Ypres - Famous Inhabitants

Famous Inhabitants

  • William of Ypres, a commander of Flemish mercenaries in England who was reckoned among the more able of the military commanders fighting for King Stephen of England in his 19-year civil war with the Empress Matilda.
  • Jacob Clemens non Papa (ca. 1510–1556), Renaissance composer
  • Cornelius Jansen (1585–1638), bishop of Ypres and father of the Jansenism movement
  • Jules Malou (1810–1886), politician, Prime Minister of Belgium from 1871 to 1878 and in 1884
  • Alphonse Vandenpeereboom (1812–1884), politician, minister
  • Albert Nyssens (1855–1901) Minister of Industry and Labour, Lawyer, University Professor,
  • Julien Nyssens (1859–1910) Engineer, Builder of Zeebrugge harbour.
  • Albert Devèze (1881–1959), politician, minister
  • Paul Sobry (1895–1954), University professor
  • Simona Noorenbergh (b. 1907 – Fane 1990), nun, social worker, co-founder of Fane, Papua New Guinea
  • Antoon Verschoot (b.1925), since 1954 chief bugler at the Menin Gate for the daily Last Post ceremony.
  • Walter Fiers (b.Ypres, 1931), molecular biologist
  • Marc Vervenne (1949– ), emeritus dean Leuven university
  • Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie, founders of the speech technology company Lernout & Hauspie
  • Henk Lauwers (b. 1956), classical baritone singer
  • Catherine Verfaillie (b. Ypres, 1957), MD and stem cell pioneer
  • Nicholas Lens (b. 1957), author and composer
  • Edouard Vermeulen (b. 1957), fashion designer
  • Renaat Landuyt (b. 1958), politician, Belgian minister
  • Erik Vermeulen (b. 1959), jazz pianist
  • Yves Leterme (b. 1960), Politician, former prime minister of Belgium

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    “There were three classes of inhabitants who either frequent or inhabit the country which we had now entered: first, the loggers, who, for a part of the year, the winter and spring, are far the most numerous, but in the summer, except for a few explorers for timber, completely desert it; second, the few settlers I have named, the only permanent inhabitants, who live on the verge of it, and help raise supplies for the former; third, the hunters, mostly Indians, who range over it in their season.”
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