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Does anyone know any famous people from switserland or belgium? |
Travel Info Does anyone know any famous people from switserland or belgium? Travel Tips from Belgium Pater Damiaan = he dedicated his live to the leprous people in Hawaii Eddy Merck = as a cyclist he won almost everything that there is to win in the cycle sport Andreas Vesalius = he stood at the origin of the modern medical science Geradus Mercator = he invented the technology to prospect the world on a map Peter Paul Rubens = famous painter Adolphe Sax = the inventor of the saxophone remember the instrument that Bill Clinton sometimes plays Toots Thielemans = a real great jazz player with his mouth organ the people who love jazz will know him willy Vandersteen = the father of the strip figures Suske en Wiske ( America = Willy and Wanda , UK = Bob and Bobette ) Leo Baekeland = the inventor of bakeliet and also of the first fotopaper Velox King Albert I = the soldier, king as commanding officer he had the commonsense not to sacrifice the Belgium army in pointless offensives and was not afraid to come to the first lines not like some other generals of the Allys army's Raymond Goethals = a famous soccer coach's the people that know a little of soccer ( voetbal ) will certainly be aware of his history Ernest Solvay = fonder of the Solvay a chemical multinational and many, many other Others do you mean know of? because I don't actually know him but Roger Federer is from Switzerland (note the proper spelling) Jean Claude van Damme and Tin Tin from Belgium.. Johnny Halliday was born in belgium. Plastic Bertrand is from Belgium Celine Dion Represented Switzerland in the Eurovision song contest not sure if that counts though hercules poirot - i know he's fictional but he's famous!! |
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