Famous Inhabitants
- Herman De Croo, politician, former president of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives
- Robbie McEwen, cyclist, won 12 stages in the Tour de France
- Peter van Petegem, cyclist, won Paris–Roubaix and the Ronde van Vlaanderen
- Lietbertus, bishop of Cambrai during the 11th century
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or inhabitants:
“The [Loyal] legion has taken the place of the club—the famous Cincinnati Literary Club—in my affections.... The military circles are interested in the same things with myself, and so we endure, if not enjoy, each other.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“If men will believe it, sua si bona norint, there are no more quiet Tempes, nor more poetic and Arcadian lives, than may be lived in these New England dwellings. We thought that the employment of their inhabitants by day would be to tend the flowers and herds, and at night, like the shepherds of old, to cluster and give names to the stars from the river banks.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)