List of Université libre de Bruxelles people

This list of notable people associated with Université libre de Bruxelles includes faculty, staff, graduates and former students in the undergraduate program and all graduate programs, and others affiliated with the University. Individuals are sorted by category and alphabetized within each category. The "Affiliation" fields in the tables in this list indicate the person's affiliation with the ULB and use the following notation:


 * B indicates a bachelor's degree
 * Att indicates that the person attended the undergraduate program but may not have graduated
 * AM indicates a Master of Arts degree
 * MSE indicates a Master of Science in Engineering degree awarded by the School of Engineering and Applied Science
 * PhD indicates a Ph.D. degree
 * GS indicates that the person was a graduate student but may not have received a degree
 * F indicates a faculty member, followed by years denoting the time of service on the faculty
 * Rec indicates a Rectors of Université libre de Bruxelles, followed by years denoting the time of service

Politics and government

 * Vũ Đức Đam (b. 1963), Vietnamese politician, Deputy Prime Minister
 * Aleth Félix-Tchicaya (b. 1955), Congolese writer
 * Fradique de Menezes (b. 1942), São Toméan politician, President
 * Charles Michel (b. 1975), politician, Prime Minister and President of the European Council

Science and technology

 * Antonina Grégoire (1914–1952), business engineer, feminist, communist, Partisans Armés resistance member and politician
 * Delphine Lannuzel, PhD, sea ice biogeochemist and Antarctic researcher
 * André Sterling (1924–2018), civil engineer and professor emeritus
 * Stephane de Baets (b. 1969), investment, real estate, and hospitality entrepreneur.
 * Marguerite Massart (1900–1979), first Belgian female engineer
 * Anne Goldberg, physicist, Research & Innovation Expert at Solvay
 * Frédérique Vanholsbeeck, professor of physics

Faculty

 * Eugene Goblet d'Alviella (1846–1925), historian and politician
 * Jules Bordet (1870–1961), physician, laureate of the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * Albert Claude (1899–1983), biologist, laureate of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * Théophile de Donder (1872–1957), physicist, mathematician, and father of irreversible thermodynamics
 * Paul Hymans (1865–1941), politician and first President of the League of Nations
 * Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003), physicist and chemist, laureate of the 1955 Francqui Prize and of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Jacques Tits (1930–2021), Belgian-French mathematician, laureate of the 1993 Wolf Prize and of the 2008 Abel Prize
 * Emile Vandervelde (1866–1938), statesman, socialist leader, Minister of Justice, and Minister of Foreign Affairs
 * Éliane Vogel-Polsky (1926–2015), lawyer and feminist