People Born in Tournai
- Clovis I, first king of all Salian Franks
- Gilles Li Muisis, French chronicler and poet (13th century)
- Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter (15th century)
- Jacques Daret, Flemish painter (15th century)
- Pierre de La Rue, Franco-Flemish composer (15th century)
- Perkin Warbeck, impostor and pretender to the throne of England (15th century)
- Marbrianus de Orto, Franco-Flemish composer (15th-16th century)
- Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy, courtier and patron of learning (16th century)
- Isaac Le Maire, pioneering merchant of the VOC, the Dutch East India Company (16th century)
- Louise-Françoise de Bourbon (1673–1743) illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and his most famous mistress Madame de Montespan.
- Donat Casterman, publisher (18th century)
- Piat Sauvage, painter (19th century)
- Louis Gallait, painter (19th century)
- Jean-Baptiste Moëns, philatelist (19th century)
- Jules Bara, statesman (19th century)
- Georges Rodenbach, Symbolist poet and novelist (19th century)
- Hélène Dutrieu, cycle racer, stunt driver and aviator (19th and 20th centuries)
- Marc Quaghebeur, writer (20th century)
- Xaveer De Geyter, architect (20th century)
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