Famous Inhabitants
- Paul Bulcke, businessman, CEO of Nestlé (born 1954)
- Marthe Cnockaert, World War I nurse and spy for the British (from the village of Westrozebeke but was resident in Roeselare during the war)
- Frédérik Deburghgraeve, swimmer and Olympic gold medal winner
- Rita Demeester, poet and writer (1946–1993)
- Guido Gezelle, poet
- Charles Goddeeris, builder and father of Flemish Detroit community
- Jan Himpe, musician and composer famous for the local evergreen "We zijn van 't oude Roeselare"
- Jean-Pierre Monseré, World Champion cyclist 1970 (1948–1971)
- Albrecht Rodenbach, poet
- Patrick Sercu, cyclist and Olympic gold medal winner
- Adrian Willaert, Renaissance-era composer (birth in Roeselare uncertain)
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or inhabitants:
“London, thou art of townes A per se.
Soveraign of cities, semeliest in sight,
Of high renoun, riches, and royaltie;
Of lordis, barons, and many goodly knyght;
Of most delectable lusty ladies bright;
Of famous prelatis in habitis clericall;
Of merchauntis full of substaunce and myght:
London, thou art the flour of Cities all”
—William Dunbar (c. 1465–c. 1530)
“Life’s so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Drama begins where there’s freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That’s why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who’s Who.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)