Famous Inhabitants
- Leon L. Van Autreve, fourth United States Sergeant Major of the Army (1920-2002)
- Eric De Vlaeminck, cyclist, 7 times world champion cyclo-cross (b. 1945)
- Roger De Vlaeminck, cyclist, world champion cyclo-cross in 1975, winner of 11 "Monument" classic cycle races (b. 1947)
- Paul Van Hyfte, (born 1972 in Eeklo) cyclist
- Rudy Matthijs, (born 1959 in Eeklo) cyclist
- Frederik Willems, (born 1979 in Eeklo) cyclist
- Dirk Braeckman, artist and photographer (b. 1958)
- Olivier De Cock, (born 1975 in Eeklo) footballer
- Maarten Martens, (born 1984 in Eeklo) footballer
- Tonny Mols, (born 1969 in Eeklo) footballer
- Guido van Heulendonk (pseudonym of Guido Beelaert) (born in Eeklo), writer
- Karel Lodewijk Ledeganck (born 1805 in Eeklo) writer
- Roos van Acker, artist, anchor "Studio Brussel" (radio-station)
- Peter Van de Veire, (born 1971 in Eeklo) radio personality
- Tom Dice,( b.1989 )Singer and songwriter.Representer of Belgium in Eurovision 2010.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or inhabitants:
“Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)
“While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognita to them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)