Brakel - Famous Inhabitants

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

Read more about this topic:  Brakel

Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or inhabitants:

    “Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.”
    —Maureen Dowd, U.S. journalist. The New York Times, “Giant Puppet Show,” (September 10, 1995)

    “It further said, “The inhabitants of Sandwich generally manifest a fond and steady adherence to the manners, employments and modes of living which characterized their fathers,” which made me think that they were, after all, very much like the rest of the world.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)