Notable People
The following people were born in Bruges:
- Jan Breydel and Pieter de Coninck, freedom fighters
- Philip I of Castile, first Habsburg ruler in Spain (1478–1506)
- Adrian Willaert, composer of the Renaissance, (birth in Bruges uncertain, c. 1490-1562)
- Simon Stevin, mathematician and engineer (1548–1620)
- Franciscus Gomarus, Calvinist theologian (1563–1641)
- Guido Gezelle, poet and priest (1830–1899)
- Gotye, Australian-Belgian singer songwriter (1980)
- Isidore van Kinsbergen, Dutch-Flemish engraver, (1821–1905)
In the 15th century, the city became the magnet for a number of prominent personalities:
- Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy set up court in Bruges, Brussels, and Lille in the 15th century
- William Caxton, English merchant, diplomat, writer, and printer
- Petrus Christus, Flemish painter
- Gerard David, Flemish painter
- Hans Memling, Flemish painter
- Jan van Eyck, Flemish painter
- Juan Luís Vives, Spanish scholar and humanist
- Simon Bening and Levina Teerlinc, Limners
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