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= List of people from the Benelux = This is a list of notable people from the Benelux (or Low Countries) who either:


 * are or were citizens of any Benelux state at least for sometime in their life,
 * were born in the Benelux or in the provinces of the present-day Benelux, but who were not or are not citizens of a Benelux country (either because said countries did not exist at the time of their life or because they had or have another citizenship). The names of people in this category are italicized.

Writers and Artists

 * Marijke Abels (born 1948), sculptor
 * Anna Adelaïde Abrahams (1848–1930), still life painter
 * Annie Abrahams (born 1954), performance and video artist
 * Betzy Akersloot-Berg (1850–1922), Norwegian-born painter
 * Marie van Regteren Altena (1868–1958), painter
 * Lizzy Ansingh (1875–1959), painter
 * Thérèse Ansingh who used the pseudonym Sorella (1883–1968), painter
 * Nicolas Ancion (born 1971)
 * Gentil Theodoor Antheunis (1840–1907)
 * Pieter Aspe (1953–2021)
 * Henriëtte Asscher (1858–1933), painter

Journalists

 * Paul Beliën (born 1959), right-wing journalist
 * Jacques Danois
 * Koenraad Elst (born 1959), Flemish nationalist and proponent of Hindutva
 * Eugénie Hamer (1865–after 1926)
 * Henk Hofland
 * Cédric Gerbehaye
 * Arendo Joustra
 * Almar Latour
 * Geert Mak
 * Mart Smeets
 * Françoise Van De Moortel
 * Germaine Van Parys (1893–1983) – pioneering female photojournalist
 * Eva Vlaardingerbroek

Military

 * Ambiorix – Gaulish warlord


 * Baldwin I of Constantinople – Crusader, first Latin Emperor
 * Baldwin I of Jerusalem – Crusader, King of Jerusalem
 * Jean-Pierre de Beaulieu – Belgian-born Austrian general
 * Adrian Carton de Wiart – Belgian-born British lieutenant general
 * Charlemagne – founder of the Frankish Empire
 * Charles V – Holy Roman Emperor
 * Clovis I – King of the Franks


 * Gaius Julius Civilis – Batavian military commander, leader of the Batavian rebellion