Famous Persons
- Renier de Huy, metalworker (first half 12th c.)
- Joseph Lebeau, politician (1794-1865)
- Anne-Marie Lizin, politician (born in 1949)
- André Malherbe, three-time motocross world champion
- Meingold of Huy, Roman Catholic saint (died 892)
- John Joseph Merlin, inventor of the roller skate (September 17, 1735 in Huy - May 4, 1803 in London)
- Peter the Hermit, instigator of the First Crusade (1050 in Amiens - 1115 in Huy)
- Le Père Pire, recipient of the 1958 Nobel Peace Prize, lived in Huy (February 10, 1910 in Dinant - January 30, 1969)
- Alizée Poulicek
- Patrick Sarsfield, (1660 – 21 August 1693) 1st Earl of Lucan. Cavalry commander of Jacobite forces at the Siege of Limerick, Ireland, General in French Army following "Flight of the Wild Geese" is buried here, in the graveyard of St. Martin's Church.
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