
Peter Brueghel, artist (1969)
Emilienne Brunfaut, Belgian labor, women's rights, and peace activist (1990)
Albert de Bueger, aviator (2016)
Adrien van der Burch, patron of the 1935 Brussels International Exhibition (2004i)
Lucien Buyze, Belgian winner of Tour de France in 1926 (2017)

C[edit]

Maria Callas, opera singer (2000)
Leon Charles Albert Calmette, French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist (1953)
Ida de Bure Calvin, wife of the French reformer John Calvin (1964)
Fud Candrix, jazz musician, saxophonist (2004)
Jean Capart, Egyptologist (1977)
Joseph Cardijn, cardinal (1982)
Maurice Careme, poet (1986)
Peter Carmeliet, molecular medicine (2007)
Philip Catherine, musician (2008)
Frédéric Caudron, international billiards champion from Belgium (2006)
Frans Cauwelaert, minister of state (1980)
Lucien Cerfaux, professor and founder of Louvain Bible Colloquium (1975)
Raymond Ceulemans, international billiards champion from Belgium (2006)
Charlie Chaplin, American movie star (1999)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, theologist (2001)
Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor (1946)
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1933, 1955)
Prince Charles Anselme, Postmaster General of the Imperial Reichspost (1952)
Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477 (1941)
Charles of Lorraine, Lorraine-born Austrian general and soldier (1941)
Charlotte of Luxembourg, reigned as Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1964)
Ernest Claes, author (1985)
Clara Clairbert, soprano (1997)
Albert Claude, 1974 Physiology or Medicine Nobel laureate (2016)
Kim Clijsters, tennis player (2003)
A. Claude, Nobel prize winner in medicine (1987)
Hugo Claus, writer (2009)
Sebastian Coe, track and field runner (2006)
Albert Collette, international billiards champion from Belgium (2007)
Michael Collins, astronaut (1969)
Hendrik Conscience, novelist (1983)
Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect (2000)
Léo Corin, international billiards champion from Belgium (2006)
Charles De Coster, Belgian novelist (1952)
Roger De Coster, motocross rider (2004)
Harry Crerar, general of the Canadian Army (1994)
Marie Curie, physicist (2001)
Pierre Curie, physicist (2001)

D[edit]

Adolf Daens, priest (1989, 1998)
Johan Daisne, writer (2004)
Johan Hendrik van Dale, Dutch language lexicographer (2004)
Father Damien, Catholic saint (2009)
Joseph Damien, priest (1964)
Ivo Van Damme, Olympic silver medalist runner (1980)
Canon Jan-Baptist David, canon and professor of Dutch and history at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1960)
Maurice De Waele, Belgian winner of Tour de France in 1929 (2017)
Romain Deconinck, actor and impresario (2007)
Ovide Decroly, pedagogue and developer of educational psychology (2001)
Odiel Defraeye, Belgian winner of Tour de France in 1912 (2017)
Charles Dekeukeleire, film producer (1991)
Christel Deliège, Belgian International Judo champion (2005)
Pierre Deligne, mathematics (2007)
Joseph Demarteau, writer (1960)
Jef Denyn, carillon player from Mechelen, Belgium (1988)
Jules Destrée, statesman (1963)
Walthère Dewé, WW II underground leader (1953)
Christine D’haen, poet (2007)
Ludo Dielis, international billiards champion from Belgium (2006)
Ernest Van Dijck, tenor (1997)
Jean José de Dinant, coppersmith (1944)
Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (1942)
Saint Donatien, martyr and saint (1958)
Gaston De Doncker, international billiards champion from Belgium (2007)
Jean-Jacques Dony, Belgian scientist (1955)
Christian Dotremont, poet and artist (1996)
Guillaume Dufay, composer of polyphonic music (2006)
Hector Dufranne, baritone (1997)
Henri Dunant, Swiss humanitarian and co-founder of the Red Cross (1939)
Emmanuel Durlet, pianist (1979)
Christian de Duve, 1974 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (2004)
Anthony van Dyck, artist (1965)

E[edit]

Albert Einstein, physicist (2001)
Princess Eléonore of Belgium, youngest of four children of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde (2016)
Elisabeth of Belgium, queen of Belgium (1926)
Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant, eldest child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde (2016)
Elizabeth, Countess of Hoogstraten, sovereign lady of the fiefdom of Culemborg (1958)
Willem Elsschot, writer (2001)
Prince Emmanuel of Belgium, younger son and third child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde (2016)
Édouard Empain, Walloon Belgian engineer, entrepreneur, financier and industrialist (1957)
Frangois Englert, 2013 Physics Nobel laureate (2016)
James Ensor, artist (1974)
Erasmus, Dutch philosopher and Catholic theologian (1967)
Prince Eugène Alexander, Postmaster General of the Imperial Reichspost (1952)
Harry Everts, motocross rider (2004)
Stefan Everts, motocross rider (2004)
Marguerite van Eyck, wife of Jan van Eyck (1958)
Jan van Eyck, painter (1944)

F[edit]

Queen Fabiola of Belgium, queen (1960)
Alexander Farnese, general of the Spanish army (1964)
Jacques Feyder, director (1991)
Marie-Claire Foblets, anthropology (2007)
Henri La Fontaine, Nobel Laureate in Peace (1999)
Carlo Forlanini, Italian physician (1953)
Emile Fourcault, Belgian scientist (1955)
Helena Fourment, wife of Rubens (1939)
Susanna Fourment, subject of a Rubens painting (1996)
Cesar Franck, organist (1985)
Francis of Assisi, saint (1982)
Frederick III, German Emperor and King of Prussia (1979)
H.-J.-W. Frere-Orban, founder of Communal Credit Society (1960)
Sigmund Freud, psychologist (2001)
Dirk Frimout, astronaut (2004)

G[edit]

Prince Gabriel of Belgium, elder son and second child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium (2016)
Rene Gabriels, international billiards champion from Belgium (2007)
Lord Gambier, British Admiral of the Fleet (1964)
Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian Independence movement (1999)
Eric Geboers, motocross rider (2004)
Genevieve of Brabant, heroine of medieval legend (1944)
Saint George, saint (1944)
Adrien de Gerlache, Belgian officer in the Belgian Royal Navy (1947)
Baron de Gerlache, Belgian officer in the Belgian Royal Navy (1981)
Saint Gertrude, German Benedictine nun and mystic (1944)
Francois Auguste Gevaert, musicologist and composer (1979)
Lieven Gevaert, Flemish industrialist (1957)
Marie Gevers, poet (1996)
Guido Gezelle, poet (1949)
Michel de Ghelderode, playwright (2006)
Maurice Gilliams, author (2003)
Emile Gobbe, Belgian scientist (1955)
Alexis-Marie Gochet, geographer and educator (1962)
Godfrey of Bouillon, French nobleman and pre-eminent leader of the First Crusade (1944)
Nicole Van Goethem, film director (2004)
Vincent van Gogh, artist (1974)
Robert Goslot, conductor (2008)
Zenobe Gramme, Belgian electrical engineer (1930)
Antonius Perrenot de Granvelle, Roman Catholic cardinal (1961)
Andre-Ernest Gretry, French composer (1987)
Maurice Grevisse, French language grammarian (2004)
Albert Guigui, chief rabbi of Brussels (2016)
Arthur Grumiaux, violinist (1996)
Che Guevara, Cuban-Argentinian Marxist revolutionary (1999)

H[edit]

Georg Friedrich Handel, composer (2009)
Abraham Hans, writer (1982)
Gerhard Armauer Hansen, doctor (1964)
Justine Henin-Hardenne, tennis player (2003)
Jacqueline Harpman, novelist (2007)
Joseph Hayden, composer (2009)
Jean Van Helmont, chemist, physiologist, and physician from Brussels (1942)
Frans Hemerijckx, tropical medicine and leprosy expert (1975)
Philippe Herreweghe, musician (2008)
Heylen of Namur, bishop (1940)
Henry Heyman, minister of state (1979)
Corneille Heymans, 1938 Nobel prize for physiology (1987)
Rowland Hill, originator of the postage stamp (1965)
Einar Holböll, inventor of the Christmas Stamp (1955)
Jodocus Hondius, cartographer (2012)
Victor Horta, architect (1962)
Julius Hoste, Belgian businessman and liberal politician (1957)
Saint Hubert, patron saint of hunters, mathematicians, opticians, and metalworkers (1944)
Georges Hubin, socialist leader and minister of state (1971)
Victor Hugo, author (2010)
Albert Hustin, Belgian medical doctor (1977)
Camille Huysmans, Prime Minister of Belgium (1970)
Paul Hymans, Belgian foreign minister and first president of the League of Nations (1965)

I[edit]

Isabel, princess (1991)
Isabella of Austria, queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (1948)

J[edit]

Edgar P. Jacobs, cartoonist (2004)
Armand Jamar, artist (1974)
Albert-Edouard Janssen, financier (1977)
Paul Janssen, pharmaceutical entrepreneur (2007)
Paul Emile Janson, lawyer and statesman (1967)
Bobby Jaspar, jazz musician, saxophonist (2004)
Henri Jaspar, statesman and lawyer (1964)
Georges Jobe, motocross rider (2004)
St. John, disciple (1975)
John II, Duke of Brabant, Duke of Brabant, Lothier and Limburg (1946)
John XXIII, pope of the Catholic church (1999)
John Paul II, pope of the Catholic church (1985)
Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer (1965)
Johanna of Castille, nominal queen of Castile from 1504 and queen of Aragon from 1516 (1941, 1996)
Josephine-Charlotte, princess of Belgium (1935)
James Joyce, novelist (2000)
Alberto Juantorena, track and field runner (2006)
Juliana of the Netherlands, queen of the Netherlands (1964)

K[edit]

nl:Jacob Kats, Flemish teacher, writer, stage director and pioneer of socialism in Belgium (1961)
Anne Teresa Keersmaeker, choreographer (2000)
August Kekulé, chemistry professor (1966)
John F. Kennedy, president of the United States (1999)
John Maynard Keynes, economist (2001)
Marguerite Khnopff, sister of Fernand Khnopff (2004)
Martin Luther King, leader of the civil rights movement (1999)
Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist (1953)
Hubert Krains, Belgian writer (1974)
Raymond Jean de Kremer, writer (2004)

L[edit]

Johan Laats, Belgian International Judo champion (2005)
Henri La Fontaine, 1913 Peace Nobel laureate (2016)
Firmin Lambot, Belgian winner of Tour de France in 1919, 1922 (2017)
Albin Lambotte, developer of surgical treatment of open bone fractures (2017)
Count Lamoral I, official in the Spanish Netherlands (1952)
Count Lamoral II, German nobleman and Imperial Postmaster (1952)
Tom Lanoye, writer (2009)
Orlandus Lassus, composer of polyphonic music (2006)
Joseph Lebeau, foreign minister (1965)
Jacques Ledoux, film conservationist (1991)
Guillaume Lekeu, composer (1994)
Joseph Lemaire, minister of state (1982)
Georges Lemaitre, abbe and proposer of the “big bang” theory (1994)
Camille Lemonnier, Belgian writer, poet and journalist (1977)
Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist (1999)
Jean-Etienne Lenoir, Belgian scientist (1955)
Baron Leonard I, baron of Taxis (1952)
Count Leonard II, postmaster general in Brussels (1952)
Leopold I of Belgium, king (1849)
Leopold II of Belgium, king (1869)
Leopold III of Belgium, king (1934)
Eddy Leppens, international billiards champion from Belgium (2006)
Claude Lévi-Stauss, anthropologist (2001)
Charles Joseph de Ligne, Field Marshal, prolific writer, and intellectual (1944)
Justus Lipsius, philologist (1942, 2006)
Lambert Lombard, painter (1958)
Michel-Edmond de Selys Longchamps, scientist (1986)
Louise-Marie, queen of Belgium (1962)
Martin Luther, religious reformer (2017)
Victor Luypaerts, international billiards champion from Belgium (2007)

M[edit]

Jacob van Maerlant, Flemish poet (1944)
Romain Maes, Belgian winner of Tour de France in 1935 (2017)
Sylvere Maes, Belgian winner of Tour de France in 1936, 1939 (2017)
Maurice Maeterlinck, 1911 Literature Nobel laureate (1952, 2016)
Saint Albertus Magnus, German Dominican friar, philosopher, scientist, and bishop (1969)
René Magritte, artist (2000)
André Malherbe, motocross rider (2004)
Ernest Malvoz, physician (1953)
Nelson Mandela, president of South Africa (1999)
Margaret of Austria, governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (1980)
Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy (1967)
Maria-Christina, governor of the Austrian Netherlands (1949)
Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress (1933)
Marie-Henriette, queen of Belgium (1962)
Philip van Marnix, Flemish and Dutch writer and statesman (1964)
Jacky Martens, motocross rider (2004)
Martin of Tours, saint and third bishop of Tours (1910)
Frans Masereel, wood engraver (1972)
Arthur Masson, writer (2005)
Queen Mathilde of Belgium, queen of Belgium (2013)
Matilda of Tuscany, Countess of Tuscany (1933)
Adolphe Max, mayor of Brussels (1957)
Maximilian I, emperor (1957)
Émile Mayrisch, Luxembourgian industrialist and businessman (1996)
Anthony C McAuliffe, United States brigadier-general (1957)
Jean Andre van der Meersch, rebel leader (1992)
Golda Meir, prime minister of Israel (1999)
Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (2009)
Mercator, geographer and astronomer (1962)
Eddy Merckx, Belgian winner of Tour de France in 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974 (2010, 2017)
Pierre Mertens, writer (2009)
Arthur Meulemans, composer (1984)
Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter and sculptor (1957)
Désiré Mercier, priest and professor at Louvain University (1932)
St. Michael, archangel in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (1896)
Albert Mockel, Belgian poet (1960)
Jean-Baptiste Moens, founder of Belgian Stamp Dealers Association (1973)
Willem de Mol, composer (1960)
Jean Monnet, French economist (1988)
Bernard Montgomery, field marshall of the British army (1994)
Theo Moons, international billiards champion from Belgium (2007)
Henry Moore, sculptor (2000)
Jan Moretus-Plantin, Flemish printer (1944)
Emile Moyson, freedom fighter for the rights of Flemings and Walloons (1975)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer (1991)
Multatuli, author (2010)
Saint Mutien-Marie, Christian educator (1994)

N[edit]

Xavier M. Neujean, Belgian politician (1961)
Yvonne Nevejean, saviour of Jewish children (1996)
Michel Ney, French military commander (2015)
Maarten van Nieuwenhove, noble man in Bruges (1939)
Florence Nightingale, English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing (1939)
Jean de Nivelles, French nobleman (1958)
Adam van Noort, Flemish painter and draughtsman (1965)
Henri van der Noot, rebel leader (1992)
Saint Norbert, saint (1985)
Jan Van Noten, stamp designer (1992)
Bishop Notger of Liege, Benedictine monk (1946)
Amélie Nothomb, writer (2009)

O[edit]

Lucien Van Obbergh, Belgian bass singer (1977)
Jacob Obrecht, composer of polyphonic music (2006)
Johannes Ockeghem, composer of polyphonic music (2006)
Jan Olieslager, aviation pioneer (1976)
Robert Oppenheimer, physicist (2001)
W. F. Orban, founder of the National Bank of Belgium (1975)
Abraham Ortelius, cartographer (1942)
Paul van Ostaijen, writer (1996)
Paul Otlet, information scientist (2010)
Steve Ovett, track and field runner (2006)
Jesse Owens, American track star (1999)

P[edit]

Charlie Parker, jazz musician (2000)
Margaret of Parma, governor of the Netherlands (1941)
Louis Pasteur, scientist (1995)
Paul Pastur, Belgian lawyer and politician (1957)
George S. Patton, United States general (1957)
Ferdinand Peeters, developer of birth control pills (2017)
Flor Peeters, organist (1996)
Pepin of Herstal, Frankish statesman and military leader (1946)
Constant Permeke, painter (1957, 1986)
A. Van der Perre, medical doctor and Catholic politician (1960)
Gabrielle Petit, spy for Britain and World War I heroine (2004)
Sir Robert W. Philip, Scottish physician and pioneer in the treatment and control of tuberculosis (1955)
Philip I, the Handsome, ruler of the Burgundian Netherlands and titular Duke of Burgundy (1996)
Count Philip of Alsace, count of Flanders from 1168 to 1191 (1946)
Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy from 1419-67 (1941, 1991)
Philip the Fair, King of France from 1285 to 1314 (1959)
Philip the Noble, margrave of Namur from 1195 to 1212 (1946)
Jozef Philipoom, international billiards champion from Belgium (2006)
Philippe of Belgium, king of Belgium (2013)
Edith Piaf, French singer (1999)
Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer (1932)
Louis Pierard, journalist and member of parliament (1973)
Nicolas Pietkin, abbe (1959)
Peter Piot, director of UN Program on AIDS (2004)
Dominique Pire, 1958 Peace Nobel laureate (1978, 2016)
Henri Pirenne, historian (1963)
Christophe Plantin, French Renaissance humanist and book printer and publisher (1942)
Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and mathematician (1947)
Charles Pilsnier, Belgian-French Cultural Society (1976)
Marie Popelin, first Belgian woman doctor of law (1975)
Philippe, prince of Belgium (1999)
Ilya Prigogine, chemist and 1977 Chemistry Nobel laureate (2001, 2016)
Prince of Liège, grandson of King Albert I (1938)
Anne Provoost, writer (2009)
Henry Purcell, composer (2009)

Q[edit]

Adolphe Quetelet, statistician, astronomer and secretary of the Royal Academy of Brussels (1974)

R[edit]

Gaston Rahier, motocross rider (2004)
Lodewijk de Raet, Flemish economist and politician (1957)
Steve Ramon, motocross rider (2004)
Django Reinhardt, jazz musician, guitarist (2004)
St. Ramacle, Benedictine missionary (1957)
E. Remouchamps, founder of the Walloon Language and Literature Club (1981)
Jean Rey, politician (2002)
Jan van Rijswijck, Belgian lawyer, liberal politician and journalist (1960)
Arthur Rimbaud, author (2010)
Robert of Jerusalem, Count of Flanders and crusader (1946)
Joel Robert, motocross rider (2004)
John D. Rockefeller, American businessman (1955)
Nicolaas II Rockox, mayor of Antwerp (1961)
Albrecht Rodenbach, Flemish poet (1957)
Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee (2004)
Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns, 1904 Peace Nobel laureate (2016)
Wilhelm C. Röntgen, discoverer of the X-ray (1995)
Félicien Rops, painter and engraver (1973)
Maria Rosseels, novelist (2007)
Albert Rubens, son of Peter Paul Rubens (1963)
Franz Rubens, son of Peter Paul Rubens (1963)
Nicolas Rubens, son of Peter Paul Rubens (1939)
Peter Paul Rubens, artist (1930)
Jan van Ruusbroec, Flemish mystic (1981)
Gonzague Ryckmans, professor and founder of Louvain Bible Colloquium (1975)

S[edit]

Maurits Sabbe, writer (2005)
Marie Sasse, soprano (1997)
Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone (1973)
Victor Scheppers, prison reformer and founder of the Brothers of Mechlin (1969)
Tony Schrauwen, international billiards champion from Belgium (2006)
Robert Schuman, French statesman (1967)
Clara Schumann, composer (2009)
Leon Scieur, Belgian winner of Tour de France in 1921 (2017)
Jack Sels, jazz musician, saxophonist (2004)
Piet Sels, international billiards champion from Belgium (2007)
Marie Sèthe, wife of Henry Van de Velde (2003)
Fernand Severin, poet (1981)
Georges Simenon, writer (1994)
Philips van Marnix van Sint-Aldegonde, author (1998)
Abbot General Smets, Abbot General of the Trappists (1939)
Joel Smets, motocross rider (2004)
Ferdinand Augustin Snellaert, physician and Flemish patriot (1975)
Frans Snyder, Flemish painter (1965)
fr:Béatrice Soetkens, apparition of the Virgin Mary (1979)
Constant Spinoy, stamp engraver (1997)
Ernest Solvay, Belgian scientist (1955)
Baron de Stassart, Dutch-Belgian politician (1981)
Heinrich von Stephan, founder of the UPU (1974)
Simon Stevinus, Flemish mathematician, physicist and military engineer (1942)
Raymond Steylaerts, international billiards champion from Belgium (2006)
Jacques Stibbe, philatelist (2004)
Stijn Streuvels, novelist (1971)
Paul Stroobants, international billiards champion from Belgium (2006)
Edmund Struyf, founder of Pro-Post, association for promotion of philately (1998)

T[edit]

Lady Talbot, English noblewoman (1973)
Francois de Tassis, organizar of the European postal system (1979)
Franz von Taxis, inventor of the post office (1935, 1952)
Jean-Baptiste von Taxis, German entrepreneur (1952)
Herman Teirlinck, playwright (2006)
David Teniers the Younger, painter (1990)
Maria Theresa, ruler of the Habsburg dominions (1941)
Edmond Thieffry, aviator (1975)
Toots Thielemans, jazz musician (2000)
Lise Thiry, microbiology (2007)
René Thomas, jazz musician, guitarist (2004)
Philippe Thys, Belgian winner of Tour de France in 1913, 1914, 1920 (2017)
Felix Timmermans, writer (1986)
Totila, king of the Ostrogoths (1948)
Leon Tresignies, hero of World War I (1974)
Pierre-Joseph Triest, educator and founder of hospitals and orphanages (1962)
Frans de Troyer, clergyman and philatelic collector (1995)
Julia Tulkens, poet (2007)
Will Tura, musician (2008)

V[edit]

Gustaaf Van Belle, international billiards champion from Belgium (2007)
José Van Dam, musician (2008)
Ivo Van Damme, track and field runner (2006)
Henry Van de Velde, architect (1963)
Piet J. Van Duppen, international billiards champion from Belgium (2007)
Anthony van Dyck, Flemish Baroque artist (1926)
Clément Van Hassel, international billiards champion from Belgium (2006)
Lucien Van Impe, Belgian winner of Tour de France in 1976 (2017)
Marc Van Montagu, molecular genetics (2007)
Philippe Van Parijs, social philosophy (2007)
Chris Van den Wyngaert, international criminal law (2007)
Gella Vandecaveye, Belgian International Judo champion (2005)
Emile Vandervelde, Belgian socialist politician (1946)
Alfons Vandoninck, developer of mosquito repellent (2017)
Cornelia Vekemans, daughter of Joris Vekemans, a prominent Antwerp merchant (1975)
Jan Vekemans, subject of portrait by Cornelis de Vos (1974)
Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (1988)
Catherine Verfaille, medical researcher (2004)
Emile Verhaeren, Belgian poet and art critic (1952)
Paul Verlaine, author (2010)
Auguste Vermeylen, Flemish writer and educator (1972)
Jos Vervest, international billiards champion from Belgium (2006)
Andreas Vesalius, anatomist (1964)
Emile Verhaeren, poet (1955)
Henri Vernes, writer (2009)
Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer and violinist (1960)
Rene Vingerhoedt, international billiards champion from Belgium (2007)
Emiel Vlieburgh, economist (1957)
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian field marshal (2015)
Jean Francois Vonck, rebel leader (1992)

W[edit]

Emile Wafflard, international billiards champion from Belgium (2006)
John Walker (runner), track and field runner (2006)
Rover Van de Walle, Belgian International Judo champion (2005)
Max Waller, founder of the La Jeune Belgique cultural movement (1981)
Gerard Walschap, poet and playwright (1998)
Egide Walschaerts, Belgian scientist (1955)
Andy Warhol, artist (2000)
Joseph Wauters, editor of Le Peuple (1977)
Max Weber, sociologist (2001)
Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington (2015)
Ulla Werbrouck, Belgian International Judo champion (2005)
Rock Wertchter, musician (2008)
Henry Carton de Wiart, statesman (1969)
Jakob Wiener, 1st engraver of Belgian stamps (1987)
William II of the Netherlands, King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Duke of Limburg (2015)
William the Good, king of Sicily (1946)
William of Nassau, Prince of Orange, main leader of the Dutch Revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs (1976)
J. F. Willems, Flemish writer (1960)
Adriaan Willaert, composer of polyphonic music (2006)
fr:Maurice Wilmotte, Belgian author (1957)
Frank de Winne, astronaut (2004)
Ludwig Josef Wittgenstein, philosopher (2001)
Karel Van de Woestijne, poet (1952)
Rik Wouters, artist (1966)

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Marguerite Yourcenar, author (2003)
Eugène Ysaÿe, violinist and composer (1958)

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