Military Figures
- Ambiorix – Gaulish warlord
- Baldwin I of Jerusalem – Crusader, King of Jerusalem
- Baldwin I of Constantinople – Crusader, first Latin Emperor
- Jean-Pierre de Beaulieu – Belgian-born Austrian General
- Adrian Carton de Wiart – Belgian-born British Lieutenant General
- Charlemagne, founder of the Frankish Empire
- Charles Martel, Duke of the Franks, stopped the Muslim expansion at Poitiers
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- Clovis I, King of the Franks
- Lieutenant Colonel (ret'd) Count Henry Robert Visart de Bury et de Bocarmé C.B.E.
- Godfrey of Bouillon – Crusader and first King of Jerusalem
- Pepin of Herstal, Duke of the Franks
- Pepin the Short, first Carolingian King of the Franks
- Edgard Potier – Pilot during the World War II
- Jean Schramme, mercenary.
- Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly – Field Marshal
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