Famous Inhabitants
- William of Ypres, a commander of Flemish mercenaries in England who was reckoned among the more able of the military commanders fighting for King Stephen of England in his 19-year civil war with the Empress Matilda.
- Jacob Clemens non Papa (ca. 1510–1556), Renaissance composer
- Cornelius Jansen (1585–1638), bishop of Ypres and father of the Jansenism movement
- Jules Malou (1810–1886), politician, Prime Minister of Belgium from 1871 to 1878 and in 1884
- Alphonse Vandenpeereboom (1812–1884), politician, minister
- Albert Nyssens (1855–1901) Minister of Industry and Labour, Lawyer, University Professor,
- Julien Nyssens (1859–1910) Engineer, Builder of Zeebrugge harbour.
- Albert Devèze (1881–1959), politician, minister
- Paul Sobry (1895–1954), University professor
- Simona Noorenbergh (b. 1907 – Fane 1990), nun, social worker, co-founder of Fane, Papua New Guinea
- Antoon Verschoot (b.1925), since 1954 chief bugler at the Menin Gate for the daily Last Post ceremony.
- Walter Fiers (b.Ypres, 1931), molecular biologist
- Marc Vervenne (1949– ), emeritus dean Leuven university
- Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie, founders of the speech technology company Lernout & Hauspie
- Henk Lauwers (b. 1956), classical baritone singer
- Catherine Verfaillie (b. Ypres, 1957), MD and stem cell pioneer
- Nicholas Lens (b. 1957), author and composer
- Edouard Vermeulen (b. 1957), fashion designer
- Renaat Landuyt (b. 1958), politician, Belgian minister
- Erik Vermeulen (b. 1959), jazz pianist
- Yves Leterme (b. 1960), Politician, former prime minister of Belgium
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“What climbs the stair?
Nothing that common women ponder on
If you are worth my hope! Neither Content
Nor satisfied Conscience, but that great family
Some ancient famous authors misrepresent,
The Proud Furies each with her torch on high.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“What are these,
So withered, and so wild in their attire,
That look not like th’ inhabitants o’th’ earth,
And yet are on’t?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)