List of people from Liège

This is a list of notable people from Liège, who were either born in Liège, or spent part of their life there.

Before the 19th century

 * Saint Bavo, saint (6th century)
 * The Carolingian dynasty originated in the Liège region
 * Charles Martel Mayor of the Palace of the Frankish court.
 * Pippin the Younger (in French: Pépin le Bref), King of the Franks (born in Jupille, 8th century)
 * Charlemagne, King of the Franks, then crowned emperor (birth in Liège uncertain, 8th century)
 * Alger of Liège, learned priest (11th century)
 * William of St-Thierry, theologian and mystic (11th century)
 * Juliana of Liège, nun and visionary (12th century)
 * Lambert le Bègue, priest and reformer (12th century)
 * Jacob of Liège, musician (13th century)
 * Peter Plaoul (1353–1415), bishop, scholastic philosopher and theologian
 * Johannes Ciconia, composer and theorist (14th century)
 * Jean d'Outremeuse, writer and historian (14th century)
 * Jacques Arcadelt, composer (16th century)
 * Johann Theodor de Bry, engraver, draftsman, book editor and publisher (16th century)
 * Louis De Geer, merchant and industrialist (16th century)
 * Lambert Lombard, architect (16th century)
 * Matheo Romero, composer (16th century)
 * Jean-Guillaume Carlier, Flemish painter (1639-1676)
 * Gérard de Lairesse, painter (1640–1711)
 * Henri-Guillaume Hamal (1685-1752), musician and composer
 * André-Joseph Blavier, composer and choirmaster of Antwerp Cathedral (1717–1782)
 * André Ernest Modeste Grétry, composer (1741–1813)
 * Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany (1753–1789)
 * Jean-Jacques Dony, inventor and industrialist (1759–1819)
 * Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, diplomat (1727–1794)
 * Gilles-François Closson, painter (1796–1842)



19th century

 * Noël Delfosse, lawyer, politician (1801–1858)
 * André Dumont, geologist (1809–1857)
 * Joseph Massart, violinist (1811–1892)
 * Hubert Joseph Walther Frère-Orban, statesman (1812–1896)
 * Gustave de Molinari, economist and political philosopher (1819–1912)
 * Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger, theologian and author (1819–1883)
 * Hubert Léonard, violinist (1819–1890)
 * César Franck, composer (1822–1890)
 * Caroline Samuel, composer (1822-1851)
 * Florent Joseph Marie Willems, painter (1823–1905)
 * Adolphe Samuel, composer (1824-1898)
 * Zénobe Gramme, inventor (1826–1901)
 * Ernest Candèze, doctor and entomologist (1827–1898)
 * Georges Montefiore-Levi, inventor and philanthropist (1832–1906)
 * Émile Banning (1836–1898), civil servant
 * Georges Nagelmackers, founder of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (1845–1905)
 * Martin Pierre Marsick, violinist (1847 in Jupille-sur-Meuse—1924)
 * Constantin Le Paige, mathematician (1852–1929)
 * Gustave Serrurier-Bovy, architect and furniture designer (1858–1910)
 * Eugène Ysaÿe, composer and violinist (1858–1931)
 * Armand Rassenfosse, painter and lithographer (1862–1934)
 * Joseph Jongen, organist, composer, and educator (1873–1953)
 * Henri Gagnebin, composer (1886–1977)

20th century

 * Albert Van den Berg (resistant), doctor of law, resistance, saved Jews in WW2 (1890–1945)
 * Edouard Zeckendorf, doctor, army officer, and mathematician (1901–1983)
 * Jean Rey, lawyer and politician (1902–1983)
 * Georges Simenon, novelist (1903–1989)
 * Arthur Haulot, journalist, humanist, and poet (born in Angleur, 1913–2005)
 * Eddy Paape, cartoonist (born in Grivegnée, 1920)
 * Jean-Michel Charlier, writer of comic books and novels (1924–1989)
 * Jean-Claude Lorquet, chemist and professor (born 1935)
 * Axel Hervelle, Real Madrid basketball player (born 1983)
 * Hermann Huppen, comic book artist (born 1938)
 * Violetta Villas, singer and actress (1938–2011)
 * Jacques Hustin, singer-songwriter (1940–2009)
 * Noël Godin, writer, critic, actor and notorious cream pie flinger (born 1945)
 * Jean-Marie Klinkenberg, writer, critic, linguist and semioticians (born 1944)
 * Elmore D, musician (born 1946)
 * Patrick Nève, Formula One driver (born 1949)
 * Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, filmmakers (born 1951 and 1954, resp.)
 * Didier Reynders, politician (born 1958)
 * Armand Eloi, actor and director (born 1962)
 * Jean-Michel Saive, table tennis player (born 1969)
 * Isabelle Wéry, actress
 * Ethel Houbiers, voice actress (born 1973)
 * Marie Gillain, actress (born 1975)
 * Justine Henin, tennis player (born 1982)
 * Jonatan Cerrada, singer (winner of A La Recherche De La Nouvelle Star) (born 1985)
 * Françoise Taylor (née Wauters), artist (1920 - 2007)

Before the 19th century

 * Saint Lambert, martyr (7th century)
 * Saint Hubert, first bishop of Liège (7th century)
 * Agilfride, bishop (8th century)
 * Ratherius, bishop (10th century)
 * Notger, first prince-bishop of Liège (10th century)
 * Conrad of Urach, canon of the cathedral of Liège (12th century)
 * Thomas of Cantimpré, writer, preacher, and theologian (13th century)
 * Pope Urban IV, archdeacon (13th century)
 * Engelbert III von der Marck, bishop (14th century)
 * John Mandeville, naturalist, philosopher, and astrologer (14th century)
 * Johannes Brassart, composer at the church of St Jean l'Evangeliste (15th century)
 * William de la Marck, political character of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (15th century)
 * Ernest of Bavaria, bishop (16th century)
 * Macropedius, humanist and headmaster of St Jerome (16th century)
 * Rinaldo del Mel, composer (16th century)
 * Johannes Sleidanus, historian (16th century)
 * Ferdinand of Bavaria, bishop (17th century)
 * François Walther de Sluze, mathematician and canon (17th century)
 * Peter Wright, martyr and priest (17th century)
 * Clementina Walkinshaw, mistress of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (18th century)
 * François-Xavier de Feller, author and professor (18th century)

19th century

 * Eugène Charles Catalan, mathematician, taught at the University of Liège
 * Etienne Constantin, Baron de Gerlache, politician and historian
 * Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck, paleontologist and chemist, taught at the University of Liège
 * Philippe Auguste Hennequin, painter, pupil of David
 * Godefroid Kurth, historian, taught at the University of Liège
 * Jean Théodore Lacordaire, entomologist, taught at the University of Liège
 * Joseph Lebeau, statesman and newspaper founder
 * Antoine Joseph Wiertz, painter

20th century

 * André Cools, politician, assassinated in Liège in 1991
 * Mathieu Crickboom, violinist and main disciple of Eugène Ysaÿe
 * Lucien Godeaux, one of the most published mathematicians
 * Pierre Harmel, lawyer, politician, and diplomat, taught at the University of Liège
 * Gary Hartstein, associate professor of medicine at the University of Liège
 * Steve Houben, jazz saxophonist and flutist, created the jazz seminar at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Liège
 * Jacques Ochs (1883–1971), artist and Olympic fencing champion
 * Henri Pousseur, composer, taught at the University of Liège and at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Liège
 * Frederic Rzewski, composer and virtuoso pianist, taught at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Liège